Maga’s violent threats spike as little girls threatened with rape

Remember that 53% of white women voted for this.

They voted for them and all women to be considered property.

College-educated white women backed Harris. All college-educated groups did. Maybe Democrats should work on making college more affordable, and accessible to women with small children. Frankly we should anyway. We should also start helping girls that get pregnant in high school finish with their diploma so college will be an option in their future. Especially since more of them are going to be forced to carry the pregnancy to term.
- Maybe Democrats should work on making college more affordable
  Why do you think the wingers reacted so much to having loan forgiveness? Anything that educates more people is something they fear. Having people not being saddled with crippling debts after school only sends a message to others that maybe education is a path for them. The wingers don't want an educated citizenry.
- The DoE is already under attack. It’s part of Project 2025, and they’re laying the groundwork for it already. They’re going to work hard to ensure education is difficult to access and/or neutralized as much as possible.
- No, democrats need to adjust their messages to people without a college education.
  One of the things that makes Trump so popular is that he panders to people without much education.
Unfortunately no one hates women more than other women.
- Article filled with examples of men expressing hatred and misogyny towards women
  "Ayup, no one hates women more than other women!"
We thought we could bargain with and persuade "conservatives". They voted for this, they are okay with women dying in hospitals because the doctors can't legally intervene. The supposed "Pro Life" party. I wasn't okay with abortion early in my male, hetero, American, white, life but now I see. They are only pro-fetus. Once a child is born, Republicans don't care if they starve, if they have access to clean water, if they can afford food, if they have shelter, if they are raped, etc... Multiply that by about 100x if they don't have white skin.
"Conservatives" are almost as bad as MAGAts, and just as unreachable with reason, logic, and empathy. I don't have a solution, I'm just pissed off. And I'm far from the most-harmed people will be the result of this greed, racism, apathy, and hate. Sorry...
Inaccurate. 53% of white women who voted voted for this. A lot sat out and let it happen.
- Or were pushed away by voter suppression and hopelessness...
Where is oversimplification going to lead us one day?
Oh, it’s 2024, never mind then
as i just said in another comment, it scares me to see this shit AGAIN.
this narrative is not making women any safer!
- Yeah, the truth certainly doesn't make women safer.
  You really should talk to other white women about that.

Wow, the guy who bragged about how he sexually assaults anyone he finds attractive, talked about how he had the same "on the younger side" tastes as his best friend Jeff, talked about how he liked hosting beauty pageants because it gave him an excuse to walk in on girls while they were changing, etc emboldened other people to act the same way? Utter shock. This could never have been anticipated

Bruh, I hate this timeline.

I feel like I accidentally triggered some portal and walked into a TV show / movie.

Nothing feels real anymore.

