Let me reiterate: THEY DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH GUYS TO PERSECUTE LARGE NUMBERS OF DISSENTERS. What they are doing, instead, is using fear and paranoia as a force multiplier: they don’t have to persecute us if we keep ourselves home because someone told us we can’t walk in public without being terrified.

and I'm also really concerned that the more the "Dems should have gone left" people win, the more social issues, including trans rights and abortion, will be deemphasized in favor of things like "dismantle the American empire" and "stop imposing American values, like LGBT rights, on the world"

It's socially unacceptable to point out on this site that a huge amount of mutual aid requests that get circulated are outright scams.