That's not what a thought terminating cliche is. And no, the fact I didn't bother to get bogged down in whatever tedious secondary argument you want to have does not remotely mean my initial point is wrong.
That's their standard go-to line now: they can't argue that the West is good anymore, it's become too obvious that it's not, so now they always resort to "but everyone else does it!"
Yes. It does. Just because you like the left wing ascetic and want free healthcare doesn't mean you're not a liberal, and that describes a lot of people here.
Communists have fairly consistently been more progressive than their capitalist contemporaries on LGBT issues