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Dearest Vlad, you are a lovely human being. As a British gay man who is now nearly 60, I have seen so many changes in my lifetime. In the 1980’s when I accepted my sexuality, life was hard, since then I am able to live a much freer life, where I am blessed with a society that seems happy to accept me, and my lovely partner (now husband). We met in 1989, we spent many years keeping our love a secret. The situation in Russia is a reminder that the freedom and acceptance of all the wonderful variety of life hangs by a tenuous thread.
@@EvgeniyYakushev-m2u you can definitely get into trouble if others find out. Like be fired from the job or beaten by some thugs. There is noone to protect you. A lecturer in my uni was beaten and humiliated on camera after they caught him with a fake guy profile on a dating website.
Hi guys! A student from a Russian law university is here. I think it's important to note one important thing. The new anti-LGBT law (more precisely, the Supreme Court decision, which actually has the force of law) has one very important feature: this law is very vague. Because it does not give clear definitions of what LGBT activities are now extremism, what LGBT symbols are extremism and what symbols classify as LGBT, what statements can be regarded as support for LGBT people, what people can be considered members or supporters of a non-existent “international LGBT movement", does not even give the concept of what LGBT is and what can be attributed to it. And this is the worst thing about that law - you don’t know clearly whether your actions and statements violate the law or not. Even if you are an ordinary person who is definitely not LGBT, you can still end up in prison if the police classify your actions or statements as supporting of LGBT. No one can be in 100% safe.
True. This is why people criticized the so-called gay propaganda law of 2013 too. Anyone could "promote homosexuality" regardless of their own sexual orientation.
The whole point is to maintain a low level of terror, a word I use specifically. These mechanisms are meant to 'move past' just creating fear, but instead a constant low boil sense of dread.
That is purely intentional like with many other laws passed by Putin. This way a larger part of the population can be terrorized by putting them in a constant state of fear and subjugation. Putin is a criminal and a terrorist.
First they came for the gays, and I did not speak out- Because I was not gay. Then they came for the activists, and I did not speak out- Because I was not an activist. Then they came for the ethnic minorities, and I did not speak out- Because I was not one of them. Then they came for me-and there was no one left to speak for me.
They start with the smallest percentage of the population. Then widen to the next and the next and the next until the whole of the population is "easily managed".
@@wile123456It is not an easy matter to genocide LGBTQ folk, because they have mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers… It is far easier to use them as a punching bag until you find a scapegoat with fewer “attachments”. I think it way more likely that Putin will start to “other” people with leftist principles. You can lump them together with their entire families if need be. You can use the LGBTQ label as further ammunition to make the label stick. But a pogrom aimed solely at LGBTQ folk - this would not be tolerated. There are only so many sons and daughters you can murder before people in the higher ranks start objecting (because it is THEIR children you are murdering).
Homosexuals are to Putin what Jews were to Hitler … a minority who were already the subject of widespread ignorant prejudice - against whom repression would be tolerated (if not approved) by the majority - thus normalising the means, methods and infrastructure of subjugation.
Sorry to tell you, but Yulia Volkova from t.a.t.u. is a raging homophobe, who said she will not accept a gay son, and that gay people were only 'slightly' better than murderers, thieves, or drug addicts. T.a.t.u was about thrilling straight men's fantasies, not empowering lesbians.
Hullo from Odenville Alabama. Just want you to know I see you Vlad, and want you to be careful of your health this winter. Thank you for sharing your wisdom in these trying times.
Not relevant, but I find the phrase "homosexual activities" so funny as a gay guy. 🤣 Like we're secretly setting up HAM radios so we can communicate our evil mechaniations, instead of, like, falling asleep to the Golden Girls at 10 pm. 🤣
Love the sweater, warm and cozy...I also saw Jehovah's Witnesses are "verbotten" in Russia...there was a news article saying like 100 random groups are not allowed...gee...we've seen this game before...It's important for people to stick up for their neighbors because sooner or later they too may be on the "verbotten" list 💛💙💛💙
Thanks Vlad. Ah yes. Putin reached the chapter in the KGB/Nazi playbook titled: "How to find or create some internal enemies to foster the permanent war psychosis and dehumanisation of opponents." It's one of his favourite chapters. He drools even more than usual when he re-reads it. A few years ago (2015 I think), the excellent British broadcaster Reggie Yates did a mini BBC series called 'Extreme Russia'. One episode was titled 'Gay and Under Attack' - it included a very personable young man who was openly gay. Frankly, I was concerned about that Russian's safety and that was 8 years ago.
Well, the Nazis at least didn't create internal enemies out of nowhere, they really sincerely believed those were their enemies, who were secretly behind everything, that wasn't ging according to the plans of the Nazis. They didn't cynically make something up to manipulate people, they just really believed those things to be true. People often like to debate who is more evil, the Nazis or the Soviets, I personally believe t was the Nazis, but the Nazis were certainly more insane, because the Soviets lied, but the things the Nazis were saying, that would have been lies if said by the Soviets were honest statements of believe by the Nazis.
@@martinbruhn5274I think that's disputable. The Nazis started believing it by the end, but it's very arguable that large parts of their ideology were meant to make enemies for the majority of the party, but it was repeated till everyone bought their own propaganda.
I saw a bit of a Russian TV show...and the style oddly reminded me of similar shows in Latin America. Where women are overly feminine and I suppose the men are more macho type. For a woman that kind of society is very difficult, so when we here in the USA support LGBQT rights...it also helps women's rights...to guarantee our equality as well.
Nice jumper. I hope that you can still heat your home properly despite the cost of livig crisis we are all dealing with. I hope you are ok as much as possible given your health challenges. Take care. And thank you agian for the amazing job you are doing. 💪🏻🇺🇦✌🏻🙏🏻🇬🇧
To which the majority of people agree AFAIAC, however there is a lot of motte and bailey gaslighting about LGBTQXYZ activism.Do whatever you want within the law wherever you want and if there are overtly discriminatory laws making your life difficult then most people will support your objections. Unfortunately gay/trans activism has been taken over by an extreme ideology which brooks no discussion of it's beliefs or tolerates no public disagreement. This would be fine if it's proponents weren't placing demands on the rest of us to deny our own perceptions or understandings and tries to force us to accede to policies which negatively affect us and our children. I am sure that Putin understands that this is an issue that he can use to gain traction with a Western audience. In fact it's exactly the kind of issue Tucker Carlson will raise in attempts to demonstrate that Putin is just trying to defend Russia.
