Trump Trainwreck - Ongoing diary of betrayal and evil

[Galen]

(01-22-2017, 04:17 PM)taramarie Wrote:

(01-22-2017, 05:49 AM)Galen Wrote:

(01-22-2017, 05:19 AM)taramarie Wrote: I think certain groups of people in Russia would say otherwise. Bans on anything remotely referring to gays in banned and can cause one to end up in jail. Putin is not totally there yet but he is leaning towards the direction of totalitarianism. I will let an actual Russian who lives there do the explaining for me. I do not know what it was like in the past nor know what the hippies thought. The earlier boomers will have to address that part of your post for clarification.

Whatever the hippies were doing it certainly was not thinking.  At this point you are lucky if you can get a Boomer to admit they were a hippie.  Just imagine a whole bunch of people thinking and acting just like Eric the Obtuse except they are about fifty years younger and didn't have the collapse of the Soviet Union so they were much more open about being communist or socialist.

In the wake of the color revolutions funded by the CIA and Soros it doesn't surprise me that they are more paranoid these days.  Having NATO parked next to their border isn't helping.

I hope you realize hippies were just a counter culture group and that not all boomers were hippies because 1. some were not interested in it, 2. some were working. 3. some boomers merely watched what was going on because they were too young to take part in it. Like my MOTHER.

Can't say much about what was going on in New Zealand but in the US hippies popped up pretty much everywhere.  The communes were a particularly entertaining circus for the most part.  Most of them collapsed pretty fast.  The Rajneesh and his followers were probably the worst and I don't recall many people shedding tears when he finally took the big dirt nap.

Unless you plan on starting a nuclear war there really isn't much that can be done about how the Russian government treats the homos.  On the geopolitical stage the US is going to have to find a way to get along with them because I just don't see Russia becoming subservient to US interests.  I never said Russia was particularly free but compared to the Soviet Union the Putin government is a vast improvement.

You might want to consider the policy of Detente during the Cold War.  Which was much better than poking the Soviet Union with a stick all the time.  As I have noted before, unless you plan on going to war with Russia there isn't much you can do about their internal policies.