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Putin does not seem very bright

Not a Ukrainecuck. Just saying. The man is not a genius lol....
autistic curious background story abode
  03/23/24
doods in my HS became dictators of major countries for 20 ye...
Godawful School Cafeteria
  03/23/24
He isn’t a dictator.
geriatric piazza
  03/23/24
lol
Jet Bat-shit-crazy Senate Party Of The First Part
  03/23/24
sorry vlad, congrats on ur recent re-election
Godawful School Cafeteria
  03/23/24
TY. Can we borrow some shovels? There was a dreadful acciden...
geriatric piazza
  03/23/24
ill send an entire pajeet brigade to help but they may rape ...
Godawful School Cafeteria
  03/23/24
Not like Zelenskyy
Topaz Lascivious Nursing Home
  03/23/24
Your not Russian.
Navy disturbing trailer park
  03/23/24
He was a low level KGB agent in an era of political and econ...
autistic curious background story abode
  03/23/24
guys in my HS use to be in the right place at the right time...
Godawful School Cafeteria
  03/23/24
This is obviously true my guy. Russia is a shitty country fu...
autistic curious background story abode
  03/23/24
rofl now do amerikkka
Godawful School Cafeteria
  03/23/24
Russia is increasingly nicer than America and its no longer ...
geriatric piazza
  03/23/24
I noticed this during the Wagner "rebellion." Thos...
Topaz Lascivious Nursing Home
  03/23/24
What's really insane is it looked nice during the rebellion ...
Provocative sable lay
  03/23/24
I had family in Rostov during the rebellion. Keep in mind t...
cracking dead ratface garrison
  03/23/24
a lot of dead people at Krokus also weren’t very conce...
Jet Bat-shit-crazy Senate Party Of The First Part
  03/24/24
If it's so nice, why don't you go back? (Not that you ever l...
Exciting purple chapel
  03/24/24
Russia sure looks much wealthier than America. But don't tru...
Topaz Lascivious Nursing Home
  03/23/24
...
yapping athletic conference
  03/23/24
he’s more cunning and cold blooded than anything. that...
Jet Bat-shit-crazy Senate Party Of The First Part
  03/23/24
He has the standard 120 IQ of his profession. He is a lawyer...
geriatric piazza
  03/23/24
are you admitting that boor is smarter than you?
Jet Bat-shit-crazy Senate Party Of The First Part
  03/23/24
I got a 28 on the MCAT and almost went DO. Take from that wh...
geriatric piazza
  03/23/24
...
Jet Bat-shit-crazy Senate Party Of The First Part
  03/23/24
in what sense? like he legitimately has a low IQ and isn't g...
Motley Bronze Rigor Foreskin
  03/23/24
He's a fake smart liberal artist like Dick Cheney or somethi...
overrated maroon doctorate
  03/23/24
His main asset is an ability to at least project being even-...
Boyish carmine parlor
  03/23/24
yes Putin has annihilated all possible opposition
Jet Bat-shit-crazy Senate Party Of The First Part
  03/23/24
i think his main assets are probably his ability to maneuver...
Motley Bronze Rigor Foreskin
  03/23/24
doesnt he also assassinate nay-sayers and doubters?
French Slimy Crackhouse Genital Piercing
  03/23/24
yes.
Motley Bronze Rigor Foreskin
  03/23/24
It's a dumb country full of stupid people who have never onc...
autistic curious background story abode
  03/23/24
...
Talented Crystalline Legal Warrant
  03/23/24
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translucent underhanded regret
  03/23/24
Putin is a gambler: he doesn't need to be smart, just high r...
cordovan mind-boggling jap
  03/23/24
seems like a crazy assessment. not sure i can think of a mor...
