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That's not how it works. If local cops show up, they only assist ICE. The NYPD in this photo were Brad Lander's (Elected official being kidnapped) entourage. When ICE turned on him, they held the press back from ICE and then the senior member of their group cooperated with ICE and left the building alongside them and Lander. No asking for ID, no asking for a warrant from them, zero resistance, only assistance.

If the Dems want to actually exercise their right to resist a kidnapping they should be showing up with private security, or exercising their own 2A rights (Something that pretty much only politicians and friends of cops can do in NYC because NYPD gets constitutionally-questionable veto power on gun permits). But I'm guessing that is exactly what the Trump regime is waiting for. They will send in the national guard once that happens.

Maybe I shouldn't have been so crass. Maybe you shouldn't have been so obtuse and avoidant. Mistakes were made, had I known your proximity to the people involved ahead of time I probably would have cut you more slack. More communication and explanation up front is always better.

A user wrote that someone who brandishes in public deserves to be shot.

You asked if that applies to people who open carry at McDonalds.

I replied to note that brandishing and open carry are different things.

You replied "Watch the video." As there are several videos floating around relating to this event, and as the video in OP's article does not seem at all relevant or the one that you reference, and you don't offer any reason why some video should be watched, I found this comment to be dismissive, vague, and unhelpful.

So I replied with reference to the similarly vague and unhelpful meme of "read theory" in hopes of cuing you in to the lack of imformation without wasting too much energy on your behalf.

Joke went completely over your head. You began making a character argument on behalf Gamboa as you know the guy. Completely unrelated to where the thread began.

And then when I try to reel you back in to the topic of brandishing vs open carry, you tell me I'm shit at interpreting context.

Come on, buddy. Really? Really??? I'm not someone you should be angry at or fighting with. You seemed to have been confusing brandishing for open carry and I just wanted to make sure you were aware that those are completely different things.

What does this have to do with your fantasy of shooting people in a McDonalds?

Jokes on them, Sandustry content deluge incoming.

"Read theory"

My favorite game is Noita. Factorio is probably in my top 5. Pray for my free time, fellow lemmings.

Adding another obligatory "brandishing and open carry are legally distinct acts" to the thread.

Only ~1 in 5 New Yorkers even own a title to a car. These policies very much create a demand for cars that wouldn't exist otherwise. The lot in question is across the street from a stop on one of NYC's main subway lines, and within 5 blocks of a major transit hub.

New Yorkers need to pressure their council members to push back on these policies. I'm sure that developers have the opposite ear of representatives and are also asking for an end to such rules. Representatives need to know that they are hurting, not sheltering, their constituents by resisting change. All of this money could be going to public transit improvements instead.

I think you touched on why. Ethnic identity is somewhat arbitrary, and tied up with national / cultural identity. In the US, despite our xenophobic phases most of us culturally identify as a nation of immigrants. So in terms of ethnicity, we're more concerned with where our lineage existed before arriving in the United States, rather than how long it's existed in the United States. There's a bit of a hierarchy of "who's family has existed in the US the longest", but all of those claims are still anchored by which nations their ancestors came from.

There's also the fact that American genetics haven't been sedentary long enough - And probably never will be - For us to mix evenly enough to develop a unified physical appearance. Ethnicity is of course not just