Summary

Following Trump’s election victory, social media saw a surge in misogynistic rhetoric, with phrases like “Your body, my choice” — promoted by figures like white supremacist Nick Fuentes — trending widely.

The Institute for Strategic Dialogue reported a 4,600% spike in misogynistic language on social media and noted that harassment has spilled into schools.

Trump’s win, amplified by Elon Musk’s support, has emboldened “manosphere” influencers, aligning Trump with anti-feminist figures.

This rise in misogyny comes amid other social shifts, such as the election of two Black female senators, a first in U.S. history.

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    What is their “power” going to be, anyway? Is donnie promising a pussy in every pot?

    I think these just might be jerking off more often because this excites them so much…not sure what donnie dumbfuck is going to do for any of them other than thinking they can lord something over women…but they still aren’t getting laid. 🤣

    • I don’t think they’re born with it so much as born immediately into it. They have fucked up relationships to women because of their fucked up relationship to their mothers, and fucked up attraction styles because of whatever relations were modeled for them right from the first months. No doubt many of their fathers are also insufferable assholes, of whom their mothers were victims. They were raised this way, and encouraged by rage-bait media, foreign and domestic.

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      The fact that they are complete morons doesn’t mean they want to be treated this way. It is a case for the leopards, but saying this is not helpful to the potential victims from both camps.

      Please, keep your empathy for women in general, they’re going to need it now more than ever.

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        If they didn’t want to be treated this way by people who loudly stated that they were going to treat them that way then they shouldn’t have elected people who loudly and unabashedly told them that they were going to codify treating them that way.

        I’ve got empathy in spades for women of color, they were allies, white women though, very little sympathy and should be called out for betraying other women and the rest of us.

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        “If you want roses, one must mind the thorns.”

        They voted for a racist, rapist with felony convictions and a pending prison sentence.

        They may have not wanted to be treated like property but they are going to be. And if they don’t like that, they can leave…except the very people they voted for are removing the ability for women to leave their husbands.

        And even if they leave, even if they get to a safe place, I fucking guarantee you that they will still vote for Republicans.

        If you want to give those women empathy, by all means. These women are about to experience fascism in a way they have never seen before. But don’t think for a second they wouldn’t vote for it again because of their values™.

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        No empathy for anyone who voted for this and gets burned. The hard truth is they want the subjugation to happen. Otherwise they would have voted for anyone else.

        Lemmy is such an echo chamber that the terminally online here can’t fathom the idea of someone voting against their own interests. But go out and talk to some people, you’ll find them.

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          I believe there are such people. But I don’t believe the female republican voter group is homogeneous.

          The world is a colourful and diverse place. There are not only people wanting to be subjugated, but also those who are braindead, absolutely uninformed, scared shitless by propaganda, too naive to believe in the existence of evil… it takes all kinds to make a world.

          I don’t think stupid people deserve bad things to happen to them, even though they often bring it on themselves as well as on others.

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            The world is a colourful and diverse place. There are not only people wanting to be subjugated, but also those who are braindead,

            Sweet dreams are made of these…

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          I hear them all the time. My wife talked to a lesbian who was MAGA. It just makes no sense - this women thinks she’ll live in a “safe” state (meaning, blue) but wants cheaper groceries.

          That’s not how any of this works.

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            I hear them all the time. My wife talked to a lesbian who was MAGA. It just makes no sense - this women thinks she’ll live in a “safe” state (meaning, blue) but wants cheaper groceries.

            Can we just have a mass extinction event before January 20?

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      They didn’t vote for this. They voted for other women to be treated this way. Whores. Sluts.

      Not them. Because they are Christian and blessed™.

      Their husbands/boyfriends/pastors will never treat them that way.

      Until they do and then they’ll be Pikachu face.

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        I think some percentage of them voted for “but the price of mah eggs and bacon” bullshit, too and put their head in the sand on any of the many blinking lights around donnie and friends…

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        Until they do and then they’ll be Pikachu face.

        Unfortunately, they will just internalize it and convince themselves that it was something they did to prompt it.

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    If history is any indication - remember how ANGRY the qons were the last time their precious donvict “won”? There were explosions of their rage all over the place, and that’s after they supposedly “won”. Just what they thought they won, who the hell knows. And even after four years, it seems almost none of them figured out that he did jack squat for them.

