Summary

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announced she will not attend Donald Trump’s inauguration, stating, “I don’t celebrate rapists,” referencing Trump’s history of sexual assault allegations.

While Trump has never been convicted of rape, a jury found him civilly liable for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll.

Ocasio-Cortez also criticized TikTok for crediting Trump with restoring service in the U.S., calling it a propaganda move.

She warned of social media platforms being weaponized by right-wing interests, claiming they are contributing to the rise of “21st-century fascism” under the incoming administration.

  • ShadowWalker@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    The issue, as I see it, isn’t that they liked his policies or wanted to move right. What the public wanted was change, some drastic move away from the system we have. The Democrats explicitly campaigned on maintaining the current world order.

    So when we, rightfully, said that Trump will destroy America, may who aren’t engaged with politics thought that was a good thing.

    Look how much the country embraced Luigi even though he was pure destruction (i.e. killing someone with no plan on how that would fix anything). We need Luigi energy with a real plan to fix the country. We need a new Roosevelt and AOC seems the best fit for the job.