ngl russia is not making it easy to give critical support lol
Not directed at you OP, but just a general observation: I still don’t understand why so many Western leftists see things in such a black and white manner. This is especially true from my interactions with Americans in general, it’s almost always “the good guys” vs “the bad guys”, nothing in between.
You can absolute support Russia’s anti-imperialist goals while rejecting all their other reactionary views. The same can be said for support for the anti-imperialist causes of the Palestinians, Iranians, Lebanese, Algerians etc. You don’t have to like them, you just need to acknowledge that this is a historical process that is inevitable.
In my opinion, this is where the strengths of Marxism-Leninism lie, which provides a scientific and materialist lens to understand the world. The question to ask is not: should we support reactionary Global South countries against Western imperialism? The questions we should ask are: why have progressive movements that had proliferated throughout the 20th century across the Global South been largely obliterated? What was the historical and the objective process that had led to the demise of progressive politics and left-wing movements, and the rise of conservatism in the Global South, especially after 1990? What are the root causes underlying these symptoms and what is the process required to cultivate the very material conditions necessary to enable the growth of left-wing political movements in the Global South?
Like medical sciences, scientific socialism allows us to separate the root causes of the disease from a collection of symptoms, thus enabling us to find ways to cure the disease instead of merely treating the symptoms.
And western leftists will also immediately believe something if it conforms to what they originally wanted to believe. If some western rag says something mean about China, they will rightly be suspicious of it, but “The Moscow Times” is suddenly a legit source? (Look it up it’s pretty much a pro western newspaper that’s not even based in Russia). I don’t know much about this case, and yeah the LGBT situation in Russia isn’t great, and it’s quite possible that this lady was probably targeted because of rainbow earrings, but you’re right, western leftists really need to understand what the “critical” in critical support means.
While The Moscow Times is indeed a pro-Western liberal news outlet, this particular incident did happen as it was reported in Russian media as well. What’s not reported in the article though is that she was detained for like 5 days so it’s not like she’s rotting in prison or anything (people in the US have gone to jail for weed possession with far worse sentence). Still this is something we should condemn while understanding that their progressives have their own fight in their own country, whereas the best the comrades from the imperial core can do is to bring down their own imperialism from within - that would really help the progressives across the Global South.
Nizhny Novgorod’s Sormovsky District Court found Yershova guilty of publicly displaying symbols of an “extremist” organization, a misdemeanor offense, and jailed her for five days
it does in fact report that it was only a five day sentence. Idk I guess Im just sad and pissed that innocent queer people are getting targeted. But I remind myself to look at the bigger picture, and not have a kneejerk response. Like Im not saying Russia needs to legalize same sex marriage or introduce anti discrimination laws, but if the situation could go back to how it was in the 90s or early 2000s where people were just left alone. Its just a part of this reactionary wave in Russia where they technically even banned gender markers: https://www.sostav.ru/publication/feminitivy-65608.html. Basically the headline says The Supreme Court has declared the use of gender markers a trait of the LGBT movement. Its a lot and it just makes me depressed for non-straight folk in the region. But I get it, I’m being a liberal by bringing attention to this. May things change one day.
The Supreme Court has declared the use of gender markers a trait of the LGBT movement
I mean they’re not wrong
Im not sure if you understood exactly so just to clarify and as a Czech speaker Im sure you have the same thing of like you can transform автор (author, grammatical gender male) into авторка (authoress?,). Or like in english waiter-waitress, actor-actress. That is what the Russian Supreme Court has banned.
Idk if it’s a ban per se, it’s a trait of the LGBT movement that they’re banning. The point is to bring it up I guess and see if they like queer people, and if you have enough traits you will be censored
Well yes, but you realize it’s not a LGBTQ thing? These are regular suffixes that everybody uses in their speech. I suppose you could make an argument that they are used more extensively by socially liberal people, but its rly not something that’s indicative of political beliefs or affiliation. It is flat out ridiculous.
I missed that and yes I agree with you.
The article also mentioned a Ukrainian flag pin. Now I don’t know much about people that would wear that but lots of them have also been photographed with other interesting regalia.
