Russian security forces raided gay clubs and bars across Moscow Friday night, less than 48 hours after the country’s top court banned what it called the “global LGBTQ+ movement” as an extremist organization.

Police searched venues across the Russian capital, including a nightclub, a male sauna, and a bar that hosted LGBTQ+ parties, under the pretext of a drug raid, local media reported.

Eyewitnesses told journalists that clubgoers’ documents were checked and photographed by the security services. They also said that managers had been able to warn patrons before police arrived.

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    When you are losing the war you started.

    Blame gays.

    When your policies fail.

    Blame gays.

    When your government is less popular than cancer.

    Blame gays.

    When you are getting mass protests.

    Blame Jews. But Jews have nukes, oops. Then blame gays!

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      No, Israel has nukes. The Jews have a space laser though, which is better. Netanyahu lost his space laser privileges a long time ago, I could maybe petition the Council to let The Gays have his time slot?

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      Well, there are plenty of gays in the society, so they usually start with blaming weak people, like sects, youth subcultures and prostitutes, then “socially weird” pastimes (like LARP`ing or video games), then immigrants, then gays, and then finally some of the ethnic minorities with citizenship.

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        Please stop using term ‘communist’ in context of progressive far-left socialism.

        Communism is totalitarian oppression. Every time you mention communism, you mention Stalin, you cannot separate communism and gulags.

        The communism as envisioned by Karl Marx never existed. The closest thing to Marx communism right now is Sweden, Denmark, and Finland, with their over-50% tax rates and hyper-socialist policies, and they sure as hell do not call themselves communist.

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          using term ‘communist’ in context of progressive far-left socialism

          Really?! I made a ridiculously tongue-in-cheek comment, but of all the vile implications of blaming a single minority group for destroying the world, this was your rebuttal?

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            It wasn’t a rebuttal, I’m being pedantic about a technical term.

            The joke about Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism is funny to English-speaking audience. People who actually experienced communism know there’s nothing fully automated, luxury, or gay about it. There was some Space, but it was done more to show’em dirty capitalists than to perform big scientific discoveries, and capitalists didn’t care all that much about communists’ posturing, it was more about science.

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          and hyper-socialist policies

          The Nordic Model isn’t really all that Socialist. It’s based on strong welfare and labor rights, but also very much on the free market. The most Socialist country in Europe is probably France

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      Agreed. I appreciate a lot of Russian culture, the use of matrices, etc and some of their discoveries and all as much as the next guy, but it’s sad to see the way that their government is going about with things.

      Fuck it half the problem is that straight people and breeders consistently expect themselves to not be held accountable for being assholes. Being the majority should not mean you are free from consequences when you cause harm. Love returns threefold.

      I honestly could not care if there was another world war at this stage. People who claim to give a fuck about humanity as a whole really need to start justifying why they don’t deserve a war and actually try to fix their own shit or mediate stuff.

      Consider that if someone is aware they’re a minority and attempt to do their best to get level without looking to do harm to the majority status quo, if they know that they could do better, they’re giving you an opportunity to step up to the plate, and as for their morals ,at least they’re standing up for themselves, even better if they’re standing up for others by trying to teach and lead by example.

      It’s like, how is it you can seriously have the audacity to ask for good things for anyone, yourself, society or your own children when you treat people like such shit that they literally choose to leave.

      It’s like people asking why people leave Saudi, Russia or China etc, and you just only have to look at how ridiculously stupid and pansy the way they treat their children, saying things like they wish that they suffer for being disobedient, for being gay or for being bisexual or for not having a haircut, or for driving a car, or for not following their advise. Anyone with half a braincell would see it as a petty and weak attempt to feminise and handicap someone into compliance with the status quo simply for something they can’t change.

      It’s like, would I try and punish a woman by dropping a nail under the tyre or cutting the line for their brake pedal for not knowing how to change their brakepads before their wof is due? No I would not, because it’s dumb as fuck and an idiotic attempt to try teach someone a lesson that very transparently demonstrates bad faith and a sadistic desire to assert dominance more than a real commitment to someone’s well being and long term future.

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        This comment is a minor masterpiece of rambling disjointed incoherence. I couldn’t do better if I tried. Were you roaring drunk when you wrote it? Do you even remember writing it?