For people wondering when the right began falling in love with Putin: It was after the passage of the first anti-gay law in Russia in 2013. That was the moment GOP elected officials and rightwing Christian grifters started showing up on Fox to heap praise Putin.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/30/russia-passes-anti-gay-law
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/30/russia-passes-anti-gay-law
Comments
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/07/putin-approves-change-to-law-decriminalising-domestic-violence
https://www.thepinknews.com/2013/08/13/pat-buchanan-putin-trying-to-re-establish-russias-moral-compass/
Putin doesn't
As much as the right pretends the far right aren't theirs, they continue to follow them rightward.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-lgbtq-crackdown-nightclub-raids-3e18ac20ef7386920a996b66be511ee7
https://www.washingtonian.com/2025/02/18/kennedy-center-pride-concert-gay-mens-chorus-canceled/
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/14/g-s1-48923/stonewall-monument-transgender-park-service
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/trump-dei-hiv-cdc-website-removed-lgbtq-rcna190068
we will roll their shit back in their white, fat, pasty, faces
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/18/opinion/stonewall-lgbtq-trump-trans/
I am old enough to remember when we were fighting for a seat at the table.
There are many younger LGBTQ+ folks that have no idea what it was like.
Jesus would be turning over tables at this point and cleansing the temple.
This is in no way a surprise.
This makes sense, now. - It seems that a dictator we didn’t vote for and who is a draft dodger, is quickly running America into the ground because he identifies w/Russia.
Not that I enjoyed accidentally seeing heads chopped off in middle school, the quiet intentionality of it was profoundly moving.
u smell top down astrotruf tring to normalize previous seasons' nazis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uWEaKLzwUg
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/23/world/europe/right-wing-groups-find-a-haven-for-a-day-in-russia.html
Extramarital affairs, brother abusing sisters, child sexual abuse imagery - but yeah, Jesus' primary concern would have been trans kids quietly existing, I'm sure.
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