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

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.

  • Lemvi@lemmy.sdf.org
    250·
    1 year ago

    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@lemmy.worldEnglish
      126·
      1 year ago

      ಠ⁠_⁠ಠ what the fuck…?

      • killingspark@feddit.orgEnglish
        133·
        1 year ago

        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.worldEnglish
          52·
          1 year ago

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

        • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
          15·
          1 year ago

          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.

        • theangryseal@lemmy.world
          6·
          1 year ago

          A traditional family is when a woman has 7 kids by the same man, duh. More than one, she’s a sluuuuuut.

          Now, men. That’s a different story. All they gotta do is warsh thurr wiener and bam, purity.

        • lars@lemmy.sdf.org
          5·
          1 year ago

          Sounds like Trump! Similarly, a majority of his wives weren’t American.

          • theangryseal@lemmy.world
            3·
            1 year ago

            I like my women like I like my Hitlers. Speaking a language I don’t understand. :p

    • Professorozone@lemmy.world
      61·
      1 year ago

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

    • Blubber28@lemmy.world
      40·
      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·
      1 year ago

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

      • FreeFacts@sopuli.xyz
        16·
        1 year ago

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

        • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
          10·
          1 year ago

          The first modern country to legalize same-sex marriage was the Netherlands, in 2001. The most recent was Greece in 2024.

          I think the reality of it being a complete non-issue makes it easy to forget that it is a relatively recent change in public opinion and that it still isn’t legal in most of the world.

  • bulwark@lemmy.worldEnglish
    175·
    1 year ago

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

    • z00s@lemmy.world
      43·
      1 year ago

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

  • Freefall@lemmy.world
    119·
    1 year ago

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

    • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      1 year ago

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

      • Wahots@pawb.social
        16·
        1 year ago

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

      • irreticent@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        I will never pass up the opportunity to remind people that nobody has seen Marjorie Taylor Green and Dog the Bounty Hunter in the same place at the same time.

        I contend that Marjorie Taylor Greene is Dog the Bounty Hunter in drag. Prove me wrong, MTG!

  • ImWaitingForRetcons@lemm.ee
    62·
    1 year ago

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

  • ObsidianZed@lemmy.world
    61·
    1 year ago

    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·
      1 year ago

      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·
        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·
      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.worldEnglish
    46·
    1 year ago

    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.

      • Ranger@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        2·
        1 year ago

        She should just give in & go get gangbang fisted by a dykes on bikes club to deal with her internalized issues.

  • Tikiporch@lemmy.worldBanned from community
    43·
    1 year ago

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

    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
      17·
      1 year ago

      *world view

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

      • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
        18·
        1 year ago

        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·
          1 year ago

          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.

          • grrgyle@slrpnk.net
            1·
            1 year ago

            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.

            Ouch. That is just… so tragic, and so stupid. I wonder if he was still processing. Obviously nothing to do with you, but if some adult in his life had just had the audacity to say like “I don’t know I don’t think there’s anything wrong with gay people” or somesuch. Well, you wonder if things could have gone differently for him.

  • pyre@lemmy.world
    41·
    1 year ago

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

  • Juice@midwest.social
    37·
    1 year ago

    “If I can’t have it, noone can!”
    But you can hav—
    “I SAID NOONE CAN HAVE IT!!!”

  • Nomecks@lemmy.ca
    26·
    1 year ago

    Look at the jealousy in Meloni’s eyes

    • laranis@lemmy.zip
      5·
      1 year ago

      That was my first thought as well… That glare is a case study in deep seeded anger over having repressed one’s true being for a lifetime and then seeing others have what you thought wasn’t possible.

        • Scary le Poo@beehaw.orgBanned from community
          3·
          1 year ago

          The point of the comment above yours went waaaaay over your head. Read it again.

          Aside from that, you are correct, some people are just awful, but they didn’t start out that way from the jump, usually.

          • naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            1·
            1 year ago

            fascist creep is repressed queer therefore hateful of visible lesbian romance is blaming homophobia on repressed queer people.

            • Scary le Poo@beehaw.orgBanned from community
              3·
              1 year ago

              That is certainly one of the sentences ever written.

              • naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
                1·
                1 year ago

                Well, rather than gloating about how stupid I am and failing to uphold the standards of behaviour of the community you registered at. Why don’t you explain what you think the person was referring to wrt envy etc? Or are you more interested in mockery than being helpful?

                • Scary le Poo@beehaw.orgBanned from community
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  You seemed to not understand what they were saying, which was that Meloni is sitting there with deep seated rage and jealousy. She has repressed her feelings her entire life. She has even persecuted others for not repressing themselves. But here, at the Olympics, in front of everyone, here are 2 people just being themselves, as she longs to be. Seeing this brings up deep seated rage and jealousy.

                  So what people are noticing is that that expression is not disgust. That expression is jealousy and rage. I would go so far as to say that to me it looks like she is crying on the inside.

        • andrewta@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 year ago

          No one was blaming anyone for anything… other then assholes for being assholes.