I'm an confused by your comment and the point it might convey. Can you explain it more coherently so that I, a non native English speaker, can wrap my mind around your writings?
"Fake conservatives who play conservatism as political technology..." You've just described the current Republican Party and "conservative" movement here in the United States as well! We really cannot be that surprised by their affinity for Putin and Putinism.
Jordan Peterson has made the lives of LGBTQ folk (especially trans folk) a living hell in many counties and states. Not only was he wrong about Putin, but the very core of his ideology is deeply, deeply mistaken.
You know, I thought about this deeply. I think Peterson is a white nationalist. There is no other reason to support Russia. He likes the Russian ethnonationalistic attitude.
At first seemed good but as Vlad says he's angry with no solutions. Take the transgender woke teenager saying something a bit offensive. He will go on a rage about it. That's easy to do. There's an audience and there might not be a defense. Put Jordan up against an intellectual or a popular person and he's just nice and gentle. Anger for its own sake is worthless.
@@paulgallagher6544 I have been in the LGBTQ community for 50 years. I have yet to meet a “woke” trans person. Makes no sense to me at all these convenient labels we use to dehumanize people we would like to see destroyed.
It's such a pity, he was quite reasonable sometimes and vehemently against ideology in general, and now he has fallen for his own so hard he starts defending the regime which despises everything he stood for.
Thank you Vlad for some thoughtprovoking words. Pootin's invention of new "enemies within", "enemies of RU (socalled) values", can raise the populations aggressiveness and will to "fight for their country" (prepare for war), maybe without making them political as such. The NZs in the 1930s-40s did the same (maybe except for the political element) with homosexuals etc., and most of all with the Jews. The course Pootin and russia is taking is not a good one. I think we have to be quick, determined, united in deciding upon our policy towards Pootin's russia.
Quick determined and united? The quick horse has already bolted, the determined part is not much evidenced by action and the united part is a pipe dream. But what's new, history repeats!
I'm from the states, gays have all the rights possible here. I have never seen gays making out or anything like that. Seen couples few times in public and I have no problem with them. Hung out with them in social events. They are super cool. The problems I always had were with heterosexuals like myself acting primative including self at times. Gays are least of my problem. 10 times more sober speeding drivers die than from drunk driving by stats. Half of gun deaths in the states are self inflicted(suicides). Let alone substance abuse deaths. We are our own worst enemies rather than external enemy.
This topic reminds me of the music video "Я сашла с ума" from t.A.T.u., which raises the question of how high the acceptance of these people really was in the 00's. My impression is that even back then there was at the least very little acceptance.
He won't go that far, the parallels would be too obvious. But if everybody forgot about the nazis and Putin could do something similar and gain political capital from it, I doubt he would let his conscience of all things stop him.
They have them in occupied Ukraine, although they're called "filtration camps". Hundreds of thousands of people, including children, have been filtered through them to Russia, and that's a conservative estimate. The occupying troops came hauling mobile incinerators. I don't know why people can't call what they see for what it is.
@@henriikkak2091 These are called checkpoints, not filtration camps. And yes, people had to go through many checkpoints to get to Russia at the beginning of the war. If you want to know what filtration camps look like, you can look at the Israeli ones on the border with Gaza, you’ll probably find them on RUclips.
@@henriikkak2091 I’m not saying anything against your sentiment (at all. This is really just a technicality). But as far as I know, the mobile incinerators have not yet been proven. The white truck spread in media was an earlier foto from before the war.
Umberto Eco: A Practical List for Identifying Fascists Evolve Fascism is present even in the most progressive democracies; some points for identifying its component parts. The word “Fascist” is used with great ease and lightness in our own time. It’s applied as a kind of “cult insult.” Someone or something is Fascist when trying to impose arbitrary laws or rules on others. In recent history, Fascism was a mystical ideology and political movement, one founded by Benito Mussolini in Italy during the period between the two world wars. By extension, the word has been used to refer to Nazism and other totalitarian movements. What do contemporary “Fascisms” have in common with the historical ones? The question was taken up by the recently deceased Italian novelist and semiotician, Umberto Eco, who plunged into the word “Fascist” to clarify some of its implications. Eco distinguished this, for example, from Hitler’s Nazism, although he conceded that the “fascist game can be played in many ways, and the name of the game doesn’t change.” In an essay published in the New York Review of Books, Eco distilled the 14 typical elements of “Ur-Fascism or Eternal Fascism,” while warning that, “These features cannot be organized into a system; many of them contradict each other and are also typical of other kinds of despotism or fanaticism. But it is enough that one of them be present to allow fascism to coagulate around it.” The cult of tradition. “One has only to look at the syllabus of every fascist movement to find the major traditionalist thinkers. The Nazi gnosis was nourished by traditionalist, syncretistic, occult elements.” The rejection of modernism. “The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense, Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism.” The cult of action for action’s sale. “Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation.” Disagreement is treason. “The critical spirit makes distinctions, and to distinguish is a sign of modernism. In modern culture, the scientific community praises disagreement as a way to improve knowledge.” Fear of difference. “The first appeal of a fascist or prematurely fascist movement is an appeal against the intruders. Thus Ur-Fascism is racist by definition.” Appeal to social frustration. “[…] one of the most typical features of the historical fascism was the appeal to a frustrated middle class, a class suffering from an economic crisis or feelings of political humiliation, and frightened by the pressure of lower social groups. The obsession with a plot. “The followers must feel besieged. The easiest way to solve the plot is the appeal to xenophobia.” The enemy is both weak and strong. “[…] the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.” Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy. “For Ur-Fascism there is no struggle for life but, rather, life is lived for struggle.” Contempt for the weak. “Elitism is a typical aspect of any reactionary ideology.” Everybody is educated to become a hero. “in Ur-Fascist ideology, heroism is the norm. This cult of heroism is strictly linked with the cult of death.” Machismo and Weaponry. “This is the origin of machismo (which implies both disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits, from chastity to homosexuality). Since even sex is a difficult game to play, the Ur-Fascist hero tends to play with weapons-doing so becomes an ersatz phallic exercise.” Selective Populism. “There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People. Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak. “All the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning.”
I thought in Russia there is a strong conflation of gay sex with rape coming from prison culture. Which gives prejudices versus that group, not the way you would see from a conservative Christian Poles, but also quite strong and demeaning. So, prejudice-wise I am not confident that Russians will be anti-gay less than Poles. And religious parts - whether Muslim or Christian Orthodox often show quite obscurantist views, often quite grotesque.