It was December 21st 2012. The Mayans were right. A timeline ended and were falling into some clown mirror black hole ever since or something.
- I thought everything went crooked the day Harambe died
- When does the current Mayan calendar period end?
Tbh, for me, I’m realizing it’s triggering a sort of sea-change in terms of how I, as a citizen, want to interact with American society.
Laws, ethics, human dignity and empathy clearly aren’t important to people here. Money and power are. This is fully incongruent with my personal beliefs in a variety of fundamental ways. I’ve tried to aim my career at areas that are going to help better society - that’s a big part of why I work at an oncology-focused biotech now. But like… I’m faced with the realization that this country just doesn’t share my values, and doesn’t actually care that I willingly take markedly less compensation than, say, working at Meta, and it’s primarily because I want to make the world a better place.
I admit it’s starting to feel like an abusive relationship. I don’t think the world is going to become a better place in my lifetime. It’s going to get a lot worse in a lot of ways. My initial reaction was to begin taking steps to just fully fuck off from this country, and find someplace else with a society that hasn’t fully eaten itself. Try to keep my sanity and ethics in one piece by finding a new society to call home that’s not America.
But I ALSO have begun to realize in the last couple days that there’s another darker path I could take that denys the society I’ve honestly come to resent pretty strongly the my true capabilities and abusive consumption of my efforts: Malicious compliance. I could just fully jettison my ethical guidelines and engineering principles and simply min/max the absolute fuck out of comp and just retire early. Work for Meta or OpenAI or some health insurance company or whatever the fuck is the absolute most lucrative job I can find and just fully shoot for leadership metrics, not really fucking caring about the toxicity of the management class, the morale or well being of my team, the impact my work has on society, the quality, reliability, and integrity of the code I ship, or any of that ivory tower crap I’ve previously held as crucial elements to my profession. Stop trying to move the needle in the right direction. All gas, no brakes. If this country is determined to not give a fuck, why should I? Why shouldn’t I try to get to a place in my career where I can just retire, or do whatever I want without worrying too much about the personal consequences, because I can just fuck off at my own discretion due to money?
And the second, darker option has the added benefit that I wouldn’t have to essentially abandon my family here, who are definitely not considering moving away as seriously as I am. My parents are both not in the best of health; maybe I should try to at least spend some more time closer to them before I just fuckin leave - or at least, as long as I can stand it here before the “fuck off and leave” route is truly the only viable option.
- America is dead to me. As a European, I already had a pretty negative view of the states, I especially hate the worse parts of American culture that seep in into our lives, since sniffing US ass is what we do best apparently. But now, what makes America any better than let's say Russia? The fact that people have running water at home? America doesn't even have a human rights committee! This moment for ever changes how I see Americans, a sort of no way back. It's a nation of bloodthirsty traitors! Blessings and good luck to anybody who still has a hint of normalcy in them. May you one day rebirth your country as a force for good once again.
- I'm feeling the same mostly. I don't make as much money as you, but I'm ok because I don't have kids and I'm in a low COL area. Which means I travel much of the time and leave my wife undefended. She is open to getting a pistol and learning. I'm getting a rifle. We can't leave because her mom is elderly and will not leave. Hell we've just got her convinced to move 20 miles to live with us.
  Once her mom lives out her life we will have options. We can see how bad it plays out. I want to move to Uruguay or Costa Rica badly.
- When I have gone through this thought process lately, I’ve concluded that even if I plan my life in the most cold robotic way possible, my mental health and general well-being are at their best when I am compassionate towards those around me.
  So first you must ask yourself what your true goal is. Do you want to “win” some shallow materialistic version of life? Or do you want to help others, or just be happy regardless of what it takes? Then that helps inform later decisions.
  My automatic assumption has always been that saving everything, retiring early, and being a recluse was my path to a happy existence. It’s just what I felt I wanted to do. I bet I’m not alone there.
  But then I had the great luck to have COVID come around and fuck up my career and finances in a few different ways. Now I’m stable again at work and my finances are a disaster, but I’ve waded through so much shit mentally that even though big retirement account balances feel great, that’s not what creates real joy, contentment, and even optimism.
  …In my brain anyway. It’s like we all have slightly different owners manuals but we don’t get a copy of it and have to reverse-engineer it. In my case I had some things I cared about a lot get torn away, but I still had my family, and I realized that without that stuff that got taken away I was still the same person and was just fine. That definitely flipped a switch or two. Well, that and a grueling couple years dialing in medications, lol. Anything that helps!
- I originally wanted to do what you've done, but eventually fell on the idea that the country is essentially beyond saving. Should this hold true, the best option then is to join a grassroots movement and begin building an alternative economy from the ground up as a ready replacement for the collapse of the current system. Join a socialist organization, work for a land trust, start building cooperatives and alternative food systems, etc.

Anybody who's surprised should take a deep look in the mirror. You bitches elected a literal rapist into the white house. This is the "great" leader republicans rally behind!

Rapist, terrorist, moron. The trifecta. We're literally living in the worst timeline :/.
- This is all those bastards at CERN's fault! Somehow the LHC pulled us into a shittier universe where Hitler 2.0 rises to power and there is a series of books called "The Barenstain Bears" instead of "The Bearenstein Bears."

Ah yes, economic anxiety. That's why racism and misogyny.

But they felt poor! That's what is making them so rapey and weird! I mean, eggs cost what, $100 each now?
The thing is: Biden and the Democrat Party made them this way!
- The flet poor thing was the difference maker. I don’t think anyone is saying everyone who voted for trump did so because they felt poor.
- Obama caused racism.

Maga is not sending their best. They're bringing crime. They're rapists.

