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[MaxTheFox]

As a Russian Protestant, toppest of fucking keks.

[jipehog]

My Number 1 reason why the US should keep funding the War in Ukraine at existing levels is: It's better than literally anything else the Democrats would be doing with the money.

[EuchreJack]

As a Russian Protestant, toppest of fucking keks.

I think, if you take Pepe the frog, put him in a suit, put some alt-right statement in a word bubble, then change him from green to white...you've got a fairly good approximation of Putin.

[EuchreJack]

Spoiler: Da Bills (click to show/hide)

Behold the IRON THRONE! 100% Leopard tanks melted by HOLY PROMETHIUM. Joseph Vissarionovich, my sun and stars, I AM YOUR EMPRAH.

Speaking strictly from a Western Satanist Atheist perspective that cathedral is amazing and one of the most warhammer 40k things I've ever seen. Hell, its more 40k then some stuff in 40k.

Is it 100 million dollar amazing? Well no.
Would I be pissed about it if I lived in Russia and it was wasting so much tax money? Yes.
Would I think it was possibly Orthodox Satanism and a monument to ritual slaughter if I was actually religious? Possibly. ^{_{Hail Moloch}}

I live in New York, one of the coldest states in the Union. 
Our State Governor spent 1.4 billion dollars to put an open air stadium in her hometown of Buffalo.
I am well acquainted with the concept of being pissed at government wasting taxpayer money.

My Number 1 reason why the US should keep funding the War in Ukraine at existing levels is: It's better than literally anything else the Democrats would be doing with the money. 

They're Democrats [insert hated US political party here, it works for both of them], you KNOW they're gonna spend the money.

How much money do you think it would cost the local and state economy if the Bills relocated away from the state, which has been talked about a lot of late?

The main problem with it is how the money was raised (stolen from a local Native American nation) and the fact it isn’t really tied to the team having to improve the local area.

The open air nature of the stadium will only really cause issues in the Winter months, which will mostly be taken up by the Bills playing there., so possibly 3-4 months of downtime if you have a bad Winter. I’m not sure what kind of events would be played during that time, if any, but I also don’t tend to venture out to stadia unless I’m watching the sports team that plays there, except one time at Murrayfield.

Spoiler: More Bills Talk (click to show/hide)

I thought some of the items in the Jeff Foxworthy on Canadians thread sounded familiar, so I went and looked up the one I got a while back about Buffalo NY. Sure enough, some of the items are "recycled." But he had some other good ones that also apply to Western PA where I grew up. So, I thought I would post them here as well.

Jeff Foxworthy on Buffalo NY

If you consider it a sport to sit in a ice hut all day long with a rod and reel just to put perch in your freezer, you might live in Buffalo.

If you’re proud that your region makes the national news 96 nights each year because Lewiston is the coldest spot in the nation, you might live in Buffalo.

If your local Dairy Queen is closed from November through March, you might live in Buffalo.

If you instinctively walk like a penguin for five months out of the year, you might live in Buffalo.

If someone in a store offers you assistance, and they don’t work there, you might live in Buffalo; because you’re all so damn friendly.

If you have ever worn shorts, sunglasses and a parka at the same time, you might live in Buffalo.

If your town has an equal number of bars and churches, or if you are in church and your priest or minister asks you to pray for the Bills, and wants to get you all home for 1 p.m. kickoff you might live in Buffalo.

If you have had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number, you might live in Buffalo.

YOU KNOW YOU ARE A TRUE Buffalonian when:
1. “Vacation” means going over to your cabin in Canada for the weekend.
2. You measure distance in hours.
3. You know several people who have hit a deer more than once.
4. You often switch from “heat” to “A/C” in the same day and back again.
5. You can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard, without flinching.
6. You carry jumper cables in your car and your wife knows how to use them.
7. You design your kid’s Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
8. Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow.
9. You know all 4 seasons: almost fall winter, winter, still winter and road construction. (the one I was specifically looking for, I think there was a typo on the first one)
10. Down South to you means ERIE, PA.
11. You find ‘0′ degrees “a little chilly.”
12. You go out to fish fry every Friday, Prime Rib on Saturday, and bingo every Wednesday.
13. Your 4th of July picnic was moved indoors due to frost.
14. You have more miles on your snow blower than your car.
15. You actually understand these jokes, and you forward them to all your Buffalo friends!

[hector13]

Spoiler: more unrelated things (click to show/hide)

I think a lot of that applies to any cold weather state. I have experienced a lot of that in Wisconsin. I shovel snow in my shorts sometimes.

The driving in the snow thing really bothers me. I think it was last year I was driving home from my in-laws, a 2 hour drive, and it was a snowing. I was driving 50mph in the right lane of the highway (70mph speed limit), because the snow wasn’t lying in the lane presumably because of the traffic, but there were people over-taking in the left lane, despite the significant amount of slush there, including heavy goods vehicles.

Unsurprisingly there was a point where there was an accident, but even after driving past the police cordon bit, people were still in the goddamn left lane speeding past people.

[Madman198237]

This temple is one of my favorite examples to argue that a huge majority of Christians don't give an F about what their particular cult will push. What matters for people without critical thinking is what their favorite authority says, no matter how disgusting and evil (and even contradicting their own religion) it is.

I feel like lumping together the probably small number of people who had this built, the people in their area and particular denomination of that religion who didn't have a choice about it being built, the people in their denomination of that religion elsewhere who also didn't have a choice about it being built, and people of entirely different denominations who ALSO also didn't have a choice about it being built is reductive in the extreme and not a good argument about anything. It does demonstrate that you know much less than you think about both Christians and Christianity, though.

