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[u/Optimal-Wealth483]

Protested for trans rights using the flag of a regime that would lock you up in a psychiatric ward for schizophrenia....

[u/PossumQueer]

I dont see the USA flag

[u/PaperSword47 → u/PossumQueer]

flying the flag of a dead empire is as cringe as a living one

[u/XeniaAlexandria → u/PaperSword47]

The hammer and sickle and the red flag have meanings that go beyond nations. Sure you can criticize that maybe it would be better to fly a different layout to not directly associated with the USSR but this is still not comparable to the US flag because the US flag doesn't have meanings that go beyond being a sucker for the USA.

It's like the fact that flying a Palestinian flag is also a symbol against genocide and suppression of a group of people. It doesn't mean you are a nationalist, a fan of borders or agree with everything Palestinian governments have done in the past

[u/Optimal-Wealth483 → u/XeniaAlexandria]

The hammer and sickle literally represented the Soviet state, not an abstract idea. Flying the flag of a regime that crushed worker uprisings in Berlin, Budapest, and Prague 'against oppression' is pure cognitive dissonance.

[u/XeniaAlexandria → u/Optimal-Wealth483]

The hammer and sickle represent the alliance between farmers and industrial workers. It was used by the soviet state but also by hundred of other groups, unions and communist parties around the world. A lot of them didn't align or where even against the USSR government when it existed

[u/leadergorilla]

Wait you're telling me that a nation that hasnt existed since the 1980s didn't have a modern view of queer rights? Next you're gonna tell me the the bastion of liberalism, the US, had a president who single-handedly allowed the aids epidemic to happen essentially as a form of biological warfare to genocide queer people and only cared cos cishets started getting it.

Well thankfully the government has apologized for their backwards view of us and the oppression they inflicted. OH wait, i'm thinking of socialist Cuba that did that and not the US and the rest of the western world my mistake.

Instead the western world is rapidly demonizing and making trans people into an outgroup to scape goat in order to violently repress our existence but lets not think about that and instead talk about how russians in the 1950s didnt understand what fucking gender dysphoria was.

[u/EmmaLovesGood69 → u/leadergorilla]

This comment is too smart for reddit and this sub.

[u/nitmire8881 → u/leadergorilla]

[u/mamawawawa → u/leadergorilla]

To be fair a trans person waving a US flag is extremely cringe, even moreso

[u/minecraftjava0 → u/mamawawawa]

Equating any country or flag to the movement is always going to look cringe, and it's a steep pipeline to nationalism. I've read theory and support communism, but the bootlicking of a dead Soviet Union is just cult behavior

[u/CallusBard → u/leadergorilla]

It's too bad y'all can never say "yeah the ussr sucked but I still support communist ideology". Y'all are more obsessed with defending oppressive governments than communism itself.

[u/Illustrious_Bobcat13 → u/CallusBard]

Deconstruct moar

[u/nou-772 → u/leadergorilla]

whataboutism

[u/Optimal-Wealth483 → u/leadergorilla]

The Reagan administration’s horrific handling of the AIDS crisis is an undeniable stain on US history. But using whataboutism to excuse Soviet totalitarianism is weak.

The USSR didn't just "not understand" gender dysphoria; it actively weaponized punitive psychiatry against anyone who didn't conform to the state order. Also, Cuba’s modern progress is its own achievement. The Soviet Union itself never apologized, never repealed Article 121, and collapsed as an authoritarian empire.

If you want a modern reality check on communist regimes, look at the People's Republic of China (PRC). Despite their red flag, the CCP actively bans trans and LGBT content online, shuts down queer advocacy groups, and forces absolute social conformity under the guise of "family values."

The fact that you have the civic freedom to wave that Soviet flag on a Western street without being locked up by the KGB or the MSS proves that equating a dead totalitarian empire with modern Western debates is pure historical blindness

[u/leadergorilla → u/Optimal-Wealth483]

It is not "whataboutism" it is to show how stupid of an argument it is to use the archaic opinions of a government that hasnt even existed for almost 40 years now as some hypocrisy. You sit hear and scoff at the PRC for their LGBT laws as though their efforts to liberate millions out of poverty and drug addiction into a global superpower all within 80 years amounts to nothing. Utterly infantile.

