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A Boring Dystopia

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The pig sees her, turns, aims, and shoots her almost point blank.

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[–] [email protected] 162 points 5 days ago (8 children)

It should also be noted that the term "rubber bullet" is exceedingly euphemistic.

So-called 'rubber bullets' are huge and have been known to maim and blind people. These aren't tiny little paintball rounds, folks.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Because most of them have a core of metal or other high density material and a softer exterior. It's like wrapping a brick in a couple of layers of bubble wrap and hitting someone if the face with it.

[–] Phil_in_here 45 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Well, you have to have something heavy to hold enough inertia to have a deterring impact.

How else are you supposed to suppress the growing second class citizenry? Communicate?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

Look, nobody's saying there shouldn't be special munitions to assault and potentially maim people who have the audacity to tell you the state is doing a bad thing.

We're just arguing about the particular construction of this tool for doing that.

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