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Civility
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I feel that "many" may be a stretch.
Ukrainians didn't "hold their pride march in a subway".
10 minutes after the 2024 Kyiv pride march started the marchers were dispersed and ordered onto trains by police in response to a large and violent right wing counter demonstration. The Ukrainian right has organised violent counter demonstrations every year since it's inception in 2012. They regularly prematurely end the march and have hospitalised dozens of marchers.
Violent crimes against queer people are not legally considered hate crimes in Ukraine. The punishment for assaulting a queer person is often just a small (less than 100 Euro) fine. The main goal of Kyiv pride is to change this.
"russian bombs" did not cause this, but they haven't helped. There are very few safe places for internally displaced LGBTQ+ people, especially those from Kharkiv and Donbass. They find it harder to find shelter and work than other IDPs, and are subject to heightened rates of physical and sexual violence.
Peter Dutton, Leader of the Opposition from the Hard Right wing of the Australian Liberal Party lost the federal election (current count is 41 seats to 81) and his own seat in Parliament 57%-43%.
He is the first leader of the opposition to ever lose their own seat.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-03/peter-dutton-losing-dickson-coalition-leadership/105247916
You may even wonder if you were rude in the debate, if the way you replied to a comrade may have hurt his feelings. I'm usually very careful about this. Whenever I have to criticize a comrade, the first thing I do is try to protect him to keep the criticism from being destructive, so it won't demoralize him and so, while serving as an example for others, it commits and stimulates him.
--Fidel Castro, Nothing Can Stop The Course of History, December 1986
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