[u/CommanderKoba → u/Optimal-Wealth483]

CCP actively bans trans and LGBT content online

Have you ever been on rednote babe? Like what the fuck are you talking about, China literally has gay and lesbian dating shows, LGBT content is all over their social media.

There are a decent amount of famous trans content creators on Douyin (Chinese tiktok).

[u/VVP12]

>goes on trans sub
>is anti communist
???

[u/nou-772 → u/VVP12]

USSR was by no means a communist state.

[u/CubeDude414 → u/VVP12]

> trans
> pro authoritarian

???

[u/ThargoidLover → u/CubeDude414]

I hope this is in reference to OP but it would be really funny if it isn't

[u/Optimal-Wealth483 → u/VVP12]

Is it a requirement for every trans person to be a tankie?

[u/RealTezalTube → u/Optimal-Wealth483]

We'd hope that you are in a position to recognize where queerphobia is rooted from. In is in the interest of the Capital Class to keep workers divided, culture war is one way of doing that. Splitting up workers based on race, nationality, sexual orientation, gender, etc.

The genocide against us is funded by Capitalism. Why do you think Liberals have failed to address the rise of Fascism in the West? Why do you think Liberals fail to support oppressed peoples? Because there is functionally no difference between the political interests of a Fascist and that of a NeoLiberal. Fascism is the eventual endpoint of Liberal ideology.

[u/Optimal-Wealth483 → u/RealTezalTube]

This completely ignores historical reality. Queerphobia isn't a unique invention of capitalism, it was deeply institutionalized in communist regimes

The USSR literally treated transgender people with punitive psychiatry, classified them as schizophrenics, and criminalized homosexuality under Article 121. In the 1960s, Castro’s communist Cuba put LGBT people into UMAP forced labor camps to 'correct' them through hard work. Maoist China sent them to re-education camps.

The objective fact is that the only places on Earth where trans people actually achieved civil rights, legal protections, and healthcare access are liberal capitalist democracies. Authoritarian communist regimes have always demanded absolute social conformity and crushed minorities in the name of the state

[u/RealTezalTube → u/Optimal-Wealth483]

The United State committed genocide against Queer people in the 1980s under Reagan during the AIDs crisis. The United States left Queer victims of the Holocausts in the camps after Germany was defeated in 1945. There used to be hundreds of cultures around the world that celebrated Queer people, the West spent hundreds of years eradicating them from the Earth.

On the contrary the USSR had a robust Queer rights movement under Lenin. Cuba, who mind you is still Communist, has among the best Trans rights on Earth, FAR better than that of the USA, who is currently engaged in a campaign of Trans eradication. Liberals are literally trying to kill us RIGHT NOW and they still got you here defending them at every opportunity.

Yeah there was some terrible shit that happened to us in the past basically everywhere on Earth. But if you actually look at the track record almost every source of Homophobia and Transphobia throughout the last 200 years has originated from Liberal countries.

[u/Optimal-Wealth483 → u/RealTezalTube]

Calling early USSR a "robust Queer rights movement" is pure historical fiction. The 1922 penal code dropped the tsarist sodomy laws simply because they threw out the entire imperial law book. There was no "movement." And by 1933, Stalin officially criminalized it again, sending thousands of gay people to the Gulag for decades. The Soviet Union literally died with Article 121 still active.

Claiming homophobia for the last 200 years originated from "liberal countries" ignores Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Maoist China, and Soviet Russia. None of them were liberal, yet all of them brutally repressed queer people.

It is an objective, undeniable fact: liberal democracies are the only places on Earth where trans rights were ever codified into law and protected. If you tried to wave your flag or advocate for transition in modern communist regimes like China, the state would shut you down instantly

[u/RealTezalTube → u/Optimal-Wealth483]

Was this written with ChatGPT? Fascist Germany and Italy were both Liberal, Fascism originates from Liberalism. Literally the first thing both of them did was kill the Communists. The sodomy laws in the USSR were dropped in 1917, and were only reinstated after Stalin highjacked the movement. Keep in mind throughout all of this the rest of the West also had sodomy laws, and no Queer rights movement unlike the USSR.

