Something I’ve experienced traveling around the state is that there is a palpable fear of even letting your friends know you are a Democrat, or even in line with what Democratic politicians are doing. There’s vandalism that takes place here, and people are scared of that. Having your yard sign stolen or your flag taken down is one thing, but having your car keyed or trash left in your yard, that’s another. I know people who have been harassed after they are outed as a Democrat, and then people give them trouble. People hear those stories. They’re not fake. They’re not made up. I’ve seen and heard some really ugly language.
I’m not a Dem (I’m a Leftists), but this pretty much sums it up. The Right plays dirty. They aren’t bound by any sense of decency. I’d say the only way we can beat them is to respond with our own violence (which I, personally, detest). I don’t see us beating them because they don’t believe in rules of engagement. Sorry to be so demoralizing in this post.
You dont fight fire with fire, you fight it with water
Not always, it’s not uncommon practice in forest fires creates a “firebreak” in the treeline with a controlled burn, that controlled burn removes all the fuel preventing the fire from spreading beyond the firebreak.
Also, in certain types of oil well fires they will use explosives, there are powder fire extinguishers for small petroleum fires, and emulsifiers for grease fires, electronic fires will use CO2, and they used (certain places still do) to use Halon. Water isn’t always the best (or even desirable) for all types of fires.
Halon was invented to save expensive electronics in server rooms from water damage. It’s actually deadly to people if you’re trapped in a room with it.
I hate that these are our priorities.
Those spaces also have warning systems that go off when Halon flooding occurs, which when fighting fires from inside a structure you should have some form of SCBA as there are other chemicals and smoke that will put you down. So, unless you can put the fire out with a single extinguisher, don’t stay in the same room with an uncontrolled fire, close the door (isolate it) and retreat to safety.
Along those lines, the Soviet Union once put out a fire in a natural gas well with a nuclear weapon.
(This might be overkill for a grease fire though.)
You probably shouldn’t bring radioactive material into kitchens to begin with.
what is the “fire” in the context of political mis-information? Do we need to regulate Facebook and Shitter? Cut them off from being allowed to host any political information.
So… depoliticized zones at the borders of red and blue states?
Water of course being prosecution and jail time for undermining our democracy, right? Not just ignoring the problem?