Azaran on 7/11/2022 at 19:09
(
https://www.metroweekly.com/2018/02/anti-gay-presidential-ad-russia-drums-homophobia-scare-voters-polls/) The irony of this commercial, 4 years later
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A three-minute campaign ad encouraging Russians to vote in the presidential elections next month plays to deep-seated homophobia among the Russian populace by offering a vision of a dystopian future where a law has been passed forcing Russians to host a “gay homestay” for a week, reports The Guardian.
The video shows a 52-year-old man mocking his wife for wanting to vote in the presidential election, saying: “As if they won't elect someone without you.”
He then falls asleep, where he dreams that a multicultural group of soldiers is trying to conscript him into the army, because the conscription age has been increased to 60.He's then accosted by his Communist-affiliated son for donations, and finds that there is a gay man in his kitchen. The gay man tells him: “I'm a gay on a homestay.” The dreamer's wife then reminds him that under a new law, Russian families are required to take in gay people abandoned by their partners.
“If he doesn't find himself a pair, then you'll have to be with him,” she tells the man.
The man retreats into the toilet, only to find that “toilet time is restricted,” according to an intercom and flashing red lights. He wakes up screaming, and turns to his right, finding the gay man in bed with him. He then wakes up in real life, before pushing his wife out of bed and saying they need to vote “before it's too late!”
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Opposition journalists believe the video was produced by either President Vladimir Putin's campaign team or the government-controlled election committee. The Guardian notes that Russian officials are eager to see a large turnout in order to give Putin — who is guaranteed to win — an air of legitimacy, even though he has consolidated enough power to ensure he is president for life. In contrast, opposition leaders have been urging Russians to boycott the election, saying it is rigged.
[video=youtube;dvY3TPOxeKo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvY3TPOxeKo[/video]
denkmal on 7/11/2022 at 21:55
It all started when he decided not to learn English so he couldn't see/hear the kind of mind poison the younger generation were being exposed to.
[video=youtube;cUEkOVdUjHc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUEkOVdUjHc[/video]
Starker on 8/11/2022 at 07:01
Russia's top minister of truth addressed the country's youth the other day:
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https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1589391642653786112)
Key takeaways...
* people hate Russia, for some reason
* Ukrainians hate Russia because the people who hate Russia convinced them to hate Russia, for basically no reason at all other than that they are brothers
* hordes of these frothing bloodthirsty Ukrainians were poised to invade Russia in February, lay waste to its cities, and massacre hundreds of thousands of civilians -- the only reason they didn't was that Russia beat them to it
* Ukraine and Ukrainian military-industrial complex were destroyed long ago, at the beginning of the war, and now it's just a fight against NATO
* thanks to NATO, Ukraine has more weapons than any Western country, save, perhaps, for the US
* so, if you really think about it, Russia invading Ukraine is actually David fighting the Goliath, not the other way around
* but if you really, really think about it, Russia doesn't need might to win, only the Truth, because that's how biblical stories work
* Russia needs to stop coddling their children and giving them lollipops, because the world is a scary place and apparently you don't need lollipops in a scary place because reasons
* young people have to fight in the war to buy time for Russia to build up its military to win against NATO
* Russia is not just fighting the West, but the entire Western way of life where the biggest problem is whether transgender children can choose their own gender
* a world without Russia has no need to exist, so it's either Russia wins or...
* therefore, the children in the audience need to shape up and take their place in line as soon as their age allows
* Noah still survived, even though everybody was convinced he was wrong
* everybody else is fighting out of hatred, it's only Russia who is just doing what's necessary
* after they have cured the Ukrainians, they will cure the rest of the world... y'know, as you do
* a just cause... such as curing the world... will ensure victory
lowenz on 8/11/2022 at 09:00
You can just say "SATAN!!!111", that's the level of Putin fascist Russia.
Simple as that, tons of excuses for out-of-time imperialism and search for national identity: it's 1800, folks, let's obey the tzar.....the regent.....the president.....the husband to the motherland and our savior&protector versus the very bad albionic capitalism (ahahahaah) ! It's really just like here in Italy 100 years ago, the exact same dynamics.
If only Lenin was alive.....
heywood on 8/11/2022 at 18:26
It's not just Russia though. Grievance culture is everywhere now. Now that the "greatest generation" is gone, people are dusting off the old fascist propaganda from a century ago and it's working again. They are dividing and conquering. So far, the dividing part is going way too easy here in the US. In Europe, I was impressed by the solidarity shown after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, but there are cracks: Brexit, Orban, Meloni, Le Pen, worries about China. Hungary and Turkey have become thorns in NATO's side. Both will be gradually cut off from NATO and find their way into Russia's sphere of influence. And I don't know if the EU can hold up to the coming rifts over energy policy.
