Russians fear that animal cruelty laws will lead to gay rights

Why am I not surprised that Russia has a high rate of animal cruelty?

Russians were rounding up stray dogs and poisoning them leading up to the Sochi Olympics. So this is no surprise.

Drop a bomb then move onto ISIS

Another reason not to be a russophile.

Jesus Christ, does anything good ever come from or happen to this country lately??

Basic human decency is a slippery slope, he's right and happily evil.

Well, with "kalashnikov"as a last name...

If Depression, Dullness, and Despair had a threesome and produced a kid and that kid was a country...

Save the animals! It's not their fault they are stuck in that barbaric country.

Russia is a horrible fucking country.

They are a sick, demented people.

How the hell does one make the leap in logic that animal cruelty laws is the same as gay rights? The mind boggles.

There must be a shared psychopathy in the genes of Russians. They all seem either horrible, cold and evil or depressed drunkards and druggies.

I was reading "Crime and Punishment" in high school and when the drunken peasant beats his horse to death while all the onlookers laugh it made me so sick that I closed the book and never opened it again.

So this story doesn't surprise me because nothing has changed.

Animal cruelty is a part of their history.

[quote]Stepan [italic]Zhir[/italic]yakov, the vice-chairman of the Agrarian Committee, clarified that dogs “should not be equated to sexual minorities.”

Bitch got a gender-neutral pronoun for a surname. IT shouldn't be saying shit about sexual minorities. OR animals.

If I lived in Russia, I'd be an alcoholic too

Anybody who mistreats animals is beyond disgusting.

What is up with Russian culture? What a dismal lot they are. And they seem so paranoid and obsessed with homosexuality.

The implication, r12, is that gay people are not really human. Along with animals, women, kids, the disabled, people who speak different languages, etc., therefore not worth rghts.

It wasn't so long ago the same mindset prevailed here. Russia, of course, is very backward in its thinking.

There's a reason why the Nazis fled in terror when they heard the Russians were on their tail at the end of the war. They knew they were more barbaric than even they were.

Everyday some new, awful thing emerges from this hellhole.

It's an awful story. However, I wonder how Russia might spin stories about the USA, such as the undercover footage of appalling animal abuse in factories, pigeon shoots in PA, canned hunts in Texas (where Scalia said adios), dog fighting (Hiya, Mike!), etc.

Like Russians care about animal abuse, R23. They don't even give a shit about domestic violence or child abuse.

Somebody please just put this entire country out of its misery.

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Russians are the true animals.

Are there any DL scholars who can explain why Russian culture is the way it is? Is it genetic? Is it historical? What factors produced people who behave like this? I don't even trust the expats I've met. I feel like they are up to no good all the time.

They are psychopaths.

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Animal torture is a precursor to serial killing. I say save the animals, but let the little psychos start offing each other. A win-win for the rest of the world. They can start frying each other up and eating each other too. They like doing that.

[quote]There must be a shared psychopathy in the genes of Russians. They all seem either horrible, cold and evil or depressed drunkards and druggies.

But, they are white, though!

[quote]The implication, [R12], is that gay people are not really human. Along with animals, women, kids, the disabled, people who speak different languages, etc., therefore not worth rghts. [bold]It wasn't so long ago the same mindset prevailed here.[/bold]

It still does, and it is played out daily in Amerikkka (and on DL).

You theenk THEES is animal cruelty? BAH-HA-HA! Just wait 'til we keel Moose and Squirrel!

R29 It’s very complicated to explain but ultimately it does go back to Communism. Russians were bred to be like working ants. They had so many cultural things blocked other countries (even perceived repressed ones) had access to. Even if Russia was fully Westernised now, it would take several generations to dissolve the ingrained mindset. Think of it from their perspective. Imagine if 20 years ago Westerners were told we had to behave in certain ways under law, not be individuals and not have full control over our life path. You know full well that 20 years on most of us (older ones) would be rebelling, as we had been bred and raised in a different world. It would be the younger people who would be conforming, but even here the influence of the older generations would still imprint on them to some degree.

Russia is similar to the above. You cannot effectively enslave people under communist rule for generations and not see the behaviour born of that everywhere decades later.

All these factors are why Communism has terrified Western Countries for many decades. Because in order for it to work, peoples mindsets have to be reduced to a set of permitted norms. Human nature can become incredibly cruel if it’s permitted to be by a norm.

Hatred of homosexuality has been part of Communist ideology since the very beginning, from Stalin to Castro, so it's no surprise that this politician is batting for that team.

Very sad.

Why am I not surprised that animal cruelty is an epidemic in Russia?

[quote] There must be a shared psychopathy in the genes of Russians. They all seem either horrible, cold and evil or depressed drunkards and druggies.

[quote] But, they are white, though!

You see the connection?

You know the old adage about how children who kill animals grow up to kill people?

Dostoevsky knew. In THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV he wrote of gross little Smerdyakov being caught ceremonially killing cats and holding elaborate funerals, complete with incense and hymns. The servants found out and kicked his ass.