Would also be really annoying if they wore heat resistant gloves to throw back the hot tear gas canisters and if this got shared to all those protesting…
Would be a further shame if people started covering cameras (as seen in Hong Kong, with protestors using poles and rakes to lift cardboard boxes over security cameras), blinding drone optics with laser pointers, and flooding police-run reporting apps with junk data.
It would be a shame if the protesters noted that plainclothes cops can be identified a number of ways, such as wearing steel-toed boots; an armband or wristband of a particular color; driving white, black, or dark blue cars with concealed lights; or having the outline of cuffs visible in the back pocket or the bumps of an armor vest’s shoulder straps under their shirt.
It would be a shame if the protesters began making their signs out of inch-thick plywood to stop rubber bullets, forming a tight shield wall to prevent police from singling out and mobbing individual protesters. It would be a shame if the people behind the shield wall held up umbrellas so that tear gas canisters fired over the heads of the front line will be bounced away. It would be a shame if protesters began constructing improvised armor vests out of duct tape, hardback books, and ceramic tiles.
It would be a shame if protesters started wearing safety glasses, hard hats, respirators, and gardening gloves, all of which can be found at the same hardware stores as the plywood. It would be a shame if they started using traffic cones (the kind without the hole in the top) upside-down buckets, or other improvised lids to contain tear gas by placing them over the canisters.
It would be a shame if protesters learned that police scanners are legal to own in the US, allowing them to learn where police are moving and what routes they intend to take. It would be a shame if they discovered that these scanners can be used to send as well as receive, allowing them to flood the scanner frequencies with noise.
All this would be a terrible, terrible shame.
Hey it be even more of a shame to not use plywood
But Rubbermaid instead. Shame shame definitely DONT do that
It would be a shame if someone had to reblog this. Such a shame
Everyone in NYC got a screeching emergency alert telling us not to heat up our food. Yet all the commercial billboards, NYPD stations, and other utterly unnecessary utilities are left powered on. That’s class warfare, plain and simple.
there is a drought, not enough water to drink, yet the wealthy still have ornamental fountains running, full swimming pools, and lush green golf courses
friend is explaining me the american healthcare system. WALK IN CLINICS COST MONEY??????
like. walk in. talk to the doctor. they say a solution and maybe perscribe something. that costs money? like i knew ambulence rides and perscriptions and treatments costed money. but just SEEING a doctor too???
cool! i think all politicians and people lobbying for this to die 👍
AMBULANCE RIDES COST MONEY??????
Yup! When I got sick in college and didn’t have insurance the ambulance alone cost $900.
Regularly scheduled checkups cost money
Literally every aspect of medical checks cost money. You were in a car crash? Money. You have cancer? Money. You want to make sure you don’t have cancer? Money. You want insulin? TONS OF MONEY. prescriptions are so expensive, I got birth control when I was 15 and it was $350 a month.
Emergency health is probably the most expensive type of health care. I’ve rejected every abluance because it would be at least $100.
Now that I live in Scotland, everything is free (unless I go private). My monthly meds are free, if I have a rash it’s free, if I need surgery it’s free.
Americans really just don’t get how bad it is.
Emergency and they fail to save you? It costs your family money. When my aunt got billed for the ER visit for her 17 year old son who was no longer alive I felt nauseous.
Not sure if you've heard, but the employees at Powell's City of Books in Portland are sharing a petition to get Powell's to pay them fairly.
Seems pretty pathetic that an establishment that is considered iconic, a destination for so many visitors, won't treat their employees as a valuable part of that reputation.
Anyway, I'm sure it'd do nothing but help their cause if could give them some support?
To make sure another book store doesn't go down in flames.
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