I think Vijay Prashad wrote something about Russia like its viewed in the West as either the Vatican or hell… not hell, he uses a different word, its a much better phrase than I’m able to remember. But the point being that dichotomy between the source of moral authority, or the opposite (I guess alluding to Moscow as the fourth Rome).
On this particular topic, my own view is that Russia is restricting the rights/priviledges of what they term the ‘international’ LGBTQ movement, because I think the west uses wealthy urbanite associations of that kind in Russia (particularly St Petersberg/Moscow) for spying activities. At the same time, Putin has said (though ofc its necessary to examine what is done, not just what is said) that the LGBTQ community is part of Russian society, and shouldn’t be attacked or victimised - this is probably because as a legalist ruler he wants to be in compliance with various legal obligations, and also doesn’t want internal conflict. I think he isn’t particularly opposed to the restrictions, because of the support it wins from the Orthodox church.
I wonder also with this particular topic, how much of the impetus for these kind of anti-progressive movements is to do with political kompromat. Certainly I don’t think most of the elite, like aristos or capitalists for example, really care about sexual preferences, but rather its a useful political tool if the masses (are persuaded to) consider it immoral. Like with the ‘Lavender Scare’ in the US, but then I’ve also seen a CIA testimony saying that they (I paraphrase) ‘like homosexuals because they’re useful’ referring I think to the usefulness of having something over someone. I suppose I mean, I wonder how much (alongside other factors) the passage of anti or pro LGBTQ laws is to do with wanting a political weapon, or alternatively as a kind of disarmemant treaty among the ruling classes.
Have you read this report titled Woke Imperium: The Coming Confluence Between Social Justice & Neoconservatism? You might find it interesting.
Excerpt:
Key Findings:
- The advocates of American primacy within the United States foreign policy establishment historically rely on prevailing ideological trends of the time to justify interventionism abroad. The new ‘woke’ face of American hegemony and projects of empire is designed to project the U.S. as an international moral police rather than a conventional great power—and the result is neo-imperialism with a moral face.
- This is an iterative and systemic process with an internal logic, not one controlled by a global cabal: when the older rationalizations for primacy, hegemony, and interventionism appear antiquated or are no longer persuasive, a new rationale that better reflects the ruling class norms of the era is adopted as a substitute. This is because the new schema is useful for the maintenance of the existing system of power.
- The rise of a ‘woke’ activist-driven, social justice-oriented politics—particularly among the members of academia, media, and the professional managerial class—has provided the latest ideological justification for interventionism, and it has become readily adopted by the U.S. foreign policy establishment. These groups now have an even greater level of symbiotic relationship with state actors.
- Professional selection and advancement under these conditions require elite signaling of loyalty to ‘progressive’ universalism as the trending state-sanctioned ideology, which further fuels the push towards interventionism. This combination of factors encourages a new institutional and elite consensus around trending shibboleths.
- The emerging hegemonic posture and its moral imperialism are at odds with a sober and realistic appraisal of U.S. interests on the world stage, as they create untenable, maximalist, and utopian goals that clash with the concrete realities on which U.S. grand strategy must be based.
- The liberal Atlanticist tendency to push moralism and social engineering globally has immense potential to create backlash in foreign, especially non-Western, societies that will come to identify the West as a whole with niche, late-modern progressive ideals—thus motivating new forms of anti-Westernism.
I haven’t - although I think having read the intro that I’ve seen it quoted without attribution. I will read it!
Its reminiscent of a lecture I watched about the British Empire in India (I forget the name, but can probably find it again if you’re interested), where the lecturer drew a parallel between the colonial concept of ‘empty land’ (like in Australia, ignoring the people who were living there, or indeed the US), and a similar concept used to justify conquest of obviously more populous and urbanised places like India, one example being with this kind of accusation about women - that the people there were ‘savages and weren’t treating their women properly’ (betraying of course the accuser’s view of women, as property without agency), and that a ‘white coloniser’ would have a better idea about how to ‘treat women’ (property, like land) than the native inhabitants. I suppose related to the liberal and religious concept of the civilising ‘burden’ of the coloniser. But we have seen this used very recently, with Afghanistan.
