Putin has decided that Russia is going to be a 'safe haven' for people who want to trade liberal Western ways for Russian 'moral values'
Seriously I'd rather live in the coastal USA than Russia rn
It's insane how bad Russia has become in 30+ years. Blackest reaction indeed.
It really is, how do you go from the great Soviet Union to... whatever the hell this is.
Shock therapy and US propaganda being blasted nonstop, combined with the influence of the church.
The RF's degeneration from their Soviet roots is one of Mankind's greatest tragedies.
The lasting damage done by rainbow imperialism is going to take so much longer to undo than any latent ill will towards queer people resisting nations had beforehand...
It's like Zionism and antisemitism. Sure it doesn't cause those attitudes, but damn does it not help.
It's a bit where a leftist flees the USA to Russia only to find out they're reactionary and not communist anymore.
But it's the Anti-Communist Party (ACP) and they go
YES! YEEESSSSS!How many
Most of them. They think because we oppose Western imperialism, we support Reactionary world views by Russia.
Just saw a .worlder commenting this today. Something something “gnosh on Putin’s knob”. The best part was it was in response to someone saying, “Many of the things people hate Hexbear for are not even true.”
I do hope all reactionaries seeking sanctuary get drafted and taken to the frontlines to die taking an inch of soil from their nazi brethren.
On the other hand, this is so fucked for anyone deemed "deviant" by the Russian ruling class. My enby and ethnic minority Russian friends are already terrified for their lives and those of their families, and having more chuds moving in looking for people to terrorize only makes me worry for them even more.
Russia is always switching between badly westernizing and badly setting out to be not at all western actually. In fact they're so bad at it that sometimes they're doing both at once. Such as here.
Putin has decided that Russia is going to be a 'safe haven' for people who want to trade liberal Western ways for Russian
'moral values'liberalism
To be fair, the current Russian government is more on a trend towards fascism than towards liberalism. Then again, as a European, I wish I couldn't say the same about the EU
I normally think of fascism as more or less liberalism/capitalism in crisis. I thought that shock therapy basically burned the economic structure that was already in place as fuel to accelerate capitalism and were so successful that they are basically doing a capitalism to late stage capitalism to fascism speedrun.
I would very much like to see him shot in the face.
Yes but not by anyone US backed. He'd probably be replaced by someone MORE reactionary.
Here's hoping for another 1917
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Imagine thinking the West is heaven on Earth for queer people, and that them existing while they struggle for equal rights is "neoliberal Western ideals".
Clown shit.The dissolution of the USSR and the fall of the Eastern block was a crime.
All those responsible for it should've been beaten to death with a stick.It's been on my mind recently that the global hope of lgbt people is China.
That's gonna sound weird to anyone that thinks China is anti-lgbt, but the reality is that only exists among the old and they're phasing out. China's trajectory for lgbt issues is likely to be positive, because China's trajectory for PEOPLE issues is positive.
The west is in decline, and with it the marginalised groups are being scapegoated as targets to distract the population from their declining conditions. Lgbt issues are likely to deteriorate across the west as the decline continues, as are other issues such as migrants and race.
China will represent a population of 1.4 billion people in ascendancy and with a positive trend towards these issues I believe it's going to eventually become the place with the best conditions along similar lines to Cuba. It will represent the largest block of lgbt people in the world, and the lgbt people of China will become the largest advocate of lgbt conditions elsewhere in the world.
This hasn't happened yet, but the trends are there. It's coming in the longterm.
I want this to happen, and also, it reads like Americans who believe that gen z and millennials will save the country. Obviously there's a difference between the nazi state of America and China, but the former has taught me to distrust generational hopes, including those in a different national/political contex
I think the important thing here is it's not just generational but institutional. China HAS improved its protections over time and it is absolutely following medical science on trans people and building children-specific clinics rather than what the west is doing which is going backwards. The direction in China is forwards while the direction in the west is backwards. Expecting these to cross over seems natural.
I hope you're right
(though I'd like it if LGBT+ wasn't so vulnerable in the west too, why can't we have both?!)Why? The US isn't friendly towards queer people either? How would it be any different?
They're friendly towards rich queer people but not towards poor queer people
Obviously queer people are much more likely to be poor but this distinction actually does matter in this context
The street violence is more common there
Kind of a weird thing to say when a lot countries still have the same ideals. Why leave for Russia when I get the same thing in Guatemala? At least we have SocDems in government.
Strong economic trajectory I guess
Notice how perfectly aligned the microphone is to his arm. This is what you can achieve with perfect Russian moral values.
Leaning into the whole "customs and traditions" song and dance too hard typically results in countries becoming a cartoonishly exaggerated fun house mirror version of themselves. That said, if he personally throws in a few Car-Man albums I might give it some thought
wtf does this mean, bigots?
Finally, anti-woke country