“People are scared”: Activists brace for “unprecedented assault on human rights” under Trump

https://www.salon.com/2024/11/16/people-are-scared-activists-brace-for-unprecedented-on-human-rights-under/

49 comments

  1. Can you blame them? Also, whose fault is all that is coming?

  2. It’s not at all surprising, the threat of elimiating vaccines, destroying life saving government programs, All because he wants total control. People should be terrified.

  3. “Constitutional Crisis” will be the title of the next several years

  4. REPRESSION (protests+ abortion + LGBTQ+ media) + RECESSION (caging or deporting hardworking Latinos+ inflation caused by tariffs) will hurt all of us.

  5. I think the right to peacefully protest might be tested (and subverted) unfortunately too.

  6. The haves will have more and the have-nots will have less.

    Too late to save face…The leopards are prowling.

  7. Just like how Donald Trump sexually assaulted E. Jean Carroll.

    And how Matt Gaetz raped and trafficked a child.

  8. Then why did you vote the idiot in?!?!? They chugged the poison willing and are now afraid they’ll die.

  10. Anyone with the ability should get out of the country as soon as possible and never look back.

  11. It’s okay to be scared. Some of the bravest people to ever call themselves activists knew fear and it only helped them fight harder.

  13. I hope all those “scared people” voted 🤷🏼‍♂️

  15. Can I ask a question that I still don’t understand? When people say ‘make America great again’ when was it ‘great’? I had this discussion the other day with someone and while we’ve had good parts in our history, a lot of history is not great. I’d love to ask a maga to describe to me when it was great. As they as masturbsting to the American flag I will follow up by asking them to give me the history of the Stars and Stripes of the flag and then I’ll laugh as they stutter and recognize they are in love with a tapestry that they know little of.

  17. Those Heritage assholes are still churning out their evil plans. They want to come down hard on any dissent using ai modeling to sew internal strife and dox protesters. “Targeting the finances” of dissident orgs. It’s going to get very ugly, very soon, for a great number of people.

  18. Unprecedented? Did they ever hear of the Holocaust or the Mongols? These headlines turn me right off.

  19. Guys i cant do another four years of headlines like this every day.

  21. I’d just like to send a heartfelt congratulations to Russia for pulling off such a successful, slow-motion takeover of the United States.

    They knew long ago that they’d never be able to conquer the US by force. So instead, they laid out the groundwork and implemented a long-term plan to rip us apart from the inside. From conservative lawmakers parroting Russian propaganda/spreading disinformation, to influencing the civilian population over several years to eat it all up and sow division. So much so that we are willingly handing over power and forfeiting our rights to a group of Fascists whose plan is clearly to turn us into Russia 2.0.

    Great job, Vlad. You must be very proud.

  22. Look, as long as you’re not black, disabled, liberal, poor, gay, closeted, sexually empowered, highly educated, moderately educated, uneducated, female, middle class, unionized, misgendered, areligious, Muslim, brown, part of the establishment, part of the opposition, pregnant, childless, spiritual, open-minded, compassionate, or actually follow the teachings of Christ… you’ll be fine.

  23. Seeing some commentary about how people in the centre/left should not blame Trump voters and that we should be compassionate towards them, but they knowingly voted for a sex offender, to (at best) risk women’s reproductive rights, to (at best) strip trans people’s rights and attack their healthcare and stick migrants in camps. I’m seeing women talking about getting their tubes tied or IUDs so that, if they get raped, they don’t have to carry a rape baby. One of my US trans friends is already in the process of fleeing the her own country.

    The reaction from Trump voters? Not ‘Oh no, this is not what I voted for’ or even a ‘I’m sure it will be OK’, it’s celebrating, mockery and trolling. How do I think of these people as anything but just bad people?

  24. I fear we’re going to have some large catastrophic national event in the next year or so. The working class has been pushed to the brink. If inflation gets any worse or anything happens to impede our ability to make a living, people are gonna be pushed over the edge. I feel like we’re very close to seeing national scale riots. People can only be held down and fucked in the ass for so long.

