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ScentOfAnOtaku posted:Pull support and actually make a stance, instead of just using this as free publicity, which is exactly why they made the choice to do it. I agree that Blizzard isn't an ally, but I'm not sure the right call is telling your entire Russian fan base, some of which are on the right side of the argument here, that you've ended your game for them because the country they live in and can't fix is backwards as all hell. In the cosmic sense, it's probably the right decision, but on a social and personal level, it feels like a big middle finger to the people you want on your side.
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Besesoth posted:If you use aerosolized Vaseline I don't know what to tell you. 
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Takoluka posted:I agree that Blizzard isn't an ally, but I'm not sure the right call is telling your entire Russian fan base, some of which are on the right side of the argument here, that you've ended your game for them because the country they live in and can't fix is backwards as all hell. In the cosmic sense, it's probably the right decision, but on a social and personal level, it feels like a big middle finger to the people you want on your side. On the other hand, if no one else has to play with Russians, isn't that technically a win. Plus I'm not sure why the Russians are magically incapable of affecting their own country. Russia still pays enough lip service to democratic institutions that a sufficiently numerous group of angry people can affect a change without needing to set things on fire.
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PurpleXVI posted:On the other hand, if no one else has to play with Russians, isn't that technically a win.
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PurpleXVI posted:On the other hand, if no one else has to play with Russians, isn't that technically a win. Just like the US who elected an authoritarian blowhard, I assume there are a good number of conservative* Russians who like the way things are, and have enough power to keep the status quo. *I know the terms conservative/liberal have different connotations outside the US, but I don't know offhand what the Russian equivalents are vvv Well that's loving depressing hyperhazard has a new favorite as of 19:39 on Jan 9, 2019 |
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 The Soviet Union of Homophobia never dissolved.  Wow can't believe the same guy is running the AP Politics and Daily Caller social media. "Here's the photo, is it AOC? Some people say it is some people say it isn't. We can for sure say that people are saying things, anyway here you go"
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Too late http://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/ageless-love-story-john-abigail-adams/
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Jan 9, 2019 19:43
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Faustian Bargain posted:How about this instead? Mm, I more want to approach it from the perspective of "why are you assuming that any given character is straight and that they have to have a reason to be gay?".
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zoux posted:
Kind of odd since the Soviet Union was one of the first nations in the world to decriminalize homosexuality. Beating most western nations by something like 50 years.
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Katt posted:Kind of odd since the Soviet Union was one of the first nations in the world to decriminalize homosexuality. Beating most western nations by something like 50 years. It's more that the official Russian narrative has heavily switched towards "if the West likes it, it's horrible and will rot your brain," and obviously the West likes homosexuals, so clearly they must be bad for you. It's not about actual homophobia as much as it is opposing everything that could be parsed as being on the West's agenda in any way.
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PurpleXVI posted:Plus I'm not sure why the Russians are magically incapable of affecting their own country. Russia still pays enough lip service to democratic institutions that a sufficiently numerous group of angry people can affect a change without needing to set things on fire. russia is a country with a spooky spy president for life who openly assassinates his critics, sets up false flag terrorist bombings that murder civilians in order to stir up support for the security apparatus, and engages in low key border warfare in defiance of international law. they shot down an airliner and won't even admit they did it, at least when the united states shot down an airliner we copped to it even if it was with lovely excuses yeah i wouldn't protest in russia
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Katt posted:Kind of odd since the Soviet Union was one of the first nations in the world to decriminalize homosexuality. Beating most western nations by something like 50 years. Yeah, and look what happened to the Soviet Union 
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EvilGenius posted:Yeah, and look what happened to the Soviet Union It resides in the hearts of all decent workers waiting to rise again?
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If I didn't already know the NPC meme and all the dumb assumptions behind it, this comic would make no goddamn sense to me. Hell, it only barely makes sense now, in the sense that I kind of get what they were going for, but it doesn't demonstrate it all that well.
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hyperhazard posted:Just like the US who elected an authoritarian blowhard, I assume there are a good number of conservative* Russians who like the way things are, and have enough power to keep the status quo. Remember, their state-run TV is full of insane anti-homosexual propaganda there. They're basically drowning in indoctrination.
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unlike america *watches fox news*
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T-man posted:unlike america Still a biiig difference. I wouldn't live in Russia if I was straight.
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phasmid posted:Still a biiig difference. I wouldn't live in Russia if I was straight. Or Jewish
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Indeed, they are a garbage people. Have you seen their food?
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phasmid posted:I wouldn't live in Russia if I was straight. same except I wouldn't want to live in either country
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T-man posted:unlike america It's a LOT more overt. I remember some clip with a Russian guy going on about how Sodom and Gomorrah were burnt with fire from above for homosexuality and we're just a step away from being burnt ourselves, it was... something else.
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I don't think the country with 90% anti-gay marriage opinions and multiple enforced laws criminalizing homosexuals is remotely in the same ball park as the country with legalized gay marriage and ~2/3s approval of gay marriage, even if we still have some ways to go toward total equality.
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zoux posted:I don't think the country with 90% anti-gay marriage opinions and multiple enforced laws criminalizing homosexuals is remotely in the same ball park as the country with legalized gay marriage and ~2/3s approval of gay marriage, even if we still have some ways to go toward total equality. I think you'll find the truth is somewhere in the middle. 
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wizzardstaff posted:I think you'll find the truth is somewhere in the middle.  britain is the actual worst
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Midnight Voyager posted:It's a LOT more overt. I remember some clip with a Russian guy going on about how Sodom and Gomorrah were burnt with fire from above for homosexuality and we're just a step away from being burnt ourselves, it was... something else. Errr...
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jesus WEP posted:
Now now, that's not nice to say right before they become a post-apocalyptic dystopia.
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chitoryu12 posted:Now now, that's not nice to say right before they become a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Yeah, that would be a massive improvement for britain so we should see how they manage it first before judging
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jesus WEP posted:
I visited my hometown after moving out the country a few years ago (just before Brexit kicked off), and I saw what has been dubbed the invasion of 'spice zombies' all around town. All the good bars are closing because of massive rent hikes, probably from the people who own the buildings and generally based in London. Shut it all down.
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T-man posted:unlike america Fox News isn't state-run or the Republican Party's propaganda arm. Fox News runs the state, and the Republican Party is Fox News' legislative arm.
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EL BROMANCE posted:I visited my hometown after moving out the country a few years ago (just before Brexit kicked off), and I saw what has been dubbed the invasion of 'spice zombies' all around town. All the good bars are closing because of massive rent hikes, probably from the people who own the buildings and generally based in London. Shut it all down. THat's a really hosed up term for Fremen
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PurpleXVI posted:It's more that the official Russian narrative has heavily switched towards "if the West likes it, it's horrible and will rot your brain," and obviously the West likes homosexuals, so clearly they must be bad for you. It's not about actual homophobia as much as it is opposing everything that could be parsed as being on the West's agenda in any way. actually that was always their standard. the west hates gays and doesnt want women working? we love gays and women working. the west loves nike we love adidas.
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zoux posted:THat's a really hosed up term for Fremen Curse this new level of marketing for the new Villeneuve version.
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Takoluka posted:Back in the comic that confirmed Tracer as gay, Soldier 76 is seen looking at a framed photo of himself with his arm around some guy, followed by a panel of Reaper watching the woman who was presumably his wife from back then with a new family. It's not hard evidence by any stretch, but it didn't come completely out of nowhere, as opposed to going full Rowling on it. This is my favourite part of this. They complain about it being shoehorned into the game but these details are only revealed in comics, that are specifically for people to read to learn more about the characters. If you just play the game you’d have no idea.
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