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‘Everything is dead’: Ukraine rushes to stem ecocide after river poisoning
(www.theguardian.com)
Oh look. More war crimes
this post was submitted on 01 Oct 2024
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Seems like a big one. Maybe this time someone will react?
Ha
It won't matter if they win,
Jesus fucking christ literal real life Kefka Palazzo shit going on. Even the cartoonishly evil villains of 90s era video games are eclipsed by the outrageous fuckery of the heinous clowns you find in real life.
I hate that this was my first thought... but just in case no one else was aware of this literal classic moment in gaming villain history...
Good one. You've left your si in there though.
thx. fixed.
Also, what a fucking piece of shit Google is for doing that. I fucking hate them so goddamn much.
I immediately installed this extension in Firefox to auto-strip that out from now on.
Ffvi is the best of them all. What other game has the villain winning half way through and taking over the world.
Ocarina of Time
And A Link to the Past actually
Ugh i never finished it as a kid so i completely forgot about it
Kefka was classier than Ganondorf
DQXI is a good one if you're into the villain winning the first round.
I think FFIII had the world destroyed early on.
I think Putin needs to decide whether or not he wants to take Ukraine or destroy Ukraine.
Putin will burn everything down as long as he can be the king of the ashes.
Putin: Yes.
It seems pretty clear that if he can't have it, he'll do his best to make sure nobody else can either.
When Russia can't have something, they try to destroy it. Typical Russian culture.
He just wants mineral rights
He wants the land to control food sources for the EU and parts of Asia.
Food, water and shelter -- the three things humans need to survive, and the three things rich assholes have decided to corner the market on.
This is about a lot more than minerals and resources, and while you can't extricate those motivations from the larger rational, first and foremost this war was about regime security, or at least Putin's perception on the issue.
And then when it hit a brick wall almost immediately, it really increased Putin's concerns about his regime security.
LITERALLY Kefka.
HAS THE BETRAYING OF GENERAL LEO AND THE MASSACRE OF DOMA TAUGHT US NOTHING
The returners should have never agreed to "peace talks" in Vector; they should have burnt it to the fucking ground when they had a chance.
For Doma!
Humans are the most intelligent beings stupid enough to kill themselves and everything with them. They worst enemy is their need to fuck things up coz of lines on ground.
imaginary lines on ground
Inb4 tankies explain that Russia was just helping the aquatic life mutate faster to help them survive the coming nuclear annihilation Putin has on order and how it's a good thing.
You can't set the bar too low for trash like putin and his sycophants.
News report - Date unknown
In the early days of the war the Russian regime made regular threats to use nuclear weaponry, but most experts and lay-people believed that even that brutally sadistic despot would not go the extreme of destroying the earth to achieve his goals.
By 2024 Russia was doing small-scale ecocide in hopes of lending credence to their threats. Looking back, the poisoning of an entire riparian ecosystem connected to the Desna River in what was Ukraine should have been a clear signal of what was to come. But nobody listened and the nuclear weapons flew.
I am not making a joke here. This is where my brain naturally went when reading this. Let's just hope my invasive thoughts are wrong.
[Edit: I am also not saying to appease this fucking psycho either. This is just a snippet of thought that I felt the urge to share.]