Kulturkampf

[killamajig]

theleftistlawyer
Why do people believe that a country which genocided the Indigenous population (and continues to do so), used human beings as farming equipment (and then genocided them too), perpetrated genocides in the Philippines and Cambodia, funded al-Qaeda, invaded Iraq, propped up Pinochet and Saddam Hussein, dropped nuclear weapons on two civilian targets, to this day keeps colonies in Puerto Rico, in Hawaii, in Guam, in Samoa,

is currently genociding its own trans population, authorizes its police forces to use illegal chemical weapons on its own population (seriously go look up tear gas), has 4% of the world's population and 25 percent of the world's prisoners, has a military that is the largest polluter in the history of the world...why do people think that THIS COUNTRY needs to be coerced by AIPAC to do genocide in Occupied Palestine?
Have you met us?

Other bullshit aside, let's talk about tear gas. Something I'm personally familiar with. Yes, it's considered a chemical weapon in war (for some reason). But I would choose getting tear gassed over getting OC'ed (pepper spray) any day.

For those who want to know what getting tear gassed feels like imagine taking fresh ground pepper and snorting it. Your nose and lungs burn. Then your mucus glands go into overdrive. In the academy they would videotape us getting tear gassed so we could watch it later for the lulz. I remember one dude had an unbroken rope of snot going from his nose to the ground while he was bent over.  
But once you get out of the cloud though, it doesn't take too long before you can clear your lungs and start feeling better. Pepper spray on the other hand.,.. depending on how much spray and where you got sprayed. It burns way worse and lasts longer in my opinion. And if you have contact lenses in, throw those babies out. I got hit by some friendly fire and it wasn't very much. I was able to finish my shift with them in so I figured if I let them soak for a week it would be fine. Nope, soon as I put it in my eye it felt like a red hot poker. 

So in conclusion, tear gas isn't that bad. For the record tasers hurt like a son of a bitch while they're zapping you. But as soon as the juice is turned off you feel fine. Mostly.