One mom said she cried for 10 days after hearing she was being removed from her daughter’s birth certificate.
you have to be sub-human trash to be ok with this
right-wing political parties have '‘be sub-human trash’ written in their manifesto and yet people vote them into power.
From the article “Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, leader of the far-right Brothers of Italy party, made anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric a cornerstone of her campaign for office. She opposes allowing same-sex couples to adopt as well as marriage quality, calling civil union “good enough” for LGBTQ+ couples.”
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It’s not enough to carve out a portion of your sovereignty for the kid diddler cult to have a golden castle city guarded by foreign mercenaries, you also have to listen to their stances on parenthood, which they are, surely, experts, in.
Wow that was haunting to read. How much they hurt these people that just want a family is sickening.
look at their history. the cruelty is the point.
It’s not enough to carve out a portion of your sovereignty for the kid diddler cult
Huh, TIL the Catholic Church had lost all its territory to Italy and then later was granted some back (by Mussolini, no less) instead of having continuous sovereignty stemming from the Papal States and predating a unified Italy itself.
That’s the second time in two days that I’ve been about to “ackchyually” somebody but ended up learning something myself instead. I’m getting more and more impressed with the quality of discussion here on Lemmy.
and there are restrictions that prevent the adoption of “stepchildren” by one parent.
That one was judged unconstitutional in Germany as it bereaves the child of a perfectly suitable caregiver – that is it wasn’t a matter of gay rights for the court but children’s rights. In the end, before gay marriage was introduced, the only difference between marriages and civil unions was that gay couples could not adopt jointly, only one after the other, and generally speaking authorities are quite reluctant when it comes to singles adopting kids they aren’t related to by blood.
The thought that keeps me sane through this is believing that the pendulum swings both ways. We have to accept that there are people who like this, and I’m going to hate them for it, but opposition will always exist.
On the whole (a long time) things in society have improved and they’ll continue to improve over time. It might just be our lot to have a shit round.
Except for climate change. That’s existential.
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Good. Admitting you have a problem is the first step to recovery.
You don’t HAVE to be bigoted trash. It IS possible to learn empathy for your fellow man, to understand that a person’s sexuality does not make them more or less of a person. It IS possible to change your ways. It IS possible to make the changes within yourself… the changes that you need to make in order to prevent a sad future where your own children disown you for being a shitheel goon. It is possible to be, you know… a good person.
But I also get the feeling that you are too obsessed with the smell of your own farts to have any real understanding of how dumb you sound. Who cares if no one else wants to smell your wafting shit odor? You’re perfectly happy simmering in your own idiot stink.
It’s not too late. You don’t have to be on the wrong side of history.
You created an account just to be an asshole? Jesus that’s sad
They think they’re being edgy.
Guess you are.
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Disgusting comments from some pro-lifers on this thread. Throwing this child into an orphanage when they had a stable family already is the anti-thesis of pro family doctrine. It’s hypocritical ultra right wing bigotry. All that remains of the right is their absolute hatred of the left. This really is the death of right wing majority governments. We saw their true colours during the January 6th capitol hill insurrection, during the BLM protests, during the Ukraine and Syria conflicts where Republicans teamed up with foreign enemy governments and during Obama’s presidency.
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The idiots are no longer ashamed of being stupid.
These are the kinds of people who go to a book club meeting every Sunday for a book that clearly non of them have ever read.
It’s insane that ultra-right fascists (in Italy and America at least) always define themselves as “Christian.”
Christ would flip tables on them and pull out his whip
That’s something I learned from reading too many books about WWII. It all started with the little things. What’s that “first they came” quote again?
First they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the Socialists and I did not speak out because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me.You know what’s ironic about that quote, especially in the context of this thread? The group who they really came for first was the LGBTQ, not the Communists. Even in the act of lamenting his failure to speak out, Niemöller failed to speak out about them.
Another related “fun” fact: the very first NAZI book burnings “included around 20,000 unique works on intersexuality, homosexuality, and transgender topics” from the Institute of Sex Research.
