It's been on my mind recently that the global hope of lgbt people is China.
That's gonna sound weird to anyone that thinks China is anti-lgbt, but the reality is that only exists among the old and they're phasing out. China's trajectory for lgbt issues is likely to be positive, because China's trajectory for PEOPLE issues is positive.
The west is in decline, and with it the marginalised groups are being scapegoated as targets to distract the population from their declining conditions. Lgbt issues are likely to deteriorate across the west as the decline continues, as are other issues such as migrants and race.
China will represent a population of 1.4 billion people in ascendancy and with a positive trend towards these issues I believe it's going to eventually become the place with the best conditions along similar lines to Cuba. It will represent the largest block of lgbt people in the world, and the lgbt people of China will become the largest advocate of lgbt conditions elsewhere in the world.
This hasn't happened yet, but the trends are there. It's coming in the longterm.
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I want this to happen, and also, it reads like Americans who believe that gen z and millennials will save the country. Obviously there's a difference between the nazi state of America and China, but the former has taught me to distrust generational hopes, including those in a different national/political contex
I think the important thing here is it's not just generational but institutional. China HAS improved its protections over time and it is absolutely following medical science on trans people and building children-specific clinics rather than what the west is doing which is going backwards. The direction in China is forwards while the direction in the west is backwards. Expecting these to cross over seems natural.
A reminder that "moral" Russia recently legalized domestic violence, and during the closing speech before that legalization was voted on, some domestic violence enjoyer claimed that wifebeating somehow increased the likelihood of male offspring.
Fuck Ukraine's nazis and their NAFO pals anyway, that said.
Russian legislation a few years back declared that husbands beating their wives was no longer a legally-coded offense. Effectively, being married to someone means a license to hit them whenever it suits the chud doing the hitting.
Just saw a .worlder commenting this today. Something something “gnosh on Putin’s knob”. The best part was it was in response to someone saying, “Many of the things people hate Hexbear for are not even true.”
the best bit is that he is what they wanted - you won, libs. your actions installed Putin. this is the endpoint of your ideology and the result of your efforts.
Imagine thinking the West is heaven on Earth for queer people, and that them existing while they struggle for equal rights is "neoliberal Western ideals". Clown shit.
The dissolution of the USSR and the fall of the Eastern block was a crime. All those responsible for it should've been beaten to death with a stick.
The lasting damage done by rainbow imperialism is going to take so much longer to undo than any latent ill will towards queer people resisting nations had beforehand...
Russia is always switching between badly westernizing and badly setting out to be not at all western actually. In fact they're so bad at it that sometimes they're doing both at once. Such as here.
I do hope all reactionaries seeking sanctuary get drafted and taken to the frontlines to die taking an inch of soil from their nazi brethren.
On the other hand, this is so fucked for anyone deemed "deviant" by the Russian ruling class. My enby and ethnic minority Russian friends are already terrified for their lives and those of their families, and having more chuds moving in looking for people to terrorize only makes me worry for them even more.
To be fair, the current Russian government is more on a trend towards fascism than towards liberalism. Then again, as a European, I wish I couldn't say the same about the EU
I normally think of fascism as more or less liberalism/capitalism in crisis. I thought that shock therapy basically burned the economic structure that was already in place as fuel to accelerate capitalism and were so successful that they are basically doing a capitalism to late stage capitalism to fascism speedrun.
Kind of a weird thing to say when a lot countries still have the same ideals. Why leave for Russia when I get the same thing in Guatemala? At least we have SocDems in government.
Leaning into the whole "customs and traditions" song and dance too hard typically results in countries becoming a cartoonishly exaggerated fun house mirror version of themselves. That said, if he personally throws in a few Car-Man albums I might give it some thought