Human Rights Watch warned Wednesday, February 4 that President Donald Trump was turning the United States into an authoritarian state as democracy declines globally to its lowest ebb in four decades.
Trump’s return to the White House has intensified a “downward spiral” on human rights that was already under pressure from Russia and China, the New York-based advocacy and research group said in its annual report. “The rules-based international order is being crushed,” HRW said.
In the US, the group said, Trump has shown “blatant disregard for human rights and egregious violations.”
In descriptions that would have been unthinkable in the US section of its previous annual reports, the group pointed to the deployment of masked, armed agents – the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency – which has carried out “hundreds of unnecessarily violent and abusive raids.”
“The administration’s racial and ethnic scapegoating, domestic deployment of National Guard forces in pretextual power grabs, repeated acts of retaliation against perceived political enemies and former officials now critical of him, as well as attempts to expand the coercive powers of the executive and neuter democratic checks and balances, underpin a decided shift toward authoritarianism in the US,” the report said.
Yeah we know 🫠
“heading to” is a thing of the past. They arrived some time ago.
Thanks for the warning. Now, being warned, I can… well… be warned!
Is heading?
Authoritarianism?
How about the US IS an authoritarian state, has been for a while, and it’s speed running heading into becoming a theocratic dictatorship ala handsmaid tale?
I mean technically I can still post the horrific shit they’re doing on Lemmy and facebook and I haven’t personally been prosecuted yet.
So maybe heading is technically correct.
Americans being executed in the streets.
Journalists being arrested.
President threatening to take over elections and send goons to patrol polling stations.
We aren’t “heading to”. We are already there. It happened. Here. Because Americans couldn’t be bothered to pay attention and inform themselves responsibly.
We are authoritarian whenever the R’s have control. That is not new. We are heading to fascism. Call it what it is.
Dafuq you mean “heading to”? That shit is in the rearview mirror.
The world isn’t taking the US seriously enough, every damn org is way too slow to react
Another example, they’re finally starting to call out the “early stages” of the trans genocide in the US whereas we’ve been yelling from the rooftops about it for ages. We’re no longer in the early stages.
Go back to bed.
Part of the life cycle of societies. Unfortunately, we live in a world in decline and there are many signs that indicate this.