Elements of Russian prison culture got mainstream in most of the Russian society. Everyone knows the basic prison rules around male on male sex. But those are more akin to what ancient Greeks thought - it is acceptable if you are in an active role and in certain circumstances.
This is a very interesting point to me. Is there a connection between how repressive a society or nation is versus how religious or not said society is?
@@reaperbsc How about a soviet union under stalin? Or germany under na@i leadership? Or mao's revolutions? Or bi*le thumping american sl@ve owners? I know it is a human trait to jump to relations and patterns, but come on, if you have a ch*mp brain, you can still do better than that.
Thank you my friend, for all that you overcome from my perspective is very commendable! Very thoughtful, productive & quality stuff as well. My Stepma views this war with maybe a 5-10% of additional support toward Russia than Ukraine. (40% vs 60%ish) Absolutely disgusted by the war either way. I believe that your content is a contributing factor in balancing her initially strong 90-100% belief/support of Russia. A long with a few other things but that’s beside the point. Wanted to express how much I deeply appreciate your work ❤️
How to be hideously repressive and Victorian, whilst behaving in a hypocritical political manner. The single thing that bodes well from this piece Vlad is that you believe most Russian people aren't really bothered about someone being LGBTQ+ unless they are worried about a beloved family member. Look after yourself and stay warm.
Glad you mention the tory element. Conservstives are a group out of time, and so desperate to drag us all back to a time when it was they who held 99% of the power. It's a dangerous network, and it needs to be broken across all nations.
I'm glad you're covering this Vlad. I can only imagine how scary and difficult it must be for the LGBT+ community in Russia. It's a lesson to the community in Europe and America, particularly must remain vigilant and not take our freedoms and rights for granted.
I have to thank you again for pointing out Avishai Margalit's book "On Compromise and Rotten Compromises". It is an excellent book. I recommended unreservedly. Thanks!
I don't think we know what the average Brit thinks relative to the average Russia AOTBE, in the UK there are personal cost for speaking out against those rights just as there are personal costs for speaking out in favour of them in Russia
The establishment's received view of sexual minorities is different in Britain and Russia . Still, neither Britain or Russia is neutral on the matter and there are personal costs for one's career in speaking out in both countries. Unless you are happy to flush your pension down the toilet and go be an uber driver.@@Epaminondas371
Surely there must be SOMEONE in russia who can stop kaputin! Attacking the LGBTQ community is the pits! May the Virgin of Vladimir and St Seraphim of Sarov ask the Almighty to put an end to kaputin and his terrible regime. May a just peace return to Ukraine. May St Nicholas help all the kidnapped Ukrainian children to be returned. May all who have died Rest in Peace and may all who are mourning be comforted. May those injured be healed.
YOU remembered St. Nicolas the patron St of sailors !😊. Long ago i suspect the Portuguese gave prayers for the intercession of St Ann ( the patron st of Canada) and St Nicolas at Tadoussac at the conflux of the Saugenay and St Lawrence. What a happy thought... and its about the last day before the mourning etc of lessor lent advent and the services and readings about the end of the world , captivity in Babylon before the 24 when you dress the church with green boughs , fill it with light , celebrate Christmas. ...happy St Nicolas day indeed .
You hear a lot about LGBT, but what about intersex people in Russia? As an intersex person myself I have little interest in visiting Russia, but I know that even in the 'liberal West' there's little room for people like us, with intersex babies and toddlers receiving 'normalisation' surgery as soon as possible. How can the treatment of intersex people in Russia be worse than in the West?
Thank you Vlad, terrible news and dark times ahead. We should connect the dots and go against any laws that try to do the same in our own societies (f. ex., the Floridian "don't say gay' laws are a preparation for worse things to come). Please take good care of yourself - I wish you all the best for your recovery. Lots of love and listen to you soon 🇺🇦 з Днем Збройних Сил України! 🇺🇦
It is sad that smart people died from aids in the 80s and early 90s we sure have gone a long way in the US. After being trained as a machinist in Minneapolis I moved to California and when I came back to get my IRA check I stopped by the shop to bs. When one guy assumed I was gay because I moved to California I grabbed his hand and tried dragging him to bathroom. 😅
Regarding the Conservatism of the Putin regime, is there really nothing ideological about that? I.e. if there suddenly were more political capital to be made in being pro LGBT (or more relevant regime critics to be appeased by that) would you see Putin at the next pride parade?
5:50 I missed an example of another "section" of the population that is being targeted, because sending young people on suicide missions affects everyone (with an exception of the rich, but unfortunately that's a worldwide condition)
This evolution is very concerning, given what I think is an increasing willingness of Russians to brutalize their fellow Russians as demonstrated by the treatment of its own soldiers. The war seems to have given license to all manner of behaviors that are barbaric and demeaning to individuals who think or act outside the proscribed norms.
Internal enemies? It's funny who Putler considers an 'internal enemy'. He is persecuting people who don't confirm to his views the same way the tsars and Soviets did. Some things never change.
Hey, Vlad! What is your opinion on tyrannicide? Can it be justified if the tyrant poses a significant threat to multiple countries including his own? Or do potential ramifications and chaos outweight any benefits of such act?
"Tyrannicide" sounds like a special toxic compound for getting rid of large carnivorous dinosaurs. Well, Mr. Putin is certainly bloodthirsty and arguably also a dinosaur. Okay, that fits.
@@sassulusmagnusi know this isn't a matter to joke about, but when i first heard the word "homicide" (English is my 3rd lang), i thought it's about killing your homies.
You remind me of everything that was ever great about Russia. Solsjenitsin and all the other dissidents. Dostoyevski and all the other writers. Shostakovich and all the other composers. Russia is part of Europe, and its future will inevitably include liberal democracy and human rights. If we all don't die first...
In the U.S., we have a situation on the Republican side of the aisle where a great deal of politicians, aides and other functionaries are some say ' closet cases' yet seem to be oblivious to the contradictions involved or the long term dangers.
I trying to find objectively what the security of Authoritarian power containment benefits are to the crackdown on Homosexuals. If not concervatives, what then?
There’s a paranoia in authoritarian societies that suggests that any minority group is a lever that outside forces can grasp to undermine stability. So while the political leadership may not care whether you’re gay or not on a personal level, they’ll see your very existence as a potential liability that “malign foreign powers” could turn against them.
