Next up: Slovakia changes the constitution to enforce a flat earth world view, because scientific facts are ignored and they'd prefer to stay idiots.
this post was submitted on 27 Sep 2025
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Yes, they want to ignore all facts, and do whatever the fuck that they want. That includes hate, discrimination, and violence against people they don't like.
They'll change anything they want, if they steal the power to do it. That's how nazis work. They don't use logic. They don't use facts. They lie. Constantly. About whatever they're lying about that day. There's no good faith, they want to hurt, imprison you, or kill you.
Shove your "traditional values" up your ass. Fuck conservatism, backwards bullshit.
What the fuck. Come on Europe, we’re better than this!
Apparently not, unfortunately.
There are two sexes, right? And multiple genders? But what about all the sex chromosome anomalies? I'm curious what sex those people would have under this law.
Whatever the person in charge decides to check on the form.
Androgynous people are going to have a bad time.
Priorities
Russian woman fined for ‘LGBT propaganda’ over 5-year-old rainbow flag post on social media
... The woman, who admitted her guilt, expressed remorse and requested leniency, told the court that she had created the page herself and had not opened it in the last five years. She was ultimately issued with a fine of 1,000 rubles (€10).
Earlier this month, a man from the city of Krasnoyarsk, in western Siberia, was likewise fined 1,000 rubles for posting audio recordings on VK of rap group Tyazhyolaya Atletika, whose album Injection depicts a rainbow in homage to Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon, according to human rights NGO OVD-Info.
In May, a court fined an activist from the republic of Bashkortostan, in the Volga region, 2,000 rubles (€20) for an emoji which featured the same Pink Floyd album cover, independent news outlet Mediazona reported ...
It's 2025, but some (most?) governments on the globe try to turn back time: Slovakia, Russia, Hungary, China, now the US, ...
It works and it's gonna keep working so long as people feel their lives are getting worse while some groups are getting special treatment. They're obvious scape goats for the right. We need universalist economic policies that tangibly improve the majorities' lives but neoliberalism has been delivering the opposite - means-testing and tinkering round the edges, all the while we're more productive than ever. Have another welfare cut.
E: I'm not at all saying different social groups don't deserve special treatment due to historical mistreatment and such. I'm saying that a system that only targets those groups for improvement while most get poorer is ready for disruption by using said groups as scape goats to explain why the majority is poorer.
Religious hate fueled nazis do this sort of thing. EU, deal with your nazi problem!
This is not a European problem but a global issue imo.