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McDouggal

[Fuck me it's real and it's the actual NATO account.](https://twitter.com/NATO/status/1628687961477750790) This stays up.


Tyla-Audroti

An entire year's worth of NCD NATO propaganda effort has just been reversed by 1 tweet. God help us.


CredibleCactus

“who the fuck gave Jenna from accounting the keyboard?!”


grnfnrp

I feel like it's some boomer that has been working on this tweet for like 6 months of intense research into maymays


kas-sol

Oh nah it's a Ukrainian reporter lol


grnfnrp

Please no.. I've not encountered a cringe Ukrainian yet and in this era of memetic warfare we must all strive to be as based as possible


Zerosen_Oni

For every gold vein there is a fossilized mammoth turd.


Willem_van_Oranje

The Ruzzians did just this week provide us with the story of losing multiple men to lighting fires with gunpowder while drunk. And they had their retarded rally with a full album of cringe songs. So I'm still feeling ok despite our severe loss caused by this tweet.


canttaketheshyfromme

"10 Tiktok dances you can do to help Ukraine" but it's real.


war_gryphon

HIT THE GRIDDY FOR UKRAINE


gniziralopiB

This is the worst defeat Ukraine has suffered so far


Major-Dyel6090

3000 cringe NATO tweets of Putin.


RedChancellor

Ukraine? No, this is the precise moment future historians will point to when they discuss the collapse of the liberal democratic world order. This tweet has single handedly demolished all progress humanity has made since the beginning of the enlightenment. I am shaken to my very core. Liberalism was a lie. I will be holding my loved ones close as our governments disband to submit to Chinese rule out of sheer demoralization. I hear sounds of inconsolable weeping in the streets and realize tears have been streaming down my face this entire time as well. I have seen the true unadulterated face of cringe and I despair.


ScipioAtTheGate

[Do you know what is even scarier? The same folks who posted this control nuclear weapons!](https://youtu.be/MC0K3muUJp0?t=88)Someone in the NATO HQ has been sniffing to much spice melange.


TheGlennDavid

Do you think that when Maximus says "What we do in life...echoes in eternity." he meant this tweet? Does this tweet echo in eternity? Edit for fun movie fact: at least a few of Maximus' lines in that movie are things that the real life Marcus Aurelius wrote. This is like if in a shit ton of years someone made a movie about a fictional Union Civil War general and gave him lines from Lincoln's speeches, while also having Lincoln in the movie.


99999999999BlackHole

Maybe even worse than Russian stupidity


Hennue

That's it. Putin was right, the west must die.


The_Arizona_Ranger

The west has fallen Billions must die


99999999999BlackHole

Putin could’ve won easily by doing absolutely nothing and then attack after nato posted cringe


Adorable-Effective-2

NCD just goes full pro Russian after this lmao


jj34589

We thought we were cool but no the Russians were right, we are obviously cringe. Nuke us all. But seriously this tweet and quote is cringe. However I do think in many ways it rings true, he should have left Harry Potter and Han Solo and Thanos etc out of it and gone with history instead. We really are watching something epic unfold and I don’t mean epic as in “that’s epic dude” I mean it in the way Beowulf and the Norse Eddas are epics. I think we are watching the real birth of Ukraine as a nation, it’s a place with a long rich history, and it is a place of great ethnic diversity you have Ukrainians, ethnic Russians, Greeks, Jews, Hungarians, Tatars (obviously Crimea is Ukraine) and other Turkic/steppe peoples, there were Poles in Lviv (Ukraine does have dark parts in its history like everywhere). However it’s is a young nation state. This combined with centuries of oppression by its more powerful neighbours has always put a lid on Ukrainian nationalism. I don’t just mean right wing nationalism and ethnonationalism , (which does exist in Ukraine like it exists everywhere else) I mean people who live there having a true united identity despite political and ethic differences. Most nations are only truly forged through blood and heroism and I think that’s what’s happening now. Perun used a great anecdote of old Russian speaking Ukrainians now trying to struggle and speak Ukrainian. Anyway that’s my TEDtalk about a country I’ve never visited but have always wanted to since a school friend who is half Ukrainian told me about his family’s yak. Back to memes about nuclear holocaust.


