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Trump quoted Galaxy Quest for his “big line”

Tim Allen did it better while doing an okay job portraying a mediocre TV actor.

Ah, I see. That is much clearer.

The testimony given is that Gamboa had pulled out his weapon while hidden behind a barrier, and was in a firing position while running into the crowd is supported the video. At the very beginning of the video, it shows him walking, then running, while holding the weapon in his right hand.
I guess if he ducked away to surreptitiously pull the weapon out, he should have… I don’t know, slung it, rather than held it, and responded to the folks who drew on him, rather than try to run into the crowd.
I wouldn’t have stepped out of cover with my hands on it if that were the case. But also, if I were open carrying, I wouldn’t be wearing a ski mask.
Nothing about his actions read proper to me.

I dated a girl with a very Italian last name for a number of years. She said that ‘back in the day’ certain parts of her family were connected in our city. Laughed it off, because that was history. Her dad was never involved, and her grandpa was only a little involved, I guess, and.. whatever. It just wasn’t a thing in their lives and hadn’t really been a thing in our city since like the 70’s.

We took a trip to NYC, and after eating at this lovely hole-in-the-wall Italian restaurant, she paid. After seeing the name on the CC, the whole vibe sort of changed. Staff got shy. A manager came over to offer us a big discount on our food, and free dessert.
My GF understood it, I guess, and told him that we were from out of town and didn’t have any family in town. After a very brief pause, the manager said something like “Oooh. It must have been another table that complained about their food…” They still gave us free dessert for the mix-up (we were already going to order dessert - it’s not like we were pretending to be mini-mafiosos out there).

I would argue he should have carried his rifle the whole time and not concealed it in a bag and pulled it out amidst the crowd before I consider the jumpiness of the person trying to keep the crowd safe.

What video?
The traffic cam video? The detail on that is horrific. I would not attempt to create any theories from that.

If there’s other video to support your statements, can you link it?

I’d say that his actions were not legal or sanctioned. He had the rifle concealed in a carrying case, which he waited until he was middle of a crowd, whereupon he removed it, and regardless of whether or not his handling of the weapon met the legal definition of brandishing it, he still handled it in a manner that incited panic.
If he wanted to open carry, he should have had the firearm openly carried the entire time he was at the protest (including his outside approach to it) and he should have never put his hands on the weapon.

I don’t do a lot of design anymore, but I still wind up working on data visualizations a fair amount.
It’s both subversive and satisfying how well the various LGBTQ+ flag color combinations work when creating stacked area charts.

That’s fair. That also highlights the importance of having the people show up en masse.

Or the designer knew exactly what they were doing and pulled one over on leadership.

I haven’t seen someone suggest the designer knew this looked like the Russian flag and left it in there as a tongue in cheek criticism/metacommentary, but that’s what I would do.

I shared a theory with some of my friends that I think the police also have a pretty vested interest in ensuring these stay peaceful.

Given what Trump/his Project 2025 puppet masters did in LA, where they’re trying to spark a flash point, I think local PD do not want to have their jurisdiction overruled.

They listed off several cities grouped by state, and some states seemingly disproportionately represented. (Like 5 cities from Kansas.)
The post author probably just listed of all the cities they could think of that had rallies, likely biased by their geographic familiarity.

I wouldn’t take inclusion or exclusion to mean special or lack of recognition. Everywhere that could showed out to the extent that they could, and that’s what mattered. Heck, people in other countries protested, too!

The add on comment implies the existence of women that ironically marry men.

Right in Deans Beans!