What a remarkable piece of writing in Putin's Editorial at the NYT

[DevonRex]

140. Seriously, you are gay and you think this man

believes all people are born equal? I'm sorry but that is fucked up. Because Putin very clearly does not believe all people are born equal. That business about "the Lord?" He enlisted the Russian Orthodox Church to help him persecute LGBTs in Russia. That's actually the only reason he gives 2 shits about religion - to use it to control people. To persecute people. And he's happy with Neo-Nazis clubbing LGBTs and then having them arrested.

Nice man, that Putin. Using the extremes of church doctrine and violent Nazism to deny human rights. And the man has the gall to think he can lecture US? Fuck him.

If you'd like, we can go back further, to what he did to the Ossetians and Georgians in 2008. The crazy bastard actually blamed that war on the United States, too. Back then people actually called him unstable. And then further back to the Second Chechen War. All the forced "disappearances" and the carpet bombing of cities with mass civilian casualties. That's why we've taken so many Chechen in here. Remember the Boston Bombing.

Speaking of which, there is something very wrong with that whole scenario. Very, very wrong. Funny how Putin claimed to have warned us when he actually gave us no information at all about what Tamerlan did while in Chechnya and Dagestan.

Vlad is a not for democracy or liberalism in any way, shape or form. Or don't you know how the votes were rigged in all the states when he was supposedly elected? And don't you realize that he's only in power now because he grabbed it from Medvedev? Russians went to bed with Medvedev and woke up with Putin. Done deal. They had no say. Read about it. Then the anti-gay law happened.

Then a Putin backer found corruption in his government and was imprisoned, denied medical care, beaten and found dead in his cell. Magnitsky was his name. Then there were purges of liberals in the social sciences, economics, journalism. Liberals have fled the country. And now they want to rip children away from their LGBT parents.

And you think Putin makes sense? I'm sorry but WTF? Really. WTF.