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[sleepymccoy]

what was done to make the legalization of gay marriage damaging there?

They ran a plebiscite, which is like a non mandatory opinion poll for the country

The thing was, the public demand from queer groups for gay marriage to be legal was so so high in 2017. 2017! Not ten years ago, of course it was common to be okay w gay marriage.

The Labor party were in opposition and had fairly calmly promised to legalise next time they were in power. The Coalition, who were in power, reaaallly didn't want to tho. Cos they're homophobes. But demand was so high that had to do something, so they did a plebiscite

Firstly, gay rights is not such a complex matter that the government can't figure it out themselves. We vote for them to represent us, this was the coalition going mmmm I don't wanna represent that, gross. Can the population do it for me?

Secondly, queer people are a minority. We're meant to be protected by the government. The government, the coalition, did not protect their citizens

What it meant was a public debate, with tv required to air equal weight to each side. And the coalition, the Australian government, ran vote no ads

So we had a big old public debate. With the coalition getting to hate on gay kids and tag it with 'sponsored by the Australian government, Canberra' tag at the end. It's very hard to find examples of this now, but different ads ran all night long. The love the community tried to pour out was not worth the hate that was supported to speak

This is an ad that ran before the plebiscite was announced, explaining the danger it could have

Here's the foreign minister being shown an ad that tells people to vote no, and her saying it's fine for that to play on prime time tv. It's wild, watch it

No gay organisation wanted the plebiscite. Once it happened they pulled their socks up and campaigned, of course, but it was devastating and devisive. I started wearing a rainbow flag as a wee 22ish year old and people threw slurs. The cruelty was on the street like it never had been before, and didn't need to be

The plebiscite passed with a yes vote

I can remember a lot of reporting around how 61.6% (yes votes) of 79.5% (total votes) is less than half. Less than half of the country gave enough of a shit to vote yes put the letter back in the mail box. Cunts.

The government then didn't pass it into law! No, they had a conscience vote, which means the ministers are not required to vote down party lines but can vote freely with no repercussions. Labor, in opposition, voted mostly yes. The coalition split the vote, but it did get over and gay marriage was dragged into law

Obviously it's good that we have gay marriage

Idve prefered we didn't subject our community to government sponsored vitriol for it. And I won't forgive the coalition ever. They are cowards. I would have absolutely preferred to wait three years and make an election of it

And I hate that they get to say they moved the country forward with this liberal equal rights agenda. Cos they didn't. They looked at their job, which is to make law, and found a novel way to step on the queers a little before doing that

[hussyknee]

I'm really not a villain enjoyer. I love anti-heroes and anti-villains. But I can't see fictional evil separate from real evil. As in not that enjoying dark fiction means you condone it, but that all fiction holds up some kind of mirror to the world as it is. Killing innocent people doesn't make you an iconic lesbian girlboss it just makes you part of the mundane and stultifying black rot of the universe.

"But characters struggling with honour and goodness and the egoism of being good are so boring." Cool well some of us actually struggle with that stuff on the daily because being a good person is complicated and harder than being an edgelord.

Sure you can use fiction to explore the darkness of human nature and learn empathy, but the world doesn't actually suffer from a deficit of empathy for powerful and privileged people who do heinous stuff. You could literally kill a thousand babies in broad daylight and they'll find a way to blame your childhood trauma for it as long as you're white, cisgender, abled and attractive, and you'll be their poor little meow meow by the end of the week. Don't act like you're advocating for Quasimodo when you're just making Elon Musk hot, smart and gay.

[cheeseknives]

why does youtube give me diaper ads when I try to watch James May make toasted sandwiches.....

[bmpmp3]

everyone on earth probably has a hypothetical farming sim in their mind's eye that they daydream about on occasion because of the unfortunate situation that despite there being like a thousand farming games released every minute only like 4 of them are any good. and i think this is fun, i think its good to keep the imagination alive. if i made a farming sim i would bring back rival marriages from the old friends of mineral town. i want to steal someones wife.

[canmom]

every time I'm inclined to think 'oh, i should catch up with what friends posted on Instagram'... well, i just end up like 'how does anyone use this program', every other post is an ad and they fucking play sound at you.

[mirensiart]

Oh the critique was mainly about Awakening and why I personally feel the timeline with Archanea is so confusing if its alright to share?

oh yeah! though to be fair, I do feel a lot of stuff about awakening is mostly just references for nostalgia’s sake and they didn’t think about it too much cause awakening was supposed to be the last game ever in the franchise so they probably just went “eh fuck it” and added a lot of stuff just because (example: Priam lmao)

like Lucina cosplaying as marth is 100% nostalgia based and meant as fanservice cause they really didn’t think they would get a new game lol so I personally wouldn’t see awakening’s plot devices as too deep?

[moonwoodhollow]

opened instagram, got bombarded with ads, and closed instagram. an endless circle.

[lenskij]

grrrr there's a chamber music festival nearby on a weekend where i am away!!!

[cowardstiel]

i think it should be mandatory that everyone watch The Social Dilemma at least once every six months

[mysticdragon3md3]

Sometimes the YouTube algorithm suggests unexpected things.

[jyndor2]

lmaooo what is this ad

this is not how butt hair gets removed btw 😭😭😭

[tetrilys]

Nice try, ads...

You're trying to sell me the items that I just sold to you

[lukabellinus]

idk if i should be gender affirmed or annoyed that im getting ads for guy products. idk man the jeans for dudes under 5'8" was kinda rude af lmfao

[elyfar]

huh????

[mishtergoose]

I absolutely love the homoerotic turn my ads on this app have taken lol 😂😅😂😂😂😂😂

[crazysodomite]

lets talk about twitter likes and why we don't like them.

i mean obviously the algorithm right. but then again even if it was strictly chronological i wouldn't like it either. i hate the feeling of mine and everyone elses posts just kinda flying into the nether. if you really liked someone's post or artwork on a twitter-like and you want to find it again? good luck bc theres no tags lol and adding tags into the body of the post is really annolying it feels like those instagram captions that put 10000 tags into the bottom of the body of the post. ITS UGLY .

posting on twitterlikes feels like this basically. there's no "oh let me check out their art tag or their oc tags etc" there's no "let me get one of my old posts and rb it again"