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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 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 261 points 5 months ago (13 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 134 points 5 months ago (2 children)

ಠ⁠_⁠ಠ what the fuck...?

[–] [email protected] 145 points 5 months 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 58 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months 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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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What's surprising? It's 2024 and you still haven't understand that politicians are a bunch of corrupted criminals who's job is to lie?

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 5 months ago

[–] Professorozone 65 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

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

[–] RedditRefugee69 24 points 5 months ago

Just doing it for the power I guess

[–] Resonosity 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Blubber28 43 points 5 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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

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[–] bulwark 190 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] z00s 51 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 42 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Edit (IDK why):

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (2 children)

What sort of world are we in where I'm cheering on France?

Sorry about the racist/xenophobic/religious/batshit crazy American shitholes, world... They only represent 20-40% of us. They're very loud... We can hear them more then you, trust me. We aren't fond of them.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The American right seems to be the world's dumping ground for problematic individuals, e.g. Pierce Morgan and Nigel Farage.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Rupert Murdoch too, unfortunately that cunt is too globally influential for the damage to remain in America

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What sort of world are we in where I'm cheering on France?

Sorry about the racist/xenophobic...

🤔

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[–] Freefall 136 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] VindictiveJudge 46 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (5 children)

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

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[–] UNY0N 135 points 5 months ago

[–] aliteral 105 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Fuck Meloni. Fuck the far right.

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 5 months ago

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

[–] ObsidianZed 68 points 5 months 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 34 points 5 months 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 15 points 5 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months 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 53 points 5 months 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 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm hoping her head will just pop.

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[–] Brunbrun6766 51 points 5 months ago

Jealousy

[–] iAvicenna 46 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

HOW DARE YOU EXIST AND COMPLICATE MY WORLD

[–] Duamerthrax 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

*world view

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (2 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

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[–] pyre 45 points 5 months ago (4 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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[–] Tikiporch 44 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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

[–] half_built_pyramids 34 points 5 months ago

I hope this doesn't awaken something in me

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Look at the jealousy in Meloni's eyes

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago

Nooo not the kissies between women 😭

She's in shambles

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago

Die mad, Giorgia.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months 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?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Jealousy?

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[–] Lemminary 14 points 5 months ago

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

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