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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
chechen warlord ramzan kadyrov brags about cybertruck technical and praises musk for allegedly giving him it in grozny (take it with a heap of salt, like everything that clown says). they want to send it to the frontline armed with nothing more than NSV (think soviet M2 Browning) https://xcancel.com/NOELreports/status/1824820843463000392#m
would be a nice future addition to oryxās list, if they actually put it outside of chechenya
this pathetic attempt at replacing toyota hilux will only leave these people deeply humiliated
I did not have Musk x Kadyrov on my 2024 bingo card.
Not really sure if this is actionable sanctions-busting. It would be hilarious if so. Even more hilarious if Ukraine captures it and sticks into the victory museum.
maybe itās simply stolen
Given how it was marketed Iām surprised we didnāt see cybertechnicals out of some stateside militia group somewhere, though I guess not currently having dictatorial power forces them to have better opsec.
Either way this things gonna light up FIRMS like itās a one-vehicle ammo depot if/when it goes up.
cybertruck just plainly sucks as a base for technical. iām almost certain that it canāt stop 5.56 (or 5.45) or anything bigger, or bigger fragmentation, windows are not bulletproof, it will get mauled by AT mines and maybe even some AP ones, lithium battery can catch fire, it has limited range, canāt be refueled quickly, probably canāt be repaired in field, canāt haul anything, its frame is brittle, it rusts, itās shiny, itās probably quite loud in radio spectrum. kadyrov mounted 12.7mm HMG which itself is fine as a weapon but woefully underpowered alone for frontline service, at least needs some additional antitank weapon - maybe it wonāt ever see tanks, but itās still useful against fortifications, BMPs, MTLBs and the like
but this wonāt ever happen, because this thing is for celebratory joyrides in grozny and firing that 12.7mm hmg up in the air, as a local custom
it continues to be striking how much of a reference Lord Of War can manage to be at times
biggest difference is that kadyrovs teip (sorta like clan) is not independent, theyāre just paid off by putin to fuck off and not cause trouble. theyāre doing this since end of second chechen war, when kadyrovs were installed as chechen leaders sympathetic to putin. which is direct source of all these funds that he put into building a motherfucking palace with a moat (where that video is filmed)
but other than that, son of warlord from Lord of War is pretty similar to irl Kadyrov, down to armor piercing ammo belt he wears there (black tips)