Yea right, because America is so perfect, Mr Costas...

[NuclearDem]

54. OFFS.

It's not xenophobic to say that the US is miles ahead of Russia when it comes to LGBT rights. You cite one state--one fucking state--and imply that that somehow makes us no better than Russia. DOMA was struck down, gay marriage is legal in many states, we have hate crime laws, and gays can serve openly in the military. Gay marriage is not legal anywhere in Russia, gays can't serve openly in the Russian military, and the Russian government has made it illegal to even "act gay" in public.

And for the rest of it, we are still far better than Russia. It's a country that poisons its dissidents, flattens their own cities dealing with terrorism, has the worst inequality between rich and poor in the Western world, supports its own brutal dictators throughout the world, and celebrates their war criminals to the point that they made one of them their president.

Good God, it's not xenophobic to point out that Russia is just objectively worse, and absolutely fucking no one is trying to excuse what we do by pointing out Russia's faults. In fact, the only ones using that logic are you and the other people doing the reverse.