Oh shit. What a based priest

DUI 1000%

Catholic stereotypes defied. Priest is based actually

Fair enough. You aren’t wrong. I think we’re just concerned with different points here, which is fine.

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.

https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/Documents/HRBodies/CCPR/LLW_Guidance.pdf#2006362_E_inside.indd:.7975:1077

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.

UNLOADS! 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.

oh 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

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.

Handmaids 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 want my next car to be an EREV. We don’t have good electric infrastructure near me. But an EREV would work great.

I won the fifa peace prize. Anything I do is the action of a peace prize winner.

Idk I bet there are lots of beavers sluttier than me

Just goes to show how much of longevity is genetic

No amount of alcohol is healthy and grapes are highly toxic to cats and dogs

You could say abhorrent to someone. Like

“It is abhorrent to me that conservatives are such rubes and, realizing this, they say ‘hurr durr not who I voted for’ when it literally is.”

That is gramatically correct and means “I find it abhorrent”. You could say “… abhorrent to [anyone]” as long as the person you’re referrencing has the capacity to find that thing abhorrent.

You couldn’t say “this woman’s brain is abhorrent to her skull”, though, as one’s skull can’t have opinions - even if hers metaphorically seems to be rejecting her brain.

The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence. Documentaries about the personal and psychological effects of the massacre of ~1M suspected communists (really just working people in unions, landless farmers, and some intellectuals) in Indonesia in the 60s and 70s following the military coup in 1965. This was directly aided and abetted by the US and other Western nations. The US intelligence aparatus provided lists of suspected communists to the coup government which then interned them in concentration camps and murdered them. The Indonesian perpetrators of the mass murders still directly control the government, military, and police.

The Act of Killing is a strangely surreal exploration of the banality of evil and a character study of members of Indonesian death squads as they make a movie (a very strange movie) about their actions during the massacres and are confronted with the effects of their actions - both their own psychological trauma as well as the pain and suffering they inflicted upon others.

The Look of Silence is a deeply personal documentary that follows Adi, an optometrist, and his family as he travels rural Indonesia interviewing people involved in the brutal murder of his brother under the pretense of fitting them for glasses (he presumably actually makes glasses for them).

A bit dark for the holidays, but they are amazing films. Deeply disturbing, sad, moving, and often funny films about a period of history that doesn’t get talked about much in the West.