In any case, thanks for the link!
Yeah it’s written by one of those realist think tanks (personally I have some issues with the realist takes despite their seemingly rational argument but this paper is quite clinical and objective from a materialist standpoint and makes compelling argument for the case it is presenting).
Putin joining my extremist stance that Pride is gay Zionism and will ultimately result in factional warfare between us and the TERF gays and lesbians, the Greenwaldians who will purge bisexuals, the creation of gay Israel, and other abominations
Honestly I do unironically hate society (societies?) for the whole recurring “being massive shitheads to anyone who falls out of their norms” thing so sometimes I like the idea of a gay separatist state so I can just plain not give a shit about their thoughts and not fear retaliation, but there’s no way to guarantee shit wouldn’t go wrong in exactly the same ways as Israel on a long term timetable. Can’t even just fuck off like everyone else seems to want.
Gaysrael👎👎👎😡😾👎Gayist Autonomous Oblast 👍✅✅👍
You wouldn’t get it…Imma guess that pride is the capitalist foothold into the queer community like Israel is the US’s imperial foothold in the region.
Capital will subsume everything it can to preserve itself, lgbtq included. Just like white can be expanded to maintain power, everything else can be absorbed too. What cannot be is revolutionaries, they will be killed.
@[email protected] is that right? I’m just guessing.
Pretty much but it’s also the first completely even split of 33.3% joking/serious/secret third thing
Gaysrael 👎👎👎😡😾👎Gayist Autonomous Oblast
Oh I don’t think it’s a joke its plain as day.
Pride is gay Zionism
New site tagline
Gaysrael 👎👎👎😡😾👎Gayist Autonomous Oblast 👍✅✅👍
Just DM whenever y’all get low
because I think the west uses wealthy urbanite associations of that kind in Russia (particularly St Petersberg/Moscow) for spying activities.
This has a factual basis, many LGBT communities in the global south are aware of it. Being LGBT in a country shit for LGBT people re: almost all of them makes it easier to blackmail you and spam you with propaganda that somehow America and the west are a significant leg up on LGBT rights, somehow. And of course they sweeten the deal by giving you money
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but this does all sort of seriously put into question why these countries continue to even allow homophobia to exist as general consensus
Frankly it’s because of brainworms and old propaganda. Cuba and East Germany explicitly mentioned this was a part of why they’re championing LGBT rights
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yes, and i think the state response is predictable - round up as many as you can on spurious identifiers (sumptuary laws like these rainbow jewelry), interrogate them and get them on record, and try to judge who is or isn’t a threat to state security, or who can be useful or ‘turned’.
Our government has invested a great deal of money into media designed to cultivate all or nothing, black and white, good vs evil thinking in us from a young age, and the media typically reports on foreign policy and designated enemies in ways that rely on this programming to build simplistic narratives of heroes and villains. We may be past the point where most Americans consider America the good guy, but most Americans still very much see other countries as the bad guys, which is easy because most of us don’t have the money to travel to those places and meet the people there, so we just sort of subconsciously assume that they’re not real people, not like us.
You can absolute support Russia’s anti-imperialist goals while rejecting all their other reactionary views. The same can be said for support for the anti-imperialist causes of the Palestinians, Iranians, Lebanese, Algerians etc. You don’t have to like them, you just need to acknowledge that this is a historical process that is inevitable.
Many left-wingers (most especially Trots, I find) think the question is: “Should we support a multipolar world? In fact, is the coming world going to be multipolar or just Russian/Chinese imperialism replacing American imperialism? Should we support Russia in Ukraine and/or China against Taiwan?”