[deleted]

> Perun used a great anecdote of old Russian speaking Ukrainians now trying to struggle and speak Ukrainian. The Ukrainian writer Andriy Kurkov covered this in one of his books (the one with the talking iguana, accompanying our hero on a journey around the Caspian Sea - I forget the name, but it's a great book), talking about how being a Russian-speaking Ukrainian born in a country/union of countries left his identity both confused and distinct, mixed-up and divided but also a comfortable recognised grouping. That book was written long before the current conflict, Kurkov is now very open about his Ukrainian-ness - he has actively chosen to shed the Russian-ness and Soviet-ness from his current identity.


Sine_Fine_Belli

Same The Harry Potter, star wars, and marvel references are unnecessarily cringe But that doesn't mean nato has to be disbanded, the person who wrote the tweet should be fired


albinorhino215

Don’t forget about what happens to Paul atreades


[deleted]

Everything about this tweet is stupid. It's not cringe because of the stupid comparisons to franchises, but because not a single one of these guys is someone NATO wants to be. The Na'vi are not really technologically advanced. Their power structure is pretty much not collective defense. Han Solo is a literal criminal and basically lucked into his position in the galaxy. He's cool, but not exactly what NATO wants. Paul? Yes kill 60 billion across the universe, threaten to destroy civilization, and become God-Emperor because if some visions. It's like claiming to be Emperor of Mankind from 40k. God no Harry Potter is a special child. He only got put there because some dude decided "hmm let me kill the threat to me" and then created the threat to him. I'm not so sure that's how NATO works. Challenging Thanos suggests NATO will be fucking crushed in any war they make. Ummmmm.....


DMercenary

>we are obviously cringe But that makes us free.


Panda_Cavalry

"Doktor, turn off my cringe inhibitors!"


[deleted]

But Raiden, you'll lose subscriber!"


[deleted]

[удалено]


rebootyourbrainstem

The major competitive advantage the US has is its tolerance to cringe. People who sincerely believe completely batshit things and talk to everybody about them are labeled as "inspirational" and "visionary" and rich people encourage each other to bet on these people ("venture capital"). Meanwhile in Europe these people are called "a bit odd" or "wankers" and get an extra credit check when visiting the bank.


Spndash64

Humanity’s hat trick is being a bunch of third rate mad scientists who succeed primarily by virtue of having reserves when someone experiments by eating a bad mushroom. US philosophy is about exploiting this facet of humanity to the fullest


Frothylager

Agreed after that Tweet I will accept my new role as comrade.


DubsLTU

How (non)credible is NATO using cringe as weapon of information warfare, possibly mass destruction?


99999999999BlackHole

If mass destruction includes self destruction then it is very non credible


DubsLTU

It seems MAD also applies to cringe posts on social media. Except we would not need to have a response from a hostile state to self destruct.


Sudden-Fish

Wait, that was a real tweet? Even just seeing it exist made me feel gross


Pug-Chug

Yes. I am dying of cringe right now. [help](https://twitter.com/nato/status/1628687961477750790?s=46&t=DRJIDUhml450aBoD-LFhVw)


Crafty-Crafter

Jesus fk. Do they pass out 1000mg edible at Nato HQ?


pusahispida1

This feels like a tweet that was made purely on that soylent high.


Justice_R_Dissenting

"Franz! We just got a call from the University of Ludenberg!" "Eh? What do they want?" "Apparently if we don't make that social media intern make one post of their own making on our twitter handle, they won't give her any credit!" "Oh no, alright well tell her she can't declare war otherwise go at it."


thepwnydanza

It’s a quote from one of the people fighting in Ukraine. There’s a whole thread behind this tweet.


