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Alice Bellandi wins gold for Italy with a kiss. Giorgia Meloni wants to take away her rights as an Italian citizen. (slrpnk.net)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Five@slrpnk.net to c/lgbtq_plus@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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Via Pics on Reddit as "Italian right wing prime minister Giorgia Meloni reacts to two girls kissing at the olympics"

Gay Olympic judo athlete wins gold and celebrates by kissing her girlfriend - Team LGBTQ's Alice Bellandi brought Italy its first Olympic gold medal in judo since 2008 in scintillating fashion.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at the South Paris Arena for the Italy 🆚 Netherlands match
Italian far-right government limits parental rights of same-sex couples - Gay rights activists on Tuesday denounced as homophobic moves by Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni’s far-right-led government to limit recognition of parental rights to the biological parent only in the case of same-sex parents.

Post was originally titled "Lesbian Kiss at the Olympics / Far Right Italian Prime Minister Reaction" but the pictures are unlikely to have been taken at the same event.

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[–] Lemvi@lemmy.sdf.org 252 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I know that Alice Weidel, co-chairwoman of the german right-wing extremist party AfD is openly gay and in a relationship with a woman from Sri Lanka. Fun fact: while she actively tries to abolish same-sex marriage in Germany, her partner advocated for the introduction of same-sex marriage in switzerland.

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 126 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ಠ⁠_⁠ಠ what the fuck...?

[–] killingspark@feddit.org 133 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Welcome to German politics. You thought the orange boi was weird...

Maximilian Krah, the now more or less disgraced frontrunner for the EU elections has 7 kids from like 4 different women. The AfD still explicitly claims to be in favour of traditional families

[–] grue@lemmy.world 52 points 1 year ago

What's the contradiction? Clearly, he likes traditional families so much he started four of them! \s

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Former prime minister now disgraced former MP Boris Johnson thinks them be rookie numbers. If you know how many kids you have you're doing it wrong.

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[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 61 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

What kind of cognitive dissonance is going on here? FFS she probably flogs herself every night too.

[–] RedditRefugee69@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

Just doing it for the power I guess

[–] Resonosity@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

*cognitive dissonance, but I totally agree. How does the far right insulate themselves in such non-realities

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[–] will_steal_your_username@lemmy.blahaj.zone 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don't understand how conservative people keep falling for this stuff

[–] Agrivar@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Hint: it's the ignorance / under-education.

[–] Blubber28@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago

Our own far right leader Geert Wilders, who wants to exit the EU and limit immigration from islamic countries and central/eastern Europe, is married to a woman from Hungary.

Whenever a rightwing politician is yelling something is bad, chances are they are complicit of it themselves.

[–] Hirom@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

She deserves love like everyone. But she doesn't deserve to be elected.

[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Switzerland doesn't have same sex marriage? I'm surprised.

[–] FreeFacts@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Women were not allowed to vote in some parts of Switzerland before 1990.

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[–] Lemvi@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It does now, since 2022.

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[–] bulwark@lemmy.world 175 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love all the pearl clutching this Olympic season is causing. Good job France.

[–] z00s@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago

Ce n'est pas grand-chose, mais c'est un travail honnête

[–] UNY0N@lemmy.world 125 points 1 year ago

[–] Freefall@lemmy.world 120 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gay stuff in the Olympics, eh? Sounds like they are taking The Games back to their roots! 👍🏻

[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I bet viewership will go up if they bring back the old rule about everyone competing nude.

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That would make the Olympics way cooler. I'd watch the shit out of nude mountain biking and nude BMX.

[–] apocalypticat@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Nude fencing would be lit

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nude wrestling.

Though, based on some research I've done, nude wrestling is hottest when they start clothed but need to remove the clothes from their opponent as part of the match.

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[–] aliteral@lemmy.world 96 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Fuck Meloni. Fuck the far right.

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[–] ImWaitingForRetcons@lemm.ee 62 points 1 year ago

She’s just envious, leave her be to wistfully contemplate what could have been…

[–] ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 61 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Her eyes genuinely look like they're watering up too. Considering the expression, I doubt it's a wholesome tearjerking moment, but I still struggle to grasp the idea of someone becoming so full of eye watering rage over two people showing love to each other.

I'm sure there are worse timelines but this definitely isn't one of the good ones.

[–] Potatisen@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To me it looks like she wants in, she's been denying these feelings in herself for so long she that the freedom to express love like that, so freely and without hesitation must be bliss just outside of reach for her.

[–] tabris@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Did we all just forget that her partner was caught setting up a threesome with another woman? Just because he was only caught once does not mean it was the only time. I think Georgia loves a fishy Friday.

[–] sudneo@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

The picture is from a completely different event, so unfortunately the two things are completely unrelated.

Possibly she would have reacted similarly, who knows...

[–] zib@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That is the look of someone desperately trying to not be turned on at the exact moment they realize they're fighting a losing battle.

[–] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm hoping her head will just pop.

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[–] Tikiporch@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago

I didn't know kissing was in the Olympics this year.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

as a cishet, from the bottom of my heart: seethe. don't even cope, which you clearly can't. just die alone seething.

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[–] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago

Jealousy

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

HOW DARE YOU EXIST AND COMPLICATE MY WORLD

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

*world view

Absolutely nothing about lgbtq people actually has an effect on their day to day lives.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

oh it absolutely does, it makes them have to constantly confront the fact that they're not a perfectly straight and uncomplicated being, that almost everyone has more nuance to their identity than that, and it makes them very uncomfortable and afraid.

the right wing is full of people who are suffused with internalized bigotry and are constantly bottling up their true identity, it's sad as fuck

[–] theangryseal@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They want order and structure above all things it seems. “These are the rules, I have followed them all of my life. I’ve been told that I’m battling a supernatural force and I’ve been winning. You don’t even try to fight it. You embrace it. I’m worried that god might not exist to punish you, so I want to punish you on his behalf. My children see you and they may think to themselves, “maybe I don’t have to follow these rules.” I’m afraid to face my neighbors and fellow churchgoers with a kid who sees your carefree, sinful lifestyle and chooses to embrace freedom over suffering. Life is suffering, and if you won’t suffer willingly then I’ll make you suffer.”

I don’t know. I can’t get in anybody’s head, but I’ve known some seriously repressed and miserable people in my life.

I knew a guy growing up, his dad was a preacher. When we were about 13-14 he asked me, “angryseal, have you ever given thought to being gay?” I told him I hadn’t, not seriously. He’s never said anything else about it but he is furiously homophobic today.

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[–] Juice@midwest.social 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"If I can't have it, noone can!"
But you can hav---
"I SAID NOONE CAN HAVE IT!!!"

[–] half_built_pyramids@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

I hope this doesn't awaken something in me

[–] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Look at the jealousy in Meloni's eyes

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[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 23 points 1 year ago

Nooo not the kissies between women 😭

She's in shambles

[–] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hope she loses her citizenship and wins again against italy for a country that doesn't hate her

[–] sudneo@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

You can just get another passport and choose which country to compete for...

Aaaanyway, I doubt the whole country hates her, in fact despite being a catholic country and generally right wing, Italian population proved in many cases to be more progressive when their own interest was touched. The most interesting examples are the referenda on divorce and abortion.

[–] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 year ago

Die mad, Giorgia.

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure the gay Greek athletes of the past are looking down at this with joy, so whats the PMs problem?

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jealousy?

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[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Give her a moment, let her get acquainted with the reality at large.

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