A court in the central Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod has jailed a woman for wearing rainbow earrings, the human rights group Egida reported late Wednesday, marking the second case of its kind after Russia banned the so-called “LGBT movement” as an “extremist” organization in November.   According to Egida, law enforcement agents tasked with combating “extremism” detained the woman after a group of “aggressive people” approached her and her friend at a local cafe and filmed them on camera.

ngl russia is not making it easy to give critical support lol

          • Adkml [he/him]English
            27•1 year ago

            They told me to fuck off and die repeatedly after one comment saying we shouldnt throw lgbtq people under the bus to support russia lol

          • voight [he/him, any]English
            2•1 year ago

            That’s the point, it’s fine when people dish it out at me as long as there’s a general perception of righteous nonsense around it. Keep deflecting then hovering whenever you can’t refute a point if you want.

            • Great_Leader_Is_Dead [none/use name]English
              10•1 year ago

              Keep deflecting then hovering whenever you can’t refute a point if you want.

              I actually mostly agree with you, was just pointing out you haven’t been exactly sweet as peach cobbler in this thread so, yah know, don’t be surprised if someone tells you to fuck off.

              • voight [he/him, any]English
                3•1 year ago

                Oh yeah as far as hostility related to pointing out international pressure against the Russian govt from you all has clearly backfired. Meanwhile our own govts offer nothing other than meaningless aesthetic victories. I didn’t mean just related to me also incredibly funny idiom.

                Idk you just pop up to say “new site tagline” which I find funny bc it’s part of the whole culture here of flip flopping between demanding people take this highly interchangeable medium of communication seriously as a Cool Hangout Space and telling people they are too online

                • TreadOnMe [none/use name]English
                  1•1 year ago

                  It is both of those things, since they are not contradictory. It is a cool hangout space for way too online leftists who need to touch grass. Posting here is fun, but it is not praxis and we should never ever forget that, even if we never ever log off.

                • Great_Leader_Is_Dead [none/use name]English
                  10•1 year ago

                  whole culture here of flip flopping between demanding people take this highly interchangeable medium of communication seriously as a Cool Hangout Space and telling people they are too online

                  Well fyi I lean pretty hard in the “cool hangout space” direction so don’t single me out here. The more serious discussions we have can be informative but let’s be honest, none of this shit we don’t on this niche forum is likely to ever affect anything in the real world. That includes criticizing Russia for its regressive LGBT policies AND supporting it in its fight against NATO.

                  Edit: also did you pull a Ulysses’s and edit your comment without making it clear which part is an edit? Cuz this is reading differently then when I first saw it.

          • voight [he/him, any]English
            3•1 year ago

            For instance, fake news is fine if it’s obvious enough that people can complain about it being unfunny. None of the rules make any sense. That’s why this place is going to continue growing at a pace slower than it loses people while transphobia.coding or whatever gets 30,000 users

            • Great_Leader_Is_Dead [none/use name]English
              25•1 year ago

              That’s why this place is going to continue growing at a pace slower than it loses people while transphobia.coding or whatever gets 30,000 users

              I’m pretty sure that’s actually because we represent a super fringe ideology within the Anglo-sphere that’s not likely to have a resurgence anytime soon, not cuz our mod policies aren’t airtight

              • voight [he/him, any]English
                2•1 year ago

                It’s a corollary to the issue with trying to ratio a congressperson. Even if you succeed it doesn’t do anything.

                I don’t think we should be making overtures to techbros who are clearly unempathetic in addition to not being materially interested in anti imperialist revolution. like people on the other lemmies. hyper redditors

                  • voight [he/him, any]English
                    1•1 year ago

                    basically everything that makes a guy a redditor, right? like what makes a guy go on the Chicago sub Reddit and become a power poster. It shouldn’t surprise anyone when you find out that these people are like Raytheon weirdos or their landlord do you know

                    go to the people who have the fakest ass job, work at salesforce, any of that shit, or they make their money off of investments are off of finance. Those are not the people we need to propagandize for any reason

                    So what I’m saying is Lenny is a fucking shit hole I don’t care what anyone there thinks. I kind of care what you guys think because like your analysis is interesting to me not just because I like take it as gospel but because like it’s understand me where you’re coming from.

                  • voight [he/him, any]English
                    1•1 year ago

                    all right, that one’s indecipherable give me a second to fix that I’m walking. I don’t know what the fuck is Sansui is

                  • voight [he/him, any]English
                    1•1 year ago

                    well, I mean I could go into my rant where I try and describe what I think represents the labor aristocracy in core countries or in India, like there’s a labor aristocracy there that benefits from the sub imperialism very distinctly also, sorry if I don’t take any dictation errors and this is hot