Go to website, order car with exact color, accessory you want.

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Company orders 55 blue, 55 red, 56 yellow, 55 black with 55 power seats, 55 power consol, 55 …

Want wasn’t it Tehran regean that made it a law you couldn’t but directly from the manufacturer because he was buddies with people who owned major dealerships. And it just stuck since then.

Maybe like forums where you need to be a member. But even the smaller sites are all mostly owned by the same company. They all pull from the same source it’s just different categories. The days of user created porn haven’t been a thing for a while.

These sites are paid for and you get links from telegram. This is in China. They haven’t allowed unverified porn on the internet for awhile now.

Pornhubs parent company owns like 95% of all pornsites that host porn videos. When they scrubbed their content, everything trickled down. This video is in China. It’s an entirely different system there.

They wiped out all the non professional porn awhile ago. 90% of it so was deleted over night. Everything is tied to an onlyfans or studio now

What is response? Do you think people going into to the streets against armed forces should pack up because the authoritarians have total control over the streets and can kick in heads at their discretion. Fuck that, people show up to oppose them regardless what they control to contest them and at the very least make it harder for the authoritarians rather than making it easier for them.

Who gives a shit if they boost right wing content. That shouldn’t stop anyone. That is a defeatist attitude that is spread all over the left and it needs to fucking stop.

If they boost their content, you go to the comments. It’s a numbers game. You’re not arguing with the chuds. You’re playing the game. Same game most people are all aware of yet others are blind to. You need numbers. Humans are social. They change opinions slowly over time, but only if they see the herd moving. This is why they’re attempting to control these platforms and convince the left to abandon them.

Regardless, the reality is they don’t just boost right wing content. They boost content that sells ads. Engagement sells. So when you all leave, it rebalanced everything to the right and their content spread. Leftist creators tried to break through and failed without Engagement. Right wing propaganda spread further and faster than ever before.

Arguing with CHUDS online is the biggest industry there is. There’s a reason for it. Call it whatever you like but it’s undeniable fact. These platforms are critical to stopping fascists. Fascist rely on public displays of strength and power. It’s the only place you can make them look like assholes effectively in front of the people that they’re trying to appear strong to.

You talk about wasting time. The biggest waste of effort and time is posting the same fucking anti trump slop here on lemmy but can’t be bothered to do it anywhere else. We all know he sucks and what they’re doing. This content isn’t created to hand to people who agree with you. People need to be flooding the zone with it.

What the fuck happened to “the pen is mightier” why isn’t that quote “why bother trying to write for chuds”

Regardless if they own them. It’s still where the most amount of social relevance is. Some lefties are there and numbers and influence is growing but that’s momentum dies quick without increasing numbers and engagement. And trust me they’re working hard to crush me voices. I just saw one say they’re getting flagged at airports because they run a travel blog and they say fuck ICE.

The left cannot win anything going forward unless they beat the fuck out of the reich on these platforms. There is no protest that can succeed if we don’t have a good presence on the platforms that people get their opinions from.

They might own it, but they can’t just flip a switch saying censor lefties and allow their ideas to spread. We’d all know and it would wildly turn a lot of people away from them. They are forced to leave the gates open. Instead they convince us to self censor. Reality is we all should be there now, building groups and putting their ideas against the ropes. It’s a numbers game. Play the game. Give them no area to spread bullshit uncontested. We need to be creating hubs and roads so that when the next election comes and they ramp up their presence that it’s met with an equal force.

And compare that to the leftist handing social media over to the right uncontested.

This mentality is insane to me. But it explains so much about right vs left.

Like are you a knight of the lemme round table or something. What path has one taken to get to the point that you remove your own upvote on your own post so that is dealt with fairly?

I can’t with you people. It is claustrophobic watching every MAGA individual aggressively take every advantage and turn even their biggest fuck ups into victories. Meanwhile in left leaning spaces people are making sure they take the opportunity to seize every defeat from the clutches of victory

This should be the motto for leftist every where. It so on brand

100% and he was just the person that represented a much bigger effort by the government to reign the internet and data and information under their control.

Yea and I know logically that makes sense. But also it’s fucked that we had this a decade ago. It was great. How we lost it so, I’m not sure. Moderation kind of evolved and stole our right to police communities for us. Now it’s used on major platforms to push them all to the right and leftist Got fucked by mods

Not really. This is as basic as governments get. She says this for her base and people but also is doing what America wants behind the scene. Come on guys. Is this your first government or what?

Got it. What I’m looking for is something like we had in the past. Place where you can post videos, clips or have discussions on current events. Mods seem very different in the past 5 years. Everything is extremely boxed in. For example if I saw a video of Jon Stewart that was giving a great speech, where could I post that here on lemme? I’ve been in this situation a few times and it looks like I could maybe find a jon Stewart community with 6 people but there isn’t really a community to post the random stuff we come across and it’s killing a lot of momentum in my mind to get leftist communities up and going.

One community might be strictly clips only and only clips that are about a narrow subject. Another community is strictly headlines online and about a narrow subject. Another community are meme focused but memes with only skeletons in it. But then there’s a community for meme but without skeletons. If you post a skeleton meme, banned. Like this moderation and community-based policing i think seemed like a nice idea to keep it orderly, but i feel we’re losing real community and I’m searching for places that get it.

Haha my man. Make em work for it

Mods there remove videos they don’t like. I had one up of a suspected agent provocateur burning a flag at a protest and then trying to disappear but the protestors corner him. It got a lot of attention and mods randomly removed it saying fuck the American flag

I feel like this was something that needed to be stopped decades ago but now it’s just not possible to do this. You can’t wait until it’s this big then start thinking how to change it

It is 1000 times easier to get a message out online then in person but we still dress in furry suits and go stand outside buildings.

Right, this doesn’t get enough attention. Either weirdly or completely understandable. Especially since the Egyptian uprising I think scared a lot of governments.