Red Mosquito

stip wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:I've never felt so persecuted.

How would you feel if they didn't let people bring dancing parrots into public spaces?

Birds in Hell wrote:

WtOB? wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:Be good if people who have lost out could realise that unless we're all equal, none of us are. Nobody wins unless everybody wins etc

This is nonsense.

Was about to debate that then remembered how backward Australia is on marriage equality

that's because people like spenno keep voting for the old crusty white men and even crustier, older, whiter men coalition.

I wager most people are (sensibly) more concerned about issues such as the economy, national security, health and education than trendy causes like same sex marriage and so on.

Birds in Hell wrote:

WtOB? wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:Be good if people who have lost out could realise that unless we're all equal, none of us are. Nobody wins unless everybody wins etc

This is nonsense.

Was about to debate that then remembered how backward Australia is on marriage equality

that's because people like spenno keep voting for the old crusty white men and even crustier, older, whiter men coalition.

I wager most people are (sensibly) more concerned about issues such as the economy, national security, health and education than trendy causes like same sex marriage and so on.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:

WtOB? wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:Be good if people who have lost out could realise that unless we're all equal, none of us are. Nobody wins unless everybody wins etc

This is nonsense.

Was about to debate that then remembered how backward Australia is on marriage equality

that's because people like spenno keep voting for the old crusty white men and even crustier, older, whiter men coalition.

I wager most people are (sensibly) more concerned about issues such as the economy, national security, health and education than trendy causes like same sex marriage and so on.

I don't think gay people think that's merely a trendy cause.

Birds in Hell wrote:

WtOB? wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:Be good if people who have lost out could realise that unless we're all equal, none of us are. Nobody wins unless everybody wins etc

This is nonsense.

Was about to debate that then remembered how backward Australia is on marriage equality

that's because people like spenno keep voting for the old crusty white men and even crustier, older, whiter men coalition.

I wager most people are (sensibly) more concerned about issues such as the economy, national security, health and education than trendy causes like same sex marriage and so on.

stip wrote:For all the talk of people in NC supporting or not supporting the law, only 40% of eligible voters showed up in 2014 and the turnout was much higher among demographics likely to support it.

Birds in Hell wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:

WtOB? wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:Be good if people who have lost out could realise that unless we're all equal, none of us are. Nobody wins unless everybody wins etc

This is nonsense.

Was about to debate that then remembered how backward Australia is on marriage equality

that's because people like spenno keep voting for the old crusty white men and even crustier, older, whiter men coalition.

I wager most people are (sensibly) more concerned about issues such as the economy, national security, health and education than trendy causes like same sex marriage and so on.

I don't think gay people think that's merely a trendy cause.

I have no doubt that's true and I would expect them to vote accordingly.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:As I've said before, I can see both sides of this issue, but at the risk of being unpopular, I just feel the urge to say that the straight white dude outrage over this decision seems...excessive. And a bit privileged.

Could/should they have announced this earlier to alleviate financial and logistical strain on fans? Yeah, probably. That's a shitty situation and I'd be mad if it happened to me. But this does make a statement of solidarity that I'm sure does genuinely mean something to a lot of LGBT people who feel persecuted by this law. At the end of the day, I think that's more important than some money and time I may or may not have lost.

WtOB? wrote:spenno how is the liberal party better with education and health? by privatising everything so no one can afford it? by cutting funding from them?

B wrote:It should be noted that our state is split roughly 50/50, but our General Assembly is split 70/30.

Birds in Hell wrote:Having read your post above again, I hope you don't take my posts to indicate that I think it's morally responsible to vote with an eye only your own interests as nothing could be further from the truth. If anything, that is my main criticism of anyone who engages in political activism to the extent of inflexible zealotry.