People are so cruel

I really need to stop reading the news, it depresses me so much. It's all about the US, anyway. I feel like Trump never left the media spotlight since he ran for president, and every day there's another article of him saying something retarded. Like the recent Charlottesville incident- I get that removing statues or whatever could be a sensitive topic, but this Nazi literally plowed through the crowd and killed someone with his car. Like, if you have a problem condeming a Nazi, you really should have been born when Hitler was still around. Of all the tough decisions and difficult political stances that might be expected of a US president, condemation of a Nazi should not be one of them. Actually, forget that this guy was a Nazi, the fact that he fucking MURDERED someone by running them over should be enough for you to say, "yeah that was bad". WTF is "blame on both sides"??? There are times in politics where you try to be vague and ambiguous but that was just a terrible time.

Then I go read the Facebook comments and it just fills me with grief. My responses range from "I can't believe someone actually WROTE that" to "is that what he REALLY THINKS?" Social media is bloody depressing. Also my Facebook is overflowing with messages encouraging people to enrol to vote. I'm in Australia, you see, and our government decided it would be appropriate to hold a non-binding postal vote on whether couples of the sex should be able to get married. Like, fucked as America is, the nation that is supposedly "united under God" is more progressive than we are. What.

I'm really avoidant and non-confrontational, even on my best days. I've rarely had the courage to speak up about the things I care about, or to take an adamant stance on ANYTHING, even when it affects me directly. This same-sex marriage thing is really, REALLY grating on my nerves though. I've actually had a terrible time coming to terms with myself, and seeing our government humiliate and deny people their basic dignity gives me the greatest grief. Some people just cannot be reasoned with, but I wish they would pause to think about what they were actually saying.

"If we allow the gays (note, we are "the gays", detached from our humanity and represented by nothing more than our sexuality) to marry, then will we marry dogs and goats later? When does it end?" Well I'd say we can end it at the "2 consenting adults" bit, really. One could argue your spouse has already married an absolute dodo, and they should be extinct, but here you are yapping away.

"What about the children? Every child deserves a mother and a father" The thing is, if you stop being such a prick to children with 2 same-sex parents, they'll be fine. There's no evidence to show that children are disadvantaged in any way, except for the discrimination they face for having 2 fathers or 2 mothers. And that's not their problem, that's what we need to fix as a society. Also, come on, we have sooooo many kids in the foster care system right now, and yeah they could benefit from a stable family. I've known so many shitty cases of people fostering children just so they could get that sweet centrelink money, and that kills me a little on the inside- and nobody cares if these fuckers are married or not. Marriage isn't about children, and not every marriage will produce children- some people don't even want children. God may want you to populate this Earth, but your God is not the same as everyone else's God.

"We are too politically correct these days, you can't disagree without being called a homophobe". And you are absolutely too sensitive, getting too offended when I call you a homophobe. If I was being "too politcally correct" I'd call you a "dissenter of marriage equality", but instead I called you a homophobe. "what's wrong with calling a spade a spade, after all?"

Sometimes I'm like, "I get it, I can sympathise". But then I'm like, "no, no I fucking can't, what the fuck is your problem".
-Don't like gay people? Don't fucking marry one.
-Don't want your kids raised by gay people? Fuck, raise them yourself then.
-Religious, don't want to marry gay people? Enjoy your religious exemption (yes, you have one)

At the end of the day, you are well within your rights to vote no. You just can't expect me to respect you for it, or take you seriously as a person. Yeah, it's okay to vote no, you homophobe.