Lets say if it is not entirely performative Putin is nevertheless exploiting it for propaganga. It certainly falls into the decadent West narrative. Unfortunately, it also works on people like JP who are fighting culture wars.
@11:40 You may be correct about populations living in more metropolitan areas of the West, but I fear you may be overestimating the intolerance of intolerance that exists more generally throughout Western societies.
Very true...lots of Russians could apply for asylum if they fall in an outlawed group. Russia will be losing more intellectuals....we will gladly take them. 👍👍
@@EvgeniyYakushev-m2u If the government threatens a person with arrest over such a personal choice...that is not good. That is a private issue where the government should not involve themselves🤣 The USA is a land of immigrants...so the oppressed are welcome...especially the smart ones. I have seen videos of Moscow, it looks like our cities....there will be many open minded people, who secretly at least will oppose these laws...in rural areas sure people will buy it....but in major urban areas not so much.
@@EvgeniyYakushev-m2u Because they're making lists now after storming gay bars and all safety mechanisms have been removed from the russian state in 2012.
Vlad i love your videos and constantly watch you. If I may I know your health condition is affecting you and everything but I think you could stand to improve your tone of voice. I find myself that sometimes i don't hear you and when I turn you up then you "explode" so I have to turn you back down again and so on. I wish you good health and I love your content, just a small suggestion from a fan
Thank you for describing the community as LGBT, and not as LGBTQ. As a gay man in his 70’s who came out in Stonewall times, I lived with the q slur my whole life. I do not agree with the younger generation adding q to the description, as it normalizes the q word; next it will be the f word. Adding q does not describe anything about sexual orientation or gender identity; it only confuses the description of our community.
Queer is a word to be celebrated, it extoles the virtues of individualism. It needs to be taken back and given positive meening. I am sorry that it has been used as a weapon of shame. But let it be a weapon no more. Many these days would take it a compliment, and the younger generations owe their forebares some gratitude for helping to reshape society to what it is now.
@@samharvey735 You say that, but many others do not agree. The bigger point, however, is that "trans" has nothing to do with homosexuality --- unless, of course, we consider confused gay kids who are being duped into it.
To what extent is the targeting on LGBT folk in russia motivated by the demographic time bomb that is set to affect russia more than its wester counterparts? Is russia set to become Giliad?
I have a gay friend who went on a gay pride/lgbt march a couple years back in London. He said not only were there men there wearing nothing but revealing women's underwear but there was also a guy dressed up as a baby holding a placard that said something pretty grotesque. He said he left in short order and won't go on another because those sorts of people are not good examples of normal gay people. My niece is 17 and is starting to realise now she is straight, a couple years ago she was thinking about having a "sex change" operation because she wanted to be a boy. There was a "councillor", if you like, at her school who was encouraging these thoughts and this course of action. Her parents have found things very difficult. Tolerance of homosexuality is fine, but there is also degeneracy and perversion. Putin's play here will appeal to a great many people in the west who feel that they are having this stuff shoved down their throats 24/7, particularly to christian conservatives in NA...
Let’s see how this Russian conservatism translates to statistics: Russia ranks first in Europe in HIV statistics, divorces, murders, drug addiction and corruption, second in alcoholism, economic inequality, suicides. E.t.c. Does it match what Jesus taught about?
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Vlad I just wanted to say, that is a lovely sweater! Have a good Day!
It’s not about that at all it’s getting rid of weak. Men! Did you watch that speech? Putin is basically getting Russia ready for war with USA!
Dearest Vlad, you are a lovely human being. As a British gay man who is now nearly 60, I have seen so many changes in my lifetime. In the 1980’s when I accepted my sexuality, life was hard, since then I am able to live a much freer life, where I am blessed with a society that seems happy to accept me, and my lovely partner (now husband). We met in 1989, we spent many years keeping our love a secret. The situation in Russia is a reminder that the freedom and acceptance of all the wonderful variety of life hangs by a tenuous thread.
@@EvgeniyYakushev-m2u you can definitely get into trouble if others find out. Like be fired from the job or beaten by some thugs. There is noone to protect you. A lecturer in my uni was beaten and humiliated on camera after they caught him with a fake guy profile on a dating website.
yeah okay 😄@@EvgeniyYakushev-m2u
Bom all amerikunt gay rallies with uranium
@@MelGibsonMovie And why do you need to go to Chechnya exactly?
@@EvgeniyYakushev-m2u not yet but soon.
Hi guys! A student from a Russian law university is here.
I think it's important to note one important thing. The new anti-LGBT law (more precisely, the Supreme Court decision, which actually has the force of law) has one very important feature: this law is very vague.
Because it does not give clear definitions of what LGBT activities are now extremism, what LGBT symbols are extremism and what symbols classify as LGBT, what statements can be regarded as support for LGBT people, what people can be considered members or supporters of a non-existent “international LGBT movement", does not even give the concept of what LGBT is and what can be attributed to it.
And this is the worst thing about that law - you don’t know clearly whether your actions and statements violate the law or not. Even if you are an ordinary person who is definitely not LGBT, you can still end up in prison if the police classify your actions or statements as supporting of LGBT.
No one can be in 100% safe.
True. This is why people criticized the so-called gay propaganda law of 2013 too. Anyone could "promote homosexuality" regardless of their own sexual orientation.
The whole point is to maintain a low level of terror, a word I use specifically. These mechanisms are meant to 'move past' just creating fear, but instead a constant low boil sense of dread.
@@henriikkak2091 This law applies to minors, you cannot determine who is an adult and who is not?
Still stupid. Just make it about Western spies or some half believable shit not gays. Idiotic.
That is purely intentional like with many other laws passed by Putin. This way a larger part of the population can be terrorized by putting them in a constant state of fear and subjugation. Putin is a criminal and a terrorist.
First they came for the gays, and I did not speak out-
Because I was not gay.
Then they came for the activists, and I did not speak out-
Because I was not an activist.
Then they came for the ethnic minorities, and I did not speak out-
Because I was not one of them.
Then they came for me-and there was no one left to speak for me.
They start with the smallest percentage of the population. Then widen to the next and the next and the next until the whole of the population is "easily managed".
The genocide slippery slope. Honestly sad humanity keeps repeating this evil.
The alphabet cult is destructive anyway. The cancel culture is evil.