It’s a bit more complicated as the whole of the SA was basically a gay orgy. Certainly not the queer kind of gay, though.
Yet another proof that religion doesn’t help anyone
All you need for evil to prevail is “good boundaries.”
It’s maddening to watch all of the progress made around the world getting pushed back for no good reason aside from making a minority of the population uncomfortable—with their beliefs being based on lies and misinformation.
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It’s the last desperate lashing out of the old beast.
People have been saying the “last so and so” or the death roll, or the movement is dying out by attrition. I just wish I had your optimism. I mean I did, but as I grew (in 40s now), I noticed that the numbers don’t matter when you have power and a plan. Just keep your opposition from organizing properly by controlling the message and manufacturing outrage for the supporters to talk about instead of actually problems. The media sells their story to make money and also distract from the real problems (their owners).
Did the average person hear about the Senate hearings during covid? The oil execs that stated their board of directors only care about making record breaking profits during the pandemc, instead of trying to alleviate the burden on the general population. They probably wanted a yacht for their yacht. Can’t let a good opportunity to make money go to waste. It’s actually against the CEOs fiduciary obligation to the board to not make as much money as possible. Even if they have to factor in payouts for a faulty product that kills someone the life cost doesn’t matter, legal, the only obligation is fiduciary.
Sure we have the “numbers,” but the numbers don’t matter too much when the system is set up to be run by a smaller group of people that just have to keep others out and confuse the majority by making news harder to shift through.
I certainly hope we’re seeing it dying. It will never completely go away, but we can hope it dwindles to the point where it has no power.
The thing is, they are only uncomfortable with it because some fascist politician is telling them to be uncomfortable with it. I am a same-sex married person with children. When people are face-to-face with a regular person like myself who happens to be married to someone of the same gender and has kids, most people actually have very little problem with it. But then some politician feeds them lies, lies that are then propagated on Facebook or Twitter, and suddenly they have an issue with the concept.
What is happening in Italy terrifies me. It’s terrifying because it is the same slippery slope Russia went down and the same slippery slope we’re heading down in the USA. We’re watching it happen in real time with kids who are transgender. The GOP is not stopping there. They have already shown they are a full-on fascists. They will not stop until the USA is their authoritarian utopia.
This is EXACTLY my biggest worry and frustration. We are seeing a large group of people who think the way they are told to think and believe what they are told to believe. Unquestioningly.
These people cannot be reasoned with or educated when it comes to the subjects in question…
… except at the same time they’re completely different when talking to individuals from the targeted groups face to face. I see it every day. For instance railing about something LGBTQ+ related from Faux Newz then greeting a friend and his husband 15 minutes later.
It’s mind boggling: not just the behavior but the number of people who are so gullible.
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Love seeing the sheep who think that “progressives” are the problem will happily elect the assholes that expand government reach, take more of the peoples’ money while simping for the rich, and work to screw the people the most in any other ways they can imagine.
People like you are the problem. It’s just ridiculously easy to convince you simpletons it’s not. Run on and piss off.
Everyone that wants the state to have more power over people’s life, property and labor is to blame. You can’t give power to a position that is selected through a popularity contest.
Your blind devotion to libertarian politics has prevented you from even understanding the issue we’re all discussing. We’re talking about a right wing government taking children away from their parents because of their sexual orientation. Progressives didn’t vote for that.
Didn’t you know that not wanting tainted food is exactly the same thing as supporting Mussolini?
Progressive or conservative, everyone was ok with giving the government powers to do this.
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The Dunning-Krueger is strong with this one…
I’m not engaging with a sheep that has swallowed every crumb of bullshit they’ve been fed.
And since you’re slow with phrases, this one’s hopefully more clear: Go fuck yourself. Seeing the flavor of your comments on a thread concerning women’s rights, that’s likely all you’ll ever do anyway.
The Dunning-Krueger is strong with this one…
That’s like yelling “hold the thief” - the thief always starts first.
