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That's a giant cloud of [vinyl chloride] and a ton of other bad chemicals. The local police blew it up like a beached whale, now megatoxins are Chernobyling Ohio and there's a news blackout and the police are beating reporters and camera people and dragging em. This environmental devastation will be visible from space for decades. The water is safe to drink but everything in it is suddenly dead. The next town over, the release instantly killed everyone's chickens. This stuff is catnip for human cancer. This will cast a massive acid rain shadow and destroy swaths of vegetation, leaving a path of ruin that will appear as if God himself took his thumb and smudged it over Ohio, Pennsylvania, and beyond.

    • Tachanka [comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      Americans liked to give their towns biblical names back then. The town was named after Palestine in 1875, back when the Ottoman empire was still around and Palestine was actually called Palestine, and there was a thriving multireligious community of Muslims, Jews, and Christians cohabitating fairly peacefully in Jerusalem

    • UnicodeHamSic [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      I wonder if the main websites automatically hide some of the news stuff from there just cause of the name

      • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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        Wonder how many Reddit and Twitter bots fired up and wrote articles blaming Hamas for the chemicals and saying that Isn'trael had no choice but to blow up the train in self-defense.