@@wile123456It is not an easy matter to genocide LGBTQ folk, because they have mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers… It is far easier to use them as a punching bag until you find a scapegoat with fewer “attachments”. I think it way more likely that Putin will start to “other” people with leftist principles. You can lump them together with their entire families if need be. You can use the LGBTQ label as further ammunition to make the label stick. But a pogrom aimed solely at LGBTQ folk - this would not be tolerated. There are only so many sons and daughters you can murder before people in the higher ranks start objecting (because it is THEIR children you are murdering).
Homosexuals are to Putin what Jews were to Hitler … a minority who were already the subject of widespread ignorant prejudice - against whom repression would be tolerated (if not approved) by the majority - thus normalising the means, methods and infrastructure of subjugation.
Putin hates nobody more than Russian general population who he thinks are stupid and worthless.
As a queer Hungarian citizen, I deeply feel for the status of LGBT people in Russia, Poland, Uganda and countless other places.
anybody else weirdly nostalgic for 2003 when T.A.T.U ruled the airwaves?
it's unavoidable
Ahh, I remember when they were all the rage in Japan alongside Daft Punk. Wild times
T.A.T.U
Sorry to tell you, but Yulia Volkova from t.a.t.u. is a raging homophobe, who said she will not accept a gay son, and that gay people were only 'slightly' better than murderers, thieves, or drug addicts. T.a.t.u was about thrilling straight men's fantasies, not empowering lesbians.
I had forgotten them...oh I loved that song "All the Things She Said" wow good times back then🎶🎶
Hullo from Odenville Alabama. Just want you to know I see you Vlad, and want you to be careful of your health this winter. Thank you for sharing your wisdom in these trying times.
Not relevant, but I find the phrase "homosexual activities" so funny as a gay guy. 🤣 Like we're secretly setting up HAM radios so we can communicate our evil mechaniations, instead of, like, falling asleep to the Golden Girls at 10 pm. 🤣
I thought you were all on Grinder and having chem sex orgies? To be honest as a straight guy I’m pretty jealous! You’ve disillusioned me😅
Love the sweater, warm and cozy...I also saw Jehovah's Witnesses are "verbotten" in Russia...there was a news article saying like 100 random groups are not allowed...gee...we've seen this game before...It's important for people to stick up for their neighbors because sooner or later they too may be on the "verbotten" list 💛💙💛💙
Thanks Vlad. Ah yes. Putin reached the chapter in the KGB/Nazi playbook titled: "How to find or create some internal enemies to foster the permanent war psychosis and dehumanisation of opponents." It's one of his favourite chapters. He drools even more than usual when he re-reads it. A few years ago (2015 I think), the excellent British broadcaster Reggie Yates did a mini BBC series called 'Extreme Russia'. One episode was titled 'Gay and Under Attack' - it included a very personable young man who was openly gay. Frankly, I was concerned about that Russian's safety and that was 8 years ago.
Well, the Nazis at least didn't create internal enemies out of nowhere, they really sincerely believed those were their enemies, who were secretly behind everything, that wasn't ging according to the plans of the Nazis. They didn't cynically make something up to manipulate people, they just really believed those things to be true. People often like to debate who is more evil, the Nazis or the Soviets, I personally believe t was the Nazis, but the Nazis were certainly more insane, because the Soviets lied, but the things the Nazis were saying, that would have been lies if said by the Soviets were honest statements of believe by the Nazis.
yeah....sigh
@@martinbruhn5274I think that's disputable. The Nazis started believing it by the end, but it's very arguable that large parts of their ideology were meant to make enemies for the majority of the party, but it was repeated till everyone bought their own propaganda.
I saw a bit of a Russian TV show...and the style oddly reminded me of similar shows in Latin America. Where women are overly feminine and I suppose the men are more macho type. For a woman that kind of society is very difficult, so when we here in the USA support LGBQT rights...it also helps women's rights...to guarantee our equality as well.
This is going to make a t.A.T.u reunion really difficult.
They performed this year in St. Petersburg, and last year in totalitarian Minsk.
@@EvgeniyYakushev-m2u Oh good. No one tell Putin.
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Thank you!
That's another half million, for the meat wave.
Nice jumper. I hope that you can still heat your home properly despite the cost of livig crisis we are all dealing with. I hope you are ok as much as possible given your health challenges. Take care. And thank you agian for the amazing job you are doing. 💪🏻🇺🇦✌🏻🙏🏻🇬🇧
Hello, beautiful folks. Hello, Vlad (also a beautiful folk) 💛💙
Gay rights are basic human rights. Live and let live, knowing that one's freedom depends on the freedom of others.
To which the majority of people agree AFAIAC, however there is a lot of motte and bailey gaslighting about LGBTQXYZ activism.Do whatever you want within the law wherever you want and if there are overtly discriminatory laws making your life difficult then most people will support your objections. Unfortunately gay/trans activism has been taken over by an extreme ideology which brooks no discussion of it's beliefs or tolerates no public disagreement. This would be fine if it's proponents weren't placing demands on the rest of us to deny our own perceptions or understandings and tries to force us to accede to policies which negatively affect us and our children. I am sure that Putin understands that this is an issue that he can use to gain traction with a Western audience. In fact it's exactly the kind of issue Tucker Carlson will raise in attempts to demonstrate that Putin is just trying to defend Russia.
I'm an confused by your comment and the point it might convey. Can you explain it more coherently so that I, a non native English speaker, can wrap my mind around your writings?
Thanks Vlad , be well everyone !
"....and then they came for me, and there was nobody left to stand up..."
"Fake conservatives who play conservatism as political technology..." You've just described the current Republican Party and "conservative" movement here in the United States as well! We really cannot be that surprised by their affinity for Putin and Putinism.
Vlad, I absolutely agree about Jordan Peterson... I thought nobody had noticed !
Jordan Peterson has made the lives of LGBTQ folk (especially trans folk) a living hell in many counties and states. Not only was he wrong about Putin, but the very core of his ideology is deeply, deeply mistaken.
You know, I thought about this deeply. I think Peterson is a white nationalist. There is no other reason to support Russia. He likes the Russian ethnonationalistic attitude.
At first seemed good but as Vlad says he's angry with no solutions. Take the transgender woke teenager saying something a bit offensive. He will go on a rage about it. That's easy to do. There's an audience and there might not be a defense. Put Jordan up against an intellectual or a popular person and he's just nice and gentle.
Anger for its own sake is worthless.
@@paulgallagher6544 I have been in the LGBTQ community for 50 years. I have yet to meet a “woke” trans person. Makes no sense to me at all these convenient labels we use to dehumanize people we would like to see destroyed.
