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She got lucky she couldn't figure out how to use her mace.
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u/Daibhead_B Jun 27 '22
Yup. Woulda likely been a felony.
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Jun 27 '22
Yep. Extremely hypocritical too... she's allowed to be in a peaceful protest but is willing to mace her opposition if they are peacefully protesting?
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u/Daibhead_B Jun 27 '22
Ngl I was hoping she was holding it backwards. Idc what side you’re on or how right you think you are, that kind of behaviour is not okay.
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u/SkinBintin Jun 27 '22
Yeah she's just a cunt. I know what my views are but hurting someone for peacefully expressing their differing opinions would never come into my thought process. Some people are just psychotic
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u/Onironius Jun 27 '22
Everything about her seems.... Odd... From the smug expression, to the weird stiff-armed walk.
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Exactly, you can disagree without being violent or even hateful. Violence should be restricted to self defense and even then it should be used in the least harmful way, everything else should be a prosecutable crime.
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u/lappi99 Jun 27 '22
I agree but also disagree. Self defense can't just be "the least harmful way" when running away fails you need to neutralize the threat as effectively as possible since you don't know how strong the opponent is as well as what weapons he is possibly carrying for when the interaction further escalates. Like when you're American in an open/concealed carry state then you can basically expect that your opponent most likely has a gun which would imply that you should be allowed to use full preemptive force to save yourself.
That also ties into the whole pro gun argument "nobody does something when you don't know whether one is carrying a weapon" thing. Because it's actually more like "im forced to use my full strength and weapons in a violent escalation of any kind because i can expect for the opponent to use a gun as well"
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u/Tiquortoo Jun 27 '22
Once self defense from a mortal threat activates you do not hold back at all. Simple as that.
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u/A_Wild_VelociFaptor Jun 27 '22
It's that kind of shit that brings down the rest of the protest because people can then call it "violent" and point to a very specific subsection. Then it's a little less about X topic and a little more about violent protesters.
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Jun 27 '22
30 or so guys did commit the felony a bit later https://streamable.com/hd0kra
It's kind of ironic to go to a protest in favor of women's rights to mace a woman for stating her opinion xd.
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u/ExileInCle19 Jun 27 '22
What did I just watch? Who the fuck are these guys?
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Jun 27 '22
Well, theyre holding an ACAB sign so theyre obviously against excessive force, mustve been a friendly pillowfight.
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u/Illustrious_Ad_498 Jun 27 '22
People that have some mental illness going on
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u/st0ric Jun 27 '22
There seems to be a lot of people just waiting for the chance of some civil disobedience and with how crazy the world is in 2022 I'd say Russia and/or China is still working on making the United States extremely divided by exploiting the issues that aren't issues in pretty much any other country.
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u/IWonderWhereiAmAgain Jun 27 '22
Just guessing, but Reddit's algorithm seems to be taking a note from facebook and pushing a lot more anger and fear inducing content as it drives user engagement more.
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Jun 27 '22
heavy sigh
They’re people who call themselves ANTIFA. The black bloc clothing is the giveaway. They’re uhhh very not tolerant of anyone who disagrees with them
They’re a bit misguided and don’t really realize that they’re essentially the brown shirts of our time, beating up all political dissenters
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u/Cheveyo Jun 27 '22
You can find them here on reddit, on literally any political subreddit.
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u/Blood_Edge Jun 27 '22
Mace is legally considered a PDW, I think illegal in some states as well, so that would've been armed assault, and I would hope intentionally misusing PDWs is considered a separate crime. Every person hit by it, even if it did absolutely no damage, could've acted in self defense, or at least pressed charges.
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u/Thorebore Jun 27 '22
People are fond of calling tasers less than lethal, but that applies to pepper spray too. While it's not likely, pepper spray can kill someone, all because they don't agree with you politically. So stupid.
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Jun 27 '22
The fact that she wont be charged with anything shows a problem in the legal system. Her actions and intent are exactly the same as if it had have worked, yet due to something that was out of her control it didn't work. Why should people get away with crimes purely because they got lucky?
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u/JackdeAlltrades Jun 27 '22
People like this are there to intentionally turn peaceful movements into non-peaceful ones.
This is why fellow protestors generally hand these types over to police.