But these are all pointless questions. What does it matter if you support Russia/China or oppose them? It’s akin to spending your time debating “Is the hurricane coming inland good or bad?” instead of saying “Fuck, okay, there’s a hurricane coming inland. What should our individual responses be? Should we start prepping? Get involved in local politics to better withstand it?” and even “How did this hurricane come about? How will existing infrastructure be affected? It’s been looking pretty rickety even before the winds started up…”
I try to imagine that I’m looking back on the events of today from 100 years in the future. Doing so makes all questions of justification much less interesting than the question of “Where does this lead, and how is it fought?” It also explicitly imagines that there is a future, which is something that many people (quite reasonably) struggle with as climate change and massive wars continue to engulf us, which helps give perspective; just because things are a certain way now, doesn’t mean that they’ll be this way in 5, 10, 20, 50 years from now. It’s almost impossible to have predicted the world of 2024 from the position of somebody in 1924 or even 1974, in the multitude of ways that it has changed.
This is especially true from my interactions with Americans in general, it’s almost always “the good guys” vs “the bad guys”, nothing in between.
Dualism, Christianity, and it’s consequences
Hmm, I don’t understand the dualism aspect, do you think you could explain to help me understand?
I think they might mean a the belief some people have of an independent morality from any earthly actions a person performs. As in, there’s a mind you have with intentions and you’re morally just so long as your intentions are good, regardless of what you’re actually acting on the behalf of. American liberals sometimes do this to assuage their cognitive dissonance
I took it to mean manichean type doctrine, but I might be wrong. For example, Augustine (possibly the preminent early theologian of Christianity) was originally a Manichean - it was very widespread and popular, influencing thought and understanding to this day, being a sythesis of ‘western’ and ‘eastern’ (and no doubt ‘northern’, i.e. turkic/siberian too) thought of various kinds.
I think she just means “dualism” in the sense of the metaphysical view that the world is composed of opposite forces in all things: good and evil, light and dark, mental and physical, chad and soy, etc.
ah okay yeah makes sense, ty for the clarification
Maybe because if your lgbtq putting people in jail for wearing rainbow colors really isn’t much more complicated than “bad guys”
It’s the whole “The enemy of my enemy is my enemies enemy and nothing more”
Like if a nation would label you an extremist political organization and jail you for not being straight they’re gonna have to do something other than happening to coincidently be opposed to NATO before you start singing their praises.
Doesn’t mean you think nato should be running the country or expanding military bases but if you want to talk about being able to view it as more than “good guys” and “bad guys” being able to say “both these people are dogshit for different reasons” seems sufficiently nuanced
My friend, do I have some news for you.
I come from and have lived many years of my life in the so-called Global South countries. Progressive movements have always existed throughout the Global South. Incidentally, they were all crushed - directly or directly - by Western imperialist powers. Perhaps not as brutal as those were in Afghanistan or Chile, or Indonesia even a decade earlier, but they were crushed nonetheless and the situation allowed reactionary forces to take power, which again conveniently benefited the foreign imperialists. All these countries are now conservative shitholes that you’d claim to be the “bad guys” in your book.
All the left-wing leaders that ever came into power had to face economic threats that forced them to more or less commit to austerity simply to survive. The end result? Left wing governments achieved nothing and only stoked further economic despair, allowing right wing forces to exploit and come into power.
Do you think Argentinians are simply so stupid that they elected the crazy libertarian as their leader? Or do you think there is a much longer history underlying the failures of left wing reforms in the Global South?
Tell us, what are we supposed to do? Are we supposed to just “be better”? Every time we have a left wing movement growing that wants to assert sovereignty (which almost certainly means threatening the interests of the Western imperialists), they get crushed one way or the other.
At the end of the day, trust me, if you had lived in Russia, unless you are part of the wealthy elites, you’d much rather live under the stability of Putin’s rule, conservative as it is, than the absolute madness and poverty of 1990s Yeltsin era, when simply walking down the street for being a minority can get you murdered by literal neo-Nazis, when child prostitution literally re-emerged after many decades of prosperity. Ah yes, so progressive of Russia to let the Western liberals in. There is a reason why Gorbachev and Yeltsin are the two most hated leaders in Russia.
