One mom said she cried for 10 days after hearing she was being removed from her daughter’s birth certificate.
The order also leaves the children of same-sex couples in jeopardy in other ways. “Children end up having limited access to key services and benefits, such as healthcare, inheritance, and child support,” Angelo Schillaci, a law professor at Sapienza University in Rome, told BBC when the policy was first announced. “At present, only one parent is recognized by law, the other one is a ghost. In real life, parents and children play together, cook together, play sports, and go on holiday together. But on paper, they are apart, the state does not see them. It’s a paradoxical situation.”
Fascism is all the rage everywhere at the moment. Shit sucks. And the people in power are basically like, “we need minorities to murder”
Almost seems like people left of center need to get armed up for the pending fascist purge.
I don’t understand this viewpoint at all. Can guns help you against the US military? And even if they did, it would further drive the remaining the population to murder everything with more fervor. I think it’s not as easy to say “arm up” when the government votes to start killing you, and orders the world’s last military complex to go ahead and execute that order.
I understand @Frog’s sentiment, as the actions of the right have moved into cartoon villain territory.
As someone on the left, I always turn away from violence when possible, so I completely understand your viewpoint as well.
But at the same time, there comes a point with fascists where rhetoric and politics won’t serve to protect vulnerable populations from their violence. We’ve reached that point in America, where the police are actively engaged in supporting right-wing insurrectionists.
This is the point at which self-defense is justified, and you simply can’t defend yourself against someone with a gun unless you have one yourself. Sadly, I’m speaking from experience here - been mugged a couple of times at gunpoint, and I’ve had family and friends assaulted because they’re minorities and some MAGAT asshole was looking for someone to beat up.
Will the left violently overthrow the government if they arm up? No, nor could they. But having individual members armed and willing to defend themselves could prevent a lot of the abuse the right is currently getting away with. They’re using militias to intimidate the left - it may be time to build some of our own to counterbalance the effect and protect our vulnerable members.
Well I see the Reddit Defeatist Brigade has migrated to Lemmy.
The US military isn’t coming to your door, even though you’re willing to give up. We’re more worried about the local sharia law losers hiding under their big flags. And the more dangerous we can be to those people, the less likely they will start anything.
Have you seen the police acting as an extension of states blocking abortion and reporting people? Or police acting as a GOP mafia? Or police in general and their treatment of people? Why do you think they are armored up with humvees and military hardware? I mean I get it. I’m armed. But I want to understand this viewpoint deeply because I don’t see this as anything other than a reason for them to simply firebomb us. I’m not saying to give up either.
If you want a revolution stack the military. Join the military. Or the police even. Mobilize voters. I honestly don’t have a solution, it just seems like a facist society usually overwhelms everything because they have the government military/and or police.