• Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml
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      Absolutely never. And a highly popular liberal tv show host would never engage in homophobic jokes regarding heads of state. No sireebob

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      You mean that “soviet leader kisses another man” propaganda the West put out during the Cold War?

      Seriously, my first thought when I saw that was “so? What’s wrong with that?” Then again I’m not exactly the target audience for anticommunist crap.

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        That’s the weird thing: they are, in a way, trying to say there’s nothing wrong with it. But they think that Russians are highly triggered by LGBTQ+ shit, so they also make fun of them by calling them gay or whatever.

        So they are advocating for LGBTQ+ acceptance while at the same time using it as a profanity. ‘Look lads, we ‘accept’ you and all but we also kinda want to use your existence as an insult, okay?’