I’ve no strong feelings on the matter, but I can understand how some would feel 10 people telling you exactly how you’re wrong can feel worse than 10 downvotes.

I avoid this by simply being correct all the time.

There’s a number of instances that don’t have downvotes. Notably, it forces each person who takes issue with something you’ve said to respond to you if nobody else has said it. Whether that’s better is up to you.

The atomic unit of propaganda isn’t lies, it’s emphasis. It’s quite easy to manufacture outrage without lying if you can pick which facts the consumer sees and how they’re contextualized.

Here’s a PDF of Noam Chomsky’s Manufacturing Consent.

Personally I find it worthless because it lends credibility to sources that promoted the Iraq war, afghanistan, libya, syria, etc.

Any source that covered a story where thousands to millions will be/are/were murdered for the profit of the military-industrial complex as anything but an unimaginable crime is instantly non-credible. Yes, that includes 99% of American media.

Same with every media outlet wringing their hands about Hamas instead of the locking of millions of people in a concentration camp for decades that precipitated the attack.

I mean they have better conditions and wages than the average ag worker in the US, let alone prison workers. There’s plenty of slavery by another name in this world, but this is a poor example.

That’s hardly specific to the government. A couple years ago, Hertz falsely reported 364 customers for grand theft auto. Some of them went to jail.

The Passport Office reportedly later called Lucy to apologize for the error. While officials said they’d now be able to process little Khaleesi’s passport, Lucy said she believes the problem was only solved because she complained on social media.

Sounds like the passport office didn’t understand how trademark works.

It’s very difficult to enforce. I’ve heard of cases where people like show the embassy a passport of a citizenship they said they renounced by accident, and were just sternly told to renounce it, other cases where their new citizenship was revoked.

No, other way around. Most countries won’t even allow you to renounce if you don’t have another citizenship.

The US also charges $10,000 dollars to accept your renunciation. The US is one of the few countries that taxes its citizens in foreign countries so there’s a big incentive to renounce when you get citizenship in a better place. There is a substantial tax deduction for the first ~150K you earn in another country, as long as you spend less than 10 days in America or traveling and pay taxes in that country, as long as that country has such an agreement with the US.

Yeah, being stateless is really bad. There’s a few international agreements to avoid the creation of more stateless people, but it still happens. You end up with people spending years in airports or jails as their visa expires and they have no way to renew it or get a visa for elsewhere, and asylum claims can take months to years to process, and get denied anyway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statelessness

Paperclip is the hangout for Operation Bloodstone.

You can lie and say nazis like Werner Von Braun were actually apolitical smol beans who just wanted to do science, you can’t even pretend random commanders and officers were.

Gracelyn, Emmalyn, Cathlyn, Jessalyn.

I don’t think there’s any history, it was just popular in the midwest in the 2000s

Caitlyn, Kaylin, Ashlin, Jaylin, Roselin, Jaquelin, Shaelin. Same with adding “leigh”

It’s the male version of adding -lin to the end of a name.

I have to link it on hexbear as the .ml admins deleted the post for being orientalist af.

But more simply: Here’s the full video of Tank Man.

Note that in the beginning, you can see the square, there are not hundreds of thousands of machine-gunned protesters being crushed into paste by tanks, burned, and sprayed down the drain, as the official US narrative goes.

There’s also this context: https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/112/563/782/759/076/800/original/d60c38f786621419.mp4

We know the western narrative is entirely fictional, we can’t verify that the chinese narrative is 100% accurate, but none of the evidence disproves it, so it’s probably closer to the Chinese narrative that 250-300 people died in battles in the streets surrounding the square.

Sometimes you can get positive change at local papers. Lots of the people working there got into it because they wanted to do journalism, and unlike national papers, many people who aren’t ideologically aligned with the billionaires don’t get filtered. Even if nobody at the paper follows up on it, I’ve seen getting a letter published in the public comment section of the paper get the ball moving.

Schools tend to take retributive action against both teachers and students, but that’s usually part of the sequence for building enough trouble that the school board/superintendent starts to lean on the principle.

I’d avoid non-DS1/3/ER souls-likes to start with, because they tend not to have multiplayer.

There’s nothing wrong with summoning a friend or stranger to help you get through a difficult bit.

Write the local paper?

They protect the institution of private property, not any individual’s personal property.

But you understand that cops, above all else, exist to protect the institution of property correct?