Words matter.

Don't say arrest when you mean kidnap.
Don't say deported when you mean trafficked.
Don't say prison when you mean concentration camp.
Don't say rule of law when you mean lawlessness.
Don't say illegal when you mean immigrant.
Don't say law enforcement when you mean masked civilian bounty hunters posing as law enforcement.
Don't say protecting women when you mean controlling women.
Don't say agenda when you mean equal rights.
Don't say meritocracy when you mean cronyism.
Don't say war when you mean invasion.
Don't say President when you mean Dictator.
Don't say terrorist when you mean opponent.
And don't say Christian when you mean Fascist.

It confuses people.

@Lana Yes and also, it's really been bothering me that everyone (mass media & social) has been using the word 'deport' in regards to US citizens being expelled from the US. The word means to remove foreigners, by definition US citizens cannot be deported from the US, and by using the word it subtly implies that the expelled people didn't belong here.
@Lana Don’t say disappeared when you mean kidnapped, tortured, and murdered.

@Lana

... and don't say "targeted enforcement" when we know it's really a test run for genocide.

@Ultraverified @Lana

Please stop giving orders or be prepared to be blocked, and not just by me. We don't give each other orders here. It's rude. It's unseemly. It's antithetical to what this place is all about.

If you want to give orders, go to Bluesky or Xitter or some other corporate site where people who don't mind being given orders congregate.

@LevZadov @Ultraverified the door's right there champ. Go ahead and use it. No one is keeping you here. You're just being a jerk for no reason.

@Lana @Ultraverified

Blocked for attempting to order me around and assholery in general. Good riddance.

@Lana

>>>>> @LevZadov@kolektiva.social

Must have missed something, but I see that account is suspended (no great loss, I guess)

@Lana all good and well, but please stop chiding good people who are doing our best. I have a massive problem with posts like this.

@Lana I'm about at he point where my late Saturday nights will find me on my knees at church... covered with chalk dust and letting the fascists know who they are.

You, too, can look up church websites to see where your 'art' can have the most impact.

@Lana
Prisons ARE a form of concentration camps though. They're not polar opposites.

Also, words are powerful, one's vocabulary is deeply political.

@ZoidbergForPresident and poison is a type of drink. But if I say "here drink this drink, it's delicious" and "here drink this poison, it's delicious" I mean two very different things.
@Lana I fail to imagine a situation where "prison" is a delicious drink...

@Lana A very succinct list of the actions Stunk, aka Donnie 2 Dolls, has taken in his quest to become a dictator.

Urge everyone to share with as many citizens as possible.

@Lana
Don't say war when you mean genocide