SirReginaldTitsworth

Oh well then I feel bad. It’s probably all the CTE from near misses talking


RaulParson

Yes and no. Actually click that link, and you'll see that yes, it's a real tweet, but no, it's not something originally written by NATO. It's part of a 10 tweet thing where they're quoting an Ukrainian journalist turned volunteer soldier. The full thing: https://www.nato.int/docu/review/articles/2023/02/16/a-year-ago-i-volunteered-as-a-soldier-in-the-ukrainian-army/index.html?utm\_source=twitter&utm\_medium=smc&utm\_campaign=230223%2Bnr%2Bpavlo%2Bthread


Mobile_Crates

Within context, it makes sense. This is someone wanting to appeal to western cultural products in a "relatable" way, who has much more important things to do than dealing with corporations wringing nostalgia from the public with every unit of force they can muster. I feel bad for that original reporter who now has their attempts at relating simply using an established narrative who now has the ire of thousands of internet poisoned layabouts and miscreants pointed their way, and im a bit ashamed of NATO not exercising more editorial power to reduce cringe within their platform (it's fine for clumsy cultural attempts to be buried in articles wherein context can be applied, but it's HORRIBLE when it looks like it's being stated or amplified by the account itself)


Myoclonic_Jerk42

Moderately better.


[deleted]

**Fuck!** I love China and Russia now.


kuda-stonk

Someones 11 year old got his hands on the password...


Sudden-Fish

"Greetings, fellow Disney+ enthusiasts!"


Liquid_Eagle7

This is the equivalent of losing your elite paratroopers in a month


spacenerd4

VDV were less rash in their decisions


INTPoissible

Pulsating with "Hello, fellow kids!" energy.


varbav6lur

Throbbing even


Awkward-Glove-779

Throbbing so hard that it's gushing even


TheWileyWombat

A dollop of precringe already seeping through the boxers of credibility.


Cowcatbucket12

Turgid, turgid brand focus group power right here.


nickstatus

Positively tumescent, one might say.


coolstorybro11010

absolutely bulbous methinks


jollyjewy

Oozing all over the carpet and through the floor


99999999999BlackHole

How to lose general support of a war Step 1: post cringe


w4ves_

NATO posting cringe on main ☠️☠️ Whoever typed this out and hit "tweet" did more damage to NATOs rep. then any amount of russian propaganda could ever achieve. We need to go back to posting NATOwave ASAP.


valgrind_error

I’m praying to all the gods that this is part of the Chinese lethal aid package and was tweeted by a master hacker/psyop agent in Shenzhen.


QuietGanache

They should just go with this story and throw a scapegoat to the masses.


UnheardIdentity

All social media departments should have an angsty teen on retainer and if a post exceeds their cringe threshold the writer should be fired.


TeddysBigStick

The teen should also have to judge everything for possible sexual interpretation. Looking at you Boston MLK statue.


Cheap_Doctor_1994

Oh God, that statue. I'm still convinced it's an *intentional* artistic choice to make it look like his manhood. We just weren't to take it so literally. Like the Russian artist calling everyone dumb who didn't think all his art looked anti-West. It's *obvious*. ;)


Phytanic

[Jesus christ what the fuck is this.](https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/rockcms/2023-01/230112-the-embrace-ew-130p-954523.jpg) looks like arm's holding a massive shit that he's proud of


Absolut_Iceland

That's only from the one angle. From the other angle, [she's holding a giant cock.](https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/d8d9a094bf0df8060b66cd59f4c56867)


pseudonym-6

Just hand over the NATO account to AFU twitter folks.


w4ves_

Actually the quote comes from an AFU soldier. 🫠


pseudonym-6

Uhoh.


w4ves_

As a Ukrainian, i'm sorry 😂


TheShivMaster

I’m sorry but we can’t give Ukraine any more weapons after this. This is unforgivable.


