Even tougher week for those who routinely find themselves on the wet end of the hot geyser of hatespew vomiting from the head holes of bigots. Tough week, too, if you’re the sort of Hufflepuff hall monitor who joins the ALP to fight injustice and routinely finds themselves embiggening injustice by voting for it.
Just when you think politics can't get any more grubby and the complete antithesis of protecting the weak over the powerful, the whole lot of them show us how low they can go... so far. Who knows where the next shit show will take them.
Nailed it! This whole fucked up excuse for a bill has irritated me loads. But at least it has once again brought out the opportunists and bigots for all to see. Very few things that in politics get more than a cursory grunt of ' what the fuck do you expect from these pricks', from me, but this made me fucking angry!
This seems to be the first place I've seen it more than alluded to that it wasn't brilliant Labor tactics, it was (as usual) Labor falling all over themselves to avoid a wedge and, as sometimes happens, needing someone with an actual spine in the Coalition and/or crossbenches to do their work for them.
But for Labor that's Tuesday. What is enraging about this instance - for me, so enraging that I've passed through the desire to use swears and out the other side again - is that they made a political calculation actively to harm vulnerable people in whose interests they were affecting to act, to avoid a wedge that doesn't actually exist.
Which leads us to a rather uncomfortable point. Stephen Jones MP made a genuinely moving and distressing speech about his gender-nonconforming nephew with at least some of the blame being sheeted home to queerphobic social narratives.
And then he and his Labor colleagues voted for legislation which at its core, despite the changes which would be genuinely helpful for the trans kids, is intended to support and amplify those narratives.
It really *bothers me (even as an unbeliever) that people calling themselves Christians had a tanty and threw out this bill because it didn't give them the freedom to be as nasty, mean or bigoted as they wanted to be.
*I don't know why I let it bother me but it really really does.
Some why the fucks about the broader community discussions around this issue.
Why the fuck:
1. is it newsworthy that the legislation is intended to enable Christian extremists to beat up on people they hate, especially but not limited to teh gays? (supplementary: why has there been so little attention given to the fears of non-Christian groups and opposition from eg the Uniting Church, who saw it for what it was)?
2. is anyone surprised that a school owned by a church whose core skill is queerphobia, is queerphobic?
3. did parents who are now affecting to be outraged by said queerphobia send their kids where they are thusly indoctrinated and/or bullied every. single. day?
"nly to have that wedge jammed painfully into his own curry-lined rectal tissue by five of his former playground friends" well thats an image I will be scrubbing out of my head. I admit when I heard Labor was waving it through to the senate I felt a bit Hunter S Thompsonish, when he hear Ford gave Nixon a pardon. I was definately looking about for an ALP members front widow to lob a typewritter through it. Though I am happy to join in the chorus singing 'Eat Shit Lyle'.
thanks, John, for summing up how I am feeling about this particular shitshow. Living just north of Toowoomba, I particularly appreciate the graphic concerning Lyle Shelton. The Labor navel gazing after 2019 revealed how pissed off multicultural religious voters in outer Sydney & Melbourne were with Labor. I am wondering if using trans kids and queers kids as pawns, will retrieve any of those votes? Am I wrong to think that would have been part of Labor's strategy, as abhorrant as that thinking is?
The broader issue highlighted by the usual shitshow is why is Labor so easily wedged? How have they become so bad at explaining to the citizenry why what the COALition does (or doesn't do) is terrible? I know they are pushing shit up hill fighting the Murdoch media, but is that all there is to it? Labor should be able to win the debate on every issue!
We will act on wealth iequality by making the tax system MORE progressive again - instead they waive through the egregious 3rd stage tax cuts that massively benefit the top 10% without any fight when they could have simply deferred the issue until after the election.
We will act on climate with strong targets, industry support for emerging Green industries, and a price on carbon - how can this not cut through given the summer of 2020?
We will not allow discrimination on the basis of any arbitrary category! And yet, the above.
Fuck me they are useless, or perhaps it is the fault of the electorate too easily cowed by lying fear campaigns?
Just when you think politics can't get any more grubby and the complete antithesis of protecting the weak over the powerful, the whole lot of them show us how low they can go... so far. Who knows where the next shit show will take them.
