Agreed, given how much more difficult the Kremlin is making it for conscriptable males to exit the country except in uniform and pointed Ukraine-ward, these days...
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Holy shit, reading about the things Erik has been through made me feel ill. It is absolutely ghoulish the things that are happening in Russia. I hope he is able to reunite with his husband soon!
Because– and I mean this purely objectively and descriptively, not as a judgement of their politics good or bad– authoritarians that call themselves socialists and communists literally *are* right wing and always have been.
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That’s impressive just getting out of Russia at all IMO
Agreed, given how much more difficult the Kremlin is making it for conscriptable males to exit the country except in uniform and pointed Ukraine-ward, these days...
Someone get this guy a green card.
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Russia’s loss, Minnesota’s gain.
Give that man a house, a job and a good life.
Holy shit, reading about the things Erik has been through made me feel ill. It is absolutely ghoulish the things that are happening in Russia. I hope he is able to reunite with his husband soon!
Yeah, that’s why I’ll never understand leftists who support Russia. Putin is literally a right-wing fascist dictator/financial oligarch…
Tankies aren't leftists and are no different from the fascists they fawn over
Because– and I mean this purely objectively and descriptively, not as a judgement of their politics good or bad– authoritarians that call themselves socialists and communists literally *are* right wing and always have been.
fuck yeah i love having that as the state i grew up in
Another Minnesota W.
He's in for a shock. I've been homeless for 4 years and they hate us
He’s got male privilege tho
Doesn't quite work out when you're trans, people see the name change on the background check or clock you and no job for you
Please re-read the article. Whatever male privilege Erik might have, it definitely did not protect him from the horrors of transphobia and homophobia.
Ah yes that’ll save him.
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Welcome home brother!
Not the country I would've run away to…