War in Ukraine

[Franklin Pierce]

McDonald's super-fan Handcuffs Himself to Doors of Moscow Restaurant in protest after the chain said it would close in Russia as Some Outlets REMAIN OPEN across country

• McDonald's still serving food across Russia despite chain saying it would quit

A McDonald's super-fan was arrested and fined in Moscow after chaining himself to the front of a restaurant to protest it closing amid the invasion of Ukraine.

Luka Safronov-Zatravkin, a pianist and son of famous Russian artist Nikas Safronov, said it was 'inhumane' of McDonald's to close - telling Russian media: 'It was my way of life, it was my freedom, they decided that they could limit me.'

McDonald's announced what it called a 'temporary closure' of all 850 restaurants last week, and while it did not give an exact date for the closure it was widely assumed the move would happen at the end of the week.

But Russians were still able to buy McDonald's in cities across the country today despite the American chain announcing its plans to suspend all operations in Russia.

Fast food fans in Moscow, St Petersburg, Volgograd, Novosibirsk and Ufa were seen queuing for burgers on Monday afternoon as restaurants there continued to operate - almost a week after McDonald's said it was quitting the country.

Luka Safronov-Zatravkin was arrested and fined after chaining himself to the door of a McDonald's in Russia to protest it closing

McDonald's super-fan handcuffs himself to doors of Moscow restaurant in protest | Daily Mail Online

 

[Vol737]

She worked on TV news.

Brave woman. She quite likely will rot in prison, but bold move .

 

[lawgator1]

Friday, March 11 Scoreboard: The Five Is No. 1 with 3.5 Million Viewers; Tucker Carlson Takes Demo Win

It's pretty disgusting that Fox viewers keep looking the other way on this. I'm actually surprised in a way. Would have thought so-called patriots would maybe register their disdain for him and what he has said. But I guess their loyalty to Fox is stronger than their loyalty to the country.

 

[landscapingvol]

A city reduced to Ash and sSoke: Drone footage reveals Mariupol Hellscape as Russian forces continue to Bombard Buildings and civilians run out of Food and Water as Kyiv resembles a disaster movie after constant Shelling

Drone footage has captured the moment Russian missiles turned the besieged southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol into a hellscape as Moscow's forces continue to bombard buildings and civilians run out of food and water.

Video filmed amid a blanket of black smoke rising above the surrounded port city appears to show a missile strike on a set of high-rise buildings, razing at least one of the properties to the ground.

A second piece of footage shows a string of high-rise buildings burning next to a row of charred structures that appear to have already been hit by Russian missile strikes in Moscow's relentless bombardment of the city.

Another clip shows plumes of black smoke rising above Mariupol while flashes of artillery fire continue to light-up the small port city, which has experienced some of the worst suffering of Moscow's 19-day war.

Drone footage has captured the moment Russian missiles hit buildings in the besieged southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol which has been encircled by Moscow's forces for a week and a half

A second piece of footage shows a string of high-rise buildings burning next to a row of charred structures that appear to have already been hit by Russian missile strikes in Moscow's relentless bombardment of the city

A woman walks past building obliterated by Russian shelling in the southern Ukrainian port city of Mariupol on Sunday, March 13

An aerial view shows smoke rising from damaged residential buildings following an explosion in Mariupol, Ukraine

A city reduced to ash and smoke: Drone footage reveals Mariupol hellscape | Daily Mail Online

I have been led to believe that Russia never purposely hits residential buildings only NATO does that and if they do it, it was because they were provoked by Nazis

 

[Franklin Pierce]

No more Russian Rich Kids of Instagram! Moscow influencers WEEP in final posts before Putin banned the site for 'incitement of violence against Russians'

Russian influencers sobbed uncontrollably as they bid tearful goodbyes to their followers after Vladimir Putin banned Instagram in the country, cutting off 80 million users on Monday.

Russian reality TV star Olga Buzova, 36, posted a video Sunday that shows her weeping over the ban, as she tells her 23.3 million followers in a nearly seven-minute video that she feels her life is being taken away from her.

'I am not afraid of admitting that I do not want to lose you,' she said in Russian, according to the Insider.

'I do not know what the future holds. I don't know. I just shared my life, my work, and my soul. I did not do this all as a job for me, this is a part of my soul. It feels like a big part of my heart, and my life is being taken away from me.'

The inconsolable influencers have been slammed on social media for crying over the impending loss of their fans while thousands of people have been killed as a result of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

'God, in Ukraine, people are dying, children are in the subway, there is nowhere to sleep, they have lost everything, and you are crying because of Instagram,' one user commented on an influencer's post.

A video was posted on Sunday by Olga Buzova, 36, shows the reality TV star sobbing over the ban, telling her 23.3 million followers in a nearly seven-minute video that she feels her life is being taken away from her

Instagram ban will prevent Buzova from sharing one of her many bikini snaps with her followers

In a clip shared on Twitter by Nexta TV, an unnamed Russian beauty blogger broke down in tears and said she was in the 'first stage of grief' over the ban.

Speaking to fans in a video livestreamed on Telegram, she sobbed: 'Do you think that for me, as an Instagram influencer, this is [a] source of income?

'To me, it's [Instagram] just all life, it's the soul. It's the one with which I wake up, fall asleep, f***ing five years in a row.'

She faced furious criticism online and was accused of caring more about her pay packet rather than 'thousands of dead people, including her compatriots.'

