Ant #329. US elections.

To much "Trump" drama on my social networks...
Everybody is pissed off but he's still leading the primaries. Isn't it ironic?

Even though I support republicans I'd vote anybody but Trump... BUT... I do understand people who vote for him, and I'll try to explain you why...

Unfortunately (or luckily) there is two-party-system in US which means they only have two options when it comes to elections: they can vote only one or another. Of course the politicians argue even inside the same parties but in the end you'll only have 2 options. It's not like in Europe when there are lots of different parties, and if you always voted for right-wing parties but now you feel like your country is rich and could give something more to the poorest people you don't have to vote for socialists, you can just vote for a center-right-wing party and it will perfectly represent you.

What do we see in US?
Democrats say: Amnesty to all the illegals.
Republicans say: No f*cking way!

You have to choose between black and white. There's no grey.

But what's about people who are basically agree with receiving immigrants but with some reasonable limits? For example, like in Canada (they are open for immigrants from all over the world but you must be graduated, speak languages, have skills and experience). Who represents them? The answer is: nobody!

So what those people do? They open newspapers, read about disaster in Cologne... and vote for Trump because there are no other options: just "all the immigrants" or "none of them".

And this is sad...

Ant #327. Russia: Europe or not?

It's an interesting fact!

When people talk about Russia, they call it a european country.
When you talk to russians, most of them don't like to associate themselves to Europe (thanx to Putin's propaganda).

The thing is... Russian culture is definitely European culture. Russian music, literature, art are all based on European ones. Russian language is in European group of languages. Russians are Christians. We live in the same media space, we share the same past and future. Russian etiquette is European etiquette. First Russian universities were opened by the tsar Peter the 1st who brought the education from Europe. Russian science exists thanks to European science. After all, Russia is by far the largest European country by both area and population, taking up to 40% of the continent.

But many Russians still think they have nothing to do with Europe because Europeans support gays.
Doh.

Ant #323. Another one social experiment.

Watch this video, please...

Homeless Father Vs. Homeless Drug Addict Social Experiment
I'm shocked. I couldn't believe THISCheck this out ➡️ http://goo.gl/Kw0WIK
Posted by Bryan Silva on Wednesday, July 29, 2015

So what we could see? Homeless Father Vs. Homeless Drug Addict. And most people gave money to a junkie. Do you think it's unfair, bad decision, lack of morals? I DON'T! And let me explain why... 

In all the modern countries people understood many many time ago that if they just ignore drug addicts, they are gonna start killing. I'm not exaggerating! Even though nobody like them, nobody feels like helping them, people know that junkies cannot live a normal life, they cannot work to pay their drugs, so they start robbing or even killing other people. That's why normal citizens prefer to share some money with marginals to prevent crimes. Obviously no one wants to give away money to those who don't deserve them but there's no other choice.

And what's about a young normal guy that have 2 hands and 2 legs, that is a good looking, that has a beautiful daughter, that sitting on the street during the day instead of doing something? There's no way people help this guy! NO WAY! Society doesn't support laziness. He must work. And ignoring him people are pushing him to put himself together and sort his fucking life out. I find it a good motivation.

Ant #310. Mentality.

I talked to one of my argentinian friends about the current situation here.

My point was that there are lots of things to change and the first one is the government.

He said that the new one won't help coz they will be as corrupted as previous one and added "it's in our mentality".

I don't believe in mentalities...

North Korea <-> South Korea

East Germany <-> West Germany (till 1990)

South Italy <-> North Italy

And many more example of absolutely the same people choosing different ways.

There's no mentality. There is an ignorance.

Ant #272. The greatest.

Can anybody explain me why all the crazy patriots say the same crap? I'm mostly talking about russian ones.
They say:
- We're getting up from knees!
- We'll fuck America!
- We'll show them all that we're the greatest and they must respect us!
- We rule the world!

And then I ask them... What for? For being the greatest? But it cannot be the aim itself. Like having a lot of money. Money is just a tool. You want money, for example, for buying something and living a rich life. The same here. You wanna be the greatest for... What for?

Why don't you concentrate on economy and social problems instead of looking for enemies?

Ant #271. Putin in Argentina.

