Meloni heads Italy’s most rightwing government since the second world war. Italy’s criminal code punishes with a fine ranging from €1,000 to €5,000 anyone who “publicly defames the republic”, which includes the government, parliament, the courts and the army.
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133arc585@lemmy.ml · 89 pts · 3y
Common but disturbing behavior: investigating whether calling out fascism is a problem, but not invesgating whether fascism is a problem.
Punishing people for saying what they see.
ptsdstillinmymind@lemmy.studio · 13 pts · 3y
World Governments unfortunately in a nutshell.
mp3@lemmy.ca · 57 pts · 3y
Is it defamation when it's true?
Bipta@kbin.social · 23 pts · 3y
That's the far right motto.
Bishma@social.fossware.space · 38 pts · 3y
Just a few steps from "My secret police will now 'explain' to you just how not fascist I am."
masquenox@lemmy.ml · 15 pts · 3y
Just a hunch, but it might have something to do with the fact that Meloni is a fascist.
GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social · 11 pts · 3y
Good on Italy. Everyone, not just school children, should be protected from... name-calling 🤦
ritswd@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 3y
You gotta understand them, it would be tedious to run a fascist racist government if you had to compose with such frivolous things as freedom of speech.
lemmyshmemmy@lemmy.world · -15 pts · 3y
Pretty much. Shame in the Italian government for this:
indigojasper@kbin.social · 11 pts · 3y
in Italian even. incredibly based.
dan1101@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 3y
Meloni needs a good dunking.
fixmbr@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 3y
Meloni needs a 180° rotation, as do all fascists.
Carighan@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
You mean she need to be turned inside out? That's pretty gross, tbh.
Maerman@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 3y
There is no war.
biofaust@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y
Nor the PM nor this fascist government are our Republic. They should respond with personal offense, not institutional.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net · 3 pts · 3y
If your friend who's dressed in leather is a Nazi,
They shouldn't pass the test, and you should probably sever.
PortableHotpocket@lemmy.ca · -30 pts · 3y
Who isn't fascist/racist in the eyes of the left? You can be a moderate libertarian with a couple of populist beliefs and they'll throw those labels at you.
BestBouclettes@jlai.lu · 21 pts · 3y
Her party is literally far right, nationalist, anti immigration and post facist. What else do you need ? Them wearing an armband ?
OccamsTeapot@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 3y
This argument is always quite bad but congratulations on a particularly stupid example. You know who really should be seen as fascists? Actual fascists
leftascenter@lemmy.one · 14 pts · 3y
Read her biography. She is very literally a neo-fascist.
jalda@sopuli.xyz · 11 pts · 3y
Yeah, you can't even say that Mussolini has been the best politician in Italy in the last 50 years without being called a fascist. And the little detail that her party is the successor of a neo-fascist party created by Mussolini's followers.
agent_flounder@lemmy.one · 12 pts · 3y
Man what kind of world is it when you can't idolize Hitler and Mussolini and want to oppress/exterminate groups of people without being called fascist?
A sane world.
That's the kind of world.that would be.
Related: Can we block users on Lemmy?
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 3y
Yes you can.
masquenox@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 3y
Oh look... a lost fascist.