• Dingdangdog [he/him,comrade/them]
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      edit-2
      3 years ago

      Looks super over designed with a ton of failure points tbh.

      Like I can see one of those pullies failing or the tear gas pump springing a leak and then suddenly you're just up against a wall covered in mace.

      Further more if you just threw a canister over the top of it they've got nowhere to go.

      • ennuid [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        I know, I was barely joking

        I would like to climb up the wall and piss on the driver

      • fuckwit [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        my mech Eng classes were chock full of the overzealous fucking nerds who’d design this trashheap. ‘what if we eliminated damping for max fash factor, maybe add fire decals’

      • alcoholicorn [comrade/them, doe/deer]
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        3 years ago

        Why the hell does the wall need hydraulics?

        What should just be a forklift with some walls on a hinge that some dude can open is now as complex as an excavator.

  • LoudMuffin [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I feel like a lot of this stuff means cops are horny for an insurgency.

    They will probably feel really good about this until some pissed off mechanic or engineer starts dropping improvised explosives on them with a drone. This would work great in Latin America but this is just digging your own grave in any industrialized country lmao

      • LoudMuffin [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        https://youtu.be/c_aib9IwkJk

        wow cops really are a paper tiger

        • s0ykaf [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          tbh i'm actually really afraid of brazilian cops, but it's definitely not because of fancy equipment

          it's mostly because they act pretty much like an occupying force that can murder us with impunity

            • s0ykaf [he/him]
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              3 years ago

              they kill between 6 and 7 thousand people every year, and we have about 2/3 the US population (where the police kill 600-700)

              to give you some context:

              in an operation from 2015, the police in bahia killed 12 people

              when questioned about it, the governor (rui costa, from the PT - yes, lula's party) said the police were like "top goal scorers": if they see a chance to score a goal, they should try to do it, even if sometimes they miss and people complain

              so uh... yea that's pretty much how it goes

    • neera_tanden [she/her]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      That’s where you are wrong, sweatie. In Latin America, engineers and PMC might protest against governments like Venezuela and other communist dictatorships. But America is back, the Orange man is gone, what do the PMC have to be upset about?

      As for those antifa thugs, they talk a big game, but I’m reporting them on Facebook ✍️

  • Mardoniush [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    Finally, Police are developing the technology to kettle themselves.

  • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    Maybe we should attempt to address the material reasons underscoring why people riot?

    Nah, let's give shitloads of money to pigs and develop portable wall technology for pigs so they can more effectively quell riots

  • stevaloo [they/them, she/her]
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    3 years ago

    So uhhhh what’s the plan when the protestors actively use your riot-tank in their day to day job.

  • Rem [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    If ur driving this, ur the bad guy

  • Alaskaball [comrade/them]MA
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    3 years ago

    This is a very specific use item. Unless they're giving cops like 10-25 of them to use for more common open area mass protest events the best they can use them for is for urban chokepoint area-of-denial.

    Which I suppose would be alright since it allows them to cut off areas more securely while using less personal to maintain a chokepoint, allowing them to reallocate them to the main force.

  • kristina [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    waiting for some protester to buy riot cop gear and walk up and steal the thing