En las próximas horas el Presidente de Rusia, Vladimir Putin, visitará Argentina. En la actualidad Rusia es uno de los más de 70 países que penalizan la diversidad sexual. En junio de 2013 la Duma (Parlamento Ruso) aprobó la denominada "Ley Federal contra la propaganda homosexual" que restringe gravemente la libre expresión de las orientaciones sexuales e identidades de género. Sumate a la Federación Argentina LGBT y digamosle juntas y juntos a Putin: nuestro amor NO es propaganda.

В ближайшие часы Президент России Владимир Путин посетит Аргентину. В настоящее время Россия - одна из более чем 70 стран, в которых преследуются различные сексуальные предпочтения, отличные от гетеросексуальных. В июне 2013 года Государственная Дума РФ приняла так называемый "Федеральный Закон против пропаганды нетрадиционных сексуальных отношений", который серьезно ограничивает свободное самовыражение людей разных сексуальных ориентаций и половой идентичности. Присоединяйся к Аргентинской Федерации ЛГБТ и давайте все вместе скажем Путину: наша любовь - это не пропаганда!

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Ant #270. Israel vs. Palestine.

I'm sorry, but I'm tired of this shit.
Last few days I was watching many people reposting pictures of killed people in Palestine. You can say that you cannot stand it when people die, and I totally agree. But before blaming Israel you must learn at least something about this conflict.

I have a niece and a few relatives who live there. I also have many friends there. Moreover, I've been there a few times. So may I say something? Thank you!

Have you ever heard about HAMAS organization and that they are not calm until Israel is destroyed?
Did you know that all the countries around Israel support Palestine in this war giving them weapons, food and other humanitarian assistance?
Did you know that meanwhile Palestine is making plans about destroying Israel, israeli government is giving them electricity, water, food, medicines etc FOR FREE?

Now about the war itself...
Past few days Palestine sent to Israel at least 250 bombs and rockets. And only because israeli army is one of the best armies in the world they could avoid victims. Anybody of you posted something about this? Or about people having 15 seconds to find a shelter? You don't know how it feels when your niece messages you that she's all right, she found a good shelter and sitting there along with other people and it seems like explosions are really close to the place she lives.

Then Israeli army looks for rocket installations on palestinian territory to destroy them. But the point is that Hamas terrorists make them on the roofs of hospitals or on the backyards of schools or inside living districts. Coz the only thing they want is that more their own people die so they can show them on TV and say how terrible Israel is.

But even though before israeli army starts shooting, they send a few planes which drop above Palestine information lists with time and places where Hamas will be attacked, so peaceful people could find a shelter. But they don't give a damn, they need pictures.

One man said... "If palestinians loved their children more than they hate israeli ones, this war would stop a long time ago."

There are lots of palestinian arabs living in Israel and not being killed, discriminated or whatever. They live a good life, they work, build families, go to the same places where jewish people go.

Hamas "protect" palestinians from "horrible" israeli army and palestinians die. But where no one protects them (in Israel), nobody dies. Isn't it strange?

Thanx for attention!

Ant #267. Still small voice.

I have just read on newsfeed that today in Russian Parliament one deputy performed asking other deputies to cancel so-called "anti-gay" law.

It was a 10-minutes long speech about current situation with Human Rights in Russia.

I'm translating a few parts of it.

This law is just too much. It's not protecting, it's discriminating.  

Shortly, every word about existing of homosexuals with no negative context now claims as gay-propaganda.

If we don't understand that people can be different, can eat different food, can build their own families, we will always be a part of the most horrible war - war in our homes. Is it a life that we want for our children?

This intolerant atmosphere raised the number of suicides, especially between teenagers who discovered their homosexuality... The law doesn't let them speak about their feelings - you call it "propaganda". But the law still do let the persecutors bully those kids, insult them, turn their lives into the hell. 

All the talks about sexual orientation of another person in modern world are unacceptable. It's not the most important thing in a human being.

Do I understand that you will deny my suggestion [about canceling the anti-gay law]? Yes, I do. Do I think that in this case my performance was pointless? No, I don't... Thank you for attention.

The full speech you can listen to here (if you understand russian).

