australia is tearing itself apart over same-sex marriage

Come on mate it's a Sunday morning pic.twitter.com/cW9wZW52WY

— Michael Koziol (@michaelkoziol) August 6, 2017

~discourse~

actually i'm going to ask mods to delete that, really not helpful to propagate shit like that, i'm sorry

For guck's sake it just makes a homophobe look stupid, imo

Best response to that tweet is "why do you have 46002 unread emails?"

estela would you kindly take up the position of kevin rudd's official biographer

imagine having him seething and plotting in the background ever after, it would be so petty and unpleasant

kevin rudd: the seething years

the apple-cheeked avenger

this is going to end with another plebiscite isn't it

in come the bigots wit their propaganda

The splash you have when you don't have a splash. Dean Smith has been very open about how his views on marriage equality have changed. pic.twitter.com/AlUxPmVO4r

— Michael Koziol (@michaelkoziol) August 6, 2017

murdoch just has to piss all over this country

Only good thing about all this is how much Turnbull must be shitting himself this morning

i reckon he's already decided to capitulate to the bigots and is having a nice morning

on second thoughts he's probably preparing to fend off a leadership challenge

...which might have been what you meant in the first place

^^

all aboard the potato express

the homophobes are really not helping their cause

Craig Kelly says it'll be a "tricky backdoor method" if marriage equality passes without a plebiscite.

— Josh Taylor (@joshgnosis) August 7, 2017

the neighbours are probably wondering why i'm yelling "kill yourself" twice every 15 mins

If they're anything like the average Australian they probably just think you're talking to a refugee

bigots got their way because of course they did

matthias cormann went on lateline and emma alberici tore him a new arsehole. right out the gate she threw the consequences of his bigotry straight in his shit-eating face. on this fucking shitbag of a day this one savaging was a proper delight.

(for the record cormann is a fiercely gay-hating bigot)

He also has the strangest accent I've ever heard.

we should have a national public vote on whether he should shut the fuck up

the bureau of statistics will run the postal plebiscite. $122m.

maybe we can also have a plebiscite on whether to lock all these fuckheads in a single car boot

i can't hear Cormann talk and not picture Ranier Wolfcastle tbh /pvmic

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bz-lUc9CMAAc06x.jpg

I have shared that clip with an expert on the spectrum of phonemes in the english language and the verdict is that he does indeed sound objectively weird

belgium's australia's shame

I was shocked to learn he was Belgian and not South African, but then I've always thought he be right a home in a Vorster cabinet.

plebisc-heid

I went to say hi to some lesbian mums visiting parli today, and found them quietly crying as they looked through their Facebook feeds.

— Lane Sainty (@lanesainty) August 8, 2017

There is just extraordinary anger & emotion in the community about the way the government has handled this.

— Lane Sainty (@lanesainty) August 8, 2017

plebiscite legislation goes to parliament today. when it's knocked back, the government will try to conduct a postal vote on whether gay people are people whether gay people are allowed to get married, run by the bureau of statistics. if that goes ahead i'll probably start a new thread with a great big faq at the top so the world can see at a glance what an astronomical fucking tragedy this is

i'm just so, so tired

between this and refugees killing themselves on manus island and that horrifying trump/turnbull transcript this week.......honestly i don't know where to begin with the incompetence of these buffoons

the press is unanimous in rolling its eyes. everyone can see what a joke this is and everyone's exhausted.
the lgbtiq community is a mess atm, if joy melbourne (radio station) is any indication.

(fwiw i hate referring to "the lgbt community" like there's a hivemind, but now that the govt is forcing us to compartmentalise every lgbtiq person like fucking cattle it's difficult not to)

Its worth remembering theyre not - I actually have some LGBT friends who are vehemently anti marriage, see it as a cis/religious/patriarchal institution not worth scrabbling for and I have to admit, I kinda get that. While this is an important thing to legislate for, I cant help but wearily think "but marriage is a religiously-created crock of fucking shite that made women chattel anyway so fuck it all"

Like - Abbot and his comments about how marriage was "protecting women and children" all thru the ages. HA HA FUCKING WHAT. We were OWNED. We were RAPEABLE. We were CHATTEL and CATTLE. We were non human items to be traded for wars and kingdoms and kings. Fuck off with your protecting women shit tones.

I have friends like that, but I also have friends who are gay and deeply want to express they commitment in the form of marriage. Choice is a wonderful thing.

What do Tony and the gang hope to achieve, do they get an extra hand shandy from Jesus for every day they delay this? Tony the fuck stick wants to make this about the politically correct elites vs the true blue battlers. It con tines to be nasty and painful and will only get worse.

yeah it's all so fucking transparent (xp to trayce)

What do Tony and the gang hope to achieve

just bigotry, nothing else

holy shit penny wong's senate speech

plebiscite defeated in the senate

A good thing, yes?

depends on what consider to be "good", because now they're going to stage a postal survey instead, which is basically the same thing but non-compulsory and completely unreliable

A survey? Uh.

i'm doing a faq atm

Like - Abbot and his comments about how marriage was "protecting women and children" all thru the ages. HA HA FUCKING WHAT. We were OWNED. We were RAPEABLE. We were CHATTEL and CATTLE. We were non human items to be traded for wars and kingdoms and kings. Fuck off with your protecting women shit tones.

this is such a great post