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[Tack]

Yeah, once the Aussie democrats get back into power we might get gay marriage.
Or, considering how our labor party works, a new set of satellite dishes.

Yes. They are the parent who gives you a playstation to get your mind off your dog's terminal illness.
(Yes, I am a liberal supporter. (Aussierepublican). Albeit... not an Abbott supporter.

[hops]

Does that mean that asian countries like Japan will also legalize gay marriage too? Especially since Japan is just being being homophobic to make America-senpai notice it.

[Kadzar]

Oh, so you guys had to be dragged to gay marriage kicking and screaming through mandates.
Meanwhile, everyone in Ireland agreed that gay marriage is cool. We voted on it and almost everyone agreed.
So, in short, America is worse then Ireland forever.
...
Joking. In reality, congratulations America and the LGBTQ+ community. Go get married and divorced. You earned it.

We never really got an option to vote on it. American works mostly on representational government; things like propositions only exist occasionally on state on local levels. At least as far as I know. Someone else who actually knows about politics can feel free to back me up or tell me how fucking wrong I am.

Gay marriage legal in the whole US. So that's cool.

Good job Murrica. You're sorta ten years behind everyone else, but whatever.

"Everyone else"

I feel like that chart should have more color differentiation, if not for legibility, then at least for theme.

[kaenneth]

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[Itnetlolor]

Sorry for the potential lack of happies, but whenever I hear of anything sufficiently great to pretty much groundbreaking levels, like the recent events, for example (not that I was a supporter or not; I'm indifferent to it), I generally keep an eye out for anything cataclysmic/disastrous in nature to balance the scales; that or, this could be a way of drawing attention away from a much greater issue.

In other words, everything balances out. For every great good, a great evil must make show as well. Prevention only delays, or dilutes it over time. It is inevitable. Naturally, I also hold this belief for every time I'm miserable as a ray of hope. If I am in the deepest pits of despair, then something ought to come along to balance the scales there, and make up the difference. Of course, given the dilution factor, I can get hit with feeling like crap intensely, and get good will/luck trickling down over the course of 10x-100x the time as it was intense of misery (which I kinda feel is bullshit, if you ask me; it's like 1 week of intense crap, and 4 months of neutral-good luck to balance it out. Mostly neutral (no bad luck, but no good luck either, or at least, the bare minimum of good luck). Like washing away sulfuric acid with only water, and then a sanitizer to finish it off.); although bad luck won't hit again, good luck takes it's time delivering itself, making itself relatively not worth the wait anymore.

[Fniff]

Oh, so you guys had to be dragged to gay marriage kicking and screaming through mandates.
Meanwhile, everyone in Ireland agreed that gay marriage is cool. We voted on it and almost everyone agreed.
So, in short, America is worse then Ireland forever.
...
Joking. In reality, congratulations America and the LGBTQ+ community. Go get married and divorced. You earned it.

We never really got an option to vote on it. American works mostly on representational government; things like propositions only exist occasionally on state on local levels. At least as far as I know. Someone else who actually knows about politics can feel free to back me up or tell me how fucking wrong I am.

Huh, really? Wow, that's irritating.

[Frumple]

Nah, not really. Many states (most, I think, have held a vote, several of them multiple ones) did vote on it, for or against. It was just determined by the supreme court that those that chose in favor of discrimination were without legal basis, more or less.

[Yoink]

Yeah, once the Aussie democrats get back into power we might get gay marriage.
Or, considering how our labor party works, a new set of satellite dishes.

Yes. They are the parent who gives you a playstation to get your mind off your dog's terminal illness.
(Yes, I am a liberal supporter. (Aussierepublican). Albeit... not an Abbott supporter.

This topic is the whole reason I vote for Abbott.

[flame99]

I may end up moving out of my parent's place in Texas and instead living with my grandparents in Michigan where I'll likely be facing far less prosecution and have much better prospects for education.

The only major issue is my grandpa isn't quite pro-homosexuality, but it's one bigot who knows and likes me and isn't violently anti-gay versus an entire town o]f people who'd want me dead.

[Fniff]

I found one of my old stories.

[Kadzar]

Nah, not really. Many states (most, I think, have held a vote, several of them multiple ones) did vote on it, for or against. It was just determined by the supreme court that those that chose in favor of discrimination were without legal basis, more or less.

Right, but that was for determining the legality for each individual state, wasn't it? Issues on a federal level aren't up for a direct popular vote.

Which kinda sucks, but it's hard to elsewise considering that the US is the third most populous country. Hell, even my own state has a million more residents than the Republic of Ireland, and it's near the middle in rank as far as population goes. The true middle state, Louisiana, 25th in population, is very close to Ireland in population, though it has about a 40k lead.

So the logistics of counting any sort of popular vote for the entire country is like trying to do so for 50 Irelands at once, and you have to keep in mind, we don't even allow any sort of electronic voting; all votes for the presidential election are counted by hand because people are afraid a computer-based vote will be rigged by a hacker. So I guess it kind of makes sense that we don't have any federal referendums or anything like that.

[Fniff]

... Jesus Christ, looking at the population, that's a lot of votes to count by hand. Even if people who don't vote are the majority.
Man, I feel kinda bad for making fun there, now. My head hurts trying to picture a federal referendum now.

[Yoink]

Just put my first load of washing on in the household's new washing machine.
Let's hope it doesn't destroy my clothes, since I kinda guessed at the settings on the console. Also it might be haunted.

[Spehss _]

Just put my first load of washing on in the household's new washing machine.
Let's hope it doesn't destroy my clothes, since I kinda guessed at the settings on the console. Also it might be haunted.

Sacrifice a virgin goat and throw it in the load as well. It doesn't hurt to be cautious and get on the washing ghost's good side.

[Yoink]

Pffft, it has to actually show its wrath, first. Once my freshly-laundered clothes come out of the spin cycle soaked in blood and/or try to strangle me when I wear them I'll consider making sacrifice to the washing machine. Until then, the Sacred Laundry Liquid shall have to do.