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.

  • 133arc585
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    891 year ago

    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.

    • Bipta
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      231 year ago

      Truth isn’t truth

      That’s the far right motto.

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍
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    381 year ago

    Just a few steps from “My secret police will now ‘explain’ to you just how not fascist I am.”

  • @[email protected]
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    111 year ago

    Good on Italy. Everyone, not just school children, should be protected from… name-calling 🤦

    • @ritswd
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      191 year ago

      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
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      -151 year ago

      Pretty much. Shame in the Italian government for this:

      Italy’s criminal code punishes with a fine ranging from €1,000 to €5,000 (£858 to £4,290) anyone who “publicly defames the republic”, which includes the government, parliament, the courts and the army.

  • @dan1101
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    101 year ago

    Meloni needs a good dunking.

    • @fixmbr
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      101 year ago

      Meloni needs a 180° rotation, as do all fascists.

      • Carighan Maconar
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        1 year ago

        You mean she need to be turned inside out? That’s pretty gross, tbh.

  • @biofaust
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    71 year ago

    Nor the PM nor this fascist government are our Republic. They should respond with personal offense, not institutional.

  • @[email protected]
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    -301 year ago

    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.