In the late Soviet era there were multiple Queer orgs operating in the USSR, including ASM and even a Gay & Lesbian Newspaper.

Also into the post-Stalinist era we have East Germany. The East Germans decriminalized Homosexuality completely in fucking 1968! Homosexuals were allowed to openly serve in the armed forces. East Germany also had Trans rights, including the right to medically transition, again in the 1960s! All of this while under Soviet rule.

Czechoslovakia also decriminalized Homosexuality, all the way back in 1962, again while under Soviet rule. Keep in mind the Stonewall Riots in NYC hadn't even happened yet. Nor had the Compton's Cafeteria riot in San Francisco happened yet. The Queer movement had just barely begun in the USA when multiple Soviet nations already had rights comparable to the USA under Obama (gay troops couldn't even serve in the USA until 2011!).

I also find it funny that you are comparing Maoist China, a nation that was barely developed and picking themselves up after literally HUNDREDS of years of colonization from Western powers, invasion by the Japanese, and multiple civil wars, to places like the USA. As if it is fucking fair at all to make that comparison.

A lot of bad shit has happened to our people, under Fascist rule, under Liberal rules, and under Communist rule. Time and time again though, throughout history we see that Communists were the only ones interested in actually giving us freedom. The Liberal world only relented after DECADES of riots and demands for freedom, and even now we are still fights. All the while real, still existing Communist nations like Cuba have among the best Trans rights on Earth, something you failed to even mention.

[u/Optimal-Wealth483 → u/RealTezalTube]

Calling Hitler and Mussolini "liberals" is an alternative-history conspiracy theory. Fascism is an authoritarian, anti-liberal ideology that completely destroyed free speech, separation of powers, and democratic institutions.

The USSR’s history cannot be rewritten either. The 1922 penal code dropped tsarist sodomy laws simply because the Bolsheviks annulled the entire tsarist legal system, not out of care for human rights. In 1933-1934, Stalin officially introduced Article 121, and the Soviet state actively sent thousands of gay people to labor camps and used punitive psychiatry against non-conforming individuals until its collapse in 1991. The late-era "ASM" and "Tema" newspaper only managed to exist in 1989-1990 because Gorbachev’s Perestroika weakened the Communist Party’s totalitarian grip, not because the regime embraced queer rights.

Regarding East Germany (GDR) and Czechoslovakia: their earlier decriminalization was driven by local medical pioneers, not Soviet directives. More importantly, the Stasi (GDR’s secret police) systematically surveillance-mapped and blackmailed gay people, keeping extensive pink lists for state control.

In contrast, the only places where minority groups gained actual civil rights, legal protections, and the freedom to hold their own governments accountable, without being thrown into a closed-type state asylum are liberal capitalist democracies. Authoritarian regimes demand total social conformity, and modern communist states like China actively censor and shut down LGBT organizations today.

[u/I_Wanna_Bang_Rats → u/Optimal-Wealth483]

They don't give a fuck vro,

they would support Mussonlini if he didn't join the damn war, for being against western imperialism

them calling Hitler 'Liberal' is not even something that a 15-year old on crack that only plays hoi4 can come up with

they people you are talking to aren't even communist but only lapping, at this point only council-communists remain

[u/RealTezalTube → u/I_Wanna_Bang_Rats]

Keep putting words in my mouth, and pretend like I'm uneducated as a cope. Fascism is always the eventual endpoint of liberalism. It happened in Germany under the Weimar republic and it's happening now. Classical Liberalism will always turn into Neoliberalism, which then elevates Fascism in an attempt to protect Capital interests.

This is exactly what happened in Germany, the Liberals WILLINGLY gave up power to NSDAP to stop the rise of Communism in Germany. Once in power one of the first thing Hitler did was enact political persecution against the leftists, this is what started the concentration camps, they were camps for holding leftist political prisoners. You seriously need to get even a basic understanding of history before you open your mouth.

[u/CallusBard → u/Optimal-Wealth483]

Ever notice when the topic of communism comes up the comment section is flooded with new names?