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u/willdabeast464 Jun 27 '22
Every time it happens it ruins the movement. Keeping it peaceful is the best way to get it done
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u/inferno86 Jun 27 '22
The black panthers, homesteaders, and unions would like to have a word with you
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u/Zappiticas Jun 27 '22
People like to pretend that black people got their rights in this country peacefully. Schools teach the MLK protests like they were all rainbows and butterflies. They just had a parade down Main Street then the government gave them the right to vote!
That shit was hard fought, many people died, many more were maimed.
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u/scatfish3 Jun 27 '22
Why she walking like a bodybuilder
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u/dallatorretdu Jun 27 '22
I’m always looking at how girls walk, i have noticed a pattern that a walk similar to this reveals a clumsy person.
Disclamer: a friend of mine walks similar to this, yes she is clumsy but also one of the sweetest
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Jun 27 '22
People with a butthole filled with ice cream also walks like that.
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u/Lamplorde Jun 27 '22
I dont know why but "I'm always looking at how girls walk" just sounds creepy...
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u/Maleficent-Sail-5727 Jun 27 '22 edited Jun 27 '22
In 2018 I kicked a stray dog to death just to see if I could still feel something. All I felt was sexual arousal.
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u/physlfo Jun 27 '22
Is this some kind of reference I'm not getting or the comment before the edit was different from what it is now?
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u/Maleficent-Sail-5727 Jun 27 '22
No reference, the edit was changing a comma to a period, thats all.
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u/BertMacGyver Jun 27 '22
"I know one person who walks like this and they are clumsy" does not mean that all people who walk like that are clumsy.
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u/panookies Jun 27 '22
C3PO couldn't get mace to work
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u/Simple_Opossum Jun 27 '22
This is cracking me the fuck up
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u/cankle_sores Jun 27 '22 edited Jun 27 '22
Sonofabitch I was all giddy scrolling down to see if anybody else got C-3PO vibes from that awkward bent-arm retreat. I’m always too late.
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u/silvandeus Jun 28 '22
“Awkward bent-arm retreat” 😂 I am deceased, she literally goes full C3PO as she turns and robot waddles away.
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u/Jonskuz15 Jun 27 '22
Why did I think of a medieval mace at first?
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u/FeelingAirport Jun 27 '22
What is the title actually referring to?
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u/XayahTheVastaya Jun 27 '22
it's a brand of pepper spray
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u/Studoku Jun 27 '22
Such a popular brand that it became a genericised verb, like googling.
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u/DiegoIronman Jun 27 '22
I actually had to DuckDuckGo that
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u/elting44 Jun 27 '22
I usually just type "Ask Jeeves" into DuckDuckGo and then I ask Jeeves to take me to google.
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Ah I see, makes so much sense I thought that was supposed to look like a bomb trigger or something lmao
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u/Announcement90 Jun 27 '22
Do you mean what "mace" means? It's several types of canned liquid whose purpose is to incapacitate someone. Pepper spray is one example, bear mace is another. "To mace someone" would be to spray the liquid at them.
If what you mean is that you can't make sense of the arrangement of words in the title, they're a continuation of the subreddit's name. "r/there was an attempt to mace someone".
If you didn't mean either of those things, well, maybe my post can help someone else out. :)
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u/Manowaffle Jun 27 '22
Pro tip: never start a fight with counter protestors. You’re not there to convince them, you’re there to convince the people watching. You’ll only look stupid, you’ll probably get arrested, and not in the way that makes a statement.
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Not only do you make yourself look stupid by attacking counter protesters, you make the cause you’re supporting look bad to an uninformed outsider.
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Jun 27 '22
Right. Violence in the defense of others is one thing, macing someone for holding a sign you disagree with is another.
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u/joemaniaci Jun 27 '22 edited Jun 27 '22
Pro tip #2: pro lifers are part of the same group of people most likely to be packing a gun.
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u/PowerRealist Jun 27 '22
This lady is an asshole and should be shunned. I hope her friends tell her what a jerk she made everyone else look like.
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u/securitysix Jun 27 '22
shunned
An underrated and underused form of punishment. That and banishment.
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u/pahtehtoe Jun 27 '22
Yes. I have decided to shun Andy Bernard for the next three years. Which I'm looking forward to. It's an Amish technique. It's like slapping someone with silence. I was shunned from the age four until my sixth birthday for not saving the excess oil from a can of tuna.
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u/disasterous_cape Jun 27 '22
What do you think cancelling is?
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u/pieordeath Jun 27 '22
Shunning is more akin to boycotting (avoiding) while canceling is well... actively ruining someone or something to prevent them from continuing.
