autumngracy:

Listen. There are only a few things that regular people buy zipties for and they’re A) to secure displays or products in a retail environment, B) to fasten shelving or other heavy things at risk of falling over to eye screws in the wall, C) to lash cables or tubing together so that their rooms are not a gigantic trip hazard spaghetti mess, or D) to use as temporary fasteners for projects like putting light strings on tree branches

Those zipties are not the same things as flexicuffs, which are fundamentally different heavy duty ziptie handcuffs used by military and law enforcement agencies as restraints.

Regular zipties:

Ziptie handcuffs, aka flexicuffs:

Guess which kind the rioters brought to Capitol Hill