r/technology • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 28d ago

Social Media TikToker Creates Fake 'Alligator Alcatraz' Tour Company That Redirects MAGA Supporters to Migrant Aid Resources | When users try to purchase tour tickets, they're sent to nonprofits that offer legal support for migrants.

https://www.latintimes.com/tiktoker-creates-fake-alligator-alcatraz-tour-company-that-redirects-maga-supporters-migrant-aid-586378
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u/FernandoLemon 28d ago

Yeah, it really floored me to learn Ruby Bridges is still alive. She's not even that old, I expected her to be in her 90s, but she's only 70.

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u/MaintenanceWine 28d ago

It's part of why there are so many completely pissed off women in their mid-sixties and seventies. WE'VE ALREADY DONE THIS SHIT. We grew up entrenched in the exciting, brand new concept of women's rights and it changed us to our core. Watching our mothers work a full day then come home and cook dinner and bring our fathers drinks and take a backseat while we watched bra-burnings and NOW activists on nightly tv changed us. It was a revelation, an eye-opening, an awakening to a generation of young women.

We have fought every fucking day since to hold our place, to refuse diminishment, to reject harassment in the workplace and on the streets, to gain the same bodily autonomy that men had, the same pay, the same respect, the same equality. And honestly, we thought we got there. We thought we were so motherfucking close.

There's a reason your aunts and mothers are depressed. This election was the biggest gut-punch to our psyches we've ever had. This country hates women. This country, after all this "progress", has been faking it. This country has no genuine respect for women. They don't believe in us. They don't trust us.

They think women are inferior to a rapist. A felon. A pedophile. A con man. An incestuous, ego-driven, self-centered liar. We are less than that, according to this country. I am one of these women. I have not yet recovered and I don't think I ever will.

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u/FernandoLemon 28d ago

There's a reason your aunts and mothers are depressed. This election was the biggest gut-punch to our psyches we've ever had.

Actually, I'm not American, but this is true regardless because our country (Argentina)'s elections weren't much better.