It is one thing to censor us, as part of the process of exterminating people like me, like the insect life we are, but quite another that countries like Russia dare to censor the cream of liberal culture. It is simply shocking, and reason enough for Donald Trump, himself as progressive on this issue as anyone to launch a full-scale nuclear attack of Putin, aiming right for his castle:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/president-trumps-anti-lgbt-agenda-is-louder-than-his-pride-message
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/elton-john-vladimir-putin-lgbtq-rocketman-censorship
“Elton John took to Twitter on Friday to respond to Russian President Vladimir Putin's recent interview with the Financial Times. In the interview, published on Thursday, Putin said Russia has "no problem with LGBT persons. ... Let everyone be happy," but John, 72, called Putin's words hypocritical since a Russian distributor censored LGBTQ-related scenes from "Rocketman," a film based on John's life and career. "Dear President Putin, I was deeply upset when I read your recent interview in The Financial Times," the "Tiny Dancer" singer wrote. "I strongly disagree with your view that pursuing policies that embrace multicultural and sexual diversity are obsolete in our societies." He continued: "I find duplicity in your comment that you want LGBT people to 'be happy' and that 'we have no problem in that'. Yet Russian distributors chose to heavily censor my film 'Rocketman' by removing all references to my finding true happiness through my 25-year relationship with [husband] David [Furnish] and the raising of my two beautiful sons. "This feels like hypocrisy to me," John added. "I am proud to live in a part of the world where our governments have evolved to recognise the universal human right to love whoever we want."
The star went on to say he is "truly grateful for the advancement in government policies that have allowed and legally supported" his marriage to Furnish, 56. Earlier this month, Russian gay rights activists and cultural figures criticized a local distributor of "Rocketman" for censoring gay sex scenes within the movie. At the time, Russian news agencies reported that the distribution company said the scenes were cut to conform with Russian law, however, the Ministry of Culture said it was not involved in the decision. (In 2013, the country passed a law banning so-called propaganda supporting non-traditional sexuality from being made available to minors.) In response, John and the filmmakers released a joint statement that said: "The local distributor has edited out certain scenes, denying the audience the opportunity to see the film as it was intended, is a sad reflection of the divided world we still live in and how it can still be so cruelly unaccepting of the love between two people."
No doubt after the coming nuclear war between the US and the tag team of China and Russia, who are refusing to accept our enlightened Western liberal standards of everything, the entire world will become a happy globe of self-satisfied hedonistic consumers. In the meantime, Elton can take consolation that his movie will probably still go well in much of Africa and the Middle East, even New Guinea, places much more enlightened than Putin’s Russia. Just watch this terrifying video of Vlad the lad in action, and feel the shame, the white guilt etc. Imagine saying that liberalism, an eternal philosophy has “outlived its purpose,” when its purpose was to destroy us!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FW21SWku5Q
https://www.ft.com/content/670039ec-98f3-11e9-9573-ee5cbb98ed36
Putin: “One can criticize President Trump as much as they want for the wish to build a wall between Mexico and the US. Maybe that’s excessive, I don’t know. But he has to do something with the flow of migrants and drugs, doesn’t he? No one is doing anything. The liberal idea presupposed that nothing needs to be done. Migrants can kill, plunder, and rape with impunity because their rights as migrants must be protected. What rights? Every crime must have its punishment. So, the idea [of liberalism] has outlived itself and came into conflict with the interests of the overwhelming majority of the population.”
Maybe Australia could use section 18 C to control Putin? Maybe take away his Facebook page, or Twitter? What do you think, Zucky?