Irradiated Territorial Church Preventive Strike
  03/24/24
He's positively meek, has no military experience
Topaz Lascivious Nursing Home
  03/24/24
1) sneak attack on Crimea in 2014 2) sneak attack on Ukra...
cordovan mind-boggling jap
  03/24/24
so any examples that aren't imaginary?
Irradiated Territorial Church Preventive Strike
  03/24/24
(see no evil, hear no evil, worship Putin)
cordovan mind-boggling jap
  03/24/24
Guys in my high school seized power of one the world’s...
primrose laughsome tanning salon personal credit line
  03/23/24
...
cracking dead ratface garrison
  03/23/24
He's 5'5"
Odious masturbator
  03/23/24
Who's better?
Topaz Lascivious Nursing Home
  03/23/24
Khaled bin Mohamed Al Nahyan https://youtu.be/-axkrYhD5-w...
hairraiser toaster
  03/23/24
Microchimerism from Chabadnik loads lowered his IQ
Dull hell
  03/23/24
lol @ some Prussian jew (OP) who was cuckced by the box tp c...
Hairless Lime Bawdyhouse
  03/23/24
As opposed to Biden, Macron, GW Bush, etc.? I'm also unconv...
cracking dead ratface garrison
  03/23/24
HA tp is not very bright
Hairless Lime Bawdyhouse
  03/23/24
Yes that's what truly matters in a leader, a guy with the ab...
autistic curious background story abode
  03/23/24
The country has also fared better than under any Russian/Sov...
cracking dead ratface garrison
  03/23/24
You ragged on Gorbachev for not having the foresight to use ...
autistic curious background story abode
  03/23/24
When Gorby took over the USSR was a superpower. One of 2 on...
cracking dead ratface garrison
  03/23/24
You're completely out over your skis. This is Soviet apologi...
autistic curious background story abode
  03/23/24
Ha, I fell for the flame. Good one.
cracking dead ratface garrison
  03/24/24
It's not flame dumbass. I'm just not a Ruskie. Horrible coun...
autistic curious background story abode
  03/24/24
Lmao, gg.
cracking dead ratface garrison
  03/24/24
You look pathetic and weak. This is not the win you think it...
autistic curious background story abode
  03/24/24
You jumped the shark with Russians being true believers in e...
cracking dead ratface garrison
  03/24/24
What's your counter to this argument and what evidence do yo...
autistic curious background story abode
  03/24/24
Every Russian would have a good lol at this. Kruschev imple...
cracking dead ratface garrison
  03/24/24
This is all post 2000 Putin era thinking. And that's okay. T...
autistic curious background story abode
  03/24/24
Do you also run the Brussels schtick?
cracking dead ratface garrison
  03/24/24
No I'm fairly right wing MAGA and want no more Ukraine fundi...
autistic curious background story abode
  03/24/24
That's a totally sensible position and in general, the US sh...
cracking dead ratface garrison
  03/24/24
Only Jews want forever wars. You're free to lol at me. I'...
autistic curious background story abode
  03/24/24
Nah, too many psychos on XO and not enough moderation. Even...
cracking dead ratface garrison
  03/24/24
you destroyed tmf ITT he’s such a clown
Jet Bat-shit-crazy Senate Party Of The First Part
  03/24/24
Having your stamp of approval is actually a mark of shame.
cracking dead ratface garrison
  03/24/24
I wouldn’t say they actually believed in Marxist econo...
Talented Crystalline Legal Warrant
  03/24/24
Dude the whole reason none of them knew anything about capit...
autistic curious background story abode
  03/24/24
Worlds richest man is idiot strange case.
charismatic flesh dilemma
  03/24/24