Nailed it! This whole fucked up excuse for a bill has irritated me loads. But at least it has once again brought out the opportunists and bigots for all to see. Very few things that in politics get more than a cursory grunt of ' what the fuck do you expect from these pricks', from me, but this made me fucking angry!
This seems to be the first place I've seen it more than alluded to that it wasn't brilliant Labor tactics, it was (as usual) Labor falling all over themselves to avoid a wedge and, as sometimes happens, needing someone with an actual spine in the Coalition and/or crossbenches to do their work for them.
But for Labor that's Tuesday. What is enraging about this instance - for me, so enraging that I've passed through the desire to use swears and out the other side again - is that they made a political calculation actively to harm vulnerable people in whose interests they were affecting to act, to avoid a wedge that doesn't actually exist.
Which leads us to a rather uncomfortable point. Stephen Jones MP made a genuinely moving and distressing speech about his gender-nonconforming nephew with at least some of the blame being sheeted home to queerphobic social narratives.
And then he and his Labor colleagues voted for legislation which at its core, despite the changes which would be genuinely helpful for the trans kids, is intended to support and amplify those narratives.
Excuse me while I go and puke.
Again.
It really *bothers me (even as an unbeliever) that people calling themselves Christians had a tanty and threw out this bill because it didn't give them the freedom to be as nasty, mean or bigoted as they wanted to be.
*I don't know why I let it bother me but it really really does.
Our prime minister is nothing more than a performing monkey…
Wow, look at youse all, all riled up! Love it and jeez... too much anger? No. No. I can't say that. - I - rant with too much anger and bitterness.
I'm speechless. Y'all are amazing.
How the discourse has changed since I came out as Trans (female-to-male) in my early 20s.
Back to female long ago, but it was part of placing myself in the world.
Free from fear and a grace I gave myself to follow my dreams.
Some why the fucks about the broader community discussions around this issue.
Why the fuck:
1. is it newsworthy that the legislation is intended to enable Christian extremists to beat up on people they hate, especially but not limited to teh gays? (supplementary: why has there been so little attention given to the fears of non-Christian groups and opposition from eg the Uniting Church, who saw it for what it was)?
2. is anyone surprised that a school owned by a church whose core skill is queerphobia, is queerphobic?
3. did parents who are now affecting to be outraged by said queerphobia send their kids where they are thusly indoctrinated and/or bullied every. single. day?
"nly to have that wedge jammed painfully into his own curry-lined rectal tissue by five of his former playground friends" well thats an image I will be scrubbing out of my head. I admit when I heard Labor was waving it through to the senate I felt a bit Hunter S Thompsonish, when he hear Ford gave Nixon a pardon. I was definately looking about for an ALP members front widow to lob a typewritter through it. Though I am happy to join in the chorus singing 'Eat Shit Lyle'.
thanks, John, for summing up how I am feeling about this particular shitshow. Living just north of Toowoomba, I particularly appreciate the graphic concerning Lyle Shelton. The Labor navel gazing after 2019 revealed how pissed off multicultural religious voters in outer Sydney & Melbourne were with Labor. I am wondering if using trans kids and queers kids as pawns, will retrieve any of those votes? Am I wrong to think that would have been part of Labor's strategy, as abhorrant as that thinking is?
But they were playing 5 dimensional chess, John! (Pity about using gay and trans kids as pawns, but hey! eggs, omelettes, etc.)
Obviously some advisor was reliving his days as the Big Noise on Campus in Young Labor.
The broader issue highlighted by the usual shitshow is why is Labor so easily wedged? How have they become so bad at explaining to the citizenry why what the COALition does (or doesn't do) is terrible? I know they are pushing shit up hill fighting the Murdoch media, but is that all there is to it? Labor should be able to win the debate on every issue!
We will act on wealth iequality by making the tax system MORE progressive again - instead they waive through the egregious 3rd stage tax cuts that massively benefit the top 10% without any fight when they could have simply deferred the issue until after the election.
We will act on climate with strong targets, industry support for emerging Green industries, and a price on carbon - how can this not cut through given the summer of 2020?
We will not allow discrimination on the basis of any arbitrary category! And yet, the above.
Fuck me they are useless, or perhaps it is the fault of the electorate too easily cowed by lying fear campaigns?