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I wonder how many more people police will kill before Dems reckon with the fact that going hard against defund the police from 2020-24 was a shitty thing to do
The Democrats didn't want police reform.
Biden ended the lockdowns months early because BLM was forcing police reform.
clearly we needed police to feel better about themselves so they’d stop killing civilians
poor misunderstood police officers
His name was Charles Adair
What, again?
Honestly after Floyd and the reaction of some people, I'm not convinced we learned a damn thing.
We did. Some people learned the wrong thing.
Fox News and OANN painted every single person that stood up against brutality targeting black people as violent terrorists.
And the viewers just... Believed them. Like, they didn't question it for even a second.
We are up against some of the dumbest and most cruel people on the planet. They have been teaching their families and communities to be like this, and they react to whatever current scapegoat or buzzword without question.
Watch, tomorrow it'll be something even dumber... "The left handed people are ruining the entire country! If their skin isn't white they are literal terrorists. The head pedophile that's done the most rapes must win the next election or God will punish America. ::furious heart goes out salutes::"
As an exercise in empathy, I often imagine what the “dumbest and most cruel people on the planet” would be like if they weren’t constantly exposed to reality-shaping propaganda.
In some cases, I don’t even have to imagine. I can just remember what they were like before.
I think that exercise matters for a variety of reasons principle and practical, but the foremost is that it’s the only antidote and inoculant we know.
Some political parties learned the wrong thing
I'll never forget someone in my immediate family calling me a fascist to another member of my family because I attended BLM protests.
There was no irony, they really think people who simply believe that black lives have value are fascists.
I don't even have words to try to pick this one apart. This is what we (the sane people with empathy) are up against.
Say his name.
Try holding your breath for 86 goddamn seconds and see what happens. The punishment for this should be 86 seconds in a box with no oxygen.
Uhm. Ackshally, your body can't detect a lack of oxygen. In a box with no oxygen, you'd likely just peacefully doze off before you (maybe) die.
What your body does detect is a build-up of carbon dioxide. So if you want to torture someone, prevent them from expelling CO2, or put them in a room full of it.
Edit: for those downvoting, OP is basically describing a Sarco Pod
I used to work at a hospital where we needed to make dry ice to send out specimens. The room the dry ice was made in was basically a closet. Hook the CO2 canister up to this little box thing, take the box apart and boom. Dry ice. More than once I noticed my heart beating fast and I couldn't catch my breath while making the stuff.
What do you think is filling that oxygen-less box while the person breathes in it?
You will die before you produce enough CO2 to detect.
You actually don’t even need to breathe to do this. If you hyperventilate to expel the CO2 from your blood then hold your breath, you will run out of oxygen before you build enough CO2 up to detect.
The atmosphere is about 78% N2 and only 0.05% CO2. So If you took all the oxygen out of a room, it would be mainly nitrogen left, and still only trace levels of CO2.
Will your body produce CO2 without having oxygen to break down in the first place?
You will have stored some amount of it that you will breathe out.
That’s not enough for your body to detect.
Gympie-Gympie leaves.