There are rants, and then there are rants. This one is clearly the latter.
It’s a caustic speech from an Australian fellow who’s jolly cross about the state of marriage equality in his country, and it’s deservedly going viral.
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As the government preps to put the issue to a non-binding public vote in September, Mark Orval of Melbourne – who’s been monikered “Angry Dad” for his various vitriolic rantings – goes off on all the drama, conflama, etc.
How about we take this to the next level?
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And people are listening, too: The vid’s already racked up three million views.
“Don’t fucking start me on that shit,” Orval shouts.
“They’re spending $122 fucking million on that—to have us fucking vote as to whether they should allow gay marriage. Whose business is it of the fucking politicians to say who we can fucking marry and can’t marry?”
He then notes that $97 million could help “sick kids with cancer” and says that if politicians want this vote, they should take the cash out of their pensions.
“They won’t do it, ’cause they hide behind parliamentary privilege and all that shit….
Even then if the public come back and say mind your own business,’ as we should, they don’t have to pass it. People might say ‘yes, approve it’ [but]… they can just park it and say: ‘Now we know how you fucking think, but we’re not going to actually listen to you,’ like they do with every other fucking policy….
What’s the fucking point? Why don’t they deal with real issues?”
Meanwhile, Orval’s sons Dylan and Mitchell are also clearly fans of marriage equality:
Time to make a change I reckon, these politicians are clearly doin something wrong!Fuck it – ANGRYDAD FOR PM! #AD4PM 🌈Shirts available in comments, let's stir some shit up! Make sure you hashtag #AD4PM
Posted by AngryDad on Wednesday, August 23, 2017
And now, here’s that rant, as promised:
h/t: NewNowNext
dinard38
While I appreciate the support, could you have said it with a whole lot less cussing? Geez!!!! Every other word was the F-word.
reallythough
Why is it that we can’t wait to find fault with our supporters? Why is it that we can’t see that judging his language is a slippery slope away from judging the right of two people to marry? If his language offends us, we shouldn’t listen to it. We had plenty of warning there was going to be strong language. Let’s try to let each other live our own lives as we want and not harm each other.
Jack Meoff
The man clearly has anger management issues but at least his heart is in the right place
reallythough
Based on my experience, that’s just how Australians talk about politics, especially for the last decade or so. His family clearly loves him and is proud of him, and even enjoy egging him on. You don’t usually see that when people have real anger management problems. He’s just passionate that his government is wasting the public’s money on a non-binding poll that should never even be held in the first place, especially when that money could be used to help real people, like children with cancer.
maithu
Every other word was the F-word.
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DCguy
How interesting that a bunch of brand new screenames are on here, and they don’t want to directly say they are opposed to lgbt marriage, but they all wanted to find SOMETHING to attack about this guy.
Looks like we’ve seen 3 new screenames from Mo Bro.
GayEGO
I don’t know about Australia, but in America, taxpayers need to know about Marriage Equality being the law of the land, whether or not they vote. It is becoming a non-issue as people learn that equality is for all American citizens.
He BGB
I’m surprised Australia hasn’t approved equal marriage but it may be like in the US, a state like Georgia (the same prisoners the British king sent to colonize both places, lol), where Atlanta is very liberal but outside the city you have the biggest rednecks of all. So Sydney is cool but the outback is not. Not sure about Melbourne where this guy lives but that show Please Like Me takes place there (good show btw).
crowebobby
The dog is wandering around like nothing is going on, so he/she obviously knows there’s no real anger involved.