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Summary

Following Donald Trump’s election victory, women are experiencing a surge in misogynistic harassment online, with phrases like “your body, my choice” trending as men taunt women about reproductive rights.

The phrase, co-opted from feminist slogans, reflects heightened hostility, with reports of threats on platforms like TikTok and X/Twitter.

This backlash arises as Trump’s administration, alongside VP-elect JD Vance, raises concerns about potential federal restrictions on abortion.

Even without a federal ban, existing state laws have already limited access to reproductive care, contraception, and increased maternal health risks.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago

A campaign run by trolls wasn't just gonna stop trolling once they win. Of course they were gonna double down with being awful people.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

I very much look forward to the increase in mortality rates among men. Married and otherwise.

Lots of Goodbye Earl energy flying around and I love it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago

It's a darth vader cosplay fetish. They wanna be a cool bad guy.

Except just the shitty parts, minus the cool costume, powers, or voice. Then they try to convince themselves it's working with seven laughing-too-hard emojis.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago

The fact these losers (misogynists) don’t even have shame in what they’re saying and are not afraid of the repercussions, this could have on their personal/work lives, by saying all this fucked up shit, just makes it even awful tbh. There is really no justice.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (12 children)

I fear that online misogyny was going to go up in general. Hell, would probably be worse with a Harris victory given how well those fucks would handle a woman president.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

Someone explain to me how a federal abortion ban could be in any way different from a federal cannabis ban? What's stopping states from saying "We're not enforcing that federal law"?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I wrote a haiku on another similar article and I'm proud of it. I don't have a title yet. I'm not usually poetic. Here goes:

  • Your body, my choice
  • Women are my property
  • Soylent green is peep...
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

A whole generation of the kid who stands behind the other kid and says, "YEAH!!!" after the fact and then shrinks away and cowers.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I'm so happy I switched to an instance that blocks grad, ml and hex, I can't imagine the shitshow it should be for those that still want to tolerate at least hex.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (7 children)

Im sure some of this is real. But i wonder how much of this is actually foreign state actors. We have a bunch of countries working overtime trying to destabilize the U.S. right now.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I think we should absolutely consider foreign actors as the likely seed for some of these flashy, rage-bait stories. Russia's primary goal since 2015 has been to keep us from trusting one another, and I expect them to ramp up messaging to leftist groups over the next few months. We're uncertain, isolated, and afraid, and that makes us likely targets for cultural wedge disinformation.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago

Points from Foundations for Geopolitics (basically the current russian playbook)

In the Americas, United States, and Canada:

Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States and Canada to fuel instability and separatism against neoliberal globalist Western hegemony, such as, for instance, provoke "Afro-American racists" to create severe backlash against the rotten political state of affairs in the current present-day system of the United States and Canada. Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social, and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics".[9]
The Eurasian Project could be expanded to Central and South America.[9]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

At least 90% is my guess. MANY foreign countries are trying very hard to ensure we tear ourselves apart from the inside

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Is anyone surprised?

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