Correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t these the kinds of chemicals that it’s a war crime to use on foreigners or in (declared) civil wars?
I know that the rules around US domestic “law enforcement” are much more lax than the international rules of war or even the US’ own rules for their own military when abroad but come on! Fucking chemical warfare against nonviolent protesters, ICE watchers, and nonparticipating bystanders?! 🤬😮💨🤦
Consider the fact that police have co-opted the right and responsibility for community defense from the citizenry and hold that responsibility captive from us every day, so that they can abuse it only to divide, oppress and disorganize us as a class.
I am very much considering that. That’s both the reason why I don’t immediately condemn non-cops doing it out of hand AND why I’m wary of what’ll happen once they’ve been doing it long enough that they’re used to it/it’s been normalized.
Most cops started out working or lower middle class and betrayed their class to become the hired thugs of the rich. People starting to do cop type things with good intentions aren’t always immune to the temptation to let it change them.
the only reason that recalls cops in our heads is because for our whole lives cops are the only context we’ve had for anything that looks remotely like the right to organization that they’ve stolen
Not really, no. There’s myriad different ways to organize your community that isn’t cop stuff like the car version of Stop & Frisk. What’s that quote about using the master’s tools to liberate ourselves not working?
This feels really weird to me:
protecting the community against ICE is of course a righteous cause, but to do it by basically acting like less murderous cops, inconveniencing a lot of innocent people is not the BEST way to do that.
Especially since many of the people who would be willing to volunteer for such a task will tend to be less willing to stop again once ICE hopefully goes away making the stops an unnecessary nuisance…
And also as his best friend.
Just like the GOP establishment, only in reverse.
Epstein wrote the Kendall Jenner Pepsi commercial
Gtfo with that ridiculous false dichotomy.
There are other and better options than “perpetuate reliance on the number one cause of the coming demise of humanity” and “don’t provide any help of any kind”
Another commenter already mentioned helping with renewable energy production in this very thread ffs!
As for assuming that not being a major contributor to climate change on a global scale makes fossil fuels harmless to the people, that’s a “smoking is actually good for you” level of willful blindness to reality 🤦
Yeah, but it’s still not worth it.
There’s SO many ways you can piss off that thin skinned baby without further accelerating the extinction event that is climate change.
In fact, skip the oil
You’re right, that’s NOTHING like any of the faucets I have! 😁
That one’s really handy for vampires with social anxiety, though 🤷
you don’t deserve power.
Not even the kind that recharges devices!
The world would be many times better off if he was forced to live a 100% analog life.
a weird faucet of human society
You mean one of those annoying ones with one dial for hot and one for cold that are never in a useful temperature range for longer than a second?
Yeah, but here in Europe, we still have some legal and ethical standards on what our companies can do for said money as well as some politicians who aren’t too corrupt to at least TRY to enforce them.
Not anywhere near as many of either as we used to, but we still have SOME left!
That’s so efficiently helpful it almost makes me suspect you of actually being German and Kenyan!
As others have pointed out, being a dry addict ISN’T a reason do dismiss what someone is saying, even about health.
Being the guy whose brain worm died from mercury poisoning, though…
The interviews “made me very convinced that this is the next big thing,” says Dokoupil, in a more traditional interview conducted via Zoom. “What was incredible was how quickly my brain stopped thinking about this as virtual reality and just took it as reality. It was just real.”
No, what’s incredible is that someone that credulous about the now defunct metaverse bullshit is allowed to talk about serious issues without a chiron constantly reiterating that he’s a colossal idiot bootlicker.
With a lot of attractive young people playing volleyball?
Swedish pension fun
I was in a band by that name. Mostly ABBA covers and very angry punk.
🤮🤦