This is why there is such a stark contrast in opinion between leftists in the imperial core and the peripheral, developing world when it comes to the Ukraine War. There is a reason why all the AES countries almost immediately came to an understanding with Russia’s plight when the Ukraine War started. The people who have been victims of abuse know that if one day, another victim kills the abuser out of rage, everyone immediately understands that the abuser had it coming. Nearly every country in the Global South stood with Russia and refused to impose sanctions, despite the demands of their Western imperialist masters. Leftists who live in the imperial core and still don’t understand why this is the case simply reveal their complete ignorance of what it means to be a leftist in the Global South.
Again does literally nobody understand the concept of critical support?
That’s an awful lot of words to justify discriminating against gay people.
My stance is that nato should fuck off and America doesn’t have any room to criticize anybody for their treatment of any type of minority but I still think that countries shouldn’t jail people for being gay.
And again, if I were a gay I would understand if gay people put any country that would jail them for that in the “bad” category.
We talk an awful lot about intersectionality but I think what really hurts intersectionality is minorities seeing that their comrades are willing to set aside basic human rights for them if it means advancing a alarmed agenda.
Like it’s a pretty hard pitch to say “look I know they would throw you in jail for who you are but you still can’t criticize anything this country does because they arent aligned with nato”
You should read my OP if you think this is in any way a “justification”. What I am doing here is indeed intersectionality, and it is that the progressive movement in the Global South can only grow when Western imperialism can no longer intervene in our domestic politics and economy.
You’re talking as if we in the Global South never tried to be progressive, and are stuck with conservative reactionaries that we should criticize. I am saying that there is no point in criticizing the conservatives when every time we had a chance to do something progressive, we get immediately crushed by the Western powers. We simply have no way out without defeating the imperialists first. This is what Mao called the principal contradiction. Everything else is secondary at this point and will never be untied without resolving the principal contradiction first.
There is a book I’d like to recommend, it’s called the Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins, and I think it will inform you a lot about the perspective of what it means to be a leftist in the Global South.
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You have fundamentally misunderstood my position. Go back and read all the comments I have made on this thread, under no circumstances have I ever said that “don’t criticize, don’t talk about it”.
I have laid out the historical cases on why progress will continue to be stifled as long as we remain oppressed under the threat of foreign imperialist intervention. From Indonesia to Chile to Afghanistan to Russia, millions of people striving for exactly what you are telling us to do, were brutally murdered in the name of anti-communism and enforcing the liberal free market order. These were merely the most prominent examples, but across the Global South, there are endless stories like this, perhaps not as brutal, but no less harrowing.
Let’s make it clear here:
For us in the Global South, the prescription has never been more clear: the defeat of capital and the emancipation of minorities (including LGBT minorities) go hand in hand with the total and complete defeat of Western imperialist intervention in our countries. This is the principal contradiction. We will continue to fight the reactionaries in our own countries, but we also fully understand that no progress is possible as long as Western imperialists can continue to oppress our political aspirations, economic sovereignty, national and cultural identities.
For the comrades in the imperial core, you will have to figure out the principal contradictions yourselves. You will have to figure out how to defeat capital and the reactionaries and to emancipate the oppressed minorities in your own country. The best you can do for us progressives in the Global South is to defeat your imperialism from within, so the progressive movements in the Global South will finally have a room to breathe.
Well if you think Russia is bad, wait till you hear of all the countries the US is giving money to. Russia destroying the us would lead to more LGBTQ people worldwide having better conditions than now.
Not because Russia is “good” or the us is “bad” but because the US is funding fascist regimes and reactionary movements across the world, which Russia does not have the resources to doYea that’s why I said repeatedly and explicitly that America of all people had no room to criticize them on this but that doesn’t mean it’s not a bad thing.
Russia not criminalizing homosexuality would also lead to more lgbtq people worldwide having better conditions than now and that seems a lot easier to accomplish in the short term than defeating western hegemony
And it’s not like being incredibly homophobic is helping them defeat the west, in fact as others pointed out if they’d stop going out of their way to persecute lgbtq people it would completely nullify one of the main criticisms of them and allow them to correctly point out its another of a long list of standards that America holds other countrtries to while completely refusing to hold itself to the same standard
stalin shouldn’t have stopped at berlin
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Are we sure that a revolutionary strategy developed in the context of WWI is relevant in 2024?
