Warning: "Bernie Glowstick Instructions" meme is trying to get people hospitalized or killed.

[FourScore]

ON EDIT: This is pretty serious stuff. I feel confident that DU can put aside all the Bernie-Hillary squabbling and rally together to spread the word about this dangerous meme. Thanks!

Warning: "Bernie Glowstick Instructions" meme is trying to get people hospitalized or killed.
By OllieGarkey
Tuesday May 10, 2016 · 8:09 PM EST


These are not instructions for glowsticks, they're instructions for making a chlorine bomb.

A meme shared on Tumblr and Reddit instructs people to mix household chemicals together in order to make a glowstick.

Except the instructions are lifted from a how-to guide for making a chlorine bomb out of common chemicals. This device overpressurizes its container and explodes. The explosion releases deadly chlorine gas which when inhaled, interacts with the water in mucus membranes to transform into hydrochloric acid. It causes chemical burns in the throat, eyes, and lungs. It has been used as a chemical weapon for just over 100 years, and was first introduced by the German Empire at the second battle of Ypres in 1915, and most recently used by terrorists in Iraq and Syria who were targeting civilians with makeshift devices such as the one described in this meme.

I’ve removed the actual instructions for the device because some people are stupid and might try to see what would happen if they made one of these.

Please make sure that if you see someone sharing this meme, you explain that it’s a trap.

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/5/10/1525216/-Warning-Bernie-Glowstick-Instructions-meme-is-trying-to-get-people-hospitalized-or-killed

[morningfog]

1. Or arrested.

[CentralCoaster]

5. Has Hillary Clinton publicly denounced this deadly and criminal activity?

I think it's done at the direction of people paid by her campaign or PACs.

One way or the other, she needs to speak up.

[jberryhill]

6. For?

And I'm curious to know specifically the federal or state statute involved.

And that would be on the assumption that the perpetrators are situated in the US in the first place.

[morningfog]

12. Construction of a bomb?

I'd have to research and find relevant statutes. Is making a chlorine bomb legal? I've honestly never dealt with such an activity.

[jberryhill]

13. The originator of the image did not construct a bomb

[morningfog]

14. Well, we don't know whether they did. But, my comment was following the OP's

which said that whomever made the image is trying to get you hurt or killed. I added that they may also be trying to get you arrested, should you follow the instructions.

[Dem2]

2. This is one thread that I don't mind being reposted every few hours

Everybody needs to keep an eye out for this.

[CentralCoaster]

3. WTF? Brock and the Clinton Campaign just sunk to a new, demented, low. May they go down in flames.

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Seriously, that million dollar online campaign to pay trolls to troll just hit a Hitleresque level of evil.

I wish I could say I'm surprised.

Damn.

[FourScore]

7. No, please don't go there. I dislike Brock as much as anybody, but a crazy person did this.

There is simply no evidence it is tied to Brock, and I don't believe he would.

[CentralCoaster]

9. Not directly, no. But when you offer money to trolls to be disruptive, crazy shit can happen.

I never meant to suggest that Brock came up with or even knows about the idea.

But if you went out into a schoolyard, for example, and threw out thousands of $20s and said "Go see if you can piss off the principal" and somebody slashes her tires or drops a brick on her head from the roof, you should be held accountable.

Brock/Clinton need to call back their Internet bullies.

And these activities should be used to highlight their chicken shit online trolling tactics and cause them to end.

[jberryhill]

15. And crazy shit happens without Brock as well

There is no shortage of people who engage in mischief for pure shits and giggles. The notion that the miscreant responsible for this image required $20 in order to do it, demonstrates a poor understanding of miscreants.

[Kip Humphrey]

4. Why are not Interweb organizations (FB, Reddit, Tumblr, etc.) taking this down and scrubbing it from

their sites??? They'll take down Bernie sites at the drop of a hat, but this?

[jberryhill]

8. 40 million pictures a day are uploaded to Instagram

These are 2013 figures from this article: http://www.wired.com/insights/2013/04/the-state-of-social-sharing-in-2013-infographic/

300 million photos are uploaded every day to Facebook.

[Demsrule86]

10. Put it on Twiter and facebook

The righties are shameless.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

11. Sounds more like the tactics of Trump's

Storm Trooper and KKK supporters.

"Divide and Rule"

[NCTraveler]

16. Where did this originate?

I've only seen it shared by Sanders supporters. It has false flag written all over it.