Russia is at it again

[Dakota Bob]

At this point, we'll probably need one large mega-thread to compile all the disgusting shit the Russian government is doing now.

Lawmakers seek to implement more anti-LGBT measures. a ban on donating blood and a "voluntary" gay-to-straight conversion service

[PosthumanHeresy]

Wait... Russia has been more progressive on the blood thing than America? Odd. Is it just me, or is Russia basically just becoming more American?

[ironbite]

Try Nazi Germany.

Ironbite-only with gays instead of Jews.

[PosthumanHeresy]

Try Nazi Germany.

Ironbite-only with gays instead of Jews.

True, but I was mainly taking about the South, who control way too much. That said, Russia is acting like Nazis to gay people (well, so did the Nazis) and Israel is basically run by anti-Palestinian Nazi Jews. Are Nazis going to be a thing every century?

[Leafy]

Try Nazi Germany.

Ironbite-only with gays instead of Jews.

True, but I was mainly taking about the South, who control way too much. That said, Russia is acting like Nazis to gay people (well, so did the Nazis) and Israel is basically run by anti-Palestinian Nazi Jews. Are Nazis going to be a thing every century?

Probably, however I really hope it doesn't come to that.

[Barbarella]

I just want to know, why is the Russian government so into this big homophobic pogrom thing, all of the sudden? Something must have triggered Putin to wake up one day & go "I think I'll start a big anti-homosexual pogrom, today". Now, I know that homophobia's big in Russia but I still wonder what was the catalyst?

[Canadian Mojo]

I just want to know, why I the Russian government so into this big homophobic pogrom thing, all of the sudden? Something must have triggered Putin to wake up one day & go "I think I'll start a big anti-homosexual pogrom, today". Now, I know that homophobia's big in Russia but I still wonder what was the catalyst?

He needs a safe target to focus the pent up anger of the country on so they don't look inwards at the real problems. The break away republics were good, but constant low-level wars are getting too expensive for his shitty economy. Supporting Syria just to spite the Americans worked well too, but a real fight would be bad and frankly Syria is getting to the point where even Putin can't support the government for much longer without looking lite a twat to his own supporters.

Throw in the uber alpha male persona he constantly tries to project and it's made to order. The only way it could be more blatant would be for him to say that lesbians, the good looking ones at least, are okay and we shouldn't persecute them.

[wrightway]

Wasn't there a write up within the last week about how they're invading random gay peoples homes on "suspected crimes"?

[niam2023]

History, in my perspective, is cyclical.

Every century, there will be another Nazi Party.

[Art Vandelay]

Only eight posts in and already we've had two Godwins. That must be a new record of some sort.

[guizonde]

Only eight posts in and already we've had two Godwins. That must be a new record of some sort.

meh, i've seen worse on the old boards, hell it was so bad 5th post onwards they were meta-godwinning. and besides, putin ain't no nazi, he's a czar in all but name 

[Lt. Fred]

History, in my perspective, is cyclical.

Every century, there will be another Nazi Party.

The Nazis are pretty darn unique.

[PosthumanHeresy]

History, in my perspective, is cyclical.

Every century, there will be another Nazi Party.

The Nazis are pretty darn unique.

Not really. Russia + Israel for this century. The Nazis for the 1900s. The CSA for the 1800s. I'm sure bigger history buffs can point out regimes that thought some group of people were inferior and enslaved or wiped them out.

Only eight posts in and already we've had two Godwins. That must be a new record of some sort.

You know, the problem with Godwin's law is that it's abused to shut down any comparisons. I'm sorry, but are you saying that a powerful government blaming specific groups of people for all their issues, stealing all their land, wiping them out and making them second class citizens isn't Naziesque?

[Art Vandelay]

You know, the problem with Godwin's law is that it's abused to shut down any comparisons. I'm sorry, but are you saying that a powerful government blaming specific groups of people for all their issues, stealing all their land, wiping them out and making them second class citizens isn't Naziesque?

Unless they're actually rounding them up and placing them in death camps in an attempt to methodically wipe them all out, then it's still a hyperbole.

[PosthumanHeresy]

You know, the problem with Godwin's law is that it's abused to shut down any comparisons. I'm sorry, but are you saying that a powerful government blaming specific groups of people for all their issues, stealing all their land, wiping them out and making them second class citizens isn't Naziesque?

Unless they're actually rounding them up and placing them in death camps in an attempt to methodically wipe them all out, then it's still a hyperbole.

What if they're bulldozing their houses, stripping them of all their rights and bombing their cities? Is it hyperbole still? Because if not, we still have goddamn Nazi Jews.