O they will justify it, don't you worry

The most virulent tankies are also the type most likely to decry “identity politics” distracting from class issues and suggest that the “leftist” thing to do is throw minorities to the wolves and court working class white men instead, while just kind of expecting everyone else to join in on a class-based solution that will definitely solve all their problems (since identity based barriers to quality of life are a neoliberal invention to divide the proletariat... or something like that).

Basically horseshoe theory exemplified; they’re often on par with LGBT+ issues with moderate conservatives, mostly tolerant but weakly accepting and not at all helpful. They might pretend they care about western homophobia but if they don’t intend to do anything about it does that count for anything?

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This is a great example of why its a bad idea for companies like Apple and Google to have access to your photos and filenames/hashes. If this picture is spread, the Russian government can "ask" them to apply their CSAM tech to iCloud accounts with the same filenames or checksums and report you for possessing subversive material.

And we can see how wonderful a life that is for the people of Russia….

People always think they’re going to be the ones in charge like the oligarchs…. Nope. As ‘Carlin said “it’s a club…and you ain’t in it!”

Ironically Russia has always had a LOT of non-white, non-Christians. Just look at the Jewish Autonomous Oblast or Chechnya. It was never Christian the way, say, England or France was.

From experience, it's anything that acknowledges the existence in a neutral or positive way

The EU and US aren't down with fascism. You can move to Russia for that. You and Putin belong together. Russia, North Korea, and Iran are your people. The US just voted against that kind of stupidity so it looks like you need to move somewhere where your evil fascist ideas are appreciated. The protection of marriage act was signed into law in the US. You're likely out of luck in most of Europe. They are no where near as hateful of their neighbors as the average American.

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