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dalton99a

(95,248 posts)
Sat Mar 12, 2022, 03:40 PM Mar 2022

Support Z, or else


People walk past the letter Z, which has become a symbol of the Russian military, and a hashtag reading "We don't abandon our own" on an advertisement screen in St. Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday, March 9, 2022. AP


The letter Z is displayed on a bus in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, March 9, 2022. AP


People go down the escalator past the letter Z and a hashtag reading "We don't abandon our own" in an underground station in St. Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday, March 9, 2022. AP


In an underground station in St. Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday, March 9, 2022. AP


On an advertisement screen in St. Petersburg, March 7, 2022. Photo by AFP


St. Petersburg, March 10, 2022. AP


Over Nevsky Prospect in St. Petersburg, March 5, 2022. AP


A car with the “Z” symbol, Moscow, March 4, 2022. Photo Arsenia N / Shutterstock
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Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)
6. No. They think they are mushrooms. Keep them in the dark and feed them bullshit
Sat Mar 12, 2022, 03:52 PM
Mar 2022

My take: it won't work for long, or the longest it will work is until Russia decides to shake off the pariah state status and join the real world.

uponit7771

(93,532 posts)
12. Putrid exploits Anchor Bias, people aren't stupid just don't have both facts of story laid out
Sat Mar 12, 2022, 05:41 PM
Mar 2022

AntiFascist

(13,756 posts)
11. I can just imagine the giant pickup trucks with Z flags in their beds...
Sat Mar 12, 2022, 05:34 PM
Mar 2022

as Trump runs for office again.

uponit7771

(93,532 posts)
13. +1, and the GZP will start wearing the armbands first the M$M will ignore them and not hold them
Sat Mar 12, 2022, 05:42 PM
Mar 2022

... accountable and the rest will be left up to voters to decide.

damn

Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)
4. It started as a popular grass roots thing, but I smell AstroTurf, and if not then it is coopted now.
Sat Mar 12, 2022, 03:51 PM
Mar 2022

mitch96

(15,875 posts)
7. I think it would be neat if every "Z" had been turned into "Z"lenskyy.. That would piss putin off nt
Sat Mar 12, 2022, 03:58 PM
Mar 2022

Raine

(31,237 posts)
14. They "dont abandon their own" that's ironic since
Sat Mar 12, 2022, 05:48 PM
Mar 2022

they just leave their dead and wounded wherever they fall.

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