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43 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

Ironically, this is kinda like Jade Helm, except real. 

I know you’re joking, but for those who don’t know Jade Helm was about us putting special operations troops into Syria.  Which we did.  We even figured it out on the old site - the places they would be driving around or between mapped out perfectly distance wise to Iraq/Syria, and it was the same units that deployed to Syria.  

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8 minutes ago, Hook1997 said:

Someone say Jade? 

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What fools we were to assume 9/11 would be the most devastating attack on American humanity any of us would ever see in our lifetimes. God help us.

 

**Intrusive thought sidetrack** can someone photoshop Jades chili crashing into the twin towers?  You can DM it if you feel too much shame to post. 

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Things have only gotten worse since the  No Gestapo in Bastropo days. I yearn for those times when those freaks were laughed at. Now people like that are running the country.

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Posted
10 hours ago, Luka said:

This is good to see. Hopefully the temperature comes down tonight. 
 

 

Fetterman loses the moral high ground when he refuses to acknowledge what even The Daily Mail acknowledges 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14794493/gavin-newsom-mocked-posting-war-room-photo-meeting-la-protests.html

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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass also blamed the Trump administration for inciting tension by sending in the National Guard and condemned protesters who became violent.

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He (Newsom) urged protesters to stay peaceful and warned that those who instigate violence will be arrested, saying on social media: 'Don't take Trump's bait.' 

 

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36 minutes ago, Hefeweizen said:

It’s nice when the despicable pieces of shit reveal themselves.

The #2 city by GDP generated in the U.S.

Yeah, let it burn.  Fuck the economy! 

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38 minutes ago, Hefeweizen said:

It’s nice when the despicable pieces of shit reveal themselves.

 

1 minute ago, Js1 said:

The #2 city by GDP generated in the U.S.

Yeah, let it burn.  Fuck the economy! 

Yeah, but did you hear what they said about California on cable news?

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11 hours ago, Lat22 said:

Let LA burn. 

Hey look, a consevacuck that hates America. 
David Byrne Snl GIF by Saturday Night Live

Is LA burning payback for Sherman going balls deep on all the traitors and losers during the CW?  Man,who knew that removing human chattel from the hands of die hard lazy fucking racist shitbags would still be so stuck in their craw. 

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46 minutes ago, Hefeweizen said:

It’s nice when the despicable pieces of shit reveal themselves.

It doesn't even make sense. Despite what social media and the GOP would have you believe, 99% of the City/County is unaffected by this and you wouldn't even know it's happening. 

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There's also a delicious irony in that many of the right wing social media voices who have convinced the rubes that LA is a crime ridden, 3rd world country, voluntarily spend huge sums of money to live in LA.

I wonder why they'd do that?

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3 minutes ago, mdmost said:

The dipshit Texan's aversion to Los Angeles and California in general always makes me chuckle.

The same people who get irrationally angry because the "elites" shit on Muledick, Texas, population 780, but have no issue shitting all over any big city in America that actually drives the economic engine of the state/country. 

Muledick, Texas wouldn't exist if Houston/Dallas/Austin/San Antonio weren't propping it up. 

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Posted
31 minutes ago, mdmost said:

The dipshit Texan's aversion to Los Angeles and California in general always makes me chuckle.

It's got to be jealousy. LA is extremely pleasant and I would love to live there, aside from the crazy housing prices.

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7 minutes ago, immamac said:

I don't get it. 

Twitter bio: “Featured on Fox News, DailyMail, New York Post.”

3 minutes ago, mdmost said:

Can reports of Antifa brick piles be expected soon?

@Zeus has got you, fam. Head over to the CR thread and he’s got it covered.

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https://www.wired.com/story/what-tear-gas-does-to-the-human-body/ 

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As protesters in Los Angeles clashed with law enforcement this weekend over the Trump administration’s immigration raids, police employed military-style tactics, including using tear gas, flash grenades, and pepper-spray projectiles on demonstrators. In one instance, Lauren Tomasi, a reporter with Australia’s 9News, was shot with a rubber bullet fired by law enforcement during a live broadcast.

Though not explicitly designed to kill, these so-called “less-lethal” weapons can cause serious health effects—and, in some cases, lasting harm. The use of these weapons can result in respiratory problems, head injuries, and even death. In the United States, police force of all types results in 75,000 nonfatal injuries requiring hospital treatment and 600 to 1,100 deaths every year, according to the Law Enforcement Epidemiology Project at the University of Illinois Chicago.

The types of health effects and injuries can vary depending on the weapon being used. Tear gas and pepper spray, types of chemical irritants, can cause tearing, pain, and burning of the eyes, skin irritation, sore throat, sneezing, coughing, and vomiting. Tear gas usually refers to 2-chlorobenzalmalononitrile (agent CS) or chloroacetophenone (agent CN), which work by activating pain receptors in the eyes, nose, mouth, and lungs. Pepper spray is highly concentrated pepper oil, oleoresin capsicum (agent OC), which produces a powerful burning sensation.