  25. At this point every sane US citizen should be an “activist”. They are stealing your country from you.

  26. What chance we have to help this is gone bc no one who could do anything is doing anything except telling us how bad it is.
    As long as fascism wins the votes, apparently we are to lay down and let it happen

  27. We shouldn’t be bracing. We should be protesting already. Not sure why we have this sit and wait attitude. Nip this in the bud before it goes too far.

  28. Biden should not transition. He should band with blue Governors and use his official powers to legally protect our freedom. I don’t care what the outcome is it would be better than handing America over to it’s end.

  29. They want us to be scared. Let’s not be scared. Let’s be strong.

  30. But the straight people keep telling me that my gay self has nothing to worry about

  31. Personally speaking as a Vet, while acknowledging I am only one among many who represent a spectrum of political ideologies, I feel like *my* loyalty is to the constitution, and to the objective safety of the American people.

    I’m a liberal who other liberals disavow for not being liberal *enough* by some *subjective* standard only a hive mind can understand.

    I’ve had enough of losing to these “hand puppet” republicans who only get involved in politics long enough to blather about whatever talking points their corporate masters can cram into their “hand holes”.

    People need to learn to exercise their collective power. Organize a couple nation wide labor and consumer strikes where EVERYONE who’s tired of all this shit stops commerce for a couple days, and you’re likely to see a change in the rhetoric. Stop letting rich people trick us into fighting each other while they pick our pockets.

  33. Half the electorate is going to get a rude awakening of what they voted for.

  34. This is all news to literally no one. Those of us that voted for Harris knew this was coming… Because he said it out loud. Those that voted for Trump also knew this… And that’s why they voted FOR him. They are some of your friends, coworkers, neighbors, and even family. They wanted this. Forget them from your lives.

  36. And republicans will applaud the chiseling away of our freedoms because it’s what they believe.

  37. They should be afraid. They should be *very* afraid.

    Because America has placed a sociopath promising to rule as a dictator into the White House. A man whom the Supreme Court has ruled is above the law.

  38. As much as we all will suffer, the silver lining is watching the devout maga loyalists realize they were duped, bamboozled and conned. Unfortunately voting will never be legit again, as it clearly isn’t now, so welcome to trumptopia where liberties are for sale and bigotry is the new tic toc trend.

  39. we could have had a real one. we were supposed to use these next years to go after corruption and special interests. taking money out of politics and overturning citizens united, which is the most anti-democracy ruling in US history.

    but that fight is gone. now the fight is for basic human rights. now all we can do is beg the new fascist regime to have mercy on which pages of constitution they’re going to rip out.

    the US is not ready for prime time. what is about to happen will reverberate for the rest of our lives 🙁

  41. If 20 to 30 million people showed up to say “No”. You could still keep your country, instead of just accepting its destruction. Happens all the time when people are intolerant of an incoming fascist. America could do it too.

  42. People who voted for Trump voted for what they want.

    But the tens of millions of lazy voters and especially lazy Democrats who sat home could have easily stopped this. They carry the blame. But instead it will be nonstop complaints and excuses.

  44. How many of them didn’t vote or voted 3rd party because “Gaza” or “Genocide Joe!” or “Fk the DNC!”

  45. My worry…

    Trump’s cronies will use that fear to stoke more anger, leading to large scale protests. Bad actors will jump in and instigate violence. Trump will declare Martial Law and suspend the Constitution.

  46. The very image of America’s shame. A majority deliberately picked the worst possible candidate, fully knowing that he will do nothing good for the country, because they don’t actually care about the country. They have an image of America in their minds that they want to go back to, that never actually existed, and never will exist.

  47. People are scared now but were not scared enough to not vote for him then. Now we will suffer

  49. Well well well if it isn’t the consequences of some people’s actions.

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