[Starver]

I think, if you take Pepe the frog, put him in a suit, put some alt-right statement in a word bubble, then change him from green to white...you've got a fairly good approximation of Putin.

"ПП Ћ ФРОГ"

 

[Strongpoint]

This temple is one of my favorite examples to argue that a huge majority of Christians don't give an F about what their particular cult will push. What matters for people without critical thinking is what their favorite authority says, no matter how disgusting and evil (and even contradicting their own religion) it is.

I feel like lumping together the probably small number of people who had this built, the people in their area and particular denomination of that religion who didn't have a choice about it being built, the people in their denomination of that religion elsewhere who also didn't have a choice about it being built, and people of entirely different denominations who ALSO also didn't have a choice about it being built is reductive in the extreme and not a good argument about anything. It does demonstrate that you know much less than you think about both Christians and Christianity, though.

Of course, Christians of other denominations don't like this temple, their authorities didn't say that it is great\fine. So, nothing stops them from seeing it as what it is - blasphemy and a mockery of a Christian church. It is the point.

Devout Russian Christians who regularly go to the Orthodox Russian Church do like (or at least don't mind) this temple and see nothing wrong it because their authorities (aka KGB priests) say it is fine. I asked them. And they discard any arguments that this is blasphemous. Gundyaev blessed it = it is fine. Period

[bloop_bleep]

I was not ready for the Russian cabal Church mosaics. These people are shitposting in reality.

And no, I wouldn't ascribe it to all Christians. I think undemocratic mass organization can harm any religion.

[King Zultan]

The stuff inside that church is pretty metal, but what does it have to do with anything related to Christianity?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Nothing says praise Jesus like a big brass phallus in front of the church.

[Random_Dragon]

Yet more reasons why I've always been more the "study at home on my own time" sort than the church-going sort.

[martinuzz]

Dear Russians who are anal raped by fake news on a daily / hourly basis.
Your facsist Hitler government might have tried to tell you that the attack on Brjansk was a terrorist attack by Ukrainian forces.
It was not.
It was a rebel attack by Russian neo nazis. Your own fucking nazi extreme right people fucked your mother in the arse. And I applaud them, I hope they do more attacks on Russian soil. It's sad that it have to be the nazis who dare to do that. I'd rather have seen it to be the general Russian population but, hey, it has to start somewhere

But stop the fuck blaming Ukraine for that shite. They didn't do that. It was your own extreme right brothers, mothers and sisters who did that bombing run. I hope many of you died.

[Strongpoint]

Dear Russians who are anal raped by fake news on a daily / hourly basis.
Your facsist Hitler government might have tried to tell you that the attack on Brjansk was a terrorist attack by Ukrainian forces.
It was not.
It was a rebel attack by Russian neo nazis. Your own fucking nazi extreme right people fucked your mother in the arse. And I applaud them, I hope they do more attacks on Russian soil. It's sad that it have to be the nazis who dare to do that. I'd rather have seen it to be the general Russian population but, hey, it has to start somewhere

But stop the fuck blaming Ukraine for that shite. They didn't do that. It was your own extreme right brothers, mothers and sisters who did that bombing run. I hope many of you died.

1) You are a bit... extreme in your wording

2) Those are Russian Neo-nazi\white supermatists but they are not maniacs who would randomly kill civilians as Russian propaganda tries to claim.

3) Their de jure status is muddy, but they are de facto part of the Ukrainian armed forces and this operation was clearly approved and supported by Ukraine (not that it will be ever admitted officially). Am I happy about that? Not really. I am worried that we may be raising our own Bin Ladens. In the long run, racist pan-slavs can't be allies of Ukraine. Ideologies just don't match. But during a war for survival... enemy of my enemy works

4) If we want a civil war in Russia (and I do want it, I see it is the only realistic way to victory as I define it) guys like this may contribute a lot

[Maximum Spin]

Dear Russians who are anal raped by fake news on a daily / hourly basis.
Your facsist Hitler government might have tried to tell you that the attack on Brjansk was a terrorist attack by Ukrainian forces.
It was not.
It was a rebel attack by Russian neo nazis. Your own fucking nazi extreme right people fucked your mother in the arse. And I applaud them, I hope they do more attacks on Russian soil. It's sad that it have to be the nazis who dare to do that. I'd rather have seen it to be the general Russian population but, hey, it has to start somewhere

But stop the fuck blaming Ukraine for that shite. They didn't do that. It was your own extreme right brothers, mothers and sisters who did that bombing run. I hope many of you died.

1) You are a bit... extreme in your wording

2) Those are Russian Neo-nazi\white supermatists but they are not maniacs who would randomly kill civilians as Russian propaganda tries to claim.

3) Their de jure status is muddy, but they are de facto part of the Ukrainian armed forces and this operation was clearly approved and supported by Ukraine (not that it will be ever admitted officially). Am I happy about that? Not really. I am worried that we may be raising our own Bin Ladens. In the long run, racist pan-slavs can't be allies of Ukraine. Ideologies just don't match. But during a war for survival... enemy of my enemy works

4) If we want a civil war in Russia (and I do want it, I see it is the only realistic way to victory as I define it) guys like this may contribute a lot

Besides that, I also see a problem with essentially saying that ethnic Russians living in and apparently siding with Ukraine are still fundamentally Russians and Russia's responsibility. That's exactly what Russia wants.

[hector13]

T’be fair, given Putin’s background as an intelligence agent and the fact we’re getting to the end of Winter, and Russia’s failure to roflstomp an “inferior” (by military strength) nation, it would not surprise me if it was a false flag operation to engender further support from the Russian populace.