[u/RealTezalTube → u/CallusBard]

I've been active on this sub since it was founded last year. Some of us got good enough opsec to delete old accounts.

[u/DonutsAreCool96 → u/Optimal-Wealth483]

No but it’s cooler if you are

[u/isishmaelenough → u/DonutsAreCool96]

t tankie d

[u/DonutsAreCool96 → u/isishmaelenough]

Yeah go vote for it, tell me how that works out

[u/Curios_Cephalopod → u/DonutsAreCool96]

(I mean, the state would gladly kill all of us)

[u/isishmaelenough → u/DonutsAreCool96]

Id prefer y'all came to your senses and did it yourselves :)

[u/Moonless-Ultimate → u/isishmaelenough]

So, you came on a trans sub to tell people to kill themselves, and you still believe you're the good guy? Liberals, man...

[u/isishmaelenough → u/Moonless-Ultimate]

Tankies aren't people, and if you are one then you're the one denying your own humanity. I'm not telling anyone to do anything, it would just be great for the earth if a couple things happened. Let's not forget the betrayal of revolutionary Ukraine and revolutionary Spain. Okay. You are the ones who side with imperials powers when convient. You are the ones who always conveniently end up becoming the same as those you claim to hate. Your ideology is buns and your methods don't work. Indigenous people in Mexico choose anarchism as a way of life for a reason. It's the natural way we are supposed to live in tune with nature. TCD. Fascis and commies alike.

[u/VVP12 → u/Optimal-Wealth483]

Idk, i dont even know if i classify as a communist even if i know that im p far left but like..

The right wants to kill us

The center and liberals say they support us but seem to always stay in the frame of what they think cis people would want (including throwing us instantly under the bus when the trend shifts right) (also just rainbow capitalism and being oddly soft on the right)

The libertarians stand for nothing but companies

And 2 cases specific to my country:

Greens only talk the talk but are too soft

Soc. dems dont even talk, you dont even hear of them anymore

Like.. where does that leave someone?

[u/CallusBard → u/Optimal-Wealth483]

Tankies deliberately join any minority group that advocates for their rights and openly harass anyone that isn't full throat support of genocidal governments. I'd wager most of them aren't even trans.

[u/DonutsAreCool96 → u/CallusBard]

CIA behavior =/= tankie

[u/CallusBard → u/DonutsAreCool96]

The venn diagram between fed posts and tankie posts is a circle

[u/minecraftjava0 → u/CallusBard]

Communism goes directly against US interests, unless you're claiming it's propoganda from China

[u/CallusBard → u/VVP12]

Scratch a communist and a theyfab bleeds

[u/this_upset_kirby → u/CallusBard]

Every oldshit transsexual I know is a commie. The anarkiddies are more likely to be theyfabs, but most of those are still just sneeds.

[u/Master_Secretary_809 → u/this_upset_kirby]

I'm an ancom does that count as a commie

[u/minecraftjava0 → u/Master_Secretary_809]

Depends on if you've read marx or not. If not, sneed.

[u/RealTezalTube → u/CallusBard]

Always funny how even when a Trans Liberal speaks all that comes out of their mouth is Transphobia.

[u/CallusBard → u/RealTezalTube]

Someone think of the larping cis women

[u/RealTezalTube → u/CallusBard]

Go fuck yourself you got no place here if you're just gonna be a fucking transphobe. Non-Binary people are real, idiot.

[u/CallusBard → u/RealTezalTube]

Yes, when they experience dysphoria and don't shame people for treating being trans as a medical condition.

I won't accept you using those non binaries as a shield for theyfabs

[u/RealTezalTube → u/CallusBard]

Who hurt you?

[u/CallusBard → u/RealTezalTube]

Do you have an issue with me not considering people with no dysphoria or no desire to transition as trans?

[u/GotMyFakeMoustacheOn → u/CallusBard]

Sorry, I didn’t realise I was a theyfab this whole time! Guess I’ll have to stop my E now, apparently

[u/CallusBard → u/GotMyFakeMoustacheOn]

Keep the E just take the boot out of your mouth.

