Fascism is corporatism.

In case anyone isn’t clear on that…:

Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.

— Benito fucking Mussolini. You know, the fascist who arguably invented fascism, or at least popularised its name.

It’s a shame the name based on a bundle of sticks became the popular one instead of the one that tells it like it is, but I suppose not even fascists would support fascism if it was named appropriately.

Hate crime enhancements do work

Citation needed.

that behavior is unacceptable

And just plain old murder isn’t?

You want misogynists (or rather their children; most of the grown ones won’t learn, no matter how many of them you throw in jail) to understand that it’s unacceptable, fucking spend the time and money teaching them it’s unacceptable, and why.

This doesn’t teach anyone anything. It’s just empty political posturing. If it has any perceptible effect on the number of crimes against women (and that’s a very big if) it’ll be to increase them.

The whole point is centered around how sexism runs deep in society. Specifically men dominating the world and placing women below them.

Then invest in education. That’s the only effective way to handle these kinds of societal problems. Attack the root cause: ignorance and lack of critical thinking skills.

Adding some years to a sentence that should already have been deterrent enough won’t make it any more of a deterrent.

This does absolutely nothing to solve the problem and might actually increase it, all so some politicians can score some brownie points.

(Of course, though, increasing education and critical thinking and reducing ignorance A), costs money, and B) is anathema to populist politicians who need an ignorant unthinking population to have any voters, so they’ll just change the name of an already existing crime, further increase division, give themselves a medal for a job well done, and call it a day.)

They made a law to deter that.

Assuming murdering women was already considered murder, this law will make absolutely nothing to deter that, and might in fact increase violence against women due to the press about it causing an increase in misogyny.

It’s just politicians scoring brownie points by doing absolutely nothing significant.

The way to deter that is education, not adding some symbolic years to a sentence that should already have been deterrent enough.

If the possibility of being sentenced for murder didn’t deter someone, neither will the possibility of being sentenced by femicide, or any other form of aggravated murder.

What will deter them is understanding that murdering someone who isn’t an immediate terminal danger to society as a whole (billionaires and the like) is monstrous and inhumane and shouldn’t ever be done unless it’s the last option in self defence, and that “because they refused to have sex with me” is among the stupidest and most embarrassing justifications for murder they could come up with, but, again, that could only be achieved through education, something Italy doesn’t seem to be doing because, unlike inventing new names for already existing crimes, it actually costs money.

So, it’s a grift to extract Ukraine’s resources and have Ukraine pay for it, while letting Russia keep everything it’s stolen.

Typical Trump bullshit.