They're absolutely sending their best.
The problem is what they're best at is being Maga assholes.
- I think op''s comment was a dig at Trump's anti-immigration stance. He often said the same thing except substitute the word immigrants.
You and MAGA have very different definitions of best, crime, and rape.

the america the majority of americans want. sickening

Now we have both the middle east and the middle west
- The middle finger
*Majority of voting Americans
- Not voting is a choice. Those 40% didn't give a shit.
More like 22% when you look at the numbers. 40% of the electorate could give two shits who runs the country.
- And people need to stop giving that 40% a free ride. They also wanted this. Fuck them.
  We have the same issue in Ontario where our conservative leader Doug Ford won a majority with like 19% of Ontarians actually voting for him. This means for the majority of Ontarians they were comfortable sitting at home fingering their grandma. So fuck them yes they did want this.
- They care, they just don't know.
A slim majority of voters. 68 million to 73 million last I checked. Not even a third of the population.
5.5 million out of over 300 million is hardly a majority.
- More like 74.2 millions out of over 231 millions eligible to vote. Still not a majority, but the 86 millions who didn't vote are at least complicit. And 160 millions are a majority.

The proper response to "your body, my choice" is "your nuts, my knee."

The correct response is "If I'm going to jail because abortion is murder, I may as well kill my rapist"
- Yes, but that's far less pithy.
just tell them to remember Lorena
- We're talking kids threatening other kids here. Lorena Bobbitt will mean nothing to them. A knee to the nuts, on the other hand...

Well what will happen is that those women will be put in prison and the poor innocent gangrapers will be set free because you can't ruin someone's life just because he raped something.
- Well, as per the 2nd amendment, buy a gun, make sure they don’t live . If you’re going to jail anyway…
- yeah you elect them president instead
I wanted the punk aesthetic to come to come back, but not like this.
- I give you, Wendy O. Williams https://i.imgur.com/88TfIlC.jpeg
We need the Hell's Grannies to come back

Hmm maybe enabling these people was a bad idea

20% of Americans voted for him because he told them it's ok to be a rapist.

Chat, are we fucked?

As an Ai I can't say whether you're fucked or not, but it sure seems to be heading that direction

Calm down, everyone. Remember, both sides are the same. Harris would have been absolutely no different.

For the members of r/whoosh, I believe this is what's known as sarcasm.
In all seriousness, I expect a torrent of Tone Police popping up everywhere, telling everyone to Stop Being So Mean To Deplorables (TM).
Remember, both sides are the same.
Thumbing a picture of Jeffrey Epstein besides Bill Clinton and Donald Trump
- Ok and? We weren't trying to elect Bill Clinton you fucking mouth breathing cretin.
- Thank goodness we didn't elect Bill Clinton this year. That would have been a disaster.
- What does this have to do with ANYTHING. It shows brain damage. You should get your brain checked.

Yeah, the "I do not want to vote for the lesser evil" crowd was literally saying the misogyny out loud for all to see.

Those of good conscience running in fear from orange stupidity didn't understand why others of good conscience were digging trenches: You can't outrun stupid. We fight or we die.

Also, I'm afraid this is not just a "spike", per se, but more like a prelude to much worse, including not just threats.

Your kids will be fine as long as they join the Trump youth

Cue restrictions on the freedom of movement of women. To "protect" them, of course.

Dude literally said he was gonna “protect” women whether they liked it or not. I took him at his word, but clearly a lot of women didn’t.
- Clearly a lot of men heard what he really meant by that and liked it.
"whether they like it or not"
Weren't the Gilead states [1] already doing measures like that under Biden? I thought people (sheriffs, deputies, "concerned" citizens) were watching certain roads that led to free states like Colorado.
[1] I still chuckle at a certain poster on Denver Post forums that would whine every single time I used that phrase, claiming there was no such thing. I'd ask him if he didn't think his own con movement and Republican Party weren't striving for exactly that kind of treatment. He never had an answer of course. But he'd go whining to the mods about it and how unfair it was to point out their own agenda.

Expect women to start cutting dicks off.

Lorena Bobbitt, the renewed American hero for every young woman.
hope they do at this point, fuckers deserve it
That is an inevitable outcome once they've prohibited divorce
- Yep, Conservatives have a short memory of the kind of shit that used to happen before no fault divorce.
You can "own" a woman, and you can own a knife. But you cannot own a knife and a woman.

