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I will never understand the hypocritical surveillance state apologism when it comes to China or Russia on this site.
If China's surveillance state was purely for the benefit of their citizens, they wouldn't need such an extensive censorship apparatus that frequently censors minorities and minority beliefs (e.g. LGBT topics) as well as content that reflects particularly poorly on the government.
People get brainwashed to conform, when they don't like a side they urge to pick another
Precisely. Just ask Naomi Wu (SexyCyborg) how much she enjoys the surveillance state, how much she enjoyed being disappeared for a few months, how much she enjoys being told not to do any more techno State Resistance content, and how much she enjoys being able to leave but can't, because her partner is queer.
Really, its a bunch of people who either like being in an in-group and/or they like feeling superior/powerful by promoting authoritarian communism.
So no different the America. Just that America is going after the "Illegals" right now.
why is this the staple response? "yeah but america"
Right? How about neither option? How about Authoritarianism is bad, regardless of who's doing it?
exactly.
Two things can be bad at the same time.
The freedom to lie and defraud, with money = speech, therefore money = terrorism, fraud, oppression is not constructive. Divisiveness and hate is not constructive. Inviting CIA to dominate your country's speech is inviting terrorism, fraud, oppression as we see in every US colony.
Repressing American Oligarchist values propaganda is necessary for any constructive society. Nothing about them has the slightest humanist value. Gay pride is just as much a supremacist overstep as religious pride. AFAIK, there is no criminality (even in Russia) for homosexuality or religion. The supremacism is oppressed. CIA needs the divisiveness of supremacism/evangelism in order to destroy/conquer vassals.
You don't know shit about fuck.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/06/30/russia-rising-toll-of-lgbt-extremism-designation
There's a difference between the freedom to be gay (exists in Russia), and the freedom to advocate for LGBT supremacism with CIA funding.
This seems like a) you didn’t read the article, and b) that you yourself are homophobic.
article is about lgbtq organizations. This is not the same as sodomy, cohabitation/partnership prohibition laws. ie. it is not the same as being gay.
Most important to pressure/get Russia to adopt progressive values, and help against climate terrorism, is to stop trying to destroy it.
I already said you didn’t read the article. You didn’t have to prove it.