Anyone who would in all earnest refute the “slogan” of defeat for one’s own government in the imperialist war should prove one of three things: (1) that the war of 1914-15 is not reactionary, or (2) that a revolution stemming from that war is impossible, or (3) that co-ordination and mutual aid are possible between revolutionary movements in all the belligerent countries.
-The Defeat of One’s Own Government in the Imperialist War
Like, I don’t think 2 or 3 are currently possible in the Russia Ukraine war, or most of the ongoing conflicts for that matter.
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I keep being berated as “chauvinist” to stand in solidarity with [not
] country’s queer liberation movement to 
So I don’t know how I’m supposed to feel without offending someone somewhere with my “paternal” concerns.
Did any of you actualy read the stupid article?
A video shared by ultra-conservative bloggers showed an unidentified man threatening to turn the pair into the police for wearing a Ukrainian flag pin and rainbow earrings.
Yeah, I’ll just casually wear western values AND a flag pin of our current mortal enemies in time of war and expect nothing will happen?
Did nobody actually watch the video? Is it because its telegram or what lol? The person is actually literaly wearing a Ukrainian flag pin. Whether or not she had any LGBTQ symbol or not is not the only point, heck I’m pretty sure nothing would have happened without this galaxy brain decision to wear an Ukrainian flag.
But it gets worse
“Also, during the process, the earrings themselves were examined, and it was found that they have the shape of a frog with an image of a 7-color rainbow,” Egida quoted an unnamed defense attorney as saying.
And then you call Russia right wing? Going to 4chan and posting a rainbow flag doesn’t make that place any less of a neonazi shithole. Why a frog specificaly? Is that not an obvious dog whistle or what?
Don’t misunderstand me, it absolutely sucks that Russia is a socialy conservative shithole. I can give you the benefit of doubt and say you’re just some random Ukrainian expats completely clueless that happen to be LGBTQ but you have to damn well pick your battles, you’re in Russia not New York, you don’t get to wear an Ukrainian flag in time of war, period. This would be true literaly anywhere else in the world too or do you think you get to wear a German flag in Moscow 1943 just because you’re an expat?
I am confident this would not have happened without that incredibly bright decision and this is a stupid struggle session almost embarrassing, and you say Americans lack critical reading ability.
Also The Moscow Times despite claiming to be Russian is online published from the Netherlands. Yeah that is about as legitimate as Putin launching a Russian version of NYT lol.
Liberal analysis
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Rainbows are ultimately a Western symbol of queerness. There wasn’t an international queer conference where queer people from all over the world voted on rainbows as an international symbol of queerness. The rainbow flag originated in San Francisco during the late 70s where it then spread to the rest of the US and later the rest of the Western world. It only penetrated the non-Western world through Western-back NGOs.
This is the problem with pinkwashing. Non-Western queer people are essentially set up to fail by Western-back NGOs, making them entirely dependent on those NGOs. You can see this in the way some Chinese enbies use TA pronouns instead of using or inventing a Chinese character as their pronoun. If you’re a queerphobic asshole who thinks queerness is just Western d-word, then a bunch of enbies going around using the Western Latin alphabet instead of Chinese characters to describe themselves would pretty much confirms queerness as Western d-word. This is not the fault of the Chinese enbies, but the Western-backed NGOs who purposefully push the idea of using TA as a pronoun knowing that the more reactionary elements of Chinese society would weaponize this to push queerphobia, further pushing those enbies into the arms of the NGOs. The NGOs want the enbies to be estranged from mainstream Chinese society and are taking advantage of queerphobia to essentially groom those enbies to become potential Western agents of color revolution.
Queer people have existed throughout history and throughout every single human society, which means people don’t have to use a foreign symbol with pinkwashing baggage but just need to uncover the queer history of their particular society and use those symbols instead.
