• GaveUp [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    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

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      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.

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          How did it legalise it nationwide? Referendum? A bill passed through both houses?

          [Checking my notes] oh arbitrary ruling by a handful of lifetime appointed judicial elites that could be easily reversed with a conservative majority…

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            Addendum: said handful of lifetime appointed judicial elites have recently said that that right is up for review, along with everything from sodomy decriminalization to the existence of no-fault divorce.

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              Like fuck had it even been an Executive order that would establish why it is important to vote for a president, but it’s basically oh you get gay-marriage if the stars align properly and these people retire or die within these years etc.

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            Noooo we can’t crack down on them what about their freedom of speecherino???

            (We’ll happily ostracize, jail, and kill communists though)

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            Like, flying pride flags are nice and all but I need someone to scatter the Heritage Foundation and Focus on the Family to the four winds

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      Yeah I don’t see China compiling lists of trans people or banning trans healthcare. Nor do I see massive reactionary backlash over trans people existing. The worst I’ve heard is that the legal procedure to change genders is convoluted(still bad).