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Date: March 23rd, 2024 10:51 AM
Author: autistic curious background story abode

Not a Ukrainecuck. Just saying. The man is not a genius lol.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47519089)



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Date: March 23rd, 2024 10:55 AM
Author: Godawful School Cafeteria

doods in my HS became dictators of major countries for 20 years and achieved immense economic, military and social transformation unprecedented in hundreds of years

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47519097)



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Date: March 23rd, 2024 10:58 AM
Author: geriatric piazza

He isn’t a dictator.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47519104)



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Date: March 23rd, 2024 10:59 AM
Author: Jet Bat-shit-crazy Senate Party Of The First Part

lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47519106)



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Date: March 23rd, 2024 11:01 AM
Author: Godawful School Cafeteria

sorry vlad, congrats on ur recent re-election

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47519112)



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Date: March 23rd, 2024 11:03 AM
Author: geriatric piazza

TY. Can we borrow some shovels? There was a dreadful accident….

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47519119)



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Date: March 23rd, 2024 11:34 AM
Author: Godawful School Cafeteria

ill send an entire pajeet brigade to help but they may rape some of the corpses, hoap dats ok

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47519151)



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Date: March 23rd, 2024 12:45 PM
Author: Topaz Lascivious Nursing Home

Not like Zelenskyy

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47519380)



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Date: March 23rd, 2024 11:22 PM
Author: Navy disturbing trailer park

Your not Russian.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47521224)



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Date: March 23rd, 2024 11:33 AM
Author: autistic curious background story abode

He was a low level KGB agent in an era of political and economic chaos and instability who was in the right place at the right time to take over as a strongman in a power vacuum in a country that had recently been ruled with an iron fist for 90 years. This is dumb luck. He's not some special figure.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47519147)



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Date: March 23rd, 2024 11:33 AM
Author: Godawful School Cafeteria

guys in my HS use to be in the right place at the right time and become POTUS's of the world's largest countries, it was NBD

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47519149)



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Date: March 23rd, 2024 11:36 AM
Author: autistic curious background story abode

This is obviously true my guy. Russia is a shitty country full of stupid people with no pot to piss in.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47519156)



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Date: March 23rd, 2024 11:52 AM
Author: Godawful School Cafeteria

rofl now do amerikkka

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47519206)



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Date: March 23rd, 2024 11:57 AM
Author: geriatric piazza

Russia is increasingly nicer than America and its no longer just Moscow. Even smallish tier two cities are now very nice.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47519213)



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Date: March 23rd, 2024 12:48 PM
Author: Topaz Lascivious Nursing Home

I noticed this during the Wagner "rebellion." Those small cities they captured looked as nice as San Francisco in the 1950s.

It's funny how Russia doesn't show off either. It keeps this secret 99% of the time, then you catch a glimpse of a Russian city and it's classy and clean and modern.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47519388)



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Date: March 23rd, 2024 11:27 PM
Author: Provocative sable lay

What's really insane is it looked nice during the rebellion too

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47521233)



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Date: March 23rd, 2024 11:36 PM
Author: cracking dead ratface garrison

I had family in Rostov during the rebellion. Keep in mind that it wasn't particularly violent and the local population wasn't that concerned.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47521255)



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Date: March 24th, 2024 5:24 PM
Author: Jet Bat-shit-crazy Senate Party Of The First Part

a lot of dead people at Krokus also weren’t very concerned

most russians are passive sheep

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47522759)



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Date: March 24th, 2024 8:17 AM
Author: Exciting purple chapel

If it's so nice, why don't you go back? (Not that you ever lived there in the first place.)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47521805)



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Date: March 23rd, 2024 12:46 PM
Author: Topaz Lascivious Nursing Home

Russia sure looks much wealthier than America. But don't trust your eyes. Trust Biden.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47519382)



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Date: March 23rd, 2024 11:39 PM
Author: yapping athletic conference



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47521257)



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Date: March 23rd, 2024 10:56 AM
Author: Jet Bat-shit-crazy Senate Party Of The First Part

he’s more cunning and cold blooded than anything. that’s goes a long way in the environment he found himself in 25 years ago

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47519098)



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Date: March 23rd, 2024 10:58 AM
Author: geriatric piazza

He has the standard 120 IQ of his profession. He is a lawyer by training. Dumber than any doctor or engineer but not a mouth breather.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47519102)



