really would be nice if Russia could stop being a reactionary nightmare internally

It's insane how bad Russia has become in 30+ years. Blackest reaction indeed.

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 a bit where a leftist flees the USA to Russia only to find out they're reactionary and not communist anymore.

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.

Unless your moral values are fucking off and reinstalling the Soviet Union, I don't want to hear it.

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

I would very much like to see him shot in the face.

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.

Why? The US isn't friendly towards queer people either? How would it be any different?

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.

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