Being gay didn’t take anything away from my life. It gave me everything that matters most. A husband I love with all my heart, children who make me proud every day, and a family built on love, commitment, and joy. I wouldn’t change a thing. That’s why I’m proud.
@benryanwriter LGB doesn't ask you to do anything. T asks you to pretend a man can be a woman and vice-versa, that minors should be able to take hormones, that you accept them in opposite sex sports and spaces, etc, etc. And if you disagree, you are transphobic / a bigot. See the issue?
@Benmitudela@schweiz_first La Suisse n'est pas dans l'UE et il n'y a aucune preuve que l'UE couperait les ponts avec nous à cause de cette initiative. L'UE a aussi un intérêt à travailler avec nous.
When the far right promotes hate, they’re correctly called out — but when Islamists do the same, it’s tolerated because of “cultural differences” or whatever.
Utter nonsense. Your “culture” doesn’t give you the right to discriminate based on the norms of the place you left.
@MattHMajn@PashaKhan12345@AdamZivo Independently, as a homosexual, in your daily life, you are less safe, less comfortable holding your partner's hand and more likely to be assaulted if there are more intolerant people in your country.
Yeah, Canada used to be incredibly homophobic, and then gay activists spent *decades* pushing for cultural change. It was a wonderful achievement. There’s no need for us to jeopardize our gains by whitewashing Islamist hatred.
@Darkboardy@Pirouette15 Ça serait en dernier recours dans bien 15 ans, seulement si la Suisse n'a pas réussi à empêcher la population d'augmenter à 10 millions. Il y aura largement le temps de renégocier des accords avec l'Europe
@desslocktx@whoismrzero Hmm I understand but I think that as a homosexual, regardless of what the current population thinks and its values around free speech, it's not in your best interest to have other cultures which are even less tolerant of homosexuality to establish themselves in your country.
Ich erkläre dir mal, warum das Argument nicht stimmt.
Früher hatten wir bei deutlich weniger Zuwanderung mehr Pflegepersonal pro betagter Person – und das bei besserer Kaufkraft. Heute fehlt es nicht an Menschen, sondern an bezahlbaren Löhnen und guten Arbeitsbedingungen.
Unqualifizierte Masseneinwanderung schadet nicht nur Schweizern. Sie drückt die Löhne im Bau, in der Gastronomie, im Gesundheitswesen und im Detailhandel. Davon betroffen sind vor allem:
• Junge Leute, die ins Berufsleben einsteigen
• Ältere Arbeitnehmer
• Arbeitslose und IV-Bezüger, die wieder Fuss fassen wollen
Das BIP steigt vielleicht – aber nicht das BIP pro Kopf. Das zusätzliche Geld fliesst vor allem in internationale Grosskonzerne, nicht in die Taschen der normalen Bevölkerung.
Die Initiative will genau das korrigieren:
Qualifizierte Zuwanderung ja – Dumping durch unkontrollierte Masseneinwanderung nein.
I cannot believe we're finally having the "Is Islam homophobic?" conversation.
Yes. Yes, it bloody well is.
I'm genuinely shocked that people didn't work this out when ISIS was
throwing gay people off rooftops.
Or when polls found that half — yes, half — of UK Muslims wanted homosexuality to be illegal.
And before anyone says it, yes, that poll was 10 years ago. But do you seriously think those attitudes have improved or worsened now that we've imported millions of people from some of the most socially conservative countries in the world?
Nah, me neither.
* I've just dug up an old tweet of mine from 2004. I'm gonna post it below this because it's relevant*
@Sosodef1792@Liberte_Verites Combien d'habitants rappelle-moi ? Et combien finiront par repartir / décéder (malheureusement pour eux mais c'est la vie) ?
@desslocktx@whoismrzero I don't even speak German that well and I was born in the 2000s, what the heck does it have to do with our current situation and what I said? Every poll conducted in European countries shows a big discrepancy between how muslims and non-muslims see homosexuality and homosexuals.
I keep seeing people retweet this saying, “This is why Pride exists.”
Sorry, but that’s a bit basic.
The correct answer is: this is why the UK, the West, and Western values and culture exist.
Pride didn’t create the freedoms that made gay rights possible.
The ability to organise, protest, campaign, and live openly as a gay person didn’t come from Pride.
Those freedoms come from broader Western values — liberty, free speech, democracy, equality before the law.
Pride exists because those values were already there. It didn’t produce them.
The point is, those values aren’t guaranteed. If we’re not careful, they can absolutely disappear.
*This also applies to women's rights*
@Donkeyshot07@swissinfo_en Whatever you think about it, go vote yes and convince indecise people around you to vote yes. This is what matters the most 10 days before the vote.