# Pitting AK84
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-ak84/972007
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [September 21, 2022, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-ak84/972007 "2022-09-21T22:47:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2022, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-ak84/972007/1 "2022-09-21T22:47:35Z")
I couldn’t find another pit thread for him, so… fuck this guy. He spends the beginning of the Ukraine/Russia thread insisting Russia will sail to an easy victory, poo-pooing Ukraine’s chances to resist. Okay, that’s not really a huge deal – lots of people thought Russia would easily overwhelm Ukraine. But his arrogant posts continue, never acknowledging how wrong he was, and how dumb he was to be so damn confident.
@Alessan makes a pretty mild statement about the foolishness of using nukes, and AK84 responds with smug mockery, as if only he understands these deep, complex issues (despite how incredibly wrong he was about Russian capabilities):
> [@Russia invades Ukraine {2022-02-24} (Part 1)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-invades-ukraine-2022-02-24/960037/8298):
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> joy Somebody needs to read Indian doctrine.
Jesus. After being so fucking wrong for most of the thread, have some fucking humility. You don’t know what you’re talking about. You were massively wrong about Russia, and you still refuse to admit if.
Fuck off with your arrogant bullshit.
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### Author:  [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2022, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-ak84/972007/2 "2022-09-22T07:46:36Z")
Indeed, he has a loooong history of dropping snide little one liners which hint at, but never actually show, his vast intellectual superiority. I stopped even attempting to engage, it would be like trying to argue with Trump.
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### Author:  [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2022, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-ak84/972007/3 "2022-09-22T12:19:16Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#):
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> have some fucking humility.
I have never seen any sign whatsoever that AK84 has any idea of what humility is. If he comes to this thread, it’ll be to assert how much smarter he is than cretins like us. His createst contribution to the board is the rarity with which he posts.
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### Author:  [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2022, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-ak84/972007/4 "2022-09-22T13:15:53Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#):
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> His createst contribution to the board is the rarity with which he posts.
Don’t worry - as soon as I post something, he’ll show up to contradict me.
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2022, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-ak84/972007/5 "2022-09-22T14:17:23Z")
I was beginning to wonder if I was the only one who had noticed this.
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### Author:  [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2022, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-ak84/972007/6 "2022-09-22T14:22:41Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#):
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> His createst contribution to the board is the rarity with which he posts.
So probably he’s almost as smart as Einstein and Galileo, who _never_ post here.
> [@Alessan](#):
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> Don’t worry - as soon as I post something, he’ll show up to contradict me.
No he won’t.\*
(\*Now he _has_ to agree with one of us.)
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### Author:  [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2022, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-ak84/972007/7 "2022-09-22T14:37:53Z")
A dissenting voice in this thread; I’ve not found AK84 annoying, though I have not been closely following the Russia/Ukraine threads, mostly because of the combination of the schadenfreude and jingoism of some posters
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### Author:  [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2022, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-ak84/972007/8 "2022-09-22T14:44:29Z")
It’s not just the Russia threads. AK is often (usually?) an insufferable and condescending asshat across a number of threads, covering a variety of topics.
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### Author:  [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2022, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-ak84/972007/9 "2022-09-22T14:45:17Z")
Yep, snide, know-it-all remarks are par for the course.
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### Author:  [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2022, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-ak84/972007/10 "2022-09-23T05:12:23Z")
> [@Alessan](#):
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> Don’t worry - as soon as I post something, he’ll show up to contradict me.
You’re a genius! You realize, don’t you, this post is what’s keeping him from posting in this thread.
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### Author:  [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2022, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-ak84/972007/11 "2022-09-23T09:22:19Z")
Since you usually have something interesting to say whether I agree with it or not.
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### Author:  [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2022, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-ak84/972007/12 "2022-09-23T09:23:59Z")
…well played, **AK**. Well played.
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### Author:  [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2022, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-ak84/972007/13 "2022-09-23T13:21:26Z")
Attitude aside, at least **AK84** is capable of making useful and well-crafted arguments, unlike some of our other posters with attitude issues.\*
I mean, they may still be _wrong_ arguments\*\*, but at least he sometimes makes the effort. Which I appreciate.
\* Not a reference to anyone in this thread yet
\*\* Or indeed not. Anything is possible. But this is a Pit thread so, you know, fuck that guy etc etc
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### Author:  [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2022, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-ak84/972007/14 "2022-09-23T13:47:06Z")
> [@Kropotkin](#):
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> … though I have not been closely following the Russia/Ukraine threads …
Well now, there is a classic comment from a former KGB agent.
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### Author:  [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2022, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-ak84/972007/15 "2022-09-23T13:49:18Z")
No idea what this means
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### Author:  [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2022, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-ak84/972007/16 "2022-09-23T17:42:45Z")
> [@eschereal](#):
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> Well now, there is a classic comment from a former KGB agent.
Huh?
I assume the poster’s handle is from this::
> **[Peter Kropotkin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Kropotkin)**
>
> Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin\[a\] (9 December 1842\[b\] – 8 February 1921) was a Russian anarchist and geographer known as a proponent of anarchist communism.
> Born into an aristocratic land-owning family, Kropotkin attended the Page Corps and later served as an officer in Siberia, where he participated in several geological expeditions. He was imprisoned for his activism in 1874 and managed to escape two years later. He spent the next 41 years in exile in Switzerland, France (where he was imprison...
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### Author:  [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2022, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-ak84/972007/17 "2022-09-23T17:47:18Z")
Nah, it must be [from here](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062153/)
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### Author:  [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2022, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-ak84/972007/18 "2022-09-24T12:10:44Z")
Here, AK discounts Ukrainian reports of Russian losses as “BS” without any evidence:
> [@Russia invades Ukraine {2022-02-24} (Part 1)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-invades-ukraine-2022-02-24/960037/8475):
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> As in BS.
Maybe it’s BS, or maybe it’s mostly accurate – no way to really know at this point. Maybe, AK, you don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about, but you’re constitutionally incapable of recognizing that you might not be the smartest person in the room.
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### Author:  [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2022, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-ak84/972007/19 "2022-09-24T13:48:43Z")
> [@Russia invades Ukraine {2022-02-24} (Part 1)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-invades-ukraine-2022-02-24-part-1/960037/8476):
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> > [@Kedikat](#):
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> > Erdogan seems to be able to take every opportunity of world events to play all sides off each other for his own benefit.
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> And that differentiates him from pre–Ataturk Turkish leaders…how?
The Ottoman Islamic Sultanate was known for being fiendish (I assume that is the implication) so it is just fine for Erdogan to throw away a century of secular rule and be a scheming theocratic fiend again.
Tradition!
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### Author:  [@Kedikat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kedikat)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2022, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-ak84/972007/20 "2022-09-24T14:36:49Z")
I also think it is a suspicious number, just because it is close to 1/5 of the total 10200 tanks Russia is supposed to possess. Possible. But pretty high.
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