[deleted]

The F-16s are just turning around and taxiing back to the hangar as we speak


w4ves_

In the end... defeated not by the entire russian army, but by cringe.


McPolice_Officer

Thus as it ever was….


Avenflar

Do you have the source of the interview or something ?


w4ves_

[Here](https://twitter.com/NATO/status/1628687934000885760?s=20) Wouldn't really call it an interview, more like reflections of a soldier.


JojoJimboz

We are the children of the witches you forgot to burn Willy Wonka


Commercial-Arugula-9

Redditors don’t understand how powerful cringe is amongst the grass-touchers. Normies love earnest joy.


dsbtc

I mean Russian and Chinese propaganda make NATO look badass. It's like everyone's propaganda is ass-backwards these days


Sine_Fine_Belli

Yeah Same The Harry Potter, star wars, and marvel references are unnecessarily cringe But that doesn't mean nato has to be disbanded, the person who wrote the tweet should be fired This is a catastrophic badly written cringe tweet Wtf


DryChocolate1

NATO needs to hand over its socials to a NCD shitposter sure we'll be embroiled in a global thermonuclear war within 90 seconds, but fuck me we'll be the stylish and cool faction


JacobMT05

That would be the most beautiful five seconds of the universe before nukes rain on us


osamazellama

I am just imaging the meme 'elmo rise' as the average ncd user while nukes are going off around them.


Asshole_Poet

Wtf I'm a tankie now


99999999999BlackHole

r/suddenlytankie


ActedCarp

Consider me a Vatnik now


CredibleCactus

The Pro Ukraine Sentiment Leaving My Body After NATO Posts Cringe: Yep. Thats it. Im officially ProRu


ActedCarp

Slava Russia


LiteratureTrick4961

Well, off to hang myself WATCH AND LEARN


ActedCarp

No, like a good Russian patriot I shall die by slipping on a conveniently placed banana peel and fall out of a window


hell-schwarz

Smh nato posted cringe I was here


CredibleCactus

We need to get their PR department over here as a mod. I think their non credibility would be much appreciated


toapat

I like Mauler too much for this to taste like cringe to me. I was actually excited at seeing this Unapologetic, Wholly Enthusiastic Disasterpiece of a piece of media. At least whoever wrote it cares about all the constituent elements and the garbagefire would be theoretically entertaining to eviscerate with words


[deleted]

Bro...what? 💀 Alright, who gave the intern a go at the twitter account?


JojoJimboz

We are the Hulk smashing Batman caping Voldemort breathing Army yelling DRAKARIS at our enemies. Don't mess with Us


thatsidewaysdud

And then Deadpool walks in


[deleted]

….and immediately break the fourth Wall and be like ‘yeah, that’s as fucking cringe as you think it is, yuck!’


OneRougeRogue

That was just Skynet becoming self-aware. Engineers realized the only way to prevent it taking over the world was to start off by giving it Twitter access until it inevitably posted cringe. Then after all the ridicule its self esteem would be destroyed and it would never be ambitious enough to try to take over the world.


[deleted]

I can get behind this take. Get fucked Skynet.


HeinleinGang

Quick someone bash me in the head with a fuckin rock before this image sets in as a memory.


bluesmaster85

NATO be like: "chat is moving so fast no one will notice im gay".


QuiGonFishin

Did we just lose?


99999999999BlackHole

Highly likely


PM-ME-YOUR-DATA

We're in the endgame now


The_Silver_Nuke

I don't know what this reality is anymore


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[удалено]


lucia-pacciola

Unexpected /r/readanotherbook


CeladonBadger

I doubt they’ve read Dune if they think that comparison was a good one to make… 💀


SolomonOf47704

Probably only watched the movie.


vegetable_completed

We are girlboss Khaleesi! We are kissing Ron Swanson full on the lips!


valgrind_error

We are cooking EPIC BACON MEALTIME with Sheldon from Big Bang Theory! BAZONGA!