Valeria Chekalina, a pregnant Instagram influencer with 10.5 million followers, told fans she would be posting her content on Telegram and VK

Russian influencers left in tears after Putin bans Instagram | Daily Mail Online

 

[Volbucky]

Jesse Watters going off on Putin right now. Guessing things around the water cooler when Tucker walks by might be kind of tense.

Your obsession with Tucker Carlson is really odd and cringy. Let it go gator boy.

 

[luthervol]

How do you not know that they are spooning each other everyday and one is no different than the other ?

lol.....So you hate corporations? Or just big corporations? How big does a corporation need to be before they deserve to be hated.

 

[luthervol]

Luther. I know you are much much smarter than this. To act as if politicians didn't have anything to do with this is crazy.

I know they did. I'm talking about the nuts on here who are constantly blasting the government without uttering a word about capitalism (big corporations).
Corporations would be even more out of hand without government regulations and oversight.

 

[lawgator1]

Your obsession with Tucker Carlson is really odd and cringy. Let it go gator boy.

As I say, I'm just genuinely taken aback by the lack of revulsion the Fox viewership has shown on a) Carlson's statements leading up to it, and b) his weaksauce effort to walk it back since then.

 

[Pepe_Silvia]

Hopefully it's not too late to take back that $14 billion from these transphobes.

 

[0nelilreb]

lol.....So you hate corporations? Or just big corporations? How big does a corporation need to be before they deserve to be hated.

I don’t hate , I just don’t think one (big corp) is any better or worse than the other ( big gov) . Trusting either to go against their own nature is not smart at all . We literally just watched big gov give big pharma a blanket amnesty on a brand new vaccine while “ helping “ another big corp censor anything they deemed “misinformation “ … Trust is not a word I’d use with either .

 

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[0nelilreb]

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Hopefully it's not too late to take back that $14 billion from these transphobes.

If grandmas and little Anna’s are learning how to fire automatic weapons , I think / believe Johni with an “I” should stay also .

 

[0nelilreb]

You probably aren’t wrong lol

 

[Paper_Towel]

BMW convertible with a caliber .50 on the back

https://www.reddit.com/r/shittytechnicals/comments/tds8f9/another_technical_from_ukraine_mykolaiv/

 

[BigOrangeTrain]

We definitely need to trust all of the tweets and videos being put out right?

How Video Game Footage Is Being Used in the Propaganda Wars

 

[clarksvol00]

We basically do not have unregulated capitalism. We have corporate capitalism. Big corporations partner with the government to receive sweetheart deals and to shut out smaller competitors. Why do you think Walmart and Costco stayed open during covid while tens of thousands of small mom and pop businesses went out of business?

Are you saying that the lockdowns allowed Walmart in Big City X to stay open, but shut down Family Owned Piggly Wiggly in Small Town Y?

Edit: honestly the size of the city doesn't matter. As far as I know the lockdowns were based on what was "essential" or not, size of the company didn't come into play.

 

[hog88]

Are you saying that the lockdowns allowed Walmart in Big City X to stay open, but shut down Family Owned Piggly Wiggly in Small Town Y?

Edit: honestly the size of the city doesn't matter. As far as I know the lockdowns were based on what was "essential" or not, size of the company didn't come into play.

Sure it did. Especially depending on what state you live in.

 

[clarksvol00]

Sure it did. Especially depending on what state you live in.

Got an example? Grocery stores were "essential," didn't matter of you were Walmart or the Pig as far as I know.

 

[hog88]

Got an example? Grocery stores were "essential," didn't matter of you were Walmart or the Pig as far as I know.

Walmart ect were deemed essential almost everywhere but the farmers markets were closed down.

 

[Paper_Towel]

 

[clarksvol00]

Walmart ect were deemed essential almost everywhere but the farmers markets were closed down.

Which farmer's markets? What about family owned groceries like the Pig? Was the Pig shut down?
Edit: did the olive garden get to stay open, but Mama Fratelli's get shut down?

 

[Hunerwadel]

Putin's rarely seen family: Photos of Russian president's daughters taken when he first took power

Back in 2020, one of Putin's former confidants shared rare photos of the Russian President's two daughters from his private collection. The pictures show the girls – Putin's daughters with his ex-wife Lyudmila Shkrebneva, whom he was married to for 30 years – playing games and spending time with his own sons. They were released following Pugachev's ugly legal battle against the Russian State, which he lost in 2020.

Both of Putin's daughters are now in their 30s, but these photos show the president's pride and joy when they were teenagers inside the Kremlin and at Pugachev's dacha – or country house – near Moscow. Pictured (L to R): Alexander and Viktor Pugachev and Maria and Ektaterina Putin in the Kremlin library.

The photos also offer a glimpse into the lavish childhood Putin offered his daughters. Here, Ekaterina and Maria Putina (pictured, center) smile alongside members of Russian pop group Strelki in the early 2000s.

Putin's oldest daughter, Maria, 36, was born Maria Vladimirovna Putina but now uses her surname Vorontsova. She is named after Putin's mother, Maria Ivanovna Shelomova, and seemed destined to be a scientist from the start. She showed great aptitude for the sciences at school as a young child in East Germany and as a teen in Moscow, before going on to study biology at St Petersburg State University.

After completing her studies, she entered medical school in Moscow. She has since become a pediatric endocrinologist and one of Russia's top experts on dwarfism.

Photos of Putin's daughters from when he first took power | Daily Mail Online

Anyone remember the old movie Village of the Damned?

 

[Paper_Towel]

 

[Paper_Towel]