It's such a pity, he was quite reasonable sometimes and vehemently against ideology in general, and now he has fallen for his own so hard he starts defending the regime which despises everything he stood for.
Thank you Vlad for some thoughtprovoking words.
Pootin's invention of new "enemies within", "enemies of RU (socalled) values", can raise the populations aggressiveness and will to "fight for their country" (prepare for war), maybe without making them political as such. The NZs in the 1930s-40s did the same (maybe except for the political element) with homosexuals etc., and most of all with the Jews. The course Pootin and russia is taking is not a good one. I think we have to be quick, determined, united in deciding upon our policy towards Pootin's russia.
Quick determined and united? The quick horse has already bolted, the determined part is not much evidenced by action and the united part is a pipe dream. But what's new, history repeats!
I assume Tchaikovsky has been disowned and anywhere named after him has been .... renamed. What about all the others?
Don't you understand the difference between a person and an organization?
I'm from the states, gays have all the rights possible here. I have never seen gays making out or anything like that. Seen couples few times in public and I have no problem with them. Hung out with them in social events. They are super cool. The problems I always had were with heterosexuals like myself acting primative including self at times. Gays are least of my problem. 10 times more sober speeding drivers die than from drunk driving by stats. Half of gun deaths in the states are self inflicted(suicides). Let alone substance abuse deaths. We are our own worst enemies rather than external enemy.
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This topic reminds me of the music video "Я сашла с ума" from t.A.T.u., which raises the question of how high the acceptance of these people really was in the 00's. My impression is that even back then there was at the least very little acceptance.
In the 2000s it was the effect of an exploding bomb.
Jordan Peterson seems like an extraordinarily naive man
He definitly is ...
He's either incredibly naive and foolish or incredibly dishonest and knows exactly what he's doing.
At this rate, we’re going to learn about Putin’s concentration camps and gas chambers any day now. He is speedrunning Hitler 2.0.
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He won't go that far, the parallels would be too obvious. But if everybody forgot about the nazis and Putin could do something similar and gain political capital from it, I doubt he would let his conscience of all things stop him.
They have them in occupied Ukraine, although they're called "filtration camps". Hundreds of thousands of people, including children, have been filtered through them to Russia, and that's a conservative estimate.
The occupying troops came hauling mobile incinerators.
I don't know why people can't call what they see for what it is.
@@henriikkak2091 These are called checkpoints, not filtration camps. And yes, people had to go through many checkpoints to get to Russia at the beginning of the war. If you want to know what filtration camps look like, you can look at the Israeli ones on the border with Gaza, you’ll probably find them on RUclips.
@@henriikkak2091 I’m not saying anything against your sentiment (at all. This is really just a technicality). But as far as I know, the mobile incinerators have not yet been proven. The white truck spread in media was an earlier foto from before the war.
Will they come after left-handed writers next?
khhhhhellloooo!
Umberto Eco: A Practical List for Identifying Fascists
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Fascism is present even in the most progressive democracies; some points for identifying its component parts.
The word “Fascist” is used with great ease and lightness in our own time. It’s applied as a kind of “cult insult.” Someone or something is Fascist when trying to impose arbitrary laws or rules on others. In recent history, Fascism was a mystical ideology and political movement, one founded by Benito Mussolini in Italy during the period between the two world wars. By extension, the word has been used to refer to Nazism and other totalitarian movements. What do contemporary “Fascisms” have in common with the historical ones?
The question was taken up by the recently deceased Italian novelist and semiotician, Umberto Eco, who plunged into the word “Fascist” to clarify some of its implications. Eco distinguished this, for example, from Hitler’s Nazism, although he conceded that the “fascist game can be played in many ways, and the name of the game doesn’t change.”
In an essay published in the New York Review of Books, Eco distilled the 14 typical elements of “Ur-Fascism or Eternal Fascism,” while warning that, “These features cannot be organized into a system; many of them contradict each other and are also typical of other kinds of despotism or fanaticism. But it is enough that one of them be present to allow fascism to coagulate around it.”
The cult of tradition. “One has only to look at the syllabus of every fascist movement to find the major traditionalist thinkers. The Nazi gnosis was nourished by traditionalist, syncretistic, occult elements.”
The rejection of modernism. “The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense, Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism.”
The cult of action for action’s sale. “Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation.”
Disagreement is treason. “The critical spirit makes distinctions, and to distinguish is a sign of modernism. In modern culture, the scientific community praises disagreement as a way to improve knowledge.”
Fear of difference. “The first appeal of a fascist or prematurely fascist movement is an appeal against the intruders. Thus Ur-Fascism is racist by definition.”
Appeal to social frustration. “[…] one of the most typical features of the historical fascism was the appeal to a frustrated middle class, a class suffering from an economic crisis or feelings of political humiliation, and frightened by the pressure of lower social groups.
The obsession with a plot. “The followers must feel besieged. The easiest way to solve the plot is the appeal to xenophobia.”
The enemy is both weak and strong. “[…] the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.”
Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy. “For Ur-Fascism there is no struggle for life but, rather, life is lived for struggle.”
Contempt for the weak. “Elitism is a typical aspect of any reactionary ideology.”
Everybody is educated to become a hero. “in Ur-Fascist ideology, heroism is the norm. This cult of heroism is strictly linked with the cult of death.”
Machismo and Weaponry. “This is the origin of machismo (which implies both disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits, from chastity to homosexuality). Since even sex is a difficult game to play, the Ur-Fascist hero tends to play with weapons-doing so becomes an ersatz phallic exercise.”
Selective Populism. “There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People.
Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak. “All the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning.”
I’ve read the essay, this is a good summary
Sounds like Scientology.
Thanks. 👍
I thought in Russia there is a strong conflation of gay sex with rape coming from prison culture. Which gives prejudices versus that group, not the way you would see from a conservative Christian Poles, but also quite strong and demeaning. So, prejudice-wise I am not confident that Russians will be anti-gay less than Poles. And religious parts - whether Muslim or Christian Orthodox often show quite obscurantist views, often quite grotesque.
"often quite grotesque" is exactly how I describe the normalization and ritualization of perver*ion in a society.
Elements of Russian prison culture got mainstream in most of the Russian society. Everyone knows the basic prison rules around male on male sex. But those are more akin to what ancient Greeks thought - it is acceptable if you are in an active role and in certain circumstances.
This is a very interesting point to me. Is there a connection between how repressive a society or nation is versus how religious or not said society is?