Whats even more worrying.. that doesnt come just from somewhere. This kind of thoughts existed before.

I am really worried. This is taking an ugly turn quite fast. I'm so sorry..

At least all these undatable men are outing themselves so publicly.

Start making a list ladies!

I've been very frustrated that these guys bad behavior is being generalized to all guys. I'm viewed with suspicion despite taking active steps to make things better for the women in my life. I'm not perfect, and I have my moments, but I'm not the undatable Republican dude we're talking about here.
This isn't the women's fault, but I wish I could give some of these asshole misogynists a kick in the face for fucking it up for the rest of us. Having said that, I will be ban happy as a motherfucker the next time I run public events (used to teach classes, think dance, yoga, etc.)
- It's the point where we have to be anti instead of just not. Being anti racist, anti sexist, etc. Calling out the behavior at every turn instead of when it's especially egregious or burying our heads in the sand as was the norm for decades before.
Probably going to make 4B more of a thing.
Also: Nick Fuentes has been out as very undatable for a long time.
- His in group loves to frequent strip clubs and prostitutes. One of his more high profile stunts was to pay for Brandi Love to attend a GOP convention.
  He's not in it for dating. He sees women like fast cars or fancy gadgets or big houses - just another commodity to demonstrate your status.

Great, now I'm going to have to start punching school-children.

Can I screenshot this comment and post it on Twitter as ragebait to farm engagement?
- Anything to grow the brand.

Isn't this kind of shit that you guys have the 2nd amendment for?

women shouldn't need to kill people in order to live in the US. And their assailants almost certainly also have access to firearms because, the US (either legally or in violation of red flags etc).
people shouldn't need to kill just to go about their fucking lives.
- Shouldn't? Shouldn't.
  Does, tho.
- people shouldn't need to kill just to go about their fucking lives.
  This has been a sad necessity for most of our species' existence. Recent history is the most "civilized" we've ever been.
how?
- Pew Pew boom boom.

Tbh, this is all a fucking distraction from the class war that the oligarchs are winning without competition. And what a distraction it is! The cure to all these ills is higher taxes on the wealthy, but I don’t think any of those reforms are going to be remotely possible now lol

How sad due to the internet, this is spilled over to the younger generation.

statistically younger generations tend to skew more liberal. Now we know why Musk bought Twitter propaganda.

I will tell you that middle schoolers these days just say the dumbest shit. Like lines they've heard others say but have no idea what it means.
And they argue over the dumbest shit too. Anyways this is just me saying this story fits well with my current understanding of young kids in school. I think its only news because it related to trump and the election, and thats worth money nowadays.
Remember, the news stories we are served are chosen by profitability rather than social impact.
- As someone who grew up pre-Internet, I will say that the Internet was not required for middle schoolers to say dumb shit. In fact, as I saw the "information superhighway" blooming, my hope was that the dumb shit would be squelched a bit by people being able to look up and fact-check all the really stupid stuff I'd hear.
  That didn't pan out, and in fact, I wonder if Gen Z will be one of the very most reactionary "generation" to come down the pike. Boomers got a lot of shit despite a lot of them pushing leftward very hard when they were young, and now I'm hearing lots of dumb things about Gen X and Gen Y (and people in the Gen X age bracket falling for "but mah expensive bacon" I kind of get - both age groups are perhaps in the place where they are caring for older parents AND younger), but Gen Z?
  WTAF. I mean they are very, very young, and they broke right? When donnie was the option? I seriously do think the Youtube/Tiktok effect is being seen here...

This is who we are. This shit was out in the open for all the degenerates to see and vote for.

Unrelated, but there was another article that showed up when i scrolled down about the Dems holding the PA House that was really interesting:

"Burns, a conservative anti-abortion Democrat, has drawn the ire of the Pennsylvania GOP for some time now, as his seat was viewed as a vulnerable blue dot in a sea of red. But he was able to maintain his seat thanks to an influx of cash ($3.4 million from the Pennsylvania House Democratic Campaign Committee) and a potent advertising blitz to keep Democrats in control of the state House.

One ad the Burns campaign ran capitalized on his conservative views, stoking anti-immigration based fear and casting Bradley as against Trump’s draconian immigration plans. “President Trump supports secure borders and putting America first. But Amy Bradley doesn’t,” the ad stated menacingly. It was a successful tactic for Burns in his otherwise deep red district."

