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Lizzy60 wrote: ↑May 29th, 2021, 12:26 pm Because Pride Parades are such wholesome places to take your family:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4vHegf3WPU

Blues Clues Pride Parade family sing-along song. Two mommies, two daddies, trans family members, ace, bi and pan family members, and queers and allies. A drag queen sings the song.

Soon they will include pedo and incest.........

larsenb wrote: ↑May 29th, 2021, 2:29 pm You're subject title is a bit off. I don't see a lot of evidence that the current Russian govenrment pushes the Communist agenda to include Marxist-Leninism.

kirtland r.m. wrote: ↑May 29th, 2021, 9:50 pm

larsenb wrote: ↑May 29th, 2021, 2:29 pm You're subject title is a bit off. I don't see a lot of evidence that the current Russian govenrment pushes the Communist agenda to include Marxist-Leninism.

Although they have made some changes, Vlad. still acts much like Stalin.
"Opposition to Putin’s rule has not ceased, but opposing the Russian President can lead to dire, if not fatal, consequences. Putin has been accused of assassinating some of his critics on both Russian and foreign soil. Protests in Russia are violently suppressed, and opponents of Putin are routinely arrested and jailed. Some are given lengthy prison sentences.'https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/wha ... -have.html

Vladimir Putin is a powerful ideological symbol and a highly effective ideological litmus test. He is a hero to populist conservatives around the world and anathema to progressives. I don’t want to compare him to our own president, but if you know enough about what a given American thinks of Putin, you can probably tell what he thinks of Donald Trump. Let me stress at the outset that this is not going to be a talk about what to think about Putin, which is something you are all capable of making up your minds on, but rather how to think about him. And on this, there is one basic truth to remember, although it is often forgotten. Our globalist leaders may have deprecated sovereignty since the end of the Cold War, but that does not mean it has ceased for an instant to be the primary subject of politics. Vladimir Vladimirovich is not the president of a feminist NGO. He is not a transgender-rights activist. He is not an ombudsman appointed by the United Nations to make and deliver slide shows about green energy. He is the elected leader of Russia—a rugged, relatively poor, militarily powerful country that in recent years has been frequently humiliated, robbed, and misled. His job has been to protect his country’s prerogatives and its sovereignty in an international system that seeks to erode sovereignty in general and views Russia’s sovereignty in particular as a threat. By American standards, Putin’s respect for the democratic process has been fitful at best. He has cracked down on peaceful demonstrations. Political opponents have been arrested and jailed throughout his rule. Some have even been murdered—Anna Politkovskaya, the crusading Chechnya correspondent shot in her apartment building in Moscow in 2006; Alexander Litvinenko, the spy poisoned with polonium-210 in London months later; the activist Boris Nemtsov, shot on a bridge in Moscow in early 2015. While the evidence connecting Putin’s own circle to the killings is circumstantial, it merits scrutiny. Yet if we were to use traditional measures for understanding leaders, which involve the defense of borders and national flourishing, Putin would count as the pre-eminent statesman of our time. On the world stage, who can vie with him?

larsenb wrote: ↑May 29th, 2021, 10:38 pm

kirtland r.m. wrote: ↑May 29th, 2021, 9:50 pm

larsenb wrote: ↑May 29th, 2021, 2:29 pm You're subject title is a bit off. I don't see a lot of evidence that the current Russian govenrment pushes the Communist agenda to include Marxist-Leninism.

