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6 days agoFair enough. You aren’t wrong. I think we’re just concerned with different points here, which is fine.
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Note: I’m not arguing that it’s legal for cops to use them against civilians, just that it’s fucked up that it’s legal for use against civilians but not soldiers.
If that were true, there would be a carve out in the provision for the use of gasses with transient effects, like cs gas. There is none. Just the opposite, there is a carve out for their use against civilians, but they are prohibited in warfare.
Many other countries do not use CS gas in warfare due to the CWC (Australia, Canada, Greece, India, Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, etc. - there are a lot). https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v2/rule75 => pulls provisions from the laws of various countries as well as combat manuals detailing the usages of riot control gasses and their various rationales.
The US chooses not to interpret the CWC as banning riot control gasses for war, that is a minority position and the US gets away with it like it does many breaches of international law. The US uses riot control gas weapons against civilians… liberally and in a way that most of the world would see as police brutality. It’s use is on the rise globally, but it has been used extremely widely by US cops for a long time and in problematic ways.
If it is used to disperse dangerous protests as a deterrant to advance, sure, I get it. But that is not how it is typically used by US cops. In the US cops have killed a number of people by firing tear gas cannisters at them from close range. They deploy tear gas in the middle of crowds causing panic and the risk of stampede deaths/crowd surges. They deploy tear gas behind crowds causing them to move toward police. They deploy tear gas in situations that do not warrant it, on peaceful protests that may involve at-risk people. They use tear gas in enclosed spaces or against kettled crowds, increasing the risk of death due to respiratory distress.
Human rights groups have noticed this pattern of behavior by cops in the US and increasingly globally. You can find dozens of articles and studies by the CFC, ACLU, Red Cross, Amnesty International, Physicians for Human Rights, etc. It is a majority position among human rights groups that these agents should be banned or heavily restricted.
In response to a comment saying that it’s torture, me stating that it’s banned for use in war by the geneva convention?
Well, connecting the dots there, that if it’s too inhumane/painful/uncontrollable for warfare, it probably shouldn’t be allowed to be used on masses of civilians expressing their rights.
8·7 days agoUNLOADS! REALLY DUMB!
Fun fact: Tear gas is banned by the Geneva Convention as a weapon of war under the chemical weapons provision, but it’s a-ok for use on civilians by law enforcement.
856·8 days agooh how the turn tables
EDIT: Thanks for the gold, kind stranger!
Also, even if you do pull over somewhere safe and put your hazards on, drive slowly, maybe call 911 to confirm it’s a real cop if the car looks weird, etc. the cop may freak out on you. It’s been known to happen.
I like the fun and challenge of having to work around the 3d terrain. It does cause some super ugly results sometimes, but that is part of the fun
+1 for Satisfactory. It is more than satisfactory
7·12 days agoI really don’t think original buldak noodles are very spicy at all. Like, I can feel it, but it isn’t what I would consider to be very spicy. They also don’t taste good, though. Like 3/10 spiciness.
Typical buffalo sauce or name brands like tabasco, cholula, etc. are not noticeably spicy to me.like 0/10 spiciness.
I have a decent spice tolerance, but I also don’t enjoy eating super spicy things “just because”. I want my food to actually taste good. Being able to eat spicy food lets me taste more flavor in hot peppers, but there’s zero point in eating really spicy stuff just to prove you can, imo.
Yeah it was his kid’s “career fair” day at school so he wanted something representative to show to the class
Definitely dinstinct leches. Also plant milks: almond, oat, coconut. Coconut cream should also count IMO. Then there is condensed coconut milk as well.
12·15 days agoHandmaids tale but less whimsical. No red robes or any of the other trimmings. Just the stupidest people imagineable running a declining empire while governing in the most racist and cruel way while still supporting business, just increasingly kkkristian coded.
Thats the result anyway. But an actual civil war? No shot. This happens without significant opposition.
I won the fifa peace prize. Anything I do is the action of a peace prize winner.
That is a bit of a misnomer since figuring things out requires at least a double-digit IQ and I don’t have one of those.
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I will read it. Regardless, though, he is associated with the left and him going down for this would be bad PR for the left broadly, which sucks - that’s my only point other than we don’t know he’s done anything untoward here.
If you look at his emails with Epstein, it’s literally Epstein asking him about his academic work, Epstein toying with various little theories and asking Chomsky about them, etc. All above board so far. Him being on the plane is not great, but it doesn’t necessarily mean he’s a pedo. It opens up that possibility, but there is not proof of him doing anything wrong. Yet. I really hope he didn’t do anything wrong, but it’s obviously a possibility.
No matter what you think about Chomsky, he’s an extremely important intellectual figure and is associated with the left. Him going down would be bad for all of us - so I hope he’s not a bastard.
是很漂亮！It looks like a font. Extremely neat. Though, the “tails” on some of your letters are so short that they might be mistaken for other letters.
Like your P could be mistaken for a D