Massive explosion in Beirut

It didn’t cause me to move or anything, but I felt it move through my chest. I was standing in front of my apartment and there were two guys working on a car nearby. They stopped what they were doing and freaked out. It wasn’t enough to make me take a step, but it was unexpected and immediately made me reconsider my previous action.

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Honestly, the airbags probably helped save this guy’s life

Probably from the glass shattering

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It’s not needless to him. Have you seen his polling?

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A fair point.

Don’t confuse his stupidity with strategy.

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He knows to try to wag the dog. He’s a buffoon but he knows how to try to change public opinion.

Maybe but I’m betting on it being stupidity. I’d snap bet my net worth he couldn’t define wag the dog though. :grin:

Haha he may not know the phrase but he knows WW3 in the middle easy will bump the pandemic failures off the top of the front page and out of the open of every newscast.

For sure.

This one is worse than the one from the balcony, it gives you a much better sense of the speed at which the shockwave traveled:
https://mobile.twitter.com/borzou/status/1290769670077927431?s=21

These videos are so insane.

I’m going to post this again, the page is now loading without any problems. They’re over $1M USD raised, which is a great start for crowd funding but obviously a drop in the bucket of what will be needed.

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Probably the first time they were useful in recorded history

This may be an ignorant question, but if the people in these videos are not ok, how are the videos getting sent/texted/uploaded/tweeted out?

Are they snippets from live feeds that where then grabbed by a viewer or remained online somewhere after the video cut out?

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I think your assumption is right. Most of these videos means the taker is ok.

It’s amazing how much the ability for everything to be visually documented changes things.

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:thinking:

This video is being reported as a captured live stream, and the cameraman is being said to have died.

No idea if this is accurate, but it’s what I’ve seen reported.

Good lord.

https://mobile.twitter.com/maysaaX/status/1290722267404607488/photo/1

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