“The short-term effects are immediate and severe,” says Diane Calello, executive and medical director of the New Jersey Poison Center and a professor at the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. In some cases, people can experience respiratory distress, difficulty breathing, and asthma-like symptoms.

Long-term effects are less common but can include asthma, wheezing, loss of vision, and even nerve or brain damage, Calello says. These problems can occur if people are exposed to a large amount of these chemicals or they are sprayed in a closed space.

People who smoke or have existing respiratory asthma are at higher risk of developing health problems from exposure to these chemicals, as are children. Because these agents are heavier than air, they linger close to the ground, meaning children can be exposed to higher levels.

A 2014 study by the US military has also found that exposure to tear gas and pepper spray make people vulnerable to respiratory infections in the week following exposure compared with the week before exposure. Army recruits exposed to CS tear gas just once during basic training had a much higher likelihood of developing respiratory illnesses such as viral illnesses like influenza, pneumonia, or bronchitis. That study and others led the American Thoracic Society in 2020 to call for a moratorium on the use of tear gas and other chemical agents during racial justice protests. One worry was that their use could increase the chances of getting sick with Covid-19.

“The science used to justify the use of tear gas is outdated,” says Sven-Eric Jordt, an associate professor of anesthesiology, pharmacology, and cancer biology at Duke University School of Medicine who helped author the American Thoracic Society recommendations.

Much of the research into the health effects of exposure to tear gas and other chemical agents is based on military research that was conducted in the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s on young, healthy men. He says those studies do not address the potential health effects on a broader civilian population. They also don't take into account more advanced launching technologies developed in recent years that allow for the deployment of much higher amounts of tear gas over longer distances.

In some cases, the effects of these agents are not due to the chemicals themselves. “People can be injured when in contact with the canisters used to disperse the gas, and this can include blunt trauma or burn injuries,” Calello says. In Los Angeles, federal agents reportedly fired hard plastic pepper balls, also known as pepper spray projectiles, at protesters.
Injuries can also occur from blunt-tipped rubber bullets. Their name is a bit misleading, says Rohini Haar, an emergency physician and medical adviser at Physicians for Human Rights, considering many rubber bullets are actually made of hard plastic or foam and some even have a metal core.

“They're not less lethal if they're used lethally,” says Haar, who is also an adjunct professor of epidemiology at UC Berkeley. “There are many, many instances of them causing death, and there's also a lot of trauma that can be caused, even if they don't penetrate the skin.” The biggest concern comes if these projectiles hit the neck or face, especially the eyes. There have been cases of rubber bullets causing blindness, traumatic brain injury, and disfigurement, and less seriously, broken bones in other areas of the body.

A 2017 study by Haar and her colleagues found that around 3 percent of people hit by rubber bullets died from the resulting injury, while 15 percent of the 1,984 people studied were permanently injured. A 2020 analysis released by Physicians for Human Rights and coauthored by Haar found that at least 115 people suffered head injuries when law enforcement officers shot them with rubber and plastic bullets during the first two months of US protests in response to the police killing of George Floyd.

In 2020, the American Academy of Ophthalmology called on domestic law enforcement officials to end the use of rubber bullets and similar projectiles to control or disperse crowds of protesters.

If you are exposed to tear gas or pepper spray, experts recommend getting away as quickly as possible, finding higher ground, and covering your mouth and nose. When it’s possible, remove contaminated clothing and wash with copious amounts of soap and water. If experiencing severe symptoms, seek medical attention immediately.

If you plan to attend a protest, consider wearing closed-toe shoes and long sleeves. Eye protection and N95 face masks can also help lessen exposure.

Posted
19 minutes ago, ChickenSandwich said:

Coming soon..,

 

Hey man, enjoy your posts on the Rockets thread and I'm sure we'd get along watching a game together. 

But why are you falling for this Craigslist bullshit? This is old school hoax stuff that shouldn't work on people anymore. 

 

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43 minutes ago, Foosters said:

There's also a delicious irony in that many of the right wing social media voices who have convinced the rubes that LA is a crime ridden, 3rd world country, voluntarily spend huge sums of money to live in LA.

I wonder why they'd do that?

And NYC.  And San Fran.  And Austin.  Etc. 

It's almost like they hate the group that they want to belong to, but are so odious, they get shunned. So they hang on the fringes like a bunch of dorky losers, hoping for that invite one day.

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1 minute ago, Hank Kingsley said:

Hey man, enjoy your posts on the Rockets thread and I'm sure we'd get along watching a game together. 

But why are you falling for this Craigslist bullshit? This is old school hoax stuff that shouldn't work on people anymore. 

 

You must not follow his body of work. His username is an accurate description of his IQ. The people who get their “news” from a firehose of right wing Twitter agitprop accounts usually aren’t the best and brightest amongst us.

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