Although they have made some changes, Vlad. still acts much like Stalin.
"Opposition to Putin’s rule has not ceased, but opposing the Russian President can lead to dire, if not fatal, consequences. Putin has been accused of assassinating some of his critics on both Russian and foreign soil. Protests in Russia are violently suppressed, and opponents of Putin are routinely arrested and jailed. Some are given lengthy prison sentences.'https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/wha ... -have.html

Here's an Imprimis article by Christopher Caldwell, a Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute , titled: How to Think about Putin, you may find interesting and informative. I think he nailed it regarding Putin, and goes into just why people such as myself have been attracted to his main policies, namely seeking Russian sovereignty in a world heck-bent on globalism. Full article here: https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/how-to-t ... mir-putin/

Extract here:

Vladimir Putin is a powerful ideological symbol and a highly effective ideological litmus test. He is a hero to populist conservatives around the world and anathema to progressives. I don’t want to compare him to our own president, but if you know enough about what a given American thinks of Putin, you can probably tell what he thinks of Donald Trump. Let me stress at the outset that this is not going to be a talk about what to think about Putin, which is something you are all capable of making up your minds on, but rather how to think about him. And on this, there is one basic truth to remember, although it is often forgotten. Our globalist leaders may have deprecated sovereignty since the end of the Cold War, but that does not mean it has ceased for an instant to be the primary subject of politics. Vladimir Vladimirovich is not the president of a feminist NGO. He is not a transgender-rights activist. He is not an ombudsman appointed by the United Nations to make and deliver slide shows about green energy. He is the elected leader of Russia—a rugged, relatively poor, militarily powerful country that in recent years has been frequently humiliated, robbed, and misled. His job has been to protect his country’s prerogatives and its sovereignty in an international system that seeks to erode sovereignty in general and views Russia’s sovereignty in particular as a threat. By American standards, Putin’s respect for the democratic process has been fitful at best. He has cracked down on peaceful demonstrations. Political opponents have been arrested and jailed throughout his rule. Some have even been murdered—Anna Politkovskaya, the crusading Chechnya correspondent shot in her apartment building in Moscow in 2006; Alexander Litvinenko, the spy poisoned with polonium-210 in London months later; the activist Boris Nemtsov, shot on a bridge in Moscow in early 2015. While the evidence connecting Putin’s own circle to the killings is circumstantial, it merits scrutiny. Yet if we were to use traditional measures for understanding leaders, which involve the defense of borders and national flourishing, Putin would count as the pre-eminent statesman of our time. On the world stage, who can vie with him?

Dave62 wrote: ↑May 30th, 2021, 2:28 am

larsenb wrote: ↑May 29th, 2021, 10:38 pm

kirtland r.m. wrote: ↑May 29th, 2021, 9:50 pm

larsenb wrote: ↑May 29th, 2021, 2:29 pm You're subject title is a bit off. I don't see a lot of evidence that the current Russian govenrment pushes the Communist agenda to include Marxist-Leninism.

Although they have made some changes, Vlad. still acts much like Stalin.
"Opposition to Putin’s rule has not ceased, but opposing the Russian President can lead to dire, if not fatal, consequences. Putin has been accused of assassinating some of his critics on both Russian and foreign soil. Protests in Russia are violently suppressed, and opponents of Putin are routinely arrested and jailed. Some are given lengthy prison sentences.'https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/wha ... -have.html

Here's an Imprimis article by Christopher Caldwell, a Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute , titled: How to Think about Putin, you may find interesting and informative. I think he nailed it regarding Putin, and goes into just why people such as myself have been attracted to his main policies, namely seeking Russian sovereignty in a world heck-bent on globalism. Full article here: https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/how-to-t ... mir-putin/

Extract here:

