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Rainbow Ascendant
•�August 13, 2021
•�800 Words •�129 Comments
I mentioned this Ipsos poll on global attitudes to LGBT in a previous Open Thread, but it really deserves a separate post on account of its significance. I think it demonstrates three things: LGBT rights (as in marriage and adoption) have become universalized beyond their Western core, with the Rest sliding into line soon after... Read More
Homosexuality and Honor Killings in the Arab World
•�June 25, 2019
•�100 Words •�30 Comments
Approval of them seem to be strongly correlated... at least according to this recent BBC poll. That is a rather more puzzling result than the fact that Arab religiosity is going down (through from a very high base), especially amongst the young. This has been frequently noted, by Razib Khan and others. Atheist YouTube is... Read More
Counting Gays
•�February 10, 2019
•�300 Words •�18 Comments
Just discovered this 2016 poll (Dalia) on percentage of people identifying as LGBT in Europe. Largely unsurprising. As I keep insisting, there's something with Poland. 2.5x as many LGBT amongst youth as in Hungary. I think my prediction that Poland will legalize gay marriage by 2028 might just turn out correct. What did surprise me... Read More
Based Chechen Man
•�July 16, 2017
•�100 Words •�143 Comments
Ramzan "White Sharia" Kadyrov on gays: There's a lot of problems with Chechnya and its position in Russia; problems which may well come to a head sooner or later. That said, as my ROGPR podcast colleague pigdog remarked, it's impossible to hate Kadyrov's "export version." Yes, of course he has a cult following on /pol/.
Kiselev Wants to Take You to a Gay Bar
•�July 6, 2015
•�2,100 Words •�37 Comments
A few days after the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage throughout the US, a fairly (in)famous Russian TV presenter expressed his support for gay civil unions on the nation's second biggest TV channel in front of a big projector screen blaring out "Love Works Miracles." No, he was not beaten up by skinheads with iron... Read More
Why Homosexuality Shouldn't be Promoted
•�February 17, 2013
•�500 Words •�23 Comments
I knew that gays had a maybe five or even ten times higher chance of getting AIDS and other STD's than heterosexuals. I didn't know the differential was actually more like 50. Something like 20% of the US gay population (which makes up 3.5% of its total population) is HIV positive. It is 5% in... Read More
My Piece On Pussy Riot At al Jazeera
•�August 23, 2012
•�500 Words •�54 Comments
A PR disaster: Five views on Pussy Riot's war. Go, read. Comment there if possible. Just a couple more notes: Since I submitted the article, commentator peter made one of the most convincing arguments against the validity of the sentence against Pussy Riot. I suppose this will be raised in PR's appeal. Just to clarify,... Read More
It's A Culture War, Stupid
•�August 8, 2012
•�900 Words •�48 Comments
One of the things that most annoys me about Western coverage of St.-Petersburg's law against homosexual propaganda to minors, the case against Pussy Riot, etc., is how it is almost always presented as a show-down between "liberated" and "creative" Russians and the macho dictator Putin. In reality, of course, it's a culture war - and... Read More
You've Been Gamed! How to Understand Modern American Society
•�June 27, 2012
•�700 Words •�38 Comments
And no, I ain't talking of that von Neumann crap. :) Game theory as developed by Heartiste and Co (1, 2, 3, 4). Before we start, there are two concepts we must avail ourselves of: Female hypergamy: Woman's tendency to mate up the social hierarchy. Soft polygamy: See picture right, as helpfully illustrated by yours... Read More
Evolutionary Roots of Homophobia?
•�April 15, 2012
•�300 Words •�57 Comments
Russia is in something of a homophobic fever. Four regions (including Saint-Petersburg) have banned the dissemination of "gay propaganda" to minors, it may yet go federal, and disassociated itself from a G8 statement on gay rights. It's obviously not like in many Middle Eastern countries where homosexuality is illegal (as in the USSR) but attitudes... Read More
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Anatoly Karlin
About Anatoly Karlin

I am a blogger, thinker, and businessman in the SF Bay Area. I’m originally from Russia, spent many years in Britain, and studied at U.C. Berkeley.

One of my tenets is that ideologies tend to suck. As such, I hesitate about attaching labels to myself. That said, if it’s really necessary, I suppose “liberal-conservative neoreactionary” would be close enough.

Though I consider myself part of the Orthodox Church, my philosophy and spiritual views are more influenced by digital physics, Gnosticism, and Russian cosmism than anything specifically Judeo-Christian.