    They are poised to get even less laid than they get now. :) Combine that with their slow realization that, no, there is no one that is going to praise them just because their loser is in office, and indeed, the mockery is going to increase, and they are going to be vewy, vewy angry. Aw, sad emoji.

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      That’s why the Heritage Foundation is going to reclassify rape as a property crime against the woman’s father or husband.

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      Yea I remember this same thing. He won and they were even angrier.

      Because it’s not like trump being in the White House is suddenly going to make women not be immediately repelled when they show up, mansplain Joe Rogan, and call her a femoid.

      They fell for it again. This time he’s really really gonna make it great. Him and jd Vance have some really novel ideas about lowering the age women can get married and making it impossible to get divorced, so finally they can have a child bride or some shit.

      It’s super gross and I hope they end up jerking it to trump fanfic every night crying themselves to sleep.

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        He won and they were even angrier.

        You’ll notice the same thing happened when the caught the car with that repealing 50 years of settled law when it came to Roe, too. They were fucking LIVID. I ran into many instances of this IRL. One raging Karen was practically crying she was so hopping mad. I mean, this is someone that would embrace compelled religious (xtian of course, and only THEIR kind of xtianity, naturally) attendance and teaching of their xtianity in public schools.

        I let her rage on for a bit, then calmly asked her - but isn’t this what you people WANTED? Total incoherent answer, just about sobbing about how this would galvanize those people that hate the donvict, hate (their) god, and so on…

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          I do sometimes wonder if it’s a skill issue, but that feels like a really dangerously self serving position to take, that people that disagree with me are just too dumb.

          I like to think that I’m a relatively smart person, I have a very technical job and there’s very few situations where I don’t understand what’s going on (although there’s definitely plenty). Sometime though I’ll be out and about in my life and meet people that just don’t seem to have any idea how extremely basic, to me at least, things work. How does compounding interest work, how does insurance work, why should I put money into a retirement account. Not fresh adults either, people in their 30s / 40s / 50s who just seem content not understanding relatively basic things.

          The world preys on these people, if someone doesn’t understand compound interest then you can really bamboozle them. If you don’t see the value of having insurance because you work out and are “healthy” and then suddenly get cancer or some other disease that doesn’t give a shit about how much you can bench, you are fucked.

          There is a part of me that thinks that for a lot of people the world is a confusing and unknowable mystery. I mean, it’s not really, but the amount of effort to figure those things out is just too high for them to give a shit. And I think about how weird it would be to go through life like that. At the mercy of forces you don’t understand, and then some guy comes up and says “everything’s fucked up but I can make it great” and because you already don’t know how shit works you think “awesome, because I’m drowning in medical debt because I didn’t think I needed insurance and got screwed over”

          I think about this person I met once, I was building planning and projection software and their job was to perform projection calculations for inventory ordering. I watched, in horror, as they tabbed away from excel to manually add up some figures. This is excel, what are you doing?! I showed them the sum function thinking that they would be happy. Then they looked at me and said “that’s too complicated, I’ll just do it myself”

          Wild, that was too complicated. It taught me an important lesson though about how everyone’s bar for complicated is different. I think for a lot of people “how does insurance work” is too complicated. “What’s a tariff and how does it work” is too complicated. So it just comes down to “do I trust the person talking”

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    Alt: idiot and ex-president George Bush Jr who helped Trump achieve a position of vast power pointing out how weird he was acting at the swearing in in 2017

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    Ok I’m deeply saddened we’ve never elected two black women to the senate at the same time before. That shouldn’t be a 2024 milestone that should be a 1994 milestone

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      So many qons are still mentally and emotionally stuck at the very worst version of an entitled 14 year old boy.

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    it’s a joke. the same thing happened the first time he won. roe v wade hadn’t been overturned yet, so the jokes were different, but it was basically a flood of “cry about it liberals/cope seethe” etc. this reaction is exactly the intended response. it will die out in a few more days.

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      They look forward to buying robot wives, so…yeah. And yeah, those will probably have very high tariffs if those sexbots are going to be bought under donnie’s regime.