I also don't think that this speech was pointless, even though she was supported only by 12 deputies (out of 450), but I believe it's just the beginning. The more people wake up from this nightmare life, the more tolerant we become. It's really important for all the gay-community in Russia to know that they are not alone!

Ant #265. One week in Russia.

It's been one week since I came to Russia.
June 2nd-6th I was in Moscow, now I'm at my parents home in the small provincial city where I was born.

It is quite useful experience after one year outside the country.

When I was flying to Moscow, I was preparing to feel negativity, to see sad people, I thought that when I get into Domodedovo I will throw up. But when I saw inscriptions on Cyrillics, I started smiling as an idiot and greeting everybody, feeling some looks of disapproval on myself. But I didn't care! Even if I was dying to sleep, I was glad to come back to the hometown (I wasn't born in Moscow, but I consider it as my hometown coz I feel great there). At the airport I was met by a friend, got into his car, and once we left the airport we stuck in a traffic jam. He started screaming at people and showing his middle finger to everyone. I said: "Calm down or someone's gonna kick our asses! ", he took out a gun and said: "No one fucks with us!". I said: "When did you all become that nervous? ", he replied: "It's our life!"

Next 3 days I felt this public aggression even more.  I don't know if something really happened there or it's just me after a year in Argentina.

The city itself I loved a lot! I never noticed earlier what a beautiful city I lived in. Everything in it for me was kinda ordinary, and now when I looked at it with the eyes of a tourist, I was really impressed!

Then I met my friends. Finally we had a heart-to-heart talk. One of my friend who recently was arrested on a demonstration, now prepares documents and goes to Spain. Our mutual friend will join him this fall. Two more guys (gays that live together for many years) now actively looking for a possibility of moving to Germany. I don't know if they cam manage it or not, but I wish them a good luck! Another friend, a girl (one of my best friends) wants to try to enter the university in Stockholm, she says that if it won't happen, she will come to Buenos Aires to me.

To be honest, wouldn't say that people there have a despair, no, not at all, they are not deathly scared.  I would say that in their eyes I see a kind of hopelessness (though, probably, these feelings are close in fact).

In the city where my parents live the picture was absolutely different.
If in Moscow I mostly talk to the people who have seen the world, with those who went to anti-Putin demonstrations with me, with those who doesn't divide people on white and black, straights and gays, believers and atheists, here, in province, the situation is just horrible. I'm here the third day, but I already want to leave from here. I feel very uncomfortable. Every person told me that I am a traitor, "liberal" and the intellectual lousy, and we were friends with these people since my childhood. I try to stop all discussions about Ukraine and Conchita Wurst before they begin, but people just do not stop, and they don't want to listen to me (thanks to social networks they already know my position). I feel that they were waiting for me to say to my face how much they despise me. All together.

I don't know how to survive 10 more days here, it is very sad and uncomfortable, and the worst thing is that no person shares my views or simply stands up for me when the whole crowd is screaming at me. Wherever I go, whoever I meet, whatever we talk, everything comes to the same end: lynching the tolerant me.

I never thought that in my homeland I will feel myself a foreigner.

Ant #260. Fascism Anyone?

Fourteen Defining 

Characteristics Of Fascism

By Dr. Lawrence Britt

Dr. Lawrence Britt has examined the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia) and several Latin American regimes. Britt found 14 defining characteristics common to each:

1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism - Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.

2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights - Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of "need." The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc.

3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause - The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial , ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists, etc.

4. Supremacy of the Military - Even when there are widespread
domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.

5. Rampant Sexism - The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional gender roles are made more rigid. Divorce, abortion and homosexuality are suppressed and the state is represented as the ultimate guardian of the family institution.

6. Controlled Mass Media - Sometimes to media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common.

7. Obsession with National Security - Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.

8. Religion and Government are Intertwined - Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government's policies or actions.

9. Corporate Power is Protected - The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.

10. Labor Power is Suppressed - Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed.

11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts - Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts and letters is openly attacked.

12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment - Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations.

13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption - Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders.

14. Fraudulent Elections - Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by smear campaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections.

Source: http://www.rense.com/general37/char.htm

Ant #257. Sweet Conchita Wurst.

Another arguing with relatives, and now because of Conchita Wurst.