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Date: March 23rd, 2024 10:58 AM
Author: Jet Bat-shit-crazy Senate Party Of The First Part

are you admitting that boor is smarter than you?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47519105)



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Date: March 23rd, 2024 11:00 AM
Author: geriatric piazza

I got a 28 on the MCAT and almost went DO. Take from that what you will.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47519108)



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Date: March 23rd, 2024 4:51 PM
Author: Jet Bat-shit-crazy Senate Party Of The First Part



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47519944)



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Date: March 23rd, 2024 10:58 AM
Author: Motley Bronze Rigor Foreskin

in what sense? like he legitimately has a low IQ and isn't great at solving puzzles or manipulating shapes in his mind?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47519103)



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Date: March 23rd, 2024 11:00 AM
Author: overrated maroon doctorate

He's a fake smart liberal artist like Dick Cheney or something.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47519109)



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Date: March 23rd, 2024 11:01 AM
Author: Boyish carmine parlor

His main asset is an ability to at least project being even-tempered and above the fray yet strong. I haven't seen any other figure in Russian public life who could serve his role any better than him.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47519111)



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Date: March 23rd, 2024 11:02 AM
Author: Jet Bat-shit-crazy Senate Party Of The First Part

yes Putin has annihilated all possible opposition

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47519115)



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Date: March 23rd, 2024 11:08 AM
Author: Motley Bronze Rigor Foreskin

i think his main assets are probably his ability to maneuver behind the scenes balancing the interests of the powerful elite while consolidating his own power and grip.

his public appeal is results oriented. restoring dignity to russia through military conquest and providing a higher standard of living for russians. he's able to attract broad appeal despite lacking in charisma which i think is another way of describing his "even-temperedness".

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47519123)



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Date: March 23rd, 2024 11:33 AM
Author: French Slimy Crackhouse Genital Piercing

doesnt he also assassinate nay-sayers and doubters?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47519150)



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Date: March 23rd, 2024 11:51 AM
Author: Motley Bronze Rigor Foreskin

yes.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47519204)



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Date: March 23rd, 2024 11:35 AM
Author: autistic curious background story abode

It's a dumb country full of stupid people who have never once had a pot to piss in. They're all nostalgic for Soyuz because at least they were big and powerful then. He's a low level functionary and there are consistent holes in his logic and thinking. He's no Bismarck or Metternich.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47519154)



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Date: March 23rd, 2024 12:25 PM
Author: Talented Crystalline Legal Warrant



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47519322)



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Date: March 23rd, 2024 11:21 PM
Author: translucent underhanded regret



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47521222)



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Date: March 23rd, 2024 11:59 AM
Author: cordovan mind-boggling jap

Putin is a gambler: he doesn't need to be smart, just high risk-high reward, playing his opponents, not the cards

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47519218)



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Date: March 24th, 2024 5:34 PM
Author: Irradiated Territorial Church Preventive Strike

seems like a crazy assessment. not sure i can think of a more cautious major world leader.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47522775)



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Date: March 24th, 2024 5:42 PM
Author: Topaz Lascivious Nursing Home

He's positively meek, has no military experience

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47522797)



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Date: March 24th, 2024 5:57 PM
Author: cordovan mind-boggling jap

1) sneak attack on Crimea in 2014

2) sneak attack on Ukraine in 2022

3) murders Navalny in cold blood simultaneously as Tucker fellates Putin in front of an international audience

4) tactical nuclear strike in Kyiv in 2024/2025, coincident with Biden getting kicked out of office and replaced by pro-Russian/pro-Putin Trump 47

the gambler knows-- nothing ventured, nothing gained



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47522837)



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Date: March 24th, 2024 7:21 PM
Author: Irradiated Territorial Church Preventive Strike

so any examples that aren't imaginary?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47523043)



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Date: March 24th, 2024 7:39 PM
Author: cordovan mind-boggling jap

(see no evil, hear no evil, worship Putin)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47523095)