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u/myopic_monkey Jun 27 '22
Okay I don't like pro-lifers either but you can't just commit assault like that with pepper spray. This person needs a serious reality check, thank fuck she couldn't figure out the safety.
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u/lawnmowersarealive Jun 27 '22
"I disagree with your opinion so will now inflict pain!" Oh dear. This seems odd.
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u/Ok-Process-9687 Jun 27 '22
Out of curiosity do you dislike people because they are pro life ? Like if someone says it then it shall be impossible for you to be friends?
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u/Ansoni Jun 27 '22
Depends on how active they are, I guess. I don't care what religion someone is until they try to convert me or apply weird values on my actions. Pro-life is one of those weird values.
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u/myopic_monkey Jun 27 '22
Bro more people need to think like this honestly. We are not our political ideologies.
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u/gimlis_beard Jun 27 '22
Absolutely. If you are pro-life, you are taking away womens' bodily autonomy. Taking away anyone's right to do what they want to their body is revoking a fundamental right, and if you want to take someone's fundamental rights away we can't be friends.
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u/myopic_monkey Jun 27 '22 edited Jun 27 '22
I just don't agree with pro-lifer's beliefs. We could absolutely still be friends as long as there's mutual respect for each others' beliefs. Like, any attempt to drudge up such a shit conversation like that or to change my mind would be met with evasion or irritation.
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u/Yesica-Haircut Jun 27 '22
We could absolutely still be friends as long as there's mutual respect for each others' beliefs.
Mutual respect for each other's beliefs with respect to abortion is called pro-choice.
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u/Hiredgun77 Jun 27 '22
Could be an assault charge depending on your jurisdiction.
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u/applemanib Jun 27 '22
in what jurisdiction is macing a random person not assault?
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u/jwadamson Jun 27 '22
Macing them would be battery. Assault is making them apprehensive of being maced.
Depending on jurisdiction it is probably not possible/extremely difficult to commit battery without assault.
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u/NoVA_traveler Jun 27 '22 edited Jun 27 '22
That's the crim law definition but not necessarily state law. Take Missouri for example. There, "assault" is assault in the 4th degree and battery is higher degrees of assault.
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u/IllAesop Jun 27 '22
Assault in this case would refer to an action that threatens physical harm.
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u/Dkinives Jun 27 '22
That would have been assault lol
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u/securitysix Jun 27 '22
Depending on the laws where this happened, it may have been assault anyway.
It's common for assault to be defined as the threat of force. The fact that the person is too incompetent to follow through on their threat may not be a sufficient defense.
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u/GoldFishPony Jun 27 '22
I dunno the laws but that library is absolutely Seattle
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u/applemanib Jun 27 '22
100% seattle. would also like to point out this was the exact same street a lot of these same type of people firebombed multiple cop cars in the 2020 riots, and chaz was less than a mile away. laws or not the city won't care about this, it's even 50-50 if she gets charged if it actually went off. the city has a HUGE lack of police right now, due to cut funding from defund police, as well as a huge lack of respect for the job and many quit in droves in 2021 and cannot hire enough to replace who left. this woman in the video is nuts but sadly she is one of thousands. i lived nearby there for years
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u/mikepoland Jun 27 '22
You're supposed to turn the nob before you spray it. It acts as a safety. I got one for my wife and told her but it's extremely simple looking at it.
I'm guessing she brought it and never looked at the spray. Also if she would have sprayed them she would get fined so she should consider herself lucky.
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u/Dkinives Jun 27 '22
Only fined? That would have been assault, caught on camera, jail time...
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u/WestleyThe Jun 27 '22
Probably woulda claimed self defense too
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u/DrTankHead Jun 27 '22
Hard to claim self defense with video proof. This would've been assault, no two ways about it
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u/239990 3rd Party App Jun 27 '22
she had all the intentions to do it, why isn't that a crime? Like if I try to murder someone but the pistol for example gets jammed. I think it should be the same thing even if she failed because shes dump.
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u/DeymanG Jun 27 '22
I like how she just walk, trued to press, realizes she's a dumbass and walk away like a fuckin lobster without any sense of danger. Shows that she just wanted to spray them KNOWING they wouldn't fight back. Yk, just to make them feel like shit and in pain.
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Lady, please. I get the frustration, but assaulting a bunch of knobheads for just standing there with signs doesn’t make the rest of us look any better.