@@reaperbsc How about a soviet union under stalin? Or germany under na@i leadership? Or mao's revolutions? Or bi*le thumping american sl@ve owners?
I know it is a human trait to jump to relations and patterns, but come on, if you have a ch*mp brain, you can still do better than that.
Thank you my friend, for all that you overcome from my perspective is very commendable!
Very thoughtful, productive & quality stuff as well. My Stepma views this war with maybe a 5-10% of additional support toward Russia than Ukraine. (40% vs 60%ish) Absolutely disgusted by the war either way.
I believe that your content is a contributing factor in balancing her initially strong 90-100% belief/support of Russia.
A long with a few other things but that’s beside the point. Wanted to express how much I deeply appreciate your work ❤️
How to be hideously repressive and Victorian, whilst behaving in a hypocritical political manner. The single thing that bodes well from this piece Vlad is that you believe most Russian people aren't really bothered about someone being LGBTQ+ unless they are worried about a beloved family member.
Look after yourself and stay warm.
Glad you mention the tory element. Conservstives are a group out of time, and so desperate to drag us all back to a time when it was they who held 99% of the power.
It's a dangerous network, and it needs to be broken across all nations.
I'm glad you're covering this Vlad. I can only imagine how scary and difficult it must be for the LGBT+ community in Russia. It's a lesson to the community in Europe and America, particularly must remain vigilant and not take our freedoms and rights for granted.
Great thanks, Vlad, for this analysis. As always, your reflections are informative and interesting.
First they came for the trade unionists, and I wasn't a trade unionist...
Are you afraid that they will come after people who write stupid comments?
Thanks, Vlad; really good video today. ❤
It's good to know putin is taking advise from Taliban and Hamas.
And GI, CCP.
I miss the Nov 89 vibe
Yep...me too..I thought we were all going to become best friends...😔
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I have to thank you again for pointing out Avishai Margalit's book "On Compromise and Rotten Compromises". It is an excellent book. I recommended unreservedly. Thanks!
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I don't think we know what the average Brit thinks relative to the average Russia AOTBE, in the UK there are personal cost for speaking out against those rights just as there are personal costs for speaking out in favour of them in Russia
A rather naive comment. Russia is very different.
The establishment's received view of sexual minorities is different in Britain and Russia . Still, neither Britain or Russia is neutral on the matter and there are personal costs for one's career in speaking out in both countries. Unless you are happy to flush your pension down the toilet and go be an uber driver.@@Epaminondas371
he's been reading the "Protocals of the Elders of West Hollywood"
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Thank you , that was interesting.
Surely there must be SOMEONE in russia who can stop kaputin! Attacking the LGBTQ community is the pits! May the Virgin of Vladimir and St Seraphim of Sarov ask the Almighty to put an end to kaputin and his terrible regime. May a just peace return to Ukraine. May St Nicholas help all the kidnapped Ukrainian children to be returned. May all who have died Rest in Peace and may all who are mourning be comforted. May those injured be healed.
YOU remembered St. Nicolas the patron St of sailors !😊. Long ago i suspect the Portuguese gave prayers for the intercession of St Ann ( the patron st of Canada) and St Nicolas at Tadoussac at the conflux of the Saugenay and St Lawrence. What a happy thought... and its about the last day before the mourning etc of lessor lent advent and the services and readings about the end of the world , captivity in Babylon before the 24 when you dress the church with green boughs , fill it with light , celebrate Christmas. ...happy St Nicolas day indeed .
oh hey, sweater weather
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You hear a lot about LGBT, but what about intersex people in Russia? As an intersex person myself I have little interest in visiting Russia, but I know that even in the 'liberal West' there's little room for people like us, with intersex babies and toddlers receiving 'normalisation' surgery as soon as possible. How can the treatment of intersex people in Russia be worse than in the West?
I hope this practice will be banned in more and more countries.
Khello Vlad!
Khhhhi!
tbf it doesnt take much to fool jordan peterson
"Listen to me: When the time comes, you gotta run and don't look back. This is over." - Arthur Morgan, RDR2
did someone make you that sweater?
It's not officially winter until Vlad wears his wool sweater.
Thank you Vlad, terrible news and dark times ahead. We should connect the dots and go against any laws that try to do the same in our own societies (f. ex., the Floridian "don't say gay' laws are a preparation for worse things to come). Please take good care of yourself - I wish you all the best for your recovery. Lots of love and listen to you soon
🇺🇦 з Днем Збройних Сил України! 🇺🇦
Thank you, Vlad, for your insight into the Russian ethos.
Who else is the Kremlin afraid of?😅
Everyone
Chhhhhello beautiful community 😂❤
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Hi Vlad!
It is sad that smart people died from aids in the 80s and early 90s we sure have gone a long way in the US. After being trained as a machinist in Minneapolis I moved to California and when I came back to get my IRA check I stopped by the shop to bs. When one guy assumed I was gay because I moved to California I grabbed his hand and tried dragging him to bathroom. 😅
Vlad, can you please explain a bit more or point at an explanation of what you mean by "rejecting teleology" when you mention it?
The idea of a constant forward progress of humankind.
Regarding the Conservatism of the Putin regime, is there really nothing ideological about that? I.e. if there suddenly were more political capital to be made in being pro LGBT (or more relevant regime critics to be appeased by that) would you see Putin at the next pride parade?
The conservatism is fake because Putin is a fascist, not a conservative. Hatred of the lgbt community is inseparable from fascism.
I do wish you would not take Jordan Peterson seriously as a thinker. He is barely a tinkerer. Influencer, sure.
Doesn't matter what you think of him.
@@moritamikamikara3879 Are you sincerely unaware that I am not aware of that fact? Truly?
Jordan Peterson is an intelligent person's idea of a stupid person 😂
5:50 I missed an example of another "section" of the population that is being targeted, because sending young people on suicide missions affects everyone (with an exception of the rich, but unfortunately that's a worldwide condition)
Will you please locate "tolerance of intolerance" on the ladder from human psychology through culture through politics? Thank you. B.
This evolution is very concerning, given what I think is an increasing willingness of Russians to brutalize their fellow Russians as demonstrated by the treatment of its own soldiers. The war seems to have given license to all manner of behaviors that are barbaric and demeaning to individuals who think or act outside the proscribed norms.
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@@EvgeniyYakushev-m2u?
Internal enemies? It's funny who Putler considers an 'internal enemy'. He is persecuting people who don't confirm to his views the same way the tsars and Soviets did. Some things never change.
