During the last lavender scare, the Russians were just as paranoid that their gay citizens were western inventions and persecuted them quite heavily.

…while the US did the same, thinking they were also security risks. This culminated in a society so fearful that people used to introduce themselves first by telling people that they had a wife and kids, then their name. A government official even killed themselves at their desk because their son was outed as gay. We even sabotaged our own ICBM program by firing one of the only astronomers we had capable of working on such things, because he was gay.

He went on to be the father of the gay rights movement as we know it today.

David K Johnson has a whole book about the whole lavender scare, it’s quite a good read.

You guys gotta be more like America on the bike lanes one.

Just have crippling, insane traffic, where it takes you three hours to move five (5) city blocks (this has actually happened to me).

Suddenly, a new bike lane gets you across the city in 26 minutes.

It made the bike lanes very popular, haha.

Chicken of the cave!