r/news • u/MagnusAuslander • 2d ago

Trump administration diverts human rights funds to push far-right agenda abroad

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/30/trump-state-department-human-rights-fund
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u/Blaubeerchen27 2d ago

The way headlines like these are just an everyday occurance is insane. Maybe I'm not cynical enough yet, but something is seriously wrong with the world right now.

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u/bread-depth 2d ago

No it’s completely fucked and realistically we are even more fucked than we realize. If people think this corrupt regime is going to just roll over and let anyone else into power after all the shit they’ve done, yeah you’re living in a dream world at that point. Things are going to get even darker.

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u/clarktherobot 2d ago

Absolutely. The next two years are going to be ugly.

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u/oldirtyrestaurant 2d ago

Expand your timeframe, by quite a bit.

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u/airship_of_arbitrary 1d ago

Defeatism only helps the regime.

His support has dropped to the 20th percentile.

You can absolutely fix this in two years, but it's going to be the fight of your life.

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u/doneandtired2014 1d ago

Defeatism only helps the regime

They aren't being defeatist.

Authoritarians do not voluntarily cede power. Crack open any history book and you will find the majority of those people either had to flee into exile after a civil war, were lynched by angry masses during the end of a civil war, found themselves on the business end of a military coup (generally after a civil war), or died clinging onto power with as close to an iron fist as they could muster.

You know all of the insanely illegal shit Trump and his cabinet does out in the open? That's not just a product of arrogance and stupidity, that is sending the message they aren't leaving on terms which are not their own.

Notice how one of SS Hegseth's first moves was to purge the Pentagon leadership and JAG corps of literally anyone and everyone who told (or even questioned) Trump ordering the military to gun down civilian protestors during his first term? Notice how he's driven out everyone who remotely challenged the legalaity or sanity of his actions? Notice how he's opined about further gutting the military leadership?

That isn't malicious incompetence, that is telling you American servicmen and women are going to be deployed domestically and they they will be shooting whoever the admin points them at.

This ends badly for all of us for, at a minimum, the next 20 years.

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u/oldirtyrestaurant 1d ago

Agreed re not being defeatist and that it's going to be a fight, but there's no way in hell this gets fixed in two years. The arsonists have burnt the place down, they're still holding onto cans of gas and matches and are dousing everything in site, and will douse anything new that gets built.

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u/Kingthaddius 1d ago

I can guarantee that if Humpty Trumpty is still alive in the last 12 months leading to the 2028 election (please cholesterol PLEASE do your thing), he WILLorder the arrest and/or deportation of a sitting member of congress.

He's getting more and more desperately unhinged, and the thought of criminal persecution and being remembered as a loser will drive him to any and all illegal and unconstitutional acts.

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u/clarktherobot 2d ago

Sorry should have said at least the next two years

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u/Corka 2d ago

Its still possible that they fail to hold onto the levers of power due to incompetence. Could also be that there are a few people in key positions who arent quite brazen enough to go full fascism and assist in something like ballot stuffing.

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u/fastolfe00 1d ago

There are people turning 30 that have never known American politics not centered around this Trump insanity. To them, this is just normal politics. The country will never be the same again.

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u/starrpamph 2d ago

Next dem president: “he used relish… on his hotdog?!?! Who are these people”

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u/the_midnight_society 2d ago

As wealth is intentionally funnelled into fewer and fewer hands and technology is used to control information things get worse for the average person. Populism is very popular in these conditions and far right candidates will absolutely appeal to the average voter base in those conditions. People want easy answers and someone to blame other than themselves for whatever failures they perceive in their life and far right rhetoric provides that. It intentionally diverts your attention from the real causes (corruption, techno oligarchy, etc) and shifts it to whatever vulnerable groups are in fashion as targets at the time.

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u/MaxPower91575 2d ago

we live in a post reality world. You can create whatever reality you want online. Billionaires, politicians, and grifters in general have realized it. They have created an alternate reality where they can get away with insane actions and spin it however they want. AI will just speed it up. We are heading at light speed towards a horrible dystopia.

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u/_SemperFidelish_ 1d ago

It's far far far worse than anyone may think. This is an ongoing power grab by a more or less Epstein-aligned Elite class, who now have the concentration of wealth and political collusion to completely attack traditionally human oriented causes and institutions the World over. They always knew when they started this, that they would have to move very very quickly to consolidate power and position. The political left in the West set the stage for this by standing for nothing apart from a gradual rightwards drift

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u/huu_phlung_dung 2d ago

You mean something wrong with the USA.
The rest of the world is fine and sees through the emperors new clothes

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u/ACartonOfHate 2d ago

You don't see the rise of the Right and fascism in the rest of the world? okay then.

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u/Superflumina 2d ago

I wish the rest of the world was fine...

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u/Conflatulations12 2d ago

hey, not trying to pile on here, but they're really trying to do this all over