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CW: Homophobia. Putin compares European use of alternative (non-traditional) energy sources to their acceptance of LGBTQ+ ("non-traditional") relationships (hexbear.net)
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Pretty gross. Comments every bit as awful as you're thinking. Just a reminder of the abysmal state of non-cishet rights and acceptance in Russia.

Edit: can't get my screenshot to load properly so text:

T1: Putin on accusations against Russia in the energy crisis: "European countries are big specialists in non-traditional relationships and themselves abandoned traditional energy sources in favor of non-traditional ones"

T2: ("non-traditional relationships" is the legal term in Russia for all things "LGBT")

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[–] OldMole@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

Fellas, is it gay to use solar and wind power?

[–] Venusta@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

He should get a Netflix special, he sounds just as funny as Dave Chapelle

[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 0 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

:putin-wink::solidarity::trump-anguish:

Renewable energy is gay

Also Putin really sucks. He's only forced into anti imperialist stances because the US "rules based order" rejected Russia joining them.

[–] jabrd@hexbear.net 0 points 3 years ago (4 children)

It’s not an anti imperialist stance if you’re just trying to contest imperial hegemony on behalf of your own imperial ambitions. That’s still just imperialism

[–] LeninsRage@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Anyone on this site who genuinely believes Vladimir Putin does "anti-imperialism" out of any motive other than supremely cynical, convenient, competing imperialist interest seriously needs to re-evaluate their stances and sources. Or, otherwise, go join the fucking Maupinite/Hazite clowns who are basically doing the most cringe reactionary shit imaginable, because they are your people.

I say this as someone who has for a while tried to stay out of the dogmatic factionalist bullshit in favor of just shitposting when it comes to this site. If you've been suckered into believing a siloviki-dominated hyper-capitalist kleptocracy like Russia is a genuine force for "anti-imperialism", you've been fucking had in the worst way possible. Even the most mindless simping for modern Dengist China has a more rational basis.

[–] Mindfury@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I can't believe that I need to reiterate that we shit on Ukraine here because they're filled with nazoids, not because capitalist Russia is "good".

You do not, under almost any circumstances, gotta hand it to post-downfall Russia

[–] LeninsRage@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

Literally no one here is arguing that Ukraine is good, but the actual leftists (as opposed to national chauvinists) here are arguing that this is unmistakably an inter-imperialist war and not some convoluted "the invasion of Ukraine is anti-imperialist because Russia is on the imperial periphery of a super-imperialist bloc" bullshit argument.

I'm someone who can absolutely advance arguments that the Russian invasion of Ukraine was caused by outside imperialist circumstances. But now that it has happened, and is actual fact? There is zero "critical support" of Russian aggression here. The only legitimate communist position in this scenario is for Ukrainian and Russian soldiers alike to turn their guns on their own generals. Will that happen? No. But that's the fucking position the Bolsheviks themselves took from the start, not some ridiculous stance about how actually the Kaiser was right to resist all along and criticizing the German war effort is bad.

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

Putin is, at the very least, anti-hegemonic in the sense that he falls squarely in the bloc opposing the current hegemonic powers. Whether or not he's also anti-imperialistic is up for debate, but personally anti-hegemonic countries are relatively rare and any which fall into that camp deserve at least critical support.

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

When Russia provided military aid to Venezuela at the request of Maduro to resist the coup attempt, the US media called it Russian imperialism, but that seems more like anti-imperialism to me.

[–] jabrd@hexbear.net 0 points 3 years ago (2 children)

I mean that’s siding with anti-imperialism for realpolitik reasons but it’s still for the sake of cracking up US hegemony to allow Russian ascendancy. The invasion of Ukraine has made it more than apparent that Putin sees Russia as having a sphere of influence where it can dictate terms for the nations around it and will enforce that understanding violently. That’s textbook imperialism akin to the early US dictating terms in Latin America.

And yea that’s all because Russia was rejected from the kool kids (k)table at nato but the response has not been to adopt a left wing anti-imperialist stance

[–] A_Serbian_Milf@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Caring about intent is idealism, caring about outcomes is materialism. You don’t have to like Putin to realize we have to work with him (we, as in the global left and AES) and that he has been a reliable ally

[–] Ligma_Male@hexbear.net 0 points 3 years ago (3 children)

work with

:yikes-1: :yikes-2: :yikes-3:

if putin wants to help us that's great, we'll take it, but if he ever comes around asking for anything, fuck him, he's got feet and he can kick rocks.

[–] A_Serbian_Milf@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

Not the opinion of Xi, Maduro, Kim, Diaz-Canal or any other socialist leader

[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

I mean if you're in a global south country that the US doesn't like or care about, you're kind of forced to work with Russia and Putin, as much as it sucks. See Venezuela, Cuba, etc. China is non interventionist so it's not an option.

Sometimes the outcomes are good, sometimes they are shit.

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

but if he ever comes around asking for anything, fuck him, he’s got feet and he can kick rocks.

I'm sure that Vlad is devastated that he cant rely on the proven track record of the Western Left.

[–] RedDawn@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

The invasion of Ukraine has little to do with "dictating terms" or creating a sphere of influence, they're protecting their own country from imperial USA which has spent most of the last decade militarizing Ukraine after engineering a coup there to make the government rabidly anti-russia. I'm sorry but it's bananas to compare the Ukraine situation to the US/Latin America relationship and its equally ridiculous to call actions which are clearly anti-imperialist in their effects just the same as imperialism because of whatever you imagine the motivation for those actions to be. This is how we get things like claims of Cuban imperialism.

[–] spring_rabbit@hexbear.net 0 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Fighting against imperialism is actually just imperialism, if your intentions aren't pure.

[–] A_Serbian_Milf@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

Here come the westoids to divine the intent of nations outside the core and judge them for their lack of purity

[–] jabrd@hexbear.net 0 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Supporting my anti-imperialist comrades in ISIS as they undermine American hegemony

[–] spring_rabbit@hexbear.net 2 points 3 years ago

Undermining American hegemony by...destabilizing a region that America benefits from being unstable? Not really the same situation. Russia is actually doing real harm to our ability to maintain a global stranglehold. That is a good thing, even if Putin is otherwise a shitty reactionary capitalist.

[–] A_Serbian_Milf@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

ISIS is American-backed imperialist force, and Russia crushed it

Another point in our favor, not yours