The USSR recriminalised homosexuality under Stalin, a law that was only repealed after the dissolution of the USSR. It was only legal just after the October Revolution in 1917, but it unfortunately did not last long (in 1933 it was recriminalised). In 1927, the USSR labelled homosexuality a disease and a mental disorder. Under Stalin homosexuality was associated with facism, including warnings about a "counterrevolutionary fascist homosexual conspiracy" used to justify arrests.

Homosexuals were described by the Soviet government as fascist, pedophilic and it was associated with prison rape. Soviet legal scholars deemed it inconsistent with "Communist Morality".

There have been Marxists who put forth compelling arguments why LGBTQ rights should be respected under communist theory, but those largely fell on deaf ears. A modern theorist is likely to be in support.

I hate to say it, but in recent years LGBTQ rights have been best protected in western and northern Europe, Canada and Australia, with the situation improving in Brazil and Argentina for example. These are by and large capitalist countries.

I personally don't think the ideology matters all that much here though. It's mostly religious conservatism holding back LGBTQ rights (see Africa, the ME, Indonesia, Russia and the US/Latin America).

Also happy pride month! 🌈. Let's keep fighting for each other's rights 💪

Oh and to be clear: fuck megacompanies using pride month as an advertising opportunity, that's fairly dystopian. Don't put a rainbow flag on your X account, actually do something.

Omarchy isn't really "art" though. It's a set of dot files on top of Arch basically. And not very good ones either, there's plenty to critique there. It also installs a bunch of US-based software like Spotify, Zoom, ChatGPT and Chromium, which seems to run counter to what you're trying to achieve with this post.

I've heard of Zorin before. It's been around for a while, but last I heard anything was years ago. There's not been much hype or anything since.

That's not a Christmas celebration, and the Dutch authorities are actually pretty pissed about it, because the Americans had it removed.

No, the current president is also called Ferdinand Marcos.

You exist in the brain, which is ruled by physical processes. Not sure what citations you need for that.

He has genuine and severe mental illnesses. He's off his meds at the moment due to his paranoia about them.

It's incredibly clear when he's off his meds, as when he's on them he turns a lot more reasonable and not Nazi at all.

Georgia and Moldova both are struggling against Russian influences in their elections.

Goodbye

Morality is a product of civilisation and community. It's the ability of groups to decide on a single set of rules by which they would lime to be treated by, as breach of those rules can cause physical or emotional harm. And then there's simple evolution, where certain "moral rules" allowed civilisations to survive and thrive better than others.

At no point is "god" required here.

Windows is more prevalent with gamers so I guess it would make sense for the Steam survey to show less Linux users than there are in the general population.

Maybe to avoid having the defendant spend all their money appealing the judgment, which in case of a negative result could impact their ability to pay the fine.