You make it sound like a easy task… They are getting killed and put in prison. Iran’s regime had build very effective fortifications for these types of protests and unrest. They know how to crack down on it, they do it by being as brutal as possible. The sad truth is that if not big portions of the population stands against the regime nothing will change. And unfortunately it’s not enough what has happened to date.
The biggest issue with the regime falling is that we will see a new Libya. I don’t think it will become better if the regime is removed unfortunately.
Iran’s parliament has passed controversial bill that would increase prison terms and fines for women and girls who break its strict dress code.
Women burnt their headscarves or waved them in the air at the nationwide demonstrations against the clerical establishment, during which hundreds of people were reportedly killed in a crackdown by security forces.
A growing number of women and girls have stopped covering their hair in public altogether as the unrest has subsided, despite the return of the morality police to the streets and the installation of surveillance cameras.
Under Iranian law, which is based on the country’s interpretation of Sharia, women and girls above the age of puberty must cover their hair with a hijab and wear long, loose-fitting clothing to disguise their figures.
On Wednesday, members of parliament voted by 152 to 34 to pass the “Hijab and Chastity Bill”, which says people who are caught dressed “inappropriately” in public places will be subject to a “fourth degree” punishment.
Earlier this month, eight independent UN human rights experts warned the bill “could be described as a form of gender apartheid, as authorities appear to be governing through systemic discrimination with the intention of suppressing women and girls into total submission”.
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The stupidest thing about it is that the name is based on some imagery from the film for The Wall by Pink Floyd which very much made the point of “Fascism bad”
good, fucking skinheads are stupid. however, what prevents people from distributing music? VPNs make it trivial to bypass any region locks, and Germany has a lot of borders, it’d be very easy to smuggle in just about anything.
47% opposed, 47% in favour, including 10% of AfD voters (that makes sense when you consider protest votes… yes they’re idiots but not terminally so). Opposed also includes “we should deal with them in other ways”, i.e. naive liberals.
But that doesn’t matter as ultimately the constitutional court will have to decide, and I’ll go out on a limb and say that it’s almost guaranteed they’ll outlaw. Before that happens, though, either the government, Bundestag or Bundesrat will have to actually start the proceedings. That very much is a political decision.
The current political climate would suggest far right groups are actually pretty good at organizing and it's the left who needs to get their shit together and mobilize.
Germany has outlawed Hammerskins, a neo-Nazi group known for its role in organising far-right concerts and selling racist music.
The German authorities described the ban as “a hard blow against organised right-wing extremism” and said it was putting an end to “the inhumane actions of an internationally active neo-Nazi association”.
The group has, for example, been linked to a venue called Hate Bar in the western German state of Saarland, where police made arrests for the showcasing of banned symbols during far-right concerts as recently as April this year.
The German domestic intelligence agency previously said the group had also set up Germany’s biggest far-right martial arts event, called Fight of the Nibelungs, which has been banned since 2019.
Blood and Honour had close contacts to members of a neo-Nazi group that carried out 10 racially motivated murders in Germany.
Germany’s domestic intelligence agency estimates there are 38,800 people in the country’s right-wing extremist scene, with more than a third of them considered “potentially violent”.
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So, anybody else expecting that if this guy gets power with a controlled house and senate, too, the first thing they’ll do is a national ban on abortion… and he’ll sign it like the dumb mook that he is?
It will be the third or fourth thing. Donny is going to consolidate power first and gut the government of anyone who is not directly loyal to him. This includes the military (why do you think they have a single Senator with a filibuster on approving appointments and we have 3 of joint Chiefs positions unfilled.)
Once he does that he’ll come for abortion rights or any other right he doesn’t agree with. Not to mention tax breaks for corporations and the 1% will be on the menu.
MAGA masses of course will eat it up as owning the libs.
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