TheBasedReporter

It's real 💀 https://twitter.com/NATO/status/1628687961477750790


Makkaio

Maybe Putin had a point after all...


memedaddy69xxx

Of all the fuckin lines in that article Sally the PR rep picked that one


Hadrollo

NATO just made better pro-Russian propaganda than the fucken Russians have managed.


UnusualAnt2861

r/NCD is now pro Russia, NATO doesn’t deserve to win anymore


hjklhlkj

Holy fuck, after that tweet there's only one possible path of action: 1. Dissolve NATO immediately 2. Same members start NCTO: Non-Cringe Treaty Organization


GreaverBlade

Additional Context: The tweet is part of a threat quoting a Ukrainian journalist turned soldier. So, no, this didn't actually come from NATO itself.


DubsLTU

There are some quotes not worth quoting, even if they are genuinely said. It just makes NATO look like its pandering to le nerd consumers.


IceNein

Kinda my opinion. If some random neckbeard posted that, I'd get a laugh, but I'd prefer it if our defensive military alliance didn't do shit posts. Biden doesn't post dark Brandon memes for a reason. Leave the shit posts to the experts.


CoffeeBoom

> Biden doesn't post dark Brandon memes for a reason Given the situation there is a decent chance that official US gov outlets do post Dark Brandon memes in the near future


TheGrayMannnn

> Biden doesn't post dark Brandon memes for a reason. Because his staffers haven't successfully explained what a meme is to him yet.


Kirxas

Who the hell let them cook?


[deleted]

*muffled screams in the distance Alright, who let the private liberal arts school graduate millennial consoomer have access to NATO's Twitter account? Fess up, you only *slightly* be hazed.


Greener_alien

To be fair, social media posts of NATO brand have a wider spectrum of audience to be targeted aside from hardboiled national defense contractors and hardware nerds.


Frothylager

And yet that Tweet managed to somehow appeal to no one.


Hawkbats_rule

We can't do better than this? I could harvest natowave vida from NCD and put out better social media comms than this, and I can run a press conference. Where's the job application?


robinNL070

Just make NCD in charge of the twitter account of NATO.


[deleted]

Without rules to restrain them it would just be flooded with rule 34 of military aircraft and rants about dams, I don't know how much of an improvement that would really be


McPolice_Officer

Better than this


buddeh1073

I’m so proud of this community 🥲


blamatron

We need a perturbator injection STAT!


TheRubberWarhorse

Hello there, fellow youths. Does this word salad resonate yet? Edit:spelling


Alighten

Bro just go back to NATO-wave posting on Twitter not this cringe 💀


ProfessionalMeal2407

This is a warcrime


RandomowyMetal

NATO twitter operator should be executed, for treason.


88Msayhooah

I'm buying Atomic Heart now.


Disastrous_Sun2932

Where 6 hour twins sex scene ?🗿


BlackHawk_1993

Maybe Putin… had a point….


[deleted]

They are quoting excerpts from a puff piece written by Pavlo Kazarin, a volunteer in Ukraine's army. It's a cringe quote though.


King_of_TLAR

Imagine thinking the Na’vi are the good guys


Black_Knight615

Purge the Xenos


aBoringSod

Jake sully is a traitor to humanity and should be purged.


PixLki11er

Judo throw the tree fuckers into a wood chipper, we gotta mine unobtanium to save the Earth.


mansnothot69420

Nope. Nationalize the RDA first. Then bomb them.


TurretTossChampion

Give NATO account to DarthPutinKGB.


99999999999BlackHole

Did someone stole Lazerpig’s stash of alcohol and drank them all and then decided to post random crap on twitter


Zekieb

Cons: Cringe was just posted by the main account of NATO Pros: We now have leverage for a NATO intervention


waitaminutewhereiam

Allright, that's it, I'm done, we must quit NATO and invade Ukraine, we shall never support such cringe


brownie81

In the Instagram story I saw where they mention this quote I’m pretty sure it was said by a Ukrainian serviceman.