That's a sign to me that people aren't as huge a fan of MAGA as one would believe and the voting base is more fluid. Not saying Dems should shift to anti-immigration / anti-abortion, but locally they should be more strategic about how they play these things. We don't have to agree with everything a down-ticket Democrat does... if they need to adjust their positions based on local sentiment we should be open to that as long as nationally we know where we stand.

That's what MAGA did with abortion...nationally oppose it, but claim to "give the choice to the states" to placate local fears. Localized and targeted messaging. If they don't want student loan forgiveness, don't run a single ad about student loan forgiveness in that state/county. If they mainly about immigration, make every ad about what the immigration bill would've done, that Trump/MAGA blocked it, that "BLOOD IS ON THEIR HANDS" as MAGA would put it.

Don't give up our overall ideals but start to better recognize that everyone has different priorities and we need to build a popular movement that connects with everyone.

Every and any avenue should be explored.

Very much this. Democrats largely saw big wins for state-wide elections in my state (North Carolina). Yet, Trump took the electors, implying that there were people who voted for Democrats locally but not for Kamala. I know people on this site like to say that MAGA is what America wanted, but I think the support is tentative at best. If a good choice from Democrats emerges, they can definitely sweep.

LPT: I’m not opening this shit. I’m holding my family close. I’m gonna work my job. I’m gonna exercise and get sleep. I’m gonna stay healthy. I’m gonna vote in 4 years for a better president.

But I’m not going to turn my guts into knots over shit I cannot change. I’m not going to let the noise bury me.

Voting won’t save us. Not trying to throw a wrench in your plans to stay healthy and happy. But true mutual aid is what is most necessary now. Voting is what got us into this mess. Incrementalist politics will not save the climate, will not save us from fascism.
It’s the hard truth that the ownership class has brought to our lives. It’s the logical outcome of capitalism. This is sort of the endgame. We fight now. Relying on voting alone only enables more of the same. We’ve been trying to vote as long as the system has been around. And it’s led us here.
- Voting is most likely still part of they way forward. Most of your comment is true, but as long as we have a democracy we have to vote.
  Not voting is what got us into this. Harris turnout was lower than Biden's. Trump turnout was about the same as last time. Don't ever tell people not to vote. It's too easy to for us not to take advantage of it.
- This is sort of the endgame. We fight now.
  What's your plan to overthrow the government, in practical terms? How many casualties are acceptable? Do you even have a plan? Or are you just trying to vent?
- Sorry but that's bullshit and is harmful.
  Voting is quintessential to getting us out of this mess and trying to downplay the power of voting is only beneficial to those currently in power.
  There are many actions to take beyond voting, but there is one very specific reason trump is president right now: his people voted.
Be sure not to forget to vote in two years for House and senate.
- And every single local and state level election.
Next election is in two years. Don't forget midterms. Make sure you're informed about local elections too. They can make more of a difference to you, and they also get people into positions they can move upward from.
- Great reminder. Always tracking state and local.
  I just can’t allow myself to fall into paralysis over “who” our country actually is. THIS. This is who our country actually is.
That is assuming he doesn't declare himself king, and there is still a vote.
- There is NOTHING he can break the we cannot fix! NOTHING!
The barrage of he is a dictator, know it, expect it news is beating the rest into complacency.
- I know that preserving my health can be seen as complacency.
  I faced down federal troops that were sent to our city after George Floyd — and I felt like a patriot for doing it.
  When another George Floyd happens, I will hear about it. And I will be there in the fires.
- Dark.
  Let’s hope the system holds well enough to oust.

What do you know. Turns out progress (in corporate hands) brings us back to the 18th century.

Good luck to all the women in gilead. May the lord open or whatever the fuck you say out there.

Under his eye?

Sure wish more women had voted against the enabler in chief

i really love seeing this narrative again. i watched it last time he was elected, now i'm watching it again. it's the left's own brand of mysogyny, and it's not making women any safer.
- An alarming number of women voted for Trump.
  That is a kind of misogyny, but stating that fact isn't.

Get off of social media. I may even destroy this account. Fuck the Internet.

