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[–] [email protected] 122 points 1 year ago (5 children)

internet weirdo invents new irreconcilable political position, demands people yell at them

tale as old as time

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

Many Such Cases!

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

michael-laugh this is perfect. I was scrolling wondering what to even say about this. Glad you nailed it and saved me from whatever i was going to put together

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[–] [email protected] 104 points 1 year ago (10 children)

The liberals reading this with a what-the-hell expression feel exactly the same way as I do whenever I see lgbt people supporting capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago

Okay, hear me out - rainbow imperialism capitalist-woke

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 1 year ago (5 children)

this reminds me of a few days ago where i saw a post where someone put their oc with a trans black sun and said "there's like no trans fash art so i made my own" like wow i wonder why

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago (1 children)

walter-shock what do you mean people whose entire political ideology is based on being bigoted reactionary shitheads don't have trans art

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

It exists, but it's all hentai.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

Trans Ernst Rohm.

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago

🇷🇺 versus 🇺🇦 is the modern peak of fash-infighting

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago

I could almost admire it if this guy was trying to piss off literally everyone, but i feel this isn't that deliberate

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do rainbow-washing Azov next

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (5 children)

How long do you think before some lib unironically posts a rainbow black sun?

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago

brainworms

Plain and simple

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You don't have to agree with Russia's domestic policies to be in favor of their victory on the geopolitical stage against NATO. Ain't nothing wrong with the image in the OP. Z

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (18 children)

Then just post a Z instead of putting it on a trans flag when they just made trans care illegal. Just as cringe, or possibly marginally more cringe, as making a trans American flag

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

This makes as much sense as the pride/Ukraine flags I've seen some internet idiots bandy 'round (zero).

Both sides in this war are queerphobic states and you aren't gonna be able to reconcile that with queer identity.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

russia-cool and ukkkraine are both transphobic hellholes, along with amerikkka

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's a real shame, I wonder what the Soviet Union would be like in relation to the LGBT community if it still existed today. AES countries like Vietnam and Cuba became friendly and supportive towards the lgbtq+ community after the 90s.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

capitalist anti-queer countries

That's all of em, bud.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (3 children)

US legalized gay marriage tho*

*Don't look at what it's doing to trans people

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago

US legalized gay marriage for now

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

the modern new deal coalition

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