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Date: March 23rd, 2024 12:17 PM
Author: primrose laughsome tanning salon personal credit line

Guys in my high school seized power of one the world’s largest countries and managed to maintain power for decades, including through wars/massive foreign opposition etc, all the time. It was nbd

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47519292)



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Date: March 23rd, 2024 11:19 PM
Author: cracking dead ratface garrison



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47521218)



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Date: March 23rd, 2024 12:26 PM
Author: Odious masturbator

He's 5'5"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47519324)



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Date: March 23rd, 2024 4:52 PM
Author: Topaz Lascivious Nursing Home

Who's better?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47519947)



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Date: March 23rd, 2024 5:25 PM
Author: hairraiser toaster

Khaled bin Mohamed Al Nahyan

https://youtu.be/-axkrYhD5-w?si=_LsTT1Z8L0kHi1T8



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47520042)



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Date: March 23rd, 2024 4:52 PM
Author: Dull hell

Microchimerism from Chabadnik loads lowered his IQ

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47519948)



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Date: March 23rd, 2024 11:21 PM
Author: Hairless Lime Bawdyhouse

lol @ some Prussian jew (OP) who was cuckced by the box tp claiming Putin isn't smart

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47521221)



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Date: March 23rd, 2024 11:22 PM
Author: cracking dead ratface garrison

As opposed to Biden, Macron, GW Bush, etc.? I'm also unconvinced that highest IQ means the best outcome. Based on that, Gorby would be the best Soviet leader but he ended up destroying the country. Napoleon, who was a legit genius, ultimately lost and died imprisoned.

Putin has been smart enough to remain in power for decades and is far better than any Russian/Soviet leader in living memory.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47521225)



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Date: March 23rd, 2024 11:25 PM
Author: Hairless Lime Bawdyhouse

HA tp is not very bright

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47521228)



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Date: March 23rd, 2024 11:30 PM
Author: autistic curious background story abode

Yes that's what truly matters in a leader, a guy with the ability to hang on indefinitely regardless of how his country fares. I for one am sad we don't have rigged elections in our country so some fat Boomer can hang on indefinitely. Don't stick your neck out!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47521242)



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Date: March 23rd, 2024 11:32 PM
Author: cracking dead ratface garrison

The country has also fared better than under any Russian/Soviet leader in living memory.

"I for one am sad we don't have rigged elections in our country"

Yeah, I wouldn't hang your hat on that one.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47521248)



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Date: March 23rd, 2024 11:36 PM
Author: autistic curious background story abode

You ragged on Gorbachev for not having the foresight to use brutality and violence to keep the Soviet Union together at a time when the country was so absurdly poor and backwards that anybody with a brain could tell you that keeping your own citizens in the darkness forever was untenable. The fact that even a small amount of transparency and reform would cause anyone with the capacity to get as far away from Moscow as humanly possible just goes to show how comically backwards the whole thing was.

And ljl at thinking Putin was some kind of political genius who grew the economy by doing anything other than the absolute bare obvious to transform Russia into a third world capitalist economy. You have been drinking an unbelievable amount of kool-aid sir.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47521254)



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Date: March 23rd, 2024 11:43 PM
Author: cracking dead ratface garrison

When Gorby took over the USSR was a superpower. One of 2 on the planet. Soviet QOL was the result of the fact that Communism fundamentally doesn't work which is ironic since the West is moving in the direction of exactly that. That said, everyone had a place to live and no one was hungry. But all of that aside, Gorby's whole argument to lead the country was that he was an economist who would reform the country's system and everyone would get wealthier. The result was a total disaster. People got poorer. Corruption skyrocketed. Instead of making peace, violence increased. After the system collapsed, people actually worried about things like wtf are they going to eat and where are they going to live, which wasn't a serious concern since Stalin.

