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[–] sexywheat@hexbear.net 10 points 10 hours ago

Love how all the pro Ukraine libs want the war to end but only if their side wins. Meanwhile actual Ukrainians are doing shit like this.

To the last Ukrainian!

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 29 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (2 children)

This shit is so weird. There is an obvious undertone of we do this to preserve our glorious race but that doesn't make sense at all. Cum isn't the bottleneck, ever.

By itself, free fertility treatments isn't a bad thing but I feel like it's impossible to separate from the ethno nationalism even if it's on a purely ideological level and won't pay off in a big way.

Is this so that men fight for their cum and soil if they can't fight for their blood and soil?

I guess freezing sperm is probably really cheap to do non-commercialy. Put the cum in a test tube, throw it into a tank of liquid nitrogen with the other samples. Top up the tank every other week or so.

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 8 hours ago

given that this is Ukraine we're talking about, pretty sure nobody will actually top up the tank, somebody will definitely pocket the money for topping up the tank

[–] BoxedFenders@hexbear.net 18 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Cum isn't the bottleneck, ever.

Cursed sentence.

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 12 points 15 hours ago

You know what they say. If you are up to your neck in cum, don't let your head hang low.

[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 35 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Like carcinization causing all animals to eventually evolve into crab, Israelification causes all US-backed "bastions of democracy" to eventually evolve into cum-stealing IOF troops.

[–] Staines@hexbear.net 19 points 15 hours ago

You're bleeding out in the pristine donbas snow. As you fade away, you hear the all too familiar whirr of a drone as the FPV pilot arms its cattle-prod and dives in for a cumikaze.

[–] Staines@hexbear.net 21 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

The war provided the perfect way for people to migrate east and west to areas with higher standards of living, which many Ukrainians already aspired to do (hence wanting to join the EU). Most of them won't go back unless they are forced to. Few civilians have been killed, but Ukraine has lost 20% of it's population. I don't think it will recover any time soon.

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 8 hours ago

I really can't see how Ukraine survives as a state at this point.

[–] CthulhusIntern@hexbear.net 32 points 17 hours ago

I guess this is what Zelensky meant when he said he wants Ukraine to be a big Israel.

[–] miz@hexbear.net 30 points 17 hours ago

we can't power your residential block, we have to keep the sperm freezers running

[–] duderium@hexbear.net 43 points 20 hours ago
[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 43 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

We're going to need a Ukkkranian sperm division emblem. Maybe a sperm with a totenkopf head.

[–] culpritus@hexbear.net 20 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Electroshock anal prod in the style of a fasces.

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 14 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Jesse what the hell are you talking about

[–] Azarova@hexbear.net 20 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

The IOF collects sperm from some of their dead by shoving a cattle prod-like device up the corpse's asshole to shock the prostate to cause a sort of ejaculation whereby the sperm is collected and sent to their partner so that they can have a baby with the sperm of a dead war criminal. This is your brain on eugenics.

[–] sexywheat@hexbear.net 6 points 10 hours ago

What a terrible day to be literate.

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 13 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

If I was into eugenics I would want to use the genes of soldiers who don't get killed in battle.

[–] Dirt_Possum@hexbear.net 9 points 14 hours ago

Just let nature follow its course, it's the Jodies that should proliferate in the population.

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 36 points 20 hours ago

a black sun but sperm instead of bolts

[–] LeZero@hexbear.net 18 points 18 hours ago

Dirlewanger emblem but with sperms instead of grenades

[–] unaware@hexbear.net 12 points 16 hours ago

So they did get it in time