Hey, Vlad! What is your opinion on tyrannicide? Can it be justified if the tyrant poses a significant threat to multiple countries including his own? Or do potential ramifications and chaos outweight any benefits of such act?
Tyrannicide in an irrefragable (=cannot be outlawed) natural (=pre-existing and universal) right of any man.
Sic semper tyrannis.
There is no justifiable argument against tyrannicide.
"Tyrannicide" sounds like a special toxic compound for getting rid of large carnivorous dinosaurs. Well, Mr. Putin is certainly bloodthirsty and arguably also a dinosaur. Okay, that fits.
@@sassulusmagnusi know this isn't a matter to joke about, but when i first heard the word "homicide" (English is my 3rd lang), i thought it's about killing your homies.
@@aidarosullivan5269homiecide 😢
Torquemada was of converso descend
You remind me of everything that was ever great about Russia. Solsjenitsin and all the other dissidents. Dostoyevski and all the other writers. Shostakovich and all the other composers. Russia is part of Europe, and its future will inevitably include liberal democracy and human rights. If we all don't die first...
In the U.S., we have a situation on the Republican side of the aisle where a great deal of politicians, aides and other functionaries are some say ' closet cases' yet seem to be oblivious to the contradictions involved or the long term dangers.
Russian political apathy mitigates Russian intolerance?
would love to see Ukraine embrace love instead and pass the civil unions bill proposed to Parliament
Ah, putler open new front again. Are cat owners next?
Nice warm looking sweater Vlad you suit white it looks good on you it can be important to keep your sense of style during dark times I find.....😢😅😢
I trying to find objectively what the security of Authoritarian power containment benefits are to the crackdown on Homosexuals. If not concervatives, what then?
There’s a paranoia in authoritarian societies that suggests that any minority group is a lever that outside forces can grasp to undermine stability.
So while the political leadership may not care whether you’re gay or not on a personal level, they’ll see your very existence as a potential liability that “malign foreign powers” could turn against them.
See Galeotti’s latest on this
Says it’s performative
Not sure I agreed
Lets say if it is not entirely performative Putin is nevertheless exploiting it for propaganga. It certainly falls into the decadent West narrative. Unfortunately, it also works on people like JP who are fighting culture wars.
I like Mark's takes
@11:40 You may be correct about populations living in more metropolitan areas of the West, but I fear you may be overestimating the intolerance of intolerance that exists more generally throughout Western societies.
Only upside: now probably more easy to get asylum in the West when gay 🙈🙈
Very true...lots of Russians could apply for asylum if they fall in an outlawed group. Russia will be losing more intellectuals....we will gladly take them. 👍👍
And why should a gay man seek refuge?
@@EvgeniyYakushev-m2u If the government threatens a person with arrest over such a personal choice...that is not good. That is a private issue where the government should not involve themselves🤣 The USA is a land of immigrants...so the oppressed are welcome...especially the smart ones. I have seen videos of Moscow, it looks like our cities....there will be many open minded people, who secretly at least will oppose these laws...in rural areas sure people will buy it....but in major urban areas not so much.
@@EvgeniyYakushev-m2u Because they're making lists now after storming gay bars and all safety mechanisms have been removed from the russian state in 2012.
@@EvgeniyYakushev-m2u Because in Russia, it’s punishable by law
Vlad i love your videos and constantly watch you. If I may I know your health condition is affecting you and everything but I think you could stand to improve your tone of voice. I find myself that sometimes i don't hear you and when I turn you up then you "explode" so I have to turn you back down again and so on. I wish you good health and I love your content, just a small suggestion from a fan
Thank you so much. I am sorry that I am still getting the volume balance wrong. I will try to do better.
Thank you for describing the community as LGBT, and not as LGBTQ. As a gay man in his 70’s who came out in Stonewall times, I lived with the q slur my whole life. I do not agree with the younger generation adding q to the description, as it normalizes the q word; next it will be the f word. Adding q does not describe anything about sexual orientation or gender identity; it only confuses the description of our community.
My very close friend is even more offended by the T.
Q is covered by L and G, no? Department of Redundancy Department?
Queer is a word to be celebrated, it extoles the virtues of individualism. It needs to be taken back and given positive meening. I am sorry that it has been used as a weapon of shame. But let it be a weapon no more. Many these days would take it a compliment, and the younger generations owe their forebares some gratitude for helping to reshape society to what it is now.
@@samharvey735 You say that, but many others do not agree. The bigger point, however, is that "trans" has nothing to do with homosexuality --- unless, of course, we consider confused gay kids who are being duped into it.
You can no more dupe a someone into being trans than you can dupe a right handed person into being left handed or a gay person into being straight.
To what extent is the targeting on LGBT folk in russia motivated by the demographic time bomb that is set to affect russia more than its wester counterparts? Is russia set to become Giliad?
Why do you always generalize nations, not all russians think alike and same for americans or brits.
Terrible hate politics. They fin2 beat y'all 😢 ..time to pack up n just leave it behind
Internal enemies and LBTG is probably not the same
"internal enemies" are whomever you choose to attack
LGBT is a contradiction, LGB is rebelling against the T. But any society that promotes weirdness is doomed.
I have a gay friend who went on a gay pride/lgbt march a couple years back in London. He said not only were there men there wearing nothing but revealing women's underwear but there was also a guy dressed up as a baby holding a placard that said something pretty grotesque. He said he left in short order and won't go on another because those sorts of people are not good examples of normal gay people.
My niece is 17 and is starting to realise now she is straight, a couple years ago she was thinking about having a "sex change" operation because she wanted to be a boy. There was a "councillor", if you like, at her school who was encouraging these thoughts and this course of action. Her parents have found things very difficult.
Tolerance of homosexuality is fine, but there is also degeneracy and perversion. Putin's play here will appeal to a great many people in the west who feel that they are having this stuff shoved down their throats 24/7, particularly to christian conservatives in NA...
Let’s see how this Russian conservatism translates to statistics: Russia ranks first in Europe in HIV statistics, divorces, murders, drug addiction and corruption, second in alcoholism, economic inequality, suicides. E.t.c.
Does it match what Jesus taught about?
Congratulations Russia 🎉
How is the global LGBT movement fictional? It may not be a single entity, but it does exist.
cucc stopped talking about isrel. cant defend the indefensible, even as a professional yapper
please stop with the lgb.... something, so much was pushed about this, it is just boring
vlad the fruit cake
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Boris thank you!!