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sandensea

(21,615 posts)
9. It's the leadership
Tue May 23, 2017, 07:21 PM
May 2017

The people who have the run of this world are very good are using wedge issues to keep people fighting one another - and as you know, the LGBT community, in many countries, are some of the easiest targets.

Indonesia is a perfect case in point: while the everyday Indonesian is kept distracted over LGBT people, whether not nor "Allah approves" or some such nonsense, the grand poobahs are making off with billions and leaving everyone else with this:

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