Expect this to escalate to really bad levels. Not just by women getting raped, but those awful men getting "what they deserve", which will lead to further escalations. All because of they wanted what those stupid Coca-Cola and gas stove ads depicted.

The 2nd Ammendment remains a thing in MAGAstan America, and women retain the right to arm themselves for self-defense. Stand your ground is for women too.

Which is why I have zero qualms about teaching my daughter to stand up for herself in any and every way necessary to end a threat

Gilead is nigh.

Oh look, "think of the children" done right*!

*^Right ^as ⁱⁿ ^right ^wing ^ideology

I saw a post from Nick Fuentes about it. Things will get out of hand.

I see this as a net positive at the end of the day. Yeah it's fucked up, but the fascists have already been given enough rope to hang themselves.

There's no anonymity on the internet anymore, you pull this shit and it kinda ruins your life.

Sometimes the trash really does take itself out.

the fascists have already been given enough rope to hang themselves.
It's a long road from 1933 to 1945
- Yeah, but in the internet age these things move faster ya know.

This is why I wish those voters had held their nose for Kamala

More harassment and attacks => more spending on health and mental care => economic stimulus

The system works! /s

The only flaw is that you are assuming they would increase spending
Thats socialism
- No, regular people would be spending more money on health care.

Jesus Christ. You freaking people are insane.

- Americans.

I think that is the way we could get them. Just take their points and extrapolate to accelerate their narrative to a point they can't control it any more.

Eventually I will be divorced but I can't exactly cash out my half of the equity in the home without making her homeless. If she's still my property anyone I'll take $80k, no warranty, sales final. Comes with free baggage and would make a great drill instructor. Low mileage, but unreliable and untrustworthy. Pretty to look at though.

(/s)

While I understand the implications, the headline is still pretty misleading. The article mentions no threat of rape. Of course, "your body, my choice" could be taken that way, but I read it as them lording their control over women's bodies, not as a direct that of rape. Overall though, this is still bad. Like third act of a film with no happy ending in sight bad.

Drawing a line between "control of someone else's body" and "rape" is splitting a pretty fine hair
Doing something to someone's body, neglecting their will is the definition of rape. Well as long as it's sexual, which in this case it is. But if we want to take implications a bit further, since abortion is illegal now in some states, it could also be seen as a death threat depending on where you are.

In schools, boys have been caught using phrases like “your body, my choice” against female peers

Lol... this isn't real.

No one is walking around, honestly saying that. It's satire.

Except for the part where it actually is.
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2024/nov/08/your-body-my-choice-harassment-toward-women-surges/
https://www.newsweek.com/nick-fuentas-abortion-social-post-2024-election-mysogyny-1982998
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-your-body-my-choice-women-enraged-by-emboldened-maga-misogynists-223996485867
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/donald-trump-nick-fuentes-your-body-my-choice-4b
Take a pick. Stop acting like a disingenuous dipshit.
I’ve lived with someone who came out as an unapologetic white Christian supremacist shortly before moving out. He definitely held these beliefs and cited “the old ways things were”.
Recall, some dispute marital rape as well.
^
Yeah, it's always a joke until it isn't. In which case, they are serious as a heart attack about such things...
- "it's just a joke... Unless?"

Sounds a lot like "we wish all the men just disappeared", "I would rather be with a bear", and "they are useless anyway and we dont need them for anything". I just can't figure out why men didn't vote for more of that?

I'm a man, and I voted against the fascists.
Because I'm not a fragile moron who thinks Daddy Trump will make women be nice to me.
- ^ So much this. I wish I could upvote more than once. :)
Equalization often feels like oppression to the dominant group that's been favored and catered to in society's history. Like Christians being upset over secular public institutions, or some white Americans thinking they were the victims when Jim Crow laws were overturned.
From a fellow dude...let it go.
Did the aids from your username get into your writing nerves?
Yes, it's the victims of harassment who are really at fault here.
Fuck off.
Rapist apologia? I never thought I’d see the day.
Um, but even if that were true, how is donnie going to change the minds of millions of women? I swear, some people seem to think he has a magic wand or something. Like he's going to somehow set up every incel with a bombshell that's so very into him...
- Lol. It still doesn't change the reality of the election. Large groups of the electorate voted against your party when you offered no incentive to inspire their vote. Instead of admitting that reality you call them names or insult their intelligence.