#she really can't avoid being a fascist for three fucking seconds

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Hey fellas, Italian here! Idk how much access y'all have to Italian media, but the situation is more complex than that.

You see, Carini is not just any athlete, she was competing on behalf of the Fiamme Oro Society, which is like a sports society for cops. But it doesn't end there, that same society is supported (both via mediatic endorsement and I think some state funding as well) by Giorgia Meloni, the current prime minister (her Italian title is "president of the Council of Ministers of the Italian Republic, but the gist is the same). And let me tell you, Meloni is pushing this case hard; it is one of those things that is captivating all of the media attention, it's kinda inescapable.

Why? Well, the media is heavily biased toward a right-wing sentiment (and nowadays a pro-Meloni sentiment), so they are already prone to parrot her position; on top of that, they are trying to divert attention to all of the shit that is going down right now because oh my god where do I even start? In the last months, there have been: climate emergencies so severe that they obliterated a significant portion of agricultural production and made several infrastructures collapse; a massive journalistic investigation that uncovered ties between Meloni's party and illegal fascistic organisations (and the government wasn't even going to really condemn them until the fucking president Mattarella put his foot down); revolts and general degradation of several prisons, with suicides among inmates (and prison guards, too); an insane amount of femicides/feminicides (women killed by men due to misogyny, but like a lot of women, like every three day a woman was murdered or something like that, needless to say, that there was not much done or said about it by Meloni's clique); people doing bullshit with the European funds (too fucking much to be explained in detail, this post would be longer than do you like the colours of the sky)...

Am I forgetting something? oh yeah, the fucking push for the referendum. Okay, I have to elaborate on this one. Meloni is currently trying to pass a reform that would give an insane amount of autonomy to regions; it is called autonomia differenziata (differentiated autonomy). This would only cause wealth disparities between regions, a total lack of state funding where it is most needed, general difficulties in negotiation within the European Union, the possibility for single regions to just not do the thing EU agreed upon, respecting environmental regulation for example), and more! By far the most fascistic thing about it is giving regions the power to determine what to teach in schools (you can guess where this is going in regions governed by the right)... So naturally, a bunch of people are really unhappy about this and they decided to form petitions to ask for a referendum: when citizens don't want a specific thing to be approved by the parliament they can ask for a referendum and vote directly about the thing (do you want this shit? Yes or no); this is used also as a test of trust towards the government in some cases (but not this time).

Why am I explaining all of this? Because it appears that the Carini case is being used as a diversion from the autonomia differenziata (which should be the big thing right now, along with the ties between the government and illegal fascist organisations). It is rumoured that Carini was pushed to drop out in order to make this big fuss to distract from all of the other shit. And also, Meloni and her pals are like insanely racists, I can't stress this enough (fucking Vannacci is one of Italy's representatives in the EU, I'm still fucking livid). I mean, you could probably guess it from the fascist ties but eh; and before you ask, no Italy has not always been this way, I remember when antifascism was the norm in society and I'm fucking 22 Jesus Christ; and also, yes, fascist have been emboldened by the lax attitude (I want to say complicit but I don't want to get sued lol) of the government and fascist hate crimes have increased lately.

So yeah, when all of these motherfuckers that are parroting what Meloni and her clique are saying they are allies of people with direct links to fascist organisations, who most likely organised this whole mess to distract from the heinous things they want to do to our country.

Sorry for the rant, but this is like something that feels obvious to me and then I see foreign media push this narrative "transpiracy" and ughhh

The good news is that the petitions to ask for the referendum about the autonomia differenziata are going strong! In fact, if you are Italian and haven't done already, GO SIGN THE FUCKING PETITION!!! The more the better (we have reached the bare minimum already iirc, but just to be sure).

Per favore raga, non stiamo a fare cazzate; ci sono troppe cose in ballo questa volta; trovate lo sportello più vicino a voi e firmate. E poi ovviamente votate no al referendum quando lo organizzeranno. Dio cane. Ok, I'm out.

Man, I'm sure it isn't a coincidence that when women of color who don't meet the Eurocentric standards of what a woman is "supposed" to look or be like starts winning against white European athletes, they suddenly become the intense targets of transphobia and have their names and reputations dragged through the mud by bigots like Joanne Rowling and Andrew Tate.

White supremacy 🤝 transmisogyny 🤝 intersexism