The russian society turned insane when she won Eurovision. Countless and countless posts and articles about death of Europe, about family values, about tolerance that destroys the world. On the central TV they said that "Europe has a bloody diarrhea" and that "Beard is a sign of loneliness and Apocalypse!" XDDD

And it would have been just funny, if people weren't that serious about this shit.

But what is really funny is people talking about family values in a country which is a world leader in divorces and abortions.

Hypocrites!

Ant #247. International Women's Day.

The 8th of march is known as International Women's Day, the holiday created by 2 women not so many years ago and kinda despised by feminists all over the world.

Why?

Because it's stupid to celebrate your gender. It's like celebrating your hair color, stupid and ridiculous.

Also I find it unfair that women have their own idiotic holiday, but men don't!
I want our own idiotic day, so I can laugh twice a year, not only once like now.

That's it!
Thanx for attention and Happy International Women's Day!

Ant #245. Educational qualifications for voting.

Educational qualifications for voting.
Do you know what is it?

It's a restriction of the people's right to vote on elections according to their level of education.

At first I heard about this thing in university, and I thought it was really against the terms of democracy.
But nowadays I don't find this idea very bad.
Look...
Would you give the right to manage a nuclear weapon to someone who has no idea about it?
Would you give the right to drive a plane to someone who only can drive a bicycle?
Would you give the right to teach people in universities to someone who hasn't finished a primary school?

What I wanna say is that WE CANNOT have the same rights anyway. For using some tools we must first get a qualification.
So why doesn't this rule work for voting?

IDIOTS VOTE FOR ASSHOLES!

That's why we have/had Putin (Russia), Lukashenko (Belarus), Yanukovich (Ukraine), Maduro (Venezuela), Gaddafi (Libya), Morsi (Egypt) etc.

So why cannot we take away the right of people to vote until they get a good education, until they read all the programs, until they understand something in economics and politics?

I really think it's a good idea!

Ant #240. Russian anti-gay law in action.

Madonna and her son David at Grammy's

A few days ago I wrote a post about Madonna's appearance at the Grammy's, where she sang for 33 couples (straight and gay) getting married on our eyes!

So try to imagine how excited I was when I knew that one of russian TV channels was about to show the ceremony on the following day!

And now try to imagine how disappointed I was when I've been told that these TV assholes cut her performance out! They didn't even mention that she was performing!
Nothing! Silence! Like she never appeared there!

I put my hands down...
I lost the last hope that Russia can change. What happened actually to this country?
I remember myself as a teenager, and I remember how everyday I watched MTV and there were lots of shows and TV series with gays, and no one cared!
Now, after 10 years, when the whole world legalizes gay marriages, Russia is coming back to the Stone Age.

I'm sad and devastated...

Madonna has been fighting for the Human Rights through her entire career.
On 2012 during her show in St. Petersburg she openly supported gay community in Russia and spoke out against the anti-gay law, criticized russian government and personally russian president Vladimir Putin.
The reaction was absolutely inappropriate and disproportionate. A few activists via the deputy Vitaly Milonow (the author of the anti-gay law) tried to sue Madonna for more than $10,000,000.

I wish that all russian people could see this performance of Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Mary Lambert and Madonna, coz if it doesn't touch them, they can throw out their stone hearts.
Let us all enjoy it once again!
Love each other!

Ant #238. The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights.

Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,
Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people,
Whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law,
Whereas it is essential to promote the development of friendly relations between nations,
Whereas the peoples of the United Nations have in the Charter reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women and have determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,
Whereas Member States have pledged themselves to achieve, in co-operation with the United Nations, the promotion of universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms,
Whereas a common understanding of these rights and freedoms is of the greatest importance for the full realization of this pledge,
Now, Therefore THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY proclaims THIS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction.

*  *  *

I'm afraid that today people totally forgot about these simple basic things.

Ant #209. Madonna by Madonna.

Madonna @ Harper's Bazzar

Finally I found a free time, sat down calmly, opened my laptop and read the interview that Madonna gave to Harper's Bazaar magazine.

I'm not gonna repeat what she said, you can read it here.

I just wanna say that it's not only one of her most sincere interviews, but also words confessions of a grown woman that went through a "filth" and found a wisdom, was a provocative girl with hairy armpits and became a mother of 4 beautiful children.