I’m not engaging
So what are you doing now, exactly? You could have been silent if you didn’t want to engage.
Go fuck yourself.
I prefer fucking you.
Seeing the flavor of your comments on a thread concerning women’s rights, that’s likely all you’ll ever do anyway.
Do you realize that everybody reading this can also check my comments in this thread?
And see that either you yourself have a problem with reading comprehension, or you are deliberately trying to deceive your readers.
Talk about idiotic word salad. You must love the sound of your own voice.
Some of us read books and have a bit longer attention span.
Now, it doesn’t take any effort for me to inform you that you are to me what I am to Mozart using just a bit more text than you’re used to, so I’m doing that.
Raising taxes on the people that chronically find ways to never pay taxes. Not raising taxes on regular people. Nice try framing the argument the way you think it ought to go.
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I believe taxes for the top 3 (if not 4) quintiles in the US should be higher.
So yeah, regular people don’t pay enough in taxes
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Hardcore conservatives do hardcore conservative things
Ignorant libertarians: “ackshually it’s the progressives fault”
I’m so sick of humanity.
inhumanity is guaranteed when a right-wing political party forms the government.
From the article “Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, leader of the far-right Brothers of Italy party, made anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric a cornerstone of her campaign for office. She opposes allowing same-sex couples to adopt as well as marriage quality, calling civil union “good enough” for LGBTQ+ couples.”
lmao
Italy: Women’s role are to raise children.
Also Italy: No, not these women!
Shan-Yu: How many women does it take to raise a child?
Archer: *pulling the bow string* One.
Italy forgetting all about their history of fascism.
Italian here, someone remember it too well, that’s why we are in this awful situation
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No, there are unresolved conflicts in Italy sincw ww2, that was for Italy a civil war. They might lose elections, but the demons are part of Italian society.
Funnily enough, US is partially responsible for the survival of these demons. They’ve survived after ww2 heavily financed by CIA (including the fascist party now in lead of the government). CIA also financed a failed fascist coup and terrorist groups meant to shift italian society to extreme right. These groups are famously responsible for terrorist attacks meant to be blamed on communists in the 70s, with 10s of deaths. More recently CIA have been financed heavy discredit campaigns against prominent left politicians, to the advantage of Berlusconi. They are clearly not the only responsible, they simply financed internal “demons”. But drifting italian politics to right has been a long term agenda, as Italy had at one point the biggest communist party outside russia, and socialists forces used to be extremely strong, exactly due to the underlying civil war never solved since ww2
But immigrants are scary!!! /s
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I mean the US hardly learnt anything either, considering its recent political history and fascists running rampant in its political institutions with a real risk of them gaining actual power (again).
How many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man!
But USA is doing the same though, tbh even worse than this
Italians didn’t learn for sure. Next time you beat their asses through make sure not to do it with the help of the mafia and other criminals who got this government elected.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborations_between_the_United_States_government_and_Italian_Mafia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licio_Gelli#Alleged_involvement_in_CIA_activities_in_Italy
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I heard that indeed the Italian government did not do a good job teaching their kids about fascism. In other places such as Germany and Switzerland (and many others, I hope) most students get to know how fascism works and how harmful it is. At least when I was in school, this was part of the teaching program. But in Italy? Apparently not.
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Glad to hear. I just don’t get how a fascist gets elected to be president. What’s the mechanism? I can think of only three explanations:
- people are unaware or misinformed
- people have nearly no influence
- people actually want fascism
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This sounds really bad and I’m afraid it’s even worse than it sounds. For example, end of 2022 Italy introduced a law which bans certain types of harmless assemblies (rave parties) of more than 50 people (participants can be put to jail for up to 6 years). This is paving the road for cutting possibilities of people to protest against their government. (Imagine, there is a a protest and somebody plays music. The government will see a rave party.) Yet the Italian government seems to have no problem with 3000 neofascists visiting the hometown of Mussolini. And now this.
