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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ah Russia you keep teaching me not to go to you or the deep south/midwest US. At least I won't go to jail or get shot on the street in Canada or the EU for being LGBTQ+

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Were these places on your list of places you wanted to go?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I live in Canada, I want to go to the NE US, the West Coast US, the EU and visit other areaa of Canada I haven't seen yet

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Can't have their residents learning to read and write, they might get ideas.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This joke of a country has turned into a massive gulag. Next thing they will arrest every man who doesn't get hard enough seeing the exposed ankle of a woman.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

They need conscripts

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Shithole country. Also, Putin is 100% smoking pole.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I can hear Poles being offended

[–] [email protected] 71 points 9 months ago (7 children)

Where all the tankies at? Lets hear why this is totally cool and ok.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

As if tankies aren't constantly simping for both Russia and China on here.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The Russian and English aristocracies were related, is that maybe part of the reason there was some support in the UK?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

The Russian monarchy ended about 39 years prior to the Hungarian Revolution in '56. The whole Russian Revolution thing and the murdering of the Romanovs and all that.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I must admit that I haven't met any who do so can't argue for or against this. I can understand that they might have done 20-30 years ago but I don't see them "simpling for" any of them really.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 9 months ago

I like to imagine these accounts learned about tankies only 6 months ago when they joined Lemmy and were encountered by lots of leftists with wildly different international worldvoews than them.

As a byproduct, it's just their way of making sense of those differences they don't otherwise understand.

Nobody that they're describing would actually defend shit like this, but thats about as well as they understand those people.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Well I sure have. Especially before multiple servers defederated with Lemmygrad and Hexbear.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm just waiting on all the Hexbear users who see no irony praising both LGBTQ+ and russia.

If they ever moved to russia, they would instantly be killed.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

They would be sent to push up sunflowers in Avdiivka it takes a week for basic training and an hour or so to walk within Ukrainian artillery range. Not exactly instant, but close.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think lemmy.world defederated from hexbear, lemmygrad, and .ml

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

They did. I still see their users here and there though.They did. I still see their users here and there though. Well definitely hexbear and lemmygrad. I dunno if they defederated from ml.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

No no no, you don't understand, Russia has (in the past) implemented my favorite economic system (please ignore all the people who died as political criminals), thus nothing they do is wrong. Rainbow earrings are just a small casualty, you gotta look big picture!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

probably something like "America is mean too"

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago

lol if you ask for it the brigade of angry people will appear to explain how you’re a racist and a terrible person for not thinking like them

But first they will deflect by asking you to define what a tankie is.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Clearly rainbows are part of the aggressive expansionism of NATO, and Russia is just responding to it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Hey listen, ever heard of ROYGBIV? Roy! That's an Anglo name! It's pure NATO infiltration!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Do you know what NATO nicknamed the defense plan during the cold war? The Rainbow Plan.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Lol you're not joking. TIL

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Alright... yeah, fair

[–] [email protected] 120 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

I’m not sorry, but if colors offend you, you might be really fragile and not as manly as you’d like to think

And if you use religion as an excuse to be a bigot remember your god made everyone and everything so hating colors kinda like saying you’re afraid of your own gods creations.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That’s not what is going on there. Unfortunately for Russian LGBT community, LGPT suppression is selected as anti Western anti democracy propaganda point. People are brainwashed into believing that it is something evil.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Prejudices against the LGBT community are already present in so many people that you don't need brainwashing. Instead, this is about leveraging and amplifying the existing prejudice for political purposes.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

I love this comment so much 🙂

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Bro, I wanna see Russia declare war on the sky and try to knock down a rainbow.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I'd love for Ukraine to paint all their bombs in rainbow colours.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

That would be dangerous. The sky might start sinking Russian ships.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

in dictatorship russia, earrings wear you!