And now when she discovered the light she wants to share it with us. She says we must be daring ourselves. That's what she's been doing all these years, that's how she's got everything she has now.

Daring, challenging ourselves... Every day! Non-stop! So we can go ahead and make the world a better place for everyone: black, white, muslim, jew, gay, straight!
We must open our eyes and admit the truth: in our hatred, intolerance and disconnection we have gone too far and something must be done until it's too late.

Be a freedom fighter and never give up!

"If I can't be daring in my work or the way I live my life, then I don't really see the point of being on this planet."

"If you aren't willing to fight for what you believe in, then don't even enter the ring."

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Read the full interview here.

Ant #205. FREEDOM!

FREEDOM is a RESPONSIBILITY!

You cannot justify your lies, bullying, discrimination with a freedom of expression, you only can use your personal freedom to support those who need our love and compassion.

If you use the freedom of speech to treat people badly, be sure that justice is coming.

We must be responsible!

We must be FREE!

artforfreedom.com

Ant #175. Homophobic Russia.

Last night I was sitting in front of my laptop when I saw a horrible post on my facebook news feed.

My friend who lives in Moscow reported that the special troops in masks and with guns rushed into the club where he was with his friends.

It was a straight club that organized a gay party.

The official reason was they were looking for drugs and drug-dealers, but nobody saw any dogs that usually look for this crap. And it was obvious that they were interested in something else.

They lined people along walls and one by one started checking their IDs.
When they made a list of all people in the club (names, IDs, places of living, jobs etc.), they left!

What the hell was it?

At first these homophobic morons say that "they don't care of what you do at your homes and clubs, but you shouldn't show who you are outside", now they come into last places where people can be themselves.

I cannot imagine what people survived last night! Check the pictures... They are real!

P.S. A couple of weeks ago my friend found an anonymous letter from his neighbours under his door. The text was "You don't look like a gay, but we know that you are. Please, respect our feelings, here live children!"
How they dare?

Ant #165. The Enraged Printer.

Guess what I'm gonna write about?
No idea???

Ok, I'm gonna make a post about russian parliament! ))))
Yes, the enraged printer, that's how russian people call it! XD

Why? Because it throws up stupid laws, which are so discriminative, horribly written and contradict each other!
Remember when I was talking about anti-gay law? Check it here!

So... New laws? YESSSSS!!!
The new one calls (*don't laugh*) "The law about insulting of feelings of believers"!
I thought that our politicians cannot fall lower, but they broke the record!

The law doesn't say anything about exact feelings of believers. So they can say, for example, that Darwin's Theory of Evolution insults their feelings. Or what if I say that I don't believe in God at all?! These words probably will insult them. And does it mean that orthodoxes, muslims and buddhists are gonna sue each other, coz they believe in different gods and it's obvious that "existence" one of them insults others?

I think I'm gonna try to register the new religion, something like "Madonnism", and sue fans of all other singers!!! ^_^

P.S. I'm conting days till I'll leave this f*cking country!

Ant #86. The world without borders.

Today I spent 2 hours to fill the visa application.
It has many pages with a big amount of questions.
If you do a mistake, you gotta take a new clean page and to start from the beginning.
And it's not the end! Then you gotta go to the proper embassy, stand a few hours in a huge queue, submit your application and pray!
That's driving me crazy!

I have to get visas almost every time I'm going abroad, it doesn't matter where I'm going. Well, maybe except of Venezuela and a few another world's asses.
And almost all my friends from different countries have to get visa to visit me as well. And to be honest, it's not so easy, because our government probably thinks that this f*cking country is a best place on Earth and everyone wants to stay here. DOH!

And I thought it could be great if there weren't any borders in the world!
Some of you would say that borders stop immigrants. But do they?
I think everyone who wants to change his place of living does it, and borders don't stop him. They only make difficulties for those who would like to travel more.
Also borderlines don't stop criminals. Who can say that in your place only immigrants commit crimes? People kill, steal and cheat because they are bad and uncivil, but not because of places where they were born.

In july I wait for my friend from US to come here. I hope he won't have problems in our embassy.

World without borders