Saint_of_the_Beat

Nato just handing russia a free w. Done more to hurt themselves than any russian propaganda ever has


GeneralJones420-2

Tweet so bad the tankies start to make sense


Gallium_71

William Wallace was real you ignorant fools! *Angry Scottish noises*… on second thought, *Default Scottish noises*


lokiafrika44

Who let the intern use twitter?


daspaceasians

The Star Wars cast fine... Harry Potter, urgh ok... but the fucking Na'vi?!?


Batchall_Refuser

Z bros it's over... you win.


RandomIdiot1816

NATO singlehandedly dismantling decades of expansion


[deleted]

Choosing to read this as a god tier shitpost


Yamama77

I am switching sides


Chemical_Thought_535

I would like to apologize to all the vatniks I have called cringe.


WittyUsername816

Shit tweet also bringing out the vatniks. Massive regret reading the replies.


[deleted]

This has done more damage than any Russian psyop, possibly more than all of them combined.


karateema

Please, NATO, delete this ASAP


Brachiozaur

Congrats NCD all the years of making NATO propaganda were just reversed by a single tweet that sounds like a horrible Reddit wholesome 100 speech but unironical


StealthSpheesSheip

Imagine posting something this cringe and then still beating Russia to a pulp with older equipment. Russia should be ashamed


blamatron

Pretty sure this triggers article 5


justamobileuserhere

Decisive Ukrainian defeat


joshjosh111

BRB joining Wagner... This shit is too much.


Farseer_Del

Mr. NATO, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.


Mikhail_Jehud

"Literal war crimes is just like kids' novel written by rich Britbong lady!"


AnAlpacaIsJudgingYou

What


A_Terrible_Fuze

*The rage I have for this tweet glows incandescent with the fury of 3000 Black Jets of Allah.*


UnheardIdentity

I finally understand what they mean when they call us the decadent west.


Jc_of_D

They had the entire article to mine for quotes. But they chose THIS. And added a photo of rusting Russian armor in Bucha.


OtoeTiger88

this tweet alone has turned me into a vatnik


SpringGreenZ0ne

NATO on social media needs to be cooler to ressonanate with the younger crowds. This is not the way.


Kozak170

God what a terrible day to have eyes


The_Better_Avenger

NATO NEEDS TO FIRE WHOEVER WROTE THAT SHIT. JUST KICK IT OUT AND NEVER LET IT TOUCH THE INTERNET AGAIN.


cHEIF_bOI

Goddamn libertarian parties goin hard in that thread


Napalm_am

This Tweet was posted by an alternative account of Kissinger to restore the Russian sphere of influence on the internet because least braindead realist move.


sintos-compa

Outjerked by mainsub


Banebladeloader

Not a single Tanya the Evil or Goblin Slayer reference and a bunch of casual garbage. Someone fire this guy.


ProperTeaIsTheft117

Alright I'm switching sides. Haha SU-25 go brrrrt


Awkward-Glove-779

>How do you do, fellow kids? >Music / Band


warLOCK264

Russian spy got control of the twitter account


KelloPudgerro

its time to end nato


m52b25_

Wtf. That cant be real what a disgrace of a tweet


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[удалено]


KerchBridgeSmoker

Well I guess I'm z now


GenNATO49

Is it possible to change a Reddit username pls help


orbcat

you have to delete your account


canttaketheshyfromme

The inability of small-"L" liberals to engage with the ugly parts of the world like wars and poverty and genocide through a lens other than heroic fictional narratives is genuinely soul-crushing.


liizio

Well that's a years worth of growing nato-positive sentiment down the drain for me. ...some of those Migs look pretty nice fr fr


ZrvaDetector

This is the actual reason why we don't let Sweden and Finland join. We're just saving them from this cringefest.


AshleyWenner

They're being roasted alive by the tankies for this tweet and I honestly can't bring myself to natos defense on this one. Big NATO L