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Going to extremes: Russian authorities’ persecution of the LGBT community has entered the realm of the absurd

According to its compilers, their purpose is to “confirm or refute” whether the movement is “large-scale,” to determine whether it is engaged in the “transformation” and “destruction of fundamental Russian spiritual and moral values, particularly traditional family values.”

Meanwhile, traditional family values in Russia:

  1. Snokhachestvo
  2. Notes on Muscovite Affairs

So, what I'd say here - if one's a fascist larping as ancient roman - excluding gay sex makes one a poser.

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Even Omelanda' is disgusted

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Funny how that was really how much of that was actually portrayed at the time.

Basically Machiavellian villains - sending someone to exploit the frontiers of Africa or "New World", someone you know will not be doing things ethically, then convicting them for doing your own bidding. Whilst at the diplomatic table everyone maintains a facade of "we're bringing jobs and higher quality of life for the natives, and teaching them the ways of God" while talking about Belgian Congo.

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Mexican parents criticise ending school year a month early for World Cup

Each sensible country nowadays figured that all those Olympics and World Cups are now simply an enormous money sink and dick measuring contest for authoritarian hellholes, hence the protests in all somewhat sensible countries before each one.

And I wouldn't even go into massive corruption of all these international sports committees, with president of FIFA, Gianni Infantino specifically also being a fucking tone-deaf degenerate.

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Europeans: out of office until October. 🚬🍺

Jokes aside tho, it's mandatory at my job to take a vacation for at least two weeks at least once a year, and managers can get in trouble if someone doesn't take a vacation in a long time.

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That's a big "IF" tho. I've been teaching embedded programming classes and had to teach folks some very basic stuff like how to RTFM or how to look for stuff on the internet - people don't even use search engines anymore. 🌚

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why are .mls and grad.mls like that?

They have this quasi-religious cult vibe that makes them like this:

  1. Sacred texts that give answers to everything.
  2. Saints and prophets. I mean - they mostly identify themselves by someone else's name - e.g. stalinists, trotskyists, maoists etc.
  3. Aggression to outsiders. Building a good sect requires that, it's how you keep folks inside - just make them hate the outside.

That's not a scientific conclusion on my part, rather vibe-based one, and some conspiracy theory communities can also be described in that way. Which also leads to next conclusion - they're kept in by a sense of community, and since that community is built around fringe and often cringe ideas - it only leads to doubling down on ideas that seem stupid or dangerous or simply not thought through to any sensible person.

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I've myself started teaching some years ago and came to conclusion that shitty teachers that I had in school still taught me a very important lesson - how NOT to do teaching.