This isn’t completely true. The right of assembly is a constitutional right in Italy within small limits (the assembly must be peaceful, without firearms, and requires a notice to local authorities if it uses a public space, see art. 17.
Now, I don’t believe that a rave party falls within those protections as it isn’t protected speech (and I don’t believe there is a place where it is).
Italy will continue to have protests and marched, usually with music because Italy.
I think the argument is more that the government could use these laws to categorise a protest with music (lawful) as a rave (unlawful) and arrest those involved, thus discouraging further protests.
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I appreciate it’s a bit of a slippery slope argument, I was just clarifying the parent comment’s argument. I’m not sure how much your retort adds to the argument though.
It isn’t a slippery slope if you are on it, it is just a slope.
I really hope so.
I’m curious if you feel the same way about Italy and nearly every other country already banning protests because “it’s for yours or others safety” like they dd when they passed extremely Draconian covid policies.
And this is not hypothetical. Police didn’t allow people to manifest against the gov.
What you say is bad, but it I hope people would be consistently appalled. Not just partisan based.
See this is what happens when you go to long without hanging all the fascists. Every 50 years or so you have to round them all up and find a gas station.
Dude, you’re not much better if you write comments like this. Chill out man.
I don’t want to be better, I want to be alive. These people want to destroy minorities. It is SELF DEFENCE for everyone that is a member of a minority group and everyone that supports minorities to want to destroy fascists.
None of this would be a fucking problem if you people actually did something about them in advance for once. Socialists recognise the need for re-education as a means of correcting when various parts of the population are going down the wrong path but liberals time and time again completely ignore the problem until it is too late plunging countries into conflict. You don’t do jack shit until the only solution is violence when in reality it could be solved non-violently much much earlier if you acknowledge that these people need putting through rehabilitation facilities.
The fact of the matter is that it’s already too fucking late for that. Both in america and in several other countries. The only option now is the inevitability of things progressing until violence.
Bear in mind that in fascism, the only majority is the person at the top. The circle always shrinks as far as it can to make the in group smaller and the our group larger.
All the fascist apologists and deniers who think “well I’ll be safe” don’t understand this and don’t see that the circle will eventually cut them out.
In the real world, evil must be met with appropriate force. Not every “right” action is covered in flowers and rainbows, sometimes you have to do hard, unlikeable things because otherwise people trying to change the world for the worse will succeed. You can’t give fascists a slap on the wrist.
Just checking; in your opinion those hard unlikeable things should not be someone’s first choice, and should be nearer to a last resort, correct?
Nope. Fascists need to be executed before they get the power to hang everyone else.
Won’t somebody think of the poor fascists?? T_T
I am sure foster care and orphanages will teach these kids some good family values
did you drop the sarcasm tag? or were you being serious?
Not everything needs a sarcasm tag.
I used to agree with you, but Poe’s Law has grown to Kaiju proportions in recent years.
I have to agree with you.
Facists announcing that they will oppress minorities when they’re being voted into power.
Gets voted into power. Oppresses minorities.
People
That is sick. Absolutely sick.
Under current Italian law, the member of a same-sex couple who is not legally recognized as a child’s parent could lose custody if the legally recognized parent dies or the relationship ends.
Shameful, hateful shit. What the hell Italy.
Gotta do something to distract from the abject poverty the government has driven the country into over the last 30 years. Back then, Italy was about as wealthy as Germany and France.
I’m gonna admit to doing the reddit thing where I read the title and the comments and start to form an opinion.
Reading your comment, I thought Hmm, well, that doesn’t seem too unreasonable. Should a new partner in a separated-parents-scenario really have a claim on custody? Well, reading the actual article where same-sex couples get married and have children get the birth certificate retroactively changed to not include one of the parents is a whole different story.
Shameful, hateful shit. What the hell Italy.
Yeah, I’m with you. What the actual hell.
Even if they hate homosexual couples, doing this retroactively as a surprise brings this to a whole new level. Are there any ways for these people to reobtain their parental rights, like adoption?