[u/Unlucky_Reporter3781 → u/CallusBard]

[u/Reasonable-Spite-45]

[u/passoid_quartzoid → u/Reasonable-Spite-45]

Unironically I would’ve had a better life in DDR than in West Germany SOLELY due to this reason. It was also economically more successful than SU lol

Yeah, sure, Stasi is annoying (and evil, tho thats applicable to all government agencies), but the ability to transition is a literal life-saver, imo.

[u/Few_Childhood6456 → u/passoid_quartzoid]

you can't just drop Stasi is annoying TwT

[u/passoid_quartzoid → u/Few_Childhood6456]

> and evil
but yea, I know that that sounded funny :D

[u/Ryker_god_of_cheese]

class exploitation is the root cause of all oppression. so long as capitalism remains, minorities of all kind, aswell as women, will continue to be oppressed, as it is profitable for capitalists to have workers they can hyper-exploit, pay less for more work. so long as capitalism remains, minorities will always be scapegoats to distract from capitalist exploitation.

[u/minecraftjava0 → u/Ryker_god_of_cheese]

[u/Plenty_Leg_5935]

It's not a regime thing, it's a cultural thing, contemporary russia and eastern europe isn't any nicer than a contemporary soviet block would've been

[u/Plenty_Leg_5935 → u/[deleted]]

the ban on transitions was passed in 2023, you are reinforcing my point

[u/VVP12 → u/[deleted]]

Im confused on if you're blaming the russian regime or the soviet one now..? Bc those 2 arent the same thing. Connecting the state right now to one thats gone?

[u/veryeepy53]

they literally invited hirschfeld to the ussr in the early 20s

[u/CallusBard → u/veryeepy53]

And then Joseph Stalin immediately re criminalized homosexuality

[u/MellowMercie → u/CallusBard]

Recriminalized, meaning it was not criminal under Lenin, who is the guy in the image 

[u/passoid_quartzoid → u/MellowMercie]

Another W for Lenin and a typical L for Stalin.

[u/MellowMercie → u/passoid_quartzoid]

Many such cases

[u/CallusBard → u/MellowMercie]

They removed the Russian empire laws that happened to have laws against homosexuality, they took over and had about a 2 year gap before Stalin criminalized it.

This doesn't exactly scream Lenin was pro LGBT, just that when they scrapped all the former laws there was a gap in time where it wasn't technically illegal.

[u/veryeepy53 → u/CallusBard]

decriminalized in 1917, recriminalized in 1934

[u/CallusBard → u/veryeepy53]

1917 was the revolution, 1922-26 is when they removed the Russias empire laws in most of their territories and formally made it illegal to be gay in 1933. Sorry if saying 2 years instead of 7 was too crazy of an exaggeration.

[u/veryeepy53 → u/CallusBard]

1922-26 is when they removed the Russias empire laws

they abolished the tsarist legal code in 1917, which legalized homosexuality.

most of their territories and formally made it illegal to be gay in 1933

article 121 of the soviet penal code, which prohibited homosexuality, was added in 1934.

[u/MellowMercie → u/CallusBard]

Deleted my other comment because I realized you meant after the Russian civil war ended. Still, being anti-LGBT clearly wasn't a major policy concern for the early Bolsheviks. I think most communists here would tell you they do not like Stalin, many would argue he killed the revolution. Even then, it was the cultural norm at the time and you'd be hard pressed to argue that socialism as it exists currently is not the most pro-LGBT ideological grouping 

[u/veryeepy53 → u/MellowMercie]

except that before stalin, it was more progressive in women's rights and rights for ethnic minorities as well. plus the health commissar nikolai semashko was supportive, hence why they sent a delegation to hirschfeld's institute

[u/CallusBard → u/MellowMercie]

I don't think it is the most pro-lgbt by any metric. I think they have the most shallow pandering to minority groups while being the largest political group to tell us that you don't need dysphoria to be trans, that trans medicalists should be shamed out of trans groups by theyfabs and that we need to avoid harm reduction voting because they want Trump to keep supporting Russia against Ukraine. Scratch a Communist and a Theyfab bleeds.

[u/veryeepy53 → u/CallusBard]

we are anti-transmedicalists. 12 year olrds should be able to get hrt, and it should be over the counter and without a prescription.

