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*Updated the post with more video of Bovino throwing some of the gas too.

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[–] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 41 points 1 month ago (2 children)

doomer so are libs gonna take this shit seriously now that the nazis are fucking gassing people?

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 37 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They'll make snarky comments about how it's 'just like what Saddam did'

[–] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago

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They'll make snarky comments about how it's 'just like what Saddam did'

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dorky2: Remember when we justified invading Iraq because Saddam Hussein used chemical weapons against his own people?

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[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago (4 children)

maybe-later-kiddo We are gonna file so many lawsuits!!!!!

[–] peeonyou@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

so ready to vote in 3 years its unreal

[–] durruticore@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

We are gonna dance so hard!!!!

[–] ClassIsOver@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

Get your butts ready for some homeopathic music! The softer we sing Kumbaya, the stronger it gets!

[–] Antiwork@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

But first, brunch is on the menu

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 34 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I've never seen green gas deployed before. Is this placebo? Videogame green gas to play on videogame "green gas bad" but it's actually just coloured smoke?

I suggest this because he really didn't seem like he gave a shit about being inside it himself, and really didn't try to throw it far away.

[–] StarkWolf@hexbear.net 33 points 1 month ago (3 children)

This, absolutely. Their job is to intimidate and scare the crowd into dispersing and leaving. And it's working. People are immediately freaking out and running away. It plays into people's wildest fears. They are on reddit talking about the gas "crawling on the ground" even though when you look at the footage, it absolutely is not doing that. It's dispersing higher than the trees. Someone claimed [citation needed] that the can just says "tactical green smoke". Lot's of people talking about how dumb the cops are for 'gassing themselves", but If this absolutely was a chemical/neurological agent, the officers would be wearing protective gear and gas masks, and that is not what we are seeing here.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So they're hanging out grouped together in a fog that theyre the source of. So they're easy to find and wont be able to see you well from a distance.

[–] StarkWolf@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is also true. I don't mean to give them any credit for intelligence. I just figure with their bottomless budget, they almost certainly have a bunch of protective gear that's just been sitting around that they'd be itching to finally get to use if this were truly a chemical weapon scenario.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If they were thinking even a bit they would wear that protective gear whenever clouded im any gas, inert or not. Cause otherwise people will catch on to when a smoke screen works both ways and generally to the advantage of people who arent clumped togerher inside of it. If you throw shit at the cloud, youll probably hit someone eventuality and they can't see for shit on the inside of it.

It's like doing a non lethal boss battle in peace walker. You huck smoke grenades at the enemies who are all clumped together and then run in, cqc and Fulton em and then take the vehicle. You dont drop it by your own feet and hang around in the cloud. This is the opposite of how to use this kind of thinf

[–] WokePalpatine@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah but in MGSV you chuck it into the back of a jeep and then drive around completely invisible to everyone as you spread smoke everywhere.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

You are driving ahead of the smoke tho, they gotta do that

[–] 30_to_50_Feral_PAWGs@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

ACAB includes the pigs who are mentally 12 years old

[–] unaware@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

so, all of them

[–] hotcouchguy@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

and it also looks badass! such epic content for their socials

[–] tocopherol@hexbear.net 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

According to a source on the ground it is just a green signaling grenade

It probably isn't great to breath but I'm not sure if it's any worse than tear gas or other smoke they would use.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

I fucking knew it.

[–] InternetLefty@hexbear.net 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

MN*, MI is Michigan. Also this is truly nuts

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 22 points 1 month ago

Oh duh thanks lol

[–] save_vs_death@hexbear.net 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

cowards removed the video, that was quick

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Do you know anywhere else it was reposted so I can update?

[–] ProletarianDictator@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

people here gotta be archiving by default

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Give tanki.tube the reddit link via its import URL feature next time. it's a fast and easy way to archive a video for sharing.

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

k thanks, I did update it with another video from the pov of Bovino throwing the gas

[–] blottica@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

the links from the hexreplybot are still around if you want to save the videos

[–] NeelixBiederman@hexbear.net 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not the eco friendly "green" either, the carcinogenic kind

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How do you or anyone know this? Im not aware of any green carcinogenic gas that springs immediately to mind. Giving someone cancer in several years also isnt a great crowd control method.

[–] NeelixBiederman@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

The reddit thread said it was likely HC gas and then listed each ingredient and its toxicity. The green/yellow dye (yellow 22?) is a suspected carcinogen and the zinc whatever is some other kinda yucky. The carcinogenic effect isn't why they use it, they just don't care.

[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 25 points 1 month ago

part-of-history "When Gavin Newsom is President, they'll be renewable green gas chambers."

[–] LeninWalksTheEarth@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago

yea i bought a gas mask. it offers ballistic protection too. It's a "40mm NATO SGE 150 Gas Mask". Uses filters that of all kind that can filters smoke, gas and/or viruses.

[–] larrikin99@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

Don't link the chatgpt comment.

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