Rightwing PM Giorgia Meloni has demanded councils register only biological parents on birth certificates, leaving partners in legal limbo
But everyone swore that we were over reacting when we called her Fascist.
???How could anyone be overreacting? Isn’t her only claim to fame her relationship to a fascist?
It would be one thing if it’s incidental, but that’s always seemed one of her primary selling points.
Awful shit. Will this affect all adoptees or just those chosen by the fascist administration?
Ah, the classic “make a minority responsible for our problems” technique.
Splitting up completely functional families. Barbarians. Could this be appealed in the EU courts? Is political asylum in another country possible?
This probably makes a cadre of old ladies happy but how does it help the children?
Seems unusually crude.
want an answer?
religion
I mean… They’re specifically taking away rights from gay people. Stealing their families. Demonizing us.
It has NOTHING to do with the children and it never has been. Children are used as an excuse to attack us. To demonize us. To make us out to be monsters that need to be exterminated.
Ive seen this my entire life and its never going to stop. People just want us dead.
Across the world, the right wing authoritarian cry of “For the children!” has never, once, been anything but a Trojan horse to pursue injurious laws against people the authoritarians decry as “undesirable”
The fuck is going on over there Italy? I know the USA’s a dumpster fire but are you guys like … trying to be the European equivalent of Mississippi?
We have a massively growing right wing due to people finding little answers from the center-right. Left wing is a minority, and the only time a major center-left party went to power it was a split power with a right wing party that months later voluntarily sabotaged its own position of power just so the center-left party was not in power anymore. We went into technical government, during COVID.
What the people want to hear is increased wages, lower gas prices and less taxes. Yet, they vote “the queen of the traditional family” (almost actual quote) and now we have a prime minister that has cut welfare for the unemployed and reverting rights. But hey, they want to implement minimum wage I guess.
Still, you can’t get away with cutting welfare like that. We have places like Naples almost rioting.
Connationals, I beg you, go vote. Don’t let this happen so often…
Voting is NOT the way out of the situation that we’re in. You should still vote but it’s critical to understand that the absolute best that voting can achieve is the lesser evil.
If we want a solution that is actually good, we need to a fundamental change in the structure of society that can only happen outside of traditional electoral politics.
The structure fundamentally responsible for our problems - unequal distribution of resources and labour and the concentration of wealth into the hands of a very, very small minority (100 individuals have more wealth than an entire continent of ~1,460,000,000 people) - is the same one which completely dominates the outcome of elections.
Money decides who can run a campaign, buy support, pay for smear campaigns, control the media narrative, dominate the conversation by astroturfing social media, etc. etc. The system is so fundamentally controlled by money that there is absolutely no way to beat it using the rules of that very same system.
We need to build alternative systems that work outside of capitalism, for example, mutual aid (helping/supporting someone in return for their help/support in future), establishing co-operatives for food, housing, etc. to meet our needs, and establishing networks of support built on trust, mutual respect, and solidarity. Then we can withdraw our labour from capitalism entirely, causing it to collapse, and form the structure of a new society in the shell of the old.
Only by building an alternative to the system, can we truly make things better.
Only by knowing that voting can’t build that alternative, we realise that means we need to take action beyond voting.
They elected a fascist.
Didn’t you know? It’s the 20s all over again. Musolini came into power in 1922. Welcome to the 100 year backslide.
All countries are a few steps away from this type of shit. Nation states may have been a good departure from monarchies but have very much proven to be trash; the “cultures” and “ethnicities”, etc. they proclaim to protect seem very much to be bullshit money-making schemes at best. A serious shift away from vertical economic and social hierarchies is the only solution. But deprogramming the world is not going to be easy.
What a shithole. Italy is an oligopolistic kleptocracy run by a dictator with a psychological complex. Someone should regime change them, probably by sanctioning the country and starving the people who deserve it because they haven’t overthrown their fascist leaders yet (probably because they are fascists themselves).
Did I touch all the Russophobic and Sinophobic talking points?