The surprising thing about this trend is that it's been happening during a period of job growth and wage growth and more flexible working arrangements and all that. Aside from inflation, most of us are doing good, but we're constantly told we're being screwed. What's going to happen when inflation is beaten and we're in a recession? If people are losing their shit because a transgender person might be taking a dump in the next stall over, imagine how they will be led to feel when they start suffering some real economic hardship. On top of that, the wider world is already taking sides over Ukraine and the UN is basically finished. The risk of another world war is real.
lowenz on 8/11/2022 at 20:59
Quote Posted by heywood
The surprising thing
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Internet conspiracy theories for people damned by how "meritocracy" works when it works (1 over 100 -> success / 99 with plenty of social resentments) AND when not (nepotism / clientelism -> social resentments)
Just like in Russia, France, Germany and the jews 100 years ago (well, way back than 100 years)
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if people are losing their shit because a transgender person
That's just a platonic-oriented excuse, like the jews. They don't care about these things in ANY way, they're just cultural elements feeding the ideological social hate furnace "DAMN CULTURAL MARXISM!!1111 AGAINST NATURE!!1111 AND I'M POOR!!111 WE NEED A NEW WAY, WE NEED A STRONG LEADER, WE NEED....." fascism.
It's just that.....it's the cycle of the so called "liberal demo(N)cracy"
heywood on 8/11/2022 at 23:33
Yes, I understand that the villains are interchangeable in this playbook. The headline writers will go with whatever sticks. Ukronazis didn't. That was a pretty dumb start considering Zelenskyy is Jewish. It took a few months for the dumb bastards to pick up on that. They tried the Zelenskyy is not really a Jew argument over the summer, which was embarrassingly lame.
But it doesn't matter. You can tell your followers the sky is blue today, and then tomorrow say the sky is green and deny you ever said it was blue. There could be video proof of you saying both things, but that's no big deal. You deny it. If pressed, you just claim the evidence was manufactured by the other party, something was shown out of context, it's all a deep state conspiracy to prevent you from being elected - they're against you because you're going to hold them accountable, etc. Right now, in US politics, you could say that blue and green are the same color and you wouldn't lose one supporter over it. I doubt Russia is much different right now.
Starker on 9/11/2022 at 03:25
It doesn't matter what you say in Russia, because the power of the state is absolute and most of its people are in a state of long-cultivated helplessness and nihilism. There is no point in what a candidate is saying, because it's all shamelessly rigged. Because it's really a mafia syndicate and the opposition gets jailed or killed or disqualified in some other way.
The US still has democratic systems, however flawed and hollowed out they are. US courts may be stuffed with ideologues hand-picked by the Heritage Foundation and groomed by the Federalist Society, but by and large they still work to uphold the law. There are still independent judges who go against people who appointed them and they aren't killed if they do.
The US media is sensationalist and there are a lot of partisan outlets, but there are still independent ones too and, as a rule, journalists aren't murdered for going against the state.
If you take part in an anti-government protest, you might get shot with less lethal ammunition, tear gassed and beaten with batons, (
https://www.vice.com/en/article/z34q38/artyom-kamardin-russia-poem) but the police isn't coming to visit your home afterwards to torture and rape you.
The police in the US might be corrupt, constantly lie with impunity, and break the law knowing they have a degree of immunity from it and a union to protect them, but they aren't openly walking around demanding bribes and they might get fired or occasionally even go to jail if there's overwhelming indisputable evidence they did something wrong.
Meanwhile, in Russia, this is what justice looks like:
[video=youtube;ZEAjl4o-FzQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEAjl4o-FzQ[/video]
But most of all, the US still has a political system -- a barely functioning one, but it is there. The US has been moving in the direction of Russia, but it's not there yet. Of the two parties, one may be full of people eager to unfollow democracy and follow the path of Russia, but the other still cares for governing and preserving the US as a democratic state where there is a rule of law, free and fair elections, peaceful transfer of power, and the people get to enjoy at least some degree of fundamental freedoms.
I guess we'll see today whether the US will follow the path of cheering for political violence, election denial, and following a strong leader to rule over them. But, as of yet, it's still a choice.
michael a on 11/11/2022 at 14:58
The city of Kherson is liberated.
