NutWrench

Giving you contradictory orders is standard operating procedure for cops whenever they need an excuse to abuse or kill you.

“Get on the ground!”

“Don’t move!”

“I SAID GET ON THE GROUND!”

“I SAID DON’T F*CKING MOVE!”

“Disperse or you’ll be fired upon!”

Kettles (concentrates) protestors into a small area and keeps them from dispersing.

I think a better question is, how do we make our elected representatives care? (The answer, of course, is by not electing a**holes, but that’s not going to happen until people really start to suffer).

The “1 trillion” never existed in the first place. It was all hype by a bunch of Tech-Bros, huffing each other’s farts.

I like the SearX search engine. It gives old-school, relevant search results, not google ranked ones.

https://search.inetol.net/

It’s also spread out over many separate instances, so you can pick the one that best suits your search needs:

https://searx.space/

Trump himself was a visitor to Epstein’s pedo island. A lot of rich people were there as well and there are lists and proof of it. The notion that Epstein killed himself in his own jail cell is ridiculous. A lot of people wanted to see him dead.

“The good of the people” is a noble goal. The problem is that for the most part, people who deliberately seek power to lead these groups are vain, greedy, selfish, brutal assholes.

Collectivism, as Karl Marx wrote it, has never been practiced in any so-called “communist” country on Earth. It’s always been an oligarchy.

Also, resist any government mandates that want to know where/ how many jews trans people are in your department. It’s not your job to help anyone make other people’s lives miserable.

What exactly is the “context” for doing a full-on nazi salute? Other than to show everyone that you’re a nazi?

CNN is already sane-washing this, referring to Musk’s “odd gesture.”

Yup. CNN deserves a gold medal for mental gymnastics.

THIS is why people have a problem with “tankies.”

Budapest, 1956.

This. Also, whatever is going on in China and Russia is NOT “communism.” Those are oligarchies, where a small number of billionaires use the news media to keep the lower and middle classes fighting with each other, while the rich keep running off with all the f*cking money.

The rumors that Zuckerberg smuggled several tons of heroin out of Afghanistan are completely untrue.

It was actually meth.

Yes.

https://federation-checker.vercel.app/

This link lets you type in an Instance name and it will tell you what other Instances allow it and which ones block it.

TikTok is owned by ByteDance, which is a front for the Chinese Communist Party. It’s being used by the CCP to spread agit-prop and self-destructive crap.

Other countries use their “social media platforms” the same way, but that’s no reason to make it easy for other governments to destabilize your society.

There’s currently about 600 lemmy instances, in many different countries, and those countries each have different laws regarding the protection of speech. Some of it is also just power-tripping mods or left-wing / right-wing censorship.

If this is happening to a community you like, you can always switch to the same community in a different instance. Eventually, the “official” community will have the most subscribers and the community with the censorship problems will wither and die.

“Triggered?”

No. Because I don’t care what dumb people think.

You don’t have to rely on luck if you can afford to buy a bunch of lawmakers and a Supreme Court or two. It’s amazing how many “smart businessmen” rely on a bought and paid for justice system.

“Open sasparilla?”

“Open saddlesoap?”

“Open sesame?”