Vladimir Putin is a powerful ideological symbol and a highly effective ideological litmus test. He is a hero to populist conservatives around the world and anathema to progressives. I don’t want to compare him to our own president, but if you know enough about what a given American thinks of Putin, you can probably tell what he thinks of Donald Trump. Let me stress at the outset that this is not going to be a talk about what to think about Putin, which is something you are all capable of making up your minds on, but rather how to think about him. And on this, there is one basic truth to remember, although it is often forgotten. Our globalist leaders may have deprecated sovereignty since the end of the Cold War, but that does not mean it has ceased for an instant to be the primary subject of politics. Vladimir Vladimirovich is not the president of a feminist NGO. He is not a transgender-rights activist. He is not an ombudsman appointed by the United Nations to make and deliver slide shows about green energy. He is the elected leader of Russia—a rugged, relatively poor, militarily powerful country that in recent years has been frequently humiliated, robbed, and misled. His job has been to protect his country’s prerogatives and its sovereignty in an international system that seeks to erode sovereignty in general and views Russia’s sovereignty in particular as a threat. By American standards, Putin’s respect for the democratic process has been fitful at best. He has cracked down on peaceful demonstrations. Political opponents have been arrested and jailed throughout his rule. Some have even been murdered—Anna Politkovskaya, the crusading Chechnya correspondent shot in her apartment building in Moscow in 2006; Alexander Litvinenko, the spy poisoned with polonium-210 in London months later; the activist Boris Nemtsov, shot on a bridge in Moscow in early 2015. While the evidence connecting Putin’s own circle to the killings is circumstantial, it merits scrutiny. Yet if we were to use traditional measures for understanding leaders, which involve the defense of borders and national flourishing, Putin would count as the pre-eminent statesman of our time. On the world stage, who can vie with him?

So, he's kind of like the King of the Lamanites...?

Subcomandante wrote: ↑May 31st, 2021, 12:18 pm Putin today is not a communist, at least not in the Marxist / Leninist style of things. What he has done is coopt Communism with a new political strategy, known as the Fourth Political Theorem. Some call it nationalist Bolshevism which combines communism with fascism with a small sprinkling of capitalism.

It is similar to how Andrés Manuel López Obrador gained power where I live. Yes, he ran as an unapologetic leftist, yet he had the support of the social conservative Social Encounter party and the über leftist Labor Party as part of his coalition of his own party: MORENA (National Regeneration Movement). They are left-wing nationalists, very much an oxymoron, unless you were to look at how things are done in Russia today.

Luke wrote: ↑May 31st, 2021, 2:41 pm

Subcomandante wrote: ↑May 31st, 2021, 12:18 pm Putin today is not a communist, at least not in the Marxist / Leninist style of things. What he has done is coopt Communism with a new political strategy, known as the Fourth Political Theorem. Some call it nationalist Bolshevism which combines communism with fascism with a small sprinkling of capitalism.

It is similar to how Andrés Manuel López Obrador gained power where I live. Yes, he ran as an unapologetic leftist, yet he had the support of the social conservative Social Encounter party and the über leftist Labor Party as part of his coalition of his own party: MORENA (National Regeneration Movement). They are left-wing nationalists, very much an oxymoron, unless you were to look at how things are done in Russia today.

Duginism

Luke wrote: ↑May 31st, 2021, 2:41 pm

Subcomandante wrote: ↑May 31st, 2021, 12:18 pm Putin today is not a communist, at least not in the Marxist / Leninist style of things. What he has done is coopt Communism with a new political strategy, known as the Fourth Political Theorem. Some call it nationalist Bolshevism which combines communism with fascism with a small sprinkling of capitalism.

It is similar to how Andrés Manuel López Obrador gained power where I live. Yes, he ran as an unapologetic leftist, yet he had the support of the social conservative Social Encounter party and the über leftist Labor Party as part of his coalition of his own party: MORENA (National Regeneration Movement). They are left-wing nationalists, very much an oxymoron, unless you were to look at how things are done in Russia today.

Duginism

Luke wrote: ↑May 31st, 2021, 2:41 pm

Subcomandante wrote: ↑May 31st, 2021, 12:18 pm Putin today is not a communist, at least not in the Marxist / Leninist style of things. What he has done is coopt Communism with a new political strategy, known as the Fourth Political Theorem. Some call it nationalist Bolshevism which combines communism with fascism with a small sprinkling of capitalism.

It is similar to how Andrés Manuel López Obrador gained power where I live. Yes, he ran as an unapologetic leftist, yet he had the support of the social conservative Social Encounter party and the über leftist Labor Party as part of his coalition of his own party: MORENA (National Regeneration Movement). They are left-wing nationalists, very much an oxymoron, unless you were to look at how things are done in Russia today.

Duginism