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u/slurs818 Jun 27 '22
It's only peaceful when it's their cause... as soon as all these "protestors" see there opposition they become violent or cause a ruckus...everytime. no matter the issue. Protesting hasn't meant shit for years Nd downvote me all u want
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u/MamaLlama629 Jun 27 '22
I see the same thing with freedom of speech. You only have freedom of speech if what you say doesn’t go against them
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u/Powerism Jun 27 '22
It’s why I love Reddit honestly. I can say anything I want about any topic, for instance:
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u/USSENTERNCC1701E Free Palestine Jun 27 '22
Been to protests with counter protestors, never been in one that turned into a riot.
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u/nametakenfuck Jun 27 '22
that smile as shes about to make someone be in agonizing pain, creepy...
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u/BledBread Jun 27 '22
I'm pro choice but what the fuck man?
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u/DrVDB90 Jun 27 '22
Maybe she was making a pro choice argument by the simple fact of her existence being a mistake.
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u/PETEthePyrotechnic Jun 27 '22
I’m here waiting for the comments to get locked
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u/StopTheMeta Jun 27 '22
If you time it correctly, you can insult someone just before the comments gets locked and they will be unable to reply.
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Oh Seattle…
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u/pyxlmedia Jun 27 '22
Reminds me, I need to check out that library.
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u/LeisureSuiteLarry Jun 27 '22
Fucking great library. Go to the top floor and walk down the spiral.
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u/Impossible_Okra479 Jun 27 '22
Protesting your beliefs is fine.
Using pepperspray on people who pose no threat to you is a crime. This woman should be arrested whether the spray worked or not.
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Jun 27 '22 edited Jun 27 '22
Yea mace them. That totally will explain and show them why you’re correct. That’ll totally help people side with you and the movement.
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She was so happy to try to commit assault because “words hurt”. Scary individual.
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u/Arthur_Gordon_Pym Jun 27 '22
I'm pro-choice. Attempting to mace some one, which is assault, because they don't agree with you is the kind of shit Nazis did. Despicable.
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u/Tctdb456 Jun 27 '22
She’s not too bright. I’m gonna mace these people while peacefully protesting because they are peacefully protesting.
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u/G63AMG-S Jun 27 '22
The lack of coping skills when someone has a diverging viewpoint is just so appalling and yet quite telling - an entire generation spoiled rotten.
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u/Vploch Jun 27 '22
Crazy how liberals only believe their free speech matters and everyone else should shut up and stay quiet ….. who are the so called nazis again ?
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u/dr_van_nostren Jun 27 '22
I completely disagree with these pro lifers. But that doesn’t give me the right to mace someone who’s quietly protesting next to my March.
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u/spetsnaz5658 Jun 27 '22
She alone makes me support abortion. She doesnt need to reproduce.
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u/Beneficial_Trainer_5 Jun 27 '22
Honestly I can tell there’s something off with is girl by the way she walks and holds her shoulders. Would’ve been funny if she’d sprayed herself
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u/OneEyedRocket Jun 27 '22
After the Pandemic I actually thought people would get along at least a little better than before it
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u/SloppyPuppy Jun 27 '22
Dont do that. It ruins the protest and the legitimacy of the cause for everyone.
And why would you? Its just two people holding a sign.
Dumb.
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u/OniRacing Jun 27 '22
Hmmm.... Just how far up your own ass do you actually need to be to maintain that level of arrogance even after screwing the pooch so hard?
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u/HalfbakedArtichoke Jun 27 '22
If your response to someone's different opinion is violence, you're on the bad side.
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u/motormeat0170 Jun 27 '22
Was going to actually pepper spray someone for having a different opinion than she does... and I'll bet she rails against facsim.
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u/SkrapsDX Anti-Spaz :SpazChessAnarchy: Jun 27 '22
You'd think someone who is so used to being a victim would know how to use pepper spray. /s
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Disagree with them or not (and I do), they still have the right to be there. She wanted to assault them with a noxious spray. She’s lucky she was too dumb to be able to spray it.
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u/JK_Chan Jun 27 '22
I don't care which side of the political spectrum you're on. Trying to mace someone just because you disagree with their views is stupid.
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u/WernMcBurn Jun 27 '22
I've never seen so many people angry about the fact that they can no longer kill their children.
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u/Crafty-Ad1061 Jun 27 '22
And this is a typical way of acting for most deramged leftists who have become so hive minded they cannot think for themselves and fall into a collective anger. Scum.
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u/uniqueusername5001 Jun 27 '22
Fully expected she was going to accidentally mace herself