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It’s more politically expedient to use symbols that are homegrown rather than symbols from a foreign place that’s hostile to your home country. Symbols mean different things to different people. From the perspective of the US and the West in general, the rainbow flag is a symbol of queer liberation, but from the perspective of people not from the West, the rainbow flag is just some pinkwashing bullshit. You can’t just ignore the non-Western reading of the symbol especially when we’re talking about what the rainbow means in non-Western countries. It makes a lot more political sense to just find different symbols that actually come from the local culture. By embracing the Western symbol, you’re already subtly insinuating that queerness is some Western invention, which is a queerphobic talking point.
There’s nothing inherently queer about rainbows. Gay people don’t piss out rainbows, and trans people don’t shit out rainbows. Rainbows are just symbols, which means they ought to be judged based on political expediency on whether to adopt them and where and who to display them to like any other symbol.
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People can use whatever symbols they want,
And people will interpret those symbols whatever they want as well. Political symbols serve a political purpose, and if they are detrimental to whatever political project they are trying to accomplish, then they ought to be discarded.
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I refuse to say random western sociopaths can just appropriate a symbol of my own liberation and make it bad forever
I think Hindus, Buddhists, and Jains probably have some bad news for you on that front.
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It’s used in decoration frequently, it’s extremely easy to tell the different contexts
People are sharing the video of a Ukrainian song about Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera being sung at the “Pride” thing in Munich and remarking that it’s somehow funny, schizophrenic or paradoxical. It is not. Being pro-Ukrainian is an expression of political loyalty toward the American empire, and so is supporting politically organized homosexuality (I don’t want to get into discussions about identity vs behavior vs politics, etc, let’s just keep it at that term). Politically organized homosexuals all over the world view the USA as a homeland they owe political loyalty to; the USA views them as their citizens or clients whom they have to protect to uphold their reputation as a world power, up to the point of intervening in the politics of sovereign countries, deploying sanctions, etc. In geopolitical terms there is no functional difference between the Ukraine, Taiwan, politically organized homosexuals, Kurds, feminist organizations, Uyghurs, etc. They all act as American client groups and publicly pledging allegiance to their causes is just another way of showing deference to the USA.
RWA is incredibly cringe btw, I don’t endorse them, but this point is undeniable.
Or perhaps this video where the Nazis are literaly telling us they stand against liberal values.
Someone walking around with a Ukrainian flag and LGBTQ symbolism is at best a very priveledged liberal completely buying into the idea that western values will come and save them, not realizing the absurdity of this irony. In any case everyone in Russia knows Ukraine is just as socialy conservative as they are.
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and so is supporting politically organized homosexuality (I don’t want to get into discussions about identity vs behavior vs politics, etc, let’s just keep it at that term). Politically organized homosexuals all over the world view the USA as a homeland they owe political loyalty to;
I wonder why they don’t want to get into that.
Did any of you actualy read the stupid article?
This isn’t the news mega. Of course no one read the fucking article.
Bad take.
No government should be able to stop people from expressing themselves in whatever way they see fit, as long as that expression isn’t hurting other people.
I know Russia used to be the seat of the USSR, but that doesn’t mean I have to give the modern, chuddified nation it’s become benefit of the doubt.
Bit idea: wear a Russian flag pin and bear-shaped rainbow earrings around Lviv.
GOOD post
Also The Moscow Times despite claiming to be Russian is online published from the Netherlands. Yeah that is about as legitimate as Putin launching a Russian version of NYT lol.
Here is a Russian source if that is a problem, saying more or less the same thing: https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/6480674
Calling the rainbow flag “Western Values”
Thinking all frogs are dog whistles
I’m diagnosing you with a terminal case of online, the cure is to step outside and touch grass for 10 hours (not consecutively)
we got Wat Tambor up in this Hex???
The Techno Union is at Hexbear’s disposal
Normal country
So much for the free speech right
. Please wake up.Modern Russia is an embarrassment to the USSR that once took them to the stars. It’s incredibly sad to see them become just as chudified as the US. What capitalism does to a mother fucker.
