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Bro do I have bad news to tell them about the Russian government's viewpoint on LGBT people
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this post was submitted on 13 Sep 2023
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Idk seems like this is specifically in the context of the war because of the Z?
I mean so many trans people here also support Stalin, USSR, China, Laos, DPRK, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya etc. in their wars
Only difference between Russia and the other capitalist anti-queer countries is that Russia is the only one not yet flattened into the ground so it feels weird for people influenced by a culture that associates weakness with moral purity, strength with evil, and the underdog being a hero to support Russia in the same way
Charitably I'll assume the individual being dunked on has performed their own evaluation of "things" and determined that multi-polar imperialism is still better than US-dominated imperialism, because at least there's not an even more entrenched monopoly over the world.
It's not like a modern neoliberal market hellhole state like Russia is going to liberalize on marginalized communities any time soon. The economic gears only grind harder from here, with the hard stops created by climate change on the horizon, so it's unlikely at least.
We can't ignore history though. The context of modern Russia and other states is our world's history. The one where Western capitalists were unrelenting, reinvesting wealth stolen from revolutionary countries into their destruction. The one where "human rights concerns" were used only to justify sanctions against and invasions of countries already embattled for decades. It's one thing to pressure a nation on these issues, but it's a whole other thing to use people inside those societies to destabilize them and then weaponize capitalist owned press to browbeat those countries for "authoritarian" responses.
That's all of em, bud.
US legalized gay marriage tho*
*Don't look at what it's doing to trans people
US legalized gay marriage for now
Noooo we can't crack down on them what about their freedom of speecherino???
(We'll happily ostracize, jail, and kill communists though)
Like, flying pride flags are nice and all but I need someone to scatter the Heritage Foundation and Focus on the Family to the four winds
It's still cringe on an aesthetic level. If you're going to combine the trans flag and the Z, at least do what they do with the ribbon of St. George like this only with the trans colors instead.
Yeah I don't see China compiling lists of trans people or banning trans healthcare. Nor do I see massive reactionary backlash over trans people existing. The worst I've heard is that the legal procedure to change genders is convoluted(still bad).
That's why I partitioned the latter part into Russia and the other capitalist anti-queer countries in that list