I completely understand the sentiment of your comment, and imagining Putin drone striking a pride parade like in a cartoon is slightly funny to think about, but I do want to be the buzzkill and say Russia is an incredibly homophobic country. Ukraine is arguably worse, and this doesn't whatsoever justify Ukraine attacking Russia, but it is still a disgusting pathological hatred for LGBT people baked into much of the leadership and populace of Russia. It's so sad.
I know, Genosse, I live here. I was largely highlighting the notion, which has permeated the media, that Russian government (and Putin specifically) specifically hates gay people and with such extreme passion as to go out of its way to harm them, despite other, more pressing concerns. Like, you know, actual militants.
Putin just can’t shut up about LGBTQ+ people and it’s genuinely distressing. He’s weirdly, borderline obsessed and it’s incredibly confusing, like, why does he care so much?
Most likely because he, as basically the only big capitalist country leader, have a communist party breathing on his neck. Plus a war on his head. Therefore he need to try double hard to find safety valves and as every conservative postsocialist leader this means going with christofascists since they make strong mainstay for conservative party everywhere here.
So he's not much different than Orban or Kaczyński but need to double down on this.
"Because ebil homophobic putler would immediately nuke the parade because he is evil and homophobic like this!!!11" - media, probably
I completely understand the sentiment of your comment, and imagining Putin drone striking a pride parade like in a cartoon is slightly funny to think about, but I do want to be the buzzkill and say Russia is an incredibly homophobic country. Ukraine is arguably worse, and this doesn't whatsoever justify Ukraine attacking Russia, but it is still a disgusting pathological hatred for LGBT people baked into much of the leadership and populace of Russia. It's so sad.
I know, Genosse, I live here. I was largely highlighting the notion, which has permeated the media, that Russian government (and Putin specifically) specifically hates gay people and with such extreme passion as to go out of its way to harm them, despite other, more pressing concerns. Like, you know, actual militants.
Putin just can’t shut up about LGBTQ+ people and it’s genuinely distressing. He’s weirdly, borderline obsessed and it’s incredibly confusing, like, why does he care so much?
Most likely because he, as basically the only big capitalist country leader, have a communist party breathing on his neck. Plus a war on his head. Therefore he need to try double hard to find safety valves and as every conservative postsocialist leader this means going with christofascists since they make strong mainstay for conservative party everywhere here.
So he's not much different than Orban or Kaczyński but need to double down on this.