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houses patients after receiving a $4783729472820000 bill from the hospital because their doctor wanted to commit medical malpratice in twenty different rooms and kiss his boyfriend in five other

In case anyone has kept up with the news and wants to help Colombian earthquake victims here is a link to a local gofundme helping victims in Cali

this may sound crazy but i care more about people not getting carpet bombed and airstriked and gassed and shot and murdered en masse by imperial armed forces than like their thoughts on gay people. i know!! sorry homonationalists!! i care more about the lives of iranians than like their hypothetical apparently monolothic views on queer people!! as a lesbian!! if it makes you see them as human beings there are also gay and trans global southerners? in palestine and libya and somalia and the dprk and russia and iran and iraq and lebanon there are gay people. but most importantly there are people. like if a palestinian is homophobic we can talk about that when they're not being targeted in a genocide. it's also impossible to separate the homophobia of people from these countries from western propaganda and imperialism. yes many russians, kazakhs & eastern europeans are going to be averse to expressions of gay sexuality after the coercion & trafficking of men into gay porn post fall of the ussr. of course many iraqis are going to view homosexuality as depraved if their first encounter with it was images from abu ghraib showing prisoners being sodomised, raped, and forced into humiliating sexual situations with other prisoners. of course libyans watching their people being sold into sexual slavery are going to be distrustful of homosexuality. of course men raped by american soldiers and their loved ones are going to be distrustful. of course someone living under a government that is anti-lgbtq rights is going to have to reckon with that. as a lesbian as a very proud lesbian i literally value people of colour's lives more than a white westerners feelings over "but they're probably homophobic 🥺" like you wouldn't even be the one suffering from that homophobia. that would be the queer people also being blown up because they also live there.

This started and ended in a good place but I promise OP did not have to say “these people are homophobic for understandable, anti-imperialist reasons, actually!”

it's so funny how i didn't say that and you just put words in my mouth lmao. i didn't say i understood homophobia or think homophobia is anti-imperialist, or that these people being homophobic is necessarily anti imperialist. when palestinians watch idf soldiers raise the pride flag over the ruins of their homes how do you think that as a symbol speaks to them? when western media portrays being gay as antithetical to loving russia and shows queer characters as hating / not wanting to be in russia and always existing in america and expressing a hatred for russia (eg. heated rivalry) and refuses to show gay russians who do not reject and despise russia, do you think russians are maybe going to see queerness as against russian values or as a western deviance ? do you think maybe when the country that has placed the largest sanctions in the world on russia does this there will be a little friction ? i remember a couple years ago the outrage when trans soldiers were banned from the us military. do you think people who had never encountered a trans person, possibly never even heard of one, would feel super warm and fuzzy watching people fight for trans peoples' rights to murder their children? these countries are not given the chance to reckon with their laws, vote in socially progressive politicians, or dismantle systemic homophobia because they are being MURDERED. i really don't know what part of my post you agreed with if you can't understand how the impcore completely owns and dominates "queer culture", how "queer spaces" are full to the brim with westerners, how pinkwashing causes homophobia which is then villainised for more pinkwashing. when homophobia is used by imperial forces (however flimsy a cover this is for the real genocidal & imperial intent) as a reason to murder you, destroy your infrastructure, pillage your country, yes they are going to cling to this and internalise it as right. when the invading forces claim they must kill you for your beliefs, what before might have been a mild aversion / bigotry will integrate into your belief system because you are victimised "for" that belief. you see this as proof you were correct. i'm a lesbian !! i am a lesbian !! i do not have to understand homophobia to understand peoples' reasons. i have my priorities and i prioritise ending us imperialism over gay rights, not because i disregard gay rights but because imperialism will forever be the enemy of all progress and humanity. you can even see in 20th century cuba when it had extreme and horrible laws criminalising homosexuality (along with the rest of the world) and in the 90s, by themselves scaled back these laws, legalised homosexuality, and is now a progressive nation on gay rights. when imperialism goes, slowly the western propaganda will lose its hold. the countries must find it in themselves, not be colonised to become "progressive" havens built on the corpses of global southerners. maybe reread the post and see if you actually agreed with me or just liked the way it sounded

it's so cool to have human rights. like the government can try to kill me and i can be like "no, i'm a person, which means you can't do that, because of liberalism.". and then they can usually kill me anyway. but like i get to go to liberalism heaven.

reading the wiki for the american psycho movie every single thing it’s saying about christian bale has me in tears …….. he literally wanted the role so bad he got that buff in two weeks, rejected every other offer for 9 months while the producers tried to get dicaprio to be patrick bateman bc bale knew dicaprio would chicken out, went to dinner with the director and the guy who wrote the novel IN CHARACTER apparently scaring the shit out of the novelist, took the role for $50k, and then made all his costars think he was a giant freak bc he never fucking broke character, and APARENTLY LITERALLY HAS CONTROL OVER HIS SWEAT GLANDS AND USED THIS IN THE BUSINESS CARD SCENE

It brings me comfort that, for a brief moment, Jared Leto genuinely believed Christian Bale was going to kill him with an axe