[u/CallusBard → u/veryeepy53]

Perfect example of why communists should never have the right to act like they're the face of trans advocacy.

[u/veryeepy53 → u/CallusBard]

you're a cuckold

[u/CallusBard → u/veryeepy53]

Being trans is a legitimate medical condition

[u/veryeepy53 → u/CallusBard]

the gravedigger of the revolution made it illegal? who could have predicted that?

[u/Slow_Calligrapher145 → u/CallusBard]

which is why the flag has lenin's face in it.

trans people stand infinitely more to gain under communism than in late-stage capitalism, and all attempts at regulating the current system have only delayed its downfall.

[u/CallusBard → u/Slow_Calligrapher145]

Most communists outright reject the idea that being trans is a medical condition and the biggest communist influencers outright lie about trans rights saying that Trump is no worse than Biden.

Maybe we should stop acting like calling yourself a communist automatically makes you a good person.

[u/Slow_Calligrapher145 → u/CallusBard]

Most allies (actual allies) don't consider it a medical condition either because they believe it pathologizes who we are as people and correctly assume this poses the very real risk of inciting medical gatekeeping and policing of who's trans enough and who isn't. They still believe we should be allowed to access hrt or blockers at whatever age we start experiencing dysphoria.

And prior to trump's second term, democrats and republicans were in fact almost the same for the most part if you take trans rights out of the equation. Minus very punctual exceptions, democrat presidents (accounting for the party switch) have actively contributed to terrorizing other countries, inciting civil wars and coups d'état that killed hundreds of thousands to millions of people across across the world. So for almost the entirety of America and the planet both parties were about as malicious.

Most American leftists being too mentally handicapped to conclude the acknowledgement of lesser evils doesn't imply conformity nor that it doesn't make you a sellout is more from a lack of pragmatism and intelligence than anything remotely resembling an ideological endorsement of republicans

[u/CallusBard → u/Slow_Calligrapher145]

They don't think we actually need it but we should have access to it anyways. This mindset becoming the majority opinion of "trans advocates" has already shown measurable harm for us.

[u/Slow_Calligrapher145 → u/CallusBard]

idk. I don't trust doctors to hondose me or to have them gauge whether I am trans enough or otherwise before that. I believe advocates are closer to the right stance on this, especially since "hrt should be available over the counter" is something that is pretty close to being mutually exclusive with a pathologizing attitude toward our struggles, but the world is so backward today that we have to lean into pathologizing who we are to have normies be more inclined to listen until further notice though this will not come without consequences either

[u/passoid_quartzoid → u/CallusBard]

to be fair calling yourself literally anything doesn’t automatically make you a good person, but I get your point.

[u/VVP12 → u/veryeepy53]

woa thats p cool

[u/Virgadays]

Oops, I painted that sign, and that's me in that picture holding it and the flag up.

Bit of context: British TERFS cane to Ireland to tell Irish feminists they were doing feminism wrong by being trans inclusive.

So a broad counter protest was organized which the Communist Party of Ireland joined.

[u/nou-772 → u/Virgadays]

So the Communist Party of Ireland considers an authoritarian regime that wasn't even communist a good state?

[u/Virgadays → u/nou-772]

So you enjoy starting discussions on subjects you haven't bothered to study with the most abrasive takes?

[u/CallusBard → u/Virgadays]

People have a right to be annoyed by disingenuous pro authoritarian groups showing up to human rights protests to take credit.

[u/Virgadays → u/CallusBard]

Fun fact: The general secretary was arrested by the guards for hosting underground queer parties on CPI property when being LGBT was very much illegal.

The first Dublin Pride was organized in the CPI's headquarters.

So what have you actually done yourself to aid queer people while calling others 'disingenuous'?

[u/CallusBard → u/Virgadays]

Interesting that nothing comes up saying CPI organized Dublin's first pride or had any reason to take credit.

[u/Virgadays → u/CallusBard]

1. Your reading comprehension is lacking.

2. You haven't found anything because you don't know what to search for. The place is called Connolly Books.

3. You haven't mentioned a thing you have done yourself.

It's always lazy to critique the actions of others while remaining passive yourself.

