Who would you rather be your president: Putin or Trump?

Violent? No real evidence of that. And what is it with people blaming an entire nation and it's government on him being some cartoon evil person? Do you even know the story behind that "anti LGBT" claim? Are you referring to the so called anti gay propaganda law that was passed? Because 99% of what you hear about that was actually sourced from a Canadian travel blog and is wrong. Interestingly enough the UK had a nearly identical law till about 2008 but nobody calls the Brits anti LGBT. Or in the US if you are in some states you can kill a gay person and almost be certain to get away with it if you claim "gay panic" defense as demonstrated by the Mathew Shepard case. People in glass houses and all that...

I blame American censorship of information.

That is part of the problem. Control of the narrative. But it is also about demonizing a nation that chooses to be independent and does not kneel before the POTUS. If all those pompous windbags in Washington, Brussels or Ottawa really cared they would get their own house in order first instead of doing one thing and criticizing others like the hypocrites they are. The problem is most people in the west just assume that "bad things don't happen here" so they assume they have the moral high ground. Also the Orthodox Church has massive amounts of power in Russia and makes some of the US southern right wing look liberal. Russia also practices some forms of direct democracy which allows them to wield vast amounts of influence in government. For example in Russia if petitions are submitted that fit certain criteria are submitted to the government on a proposed new piece of legislation the Duma is required by law to present the bill. So powerful groups can literally introduce laws directly into the legislature. So all of this to say it is all much more complicated then "west good. Putin bad."

You're trolling, right?

I'm right, troll.

Please kill yourself.

Oh I hear the truth about him. I'm intentionally being hyperbolistic out of satire because Trump's batshit crazy and doesn't give a shit about human rights, it seems.

He doesn't give a shit about namby pamby political correctness. It's time to stow the moral relativism and realize that there are good and bad people on this planet. We have to quit making excuses for evil sonsabitches ..some cultures need to be isolated from other cultures.

*facepalm*
It's not about political correctness. I use terms like "retard" and "autistic" as insults all the time. It's the fact that he is harmful and is crazy. Trump should be nowhere near politics.

Putin's pretty cool. It's just that I don't know too much about him but I know he sides with Trump and is more conservative. I mean Russia is anti-LGBT, aren't they?

Yeah. The only thing that I don't agree with Putin on is trump

Can you enlighten me on Putin's policies?

Russia has never been communist.

LOL,

Russia was socialist during the USSR. They took on some Marxist ideas, but they weren't a true communist state. Russia now follows a more capitalistic model. Before Lenin, they were Tsarist. Lenin implemented socialism as a step towards communism, but they never achieved a true communistic state.

Exactly why I'm saying both are pretty damn crazy, but you have to pick the lesser of evils here xD

Yeah x.x Putin also is pro-Science. I think he's anti-LGBT though but he's handling ISIS well. US is too far away from Saudi for us to really consider doing too much there. We should provide assistance to refugees, while they provide assistance to defeating ISIS.