In reality, China got the transition from Communism to a regulated capitalist economy right. Putin acknowledged that and is following in their footsteps. Is that "genius"? No, it isn't. And that goes to my point that in terms of pure IQ, Gorby is supposed to be smarter. But look at the result.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47521263)



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Date: March 23rd, 2024 11:54 PM
Author: autistic curious background story abode

You're completely out over your skis. This is Soviet apologist mythology. The Soviet Union was not a super power in any sense. They had atom bombs and nuclear submarines. But in what way were they influential? No innovation, no businesses, no culture. When the Union fell only 9% of people had cars. Is that Super Power to you? What made them so powerful, a lot of subjects and territory? Yes they got poorer in the 90s due to a godawful transition some of which was Yeltsins fault. China had the benefit of Richard Nixon convincing Mao to get rich in exchange for turning its back on Moscow.

You want to know the core problem with the Soviet Union? They ACTUALLY BELIEVED in economic communism. They were like the same pinko faggot college kids that took over in the 1920s having learned ABSOLUTELY NOTHING during the subsequent 90 years. Blaming Gorbachev is insane. He was polishing a turd. The Soviets didn't even have a real currency they were still on the barter system. China didn't do anything right either Mao just listened to Nixon when he said do you want to be rich or do you want to be poor and Mao didn't give a single FUCK about Marx and Engels mainly because they literally weren't Chinese and Socialist mythology was just a vehicle for Mao to maintain order and perpetuate his cult of personality. But the Russians 100% believed in all of the workers of the world unite garbage as if it were as true as the sun rising every morning. Jesus fuck there is something wrong with you!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47521283)



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Date: March 24th, 2024 12:00 AM
Author: cracking dead ratface garrison

Ha, I fell for the flame. Good one.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47521290)



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Date: March 24th, 2024 12:03 AM
Author: autistic curious background story abode

It's not flame dumbass. I'm just not a Ruskie. Horrible country with a horrible history. A nightmare, really.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47521294)



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Date: March 24th, 2024 12:22 AM
Author: cracking dead ratface garrison

Lmao, gg.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47521340)



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Date: March 24th, 2024 12:24 AM
Author: autistic curious background story abode

You look pathetic and weak. This is not the win you think it is and trying to play it off like you don't give a shit when you clearly care a ton is pathetic.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47521348)



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Date: March 24th, 2024 12:37 AM
Author: cracking dead ratface garrison

You jumped the shark with Russians being true believers in economic communism. Nice try though.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47521389)



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Date: March 24th, 2024 12:40 AM
Author: autistic curious background story abode

What's your counter to this argument and what evidence do you have? Stephen Kotkin, a Princeton professor of history read every document in the Soviet archive and found no mention of anyone who thought Marxist-Leninist socialism was a sham. He also wrote three multi thousand page biographies of Stalin and concluded Soviets were true believers. U: poast.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47521395)



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Date: March 24th, 2024 12:57 AM
Author: cracking dead ratface garrison

Every Russian would have a good lol at this. Kruschev implemented destalinization not too long after Stalin died. He helped kill Stalin, btw. Russians were such true believers that they went for Gorby specifically so he could evolve Russian out of Communism. Unfortunately, it was a total clusterfuck. Nevertheless, they trusted the West to their detriment which went even worse. Then Putin came to power to fix the shitshow that I just described and he actually did a decent job which is why even those that hate him admit that most Russians really like him, unlike say Yeltsin who at some points had almost 0 support.

God damn it, I ffi again.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47521440)



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Date: March 24th, 2024 1:04 AM
Author: autistic curious background story abode

This is all post 2000 Putin era thinking. And that's okay. That's why people in Russia like him today. But this was not the thinking in the 80s and 90s, unfortunately. You have to remember that Putin pulled a lot of these arguments out of his ass during his first campaign and now they have been repeated so many times that people just believe this was always the case. It wasn't. Another one of these arguments was the idea that the West was somehow anti Slavic because of the war in Bosnia. Putin framed it as an attack on all Slavs by the West. Of course, no one actually thought this at the time but it became part of the Putin mythos. The economic miracle in the 2000s is also part of that mythos. I'm not saying there isn't a kernel of truth to some of this stuff but it's all post-2000 Putin apologist thinking. It's divorced from Soviet thought. Yeltsin was a boob and the transition was chaotic but that does not necessarily affirm Putins post 2000 worldview as infallible. To the contrary his supporters have drank way too much of the kool-aid.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47521461)