This is why I don’t understand leftists who oppose China and other AES based on specific social issues like LGBT rights. Look at the imperfect rights of LGBT people in the USSR and tell me that you’d rather be LGBT in the post-Soviet states instead.
Nothing got better as a result of the fall of the USSR unless you were a Patriarch in the Orthodox Church. Can’t imagine why anyone would rationally advocate for that shit to happen again.
The Moscow Times? Isn’t that basically Radio Free (Insert Enemy State Here) in print format?
Fellas is it gay to refract light
Yes, the rain is gay
Thus the immortal words: It’s raining men, hallelujah.
Why would anyone here give Russian critical support? This site confuses me
The us is the global imperial hegemon. Russia winning a war against the us will not make Russia the new hegemon, but instead destroy the current unipolar system. It will make it more feasible for leftist movements to develop across the world.
Acknowledging this state of affairs does not mean you have to believe Russia is a “good guy”
They have little to no hostility with socialist countries for one thing. They’re a good trade partner with a lot of the global south and they’re starting to pull out of normal relations with Israel . Russia’s UN ambassador last year called Israel an “occupation.”
Domestically they’re about the same as any other capitalist oligarchy from what I know, plus they have a bunch of reactionaries in high levels of power which sucks. At least they don’t have mass shootings like where I live.
We (they) just had our first ever female perpetrated school shooting a couple months ago actually
Critical is an important word in that phrase
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This site confuses you only because deprogramming a lifetime of being steeped in imperialist propaganda can be hard. Part of that deprogramming is recognizing that almost everything Russia is doing internationally is good and worthy of support, including fighting US imperialism/NATO and Ukrainian banderite fascists.
They are currently fighting against NATO and western imperialism. That’s gotta be worth something, even if their domestic laws suck and I would not want to live there.
Didn’t think I’d see the Moscow Times posted here.
hey at least its not the kyiv post
people have been posting OSINT accounts for like two years
I say bring it on. I know everyone is ready to forget that they took Oryx seriously and said stuff like
“Nobody can deny Western weapons are very effective against Russian equipment.”I look forward to the usual “look I want free healthcare as much as the next guy and want to have a real government instead of a CIA GANGSTER POLICE STATE that bombs civilians for no reason but the alternative is just as bad, and in addition, these savages are nothing like us,” crap that’s been used against Syria and Libya and almost Ethiopia recently! They were revving it up! People are sort of keeping China in this vague category of “they are alright, critical support, but not getting my hopes up in case the all powerful warlords of my country need to try to disintegrate them with bombs & I need to remain neutral”
So now we just have to pivot back to the normal “I don’t understand why all these anti-war leftists support Saddam Hussein and want to hug and kiss him? It’s just making things harder for us Real Activists.” refrain that keeps people from even approaching the discussion of what a semi-peripheral country is
I failed to understand most of it, but I think this is a brilliant post. I’ve read it maybe four times now, and its beauty and mystery deepen with every pass.
What I mean in that screed is
1️⃣ people remained “neutral” but kept supporting the western narrative throughout the past 2 years
2️⃣ people don’t have an actual geopolitical analysis, they have the libertarian “muh tax dollar spending” antiwar argument which is completely anemic. i would prefer ancient bandung maoist takes
3️⃣ the accusation of marcyism against people who do actual geopolitical analysis has been making a comeback, it’s a great way to learn nothing from all this
what I recommend instead is everyone read abt that & also how western NGOs used things as innocuous as techno to lay the groundwork of the anti ethnic russian movement. look at how the far-right grows in poland etc
ancient bandung maoist takes
lmao i’m gonna steal this phrase
Thanks I think you’re joking. Hopefully. I say bring it on bc they get to read these posts
Sincerity is hard to express on an anonymous web forum. This is the kind of posting that makes hexbear a special place. I like your post.
Yea they have the scoop here it is nice. People mostly don’t tolerate imperialist takes here. I just think it’s hard for everyone to both learn regional history + politics of Ukraine, and read a bunch of stuff about the development of the global south so they end up accepting a lot of premises which they shouldn’t.
Well that’s one way of cleaning up. Time to sort through the mess.
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