• Agent641@lemmy.world
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    Always bring earplugs, ear defenders, and if possible a large, flat rigid object. A sign made of corflute is meh, a big flat book is pretty good.

    If possible, wear glasses and put the flat object between you and the LRAD while it’s going, these can cause ear and eye injuries by vibrating the fluid in your eyeballs. Even a thin barrier can attenuate the sound down to a safer level.

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    Should get their own lrad

    I’m sure it will pretty quickly get designated as a weapon then

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      I was wondering why they turned it off too.

      Totally unrelated, an old satellite dish or really anything concave and hard can be used to direct the sound waves at the emitter/operator. Also, most hard materials can block most of the negative impacts of sonic weapons like this.

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        Even better, any old round plastic trash bin can be cut out into a rounded dish that when turned around will reflect the beam, and it can also be held like a riot shield to protect against projectiles!

        (do keep in mind that most jurisdictions would consider you deliberately reflecting an LRAD to be an assault against the officers, and would literally throw you in jail for it, though curiously it’s not bad when they do it directly to you, just not when you defend yourself. Who would have thought?)

  • _‌_反いじめ戦隊@ani.social
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    peaceful demonstrators

    Damn, Americans really like to tiktok dance their problems like frogs. I pity more they don’t know how to liberate.

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          You are missing the point, we need all action. Any action that anyone is willing to make.

          Let’s not waste time telling people that their action is meaningless. Talk to the people that take no action, and give them choices.

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            Suicide acts aren’t political actions.

            22 years of suicide acts are indeed meaningless. I listed you choices of noncombatant and comfortable acts of revolution. Unless getting deathcamped means comfortable to you.

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              Ok, well I guess keep focusing your effort to troll the people that generally agree with you but have a slightly different opinion.

              • _‌_反いじめ戦隊@ani.social
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                Is this the new liberal tactic? Call Black Panther Anarchists “trolls”? Is that going to stop the war on US civilians and Venezuelans?