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        In a FPTP voting system, one party dicking around and fucking up is equivalent to giving you the other option. It’s not fun or cool, but it’s true.

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      Is the DNC so bad that millions of individuals sat on their hands and allowed a wannabe despot get control of the country (and Congress)? Nah. DNC ain’t perfect, but the non-voters and third party voters are fucking petty dipshits who absolutely have a hand in whatever comes out of the MAGAverse.

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        Is the DNC so bad that millions of individuals sat on their hands and allowed a wannabe despot get control of the country (and Congress)?

        Yes.

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        I for sure think that the DNC aren’t to blame in the same way that a firefighter who uses a garden hose to try to put out a burning house isn’t responsible for the smoking ruins when there are other people throwing molotovs through the windows, slashing the tires of the firetrucks, and getting the neighbors to throw bricks at the firefighters.

        That being said, if my house was on fire and it was clear that I couldn’t get the active vandals to stop despite them burning themselves in the process, I think it’s justified to work on replacing or training the firefighters to be more competent and/or rutheless with dealing with the threat.

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        Is the DNC so bad that millions of individuals sat on their hands and allowed a wannabe despot get control of the country

        Yes. Did you watch the election?

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      America voted for Trump, but you’re going to blame the people who were working extremely hard to offer a viable alternative?

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          No he didn’t. Each election, he’s gotten more votes than the prior one.

          • 2016: 63.0 million (46.1% of votes cast)
          • 2020: 74.2 million (46.8%)
          • 2024: 75.8 million (51.3%) - there are still some outstanding votes to be counted, so this will likely go up.
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        Individual people worked hard for that. DNC leadership worked very hard to move to the right and reject progressive/leftist ideals. They proudly touted their endorsements from the Cheneys FFS.

        The people voted for change, which Harris wasn’t offering.

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          It’s really fascinating how so many online have all the answers, and it would be so easy, and yet, you’re not out there doing it

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            The answer is simple. It is not easy. The DNC needs to be replaced ground up with people that push for real change. The hard part is pushing out people in positions of power that don’t want to give it up because they benefit from the status quo.

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                Organizing in person for change and being loud about it. Part of that is helping people direct their anger in the right place by pointing out the problem. It’s a lot easier to effect change when you’ve got a critical mass of people that are pissed off and want the same change.

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                  I also hope that those similar to your ideals focus on building you up for your common values, rather than arm chair criticisms while ignoring the deeply problematic other side of the equation.

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        What is your alternative? More failure that ends up with fascists in power? Are you pro-Trump?

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          The failure was the voters, not the party. That’s who brought the fascists to power. The voters had a choice, a very apparent and obvious choice, to avoid fascism.

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            Too lazy to make the meme, but you’re literally personifying the Principal Skinner meme. “Am I out of touch? No, it is the voters who are wrong.”

            Hate the game all you want, the DNC still failed at convincing people that Trump was worse than their corporatist bullshit, because people are desperate for change

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              the DNC still failed at convincing people that Trump was worse than their corporatist bullshit

              And how was that not obvious? On a global, ethical, personal rights, life-and-death scale?

              It was a shitty choice, but the choices weren’t equal.

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                People are tired of the democrats not delivering and not fighting hard enough. They care more about unity and decorum than delivering for their base, so much so that they abandon the left to court the likes of cheney 🤮.

                The message is clear, if you don’t make concessions or compromises with the left elements of your party, if you don’t get the base on board with your platform, 15 million of us will just sit out the election.

                But please keep blaming the people when Democrats failed on messaging and on milquetoast policy. It happened with corporate ass hilary and corporate ass kamala, the only reason biden won was because of the concessions he made to bernie in the primary coupled with covid and mail in voting directly in peoples minds.

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          Liberals seem to actively want to fucking continue losing so they can remain the underdogs. The conservatives have no such fucking scruples. They’re in to win.

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      Maybe fix the structure - the whole voting system - rather than just putting more of the same into the never ending circle jerk?

      Democrats had their chance to make reforms and ignored it. Both parties oppose election reform because it threatens their [current] control.

      The people are to blame.

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    Given perceived power, the law and moral standards of decency will be there whether they know it or not.