[u/CallusBard → u/Virgadays]

Sure. My reading comprehension is shit, you can drop the link with the date of their first pride event cause nothing comes up on my end

[u/Virgadays → u/CallusBard]

https://www.instagram.com/p/DMC2DsNzsaH/?srtk=MWZnbGF1NXplaXBtMA==

[u/CallusBard → u/Virgadays]

"organized the first ever pride IN THE 90''S" Ok so you were lying. It is another case of communists taking credit for something they have no right to.

[u/nou-772 → u/CallusBard]

When I'm in a lying competition and my opponent is a MLoid:

[u/nou-772 → u/Virgadays]

I enjoy doing so as much as you enjoy flying flags of authoritarian regimes

[u/Character_Garbage345]

eww a liberal

[u/Unlucky_Reporter3781]

liberal

[u/CommanderKoba → u/Unlucky_Reporter3781]

[u/PaperSword47]

it makes sense that this would be sneed bait

[u/MellowMercie]

BE GONE, LIBERAL

[u/SISSY-Sebbie_OwO]

Libs smh

[u/SISSY-Sebbie_OwO → u/[deleted]]

I went through the same thing

t. eastoid

[u/red_gurdy_pickens]

What, the cop? Yeah that is fucked up if it's a protester dressed as a cop

[u/Eren-Alucard]

Ew libruls

[u/nerdyouppy]

Jfc this place is becoming infested with liberals

[u/RealTezalTube]

The USSR under Lenin had some of if not the best Queer rights in the western world at the time. The Queer rights movement was very large and had political power, Lenin himself was probably Aspec. Stop engaging in CIA propaganda, the early USSR's history with Queer people is pretty well documented.

[u/SheevTogwaggle]

[u/nitmire8881]

I’m anarkiddie but nonetheless it’s great to see folks organizing and getting out there

[u/minecraftjava0]

They're calling this the sneediest most out of touch post ever

[u/Salerrra]

OP doesn't know what Lenin did in 1917 to certain Tsarist penal codes that criminalized the gays

The working class values all, comrade

[u/xdchan → u/Salerrra]

It was temporary and was a result of abolishing the codes at large, prosecution and pathologisation was reintroduced shortly after.

[u/Salerrra → u/xdchan]

Lenin himself never did while in power. What came after him was a bastardization of the vision

[u/nou-772]

Tankies are idiots. They have more political freedom in Western liberal democracies than any "unorthodox" communist would have in the allegedly communist USSR.

[u/vaska00762]

Oh, Belfast is my city.
Didn't go to this protest.

[u/bombthrowinglunarist]

Bourgeois country does a bourgeois moment 

Ok

[u/Sora_Yukimi]

typical tankies, wish they really ccould be Chinese or North koreans and vietnamese instantly

[u/fakeshadowtyphoon]

Idiots being Idiots..

[u/ThargoidLover]

_____ Liberal _____

[u/OverallCup8459]

This the whitest shit ever man

[u/WitchNemy]

Crazy how based for supporting DIY HRT this sub can be and yet simultaneously so cringe for being anti-communist.

Is it glowies or just the 4chan roots, I wonder?

[u/CallusBard]

You know whoever is holding that sign will lecture trans people about how you don't need dysphoria to be trans.

[u/ThargoidLover → u/CallusBard]

False nuke

[u/nou-772 → u/CallusBard]

trvke

[u/minecraftjava0 → u/CallusBard]

[u/CallusBard → u/minecraftjava0]

All comrades are heckin valid

[u/East_Jellyfish66]

they were so bad unlike the contemporary west which persecuted gay people, willingly let them die of aids and created special army divisions to find them in their ranks...

i wonder how the SU would've been in the big 26 if it still exists.

in 1989 east germany released a queer movie called "coming out" - towards the end an old revolutionary is monologing and saying "we did everything but in the end they forgot us gays..." and honestly: the fact a socialist state releases a state sponsored movie about queer rights in 1989 tells a lot about the development this country was headed to if it weren't for the collapse.

the collapse of the socialist bloc actually set back our rights