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Date: March 24th, 2024 1:10 AM
Author: cracking dead ratface garrison

Do you also run the Brussels schtick?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47521475)



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Date: March 24th, 2024 1:25 AM
Author: autistic curious background story abode

No I'm fairly right wing MAGA and want no more Ukraine funding. But not because I give a shit about Russia. I am just pro USA.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47521510)



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Date: March 24th, 2024 1:28 AM
Author: cracking dead ratface garrison

That's a totally sensible position and in general, the US should basically stop funding bullshit around the world, whether in Israel, Ukraine, Africa or elsewhere. No other country does this. That's common sense and totally separate from our conversation and I'm also a MAGA Republican.

However, I'm also from that part of the world and can't help but lol at your analysis of Russian culture. I'll just note that you'll have trouble finding a more cynical group of people than Russians.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47521513)



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Date: March 24th, 2024 1:32 AM
Author: autistic curious background story abode

Only Jews want forever wars.

You're free to lol at me. I'm not FLW I won't get butt hurt and follow you around in a multi year blood feud. I will not remember this convo in the morning. You should cop a sudo and stick around. Just go by Belorussian Pumo or something idgaf. Pull up a chair and put on a name tag tovarisch.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47521520)



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Date: March 24th, 2024 1:34 AM
Author: cracking dead ratface garrison

Nah, too many psychos on XO and not enough moderation. Even if you're not one, plenty of others are. Not worth it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47521524)



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Date: March 24th, 2024 5:05 AM
Author: Jet Bat-shit-crazy Senate Party Of The First Part

you destroyed tmf ITT

he’s such a clown

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47521712)



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Date: March 24th, 2024 4:19 PM
Author: cracking dead ratface garrison

Having your stamp of approval is actually a mark of shame.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47522624)



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Date: March 24th, 2024 6:28 PM
Author: Talented Crystalline Legal Warrant

I wouldn’t say they actually believed in Marxist economics. But they didn’t take finance and economics seriously. I read the recent Gorbachev biography, which is the most comprehensive work on him and late Soviet politics. One key thing the author noted was that Gorbachev and his team had no one with a background in Econ. Gorbie himself was highly intelligent and an intellectual but in interviews basically showed no basic understanding of Econ. The Chinese had a greater willingness to listen to technocrats trained on western Econ after the cultural revolution went to shit.

But cr response otherwise. The Soviet economy was very rudimentary

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47522914)



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Date: March 24th, 2024 6:41 PM
Author: autistic curious background story abode

Dude the whole reason none of them knew anything about capitalism is that they had been brainwashed that it was bad. It was completely against their collectivist culture. I actually can site a major source that says they were true believers.

And here's another data point. The reason why Mikhail Prokorov and other robber barons of his ilk ripped off the state so hard during the transition in the 90s is he had gone to the London School of Economics. But very few people did. He was basically sent there because the Soviets were like ok we need a small number of people to go figure out how the rest of the world works.

I don't know how anyone can say in good faith that the Soviets were not true believers in economic Marxism when they were all so insanely poor and didn't print dollar bills. Gorbachev cared about economics but didn't know anything about economics? That doesn't make sense. He was the first and only Soviet leader who was born in the Soviet Union. He grew up under Stalin. Of course this guy had no idea how money works. None of them did. No one has produced any evidence to the contrary ITT.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47522954)



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Date: March 24th, 2024 4:35 PM
Author: charismatic flesh dilemma

Worlds richest man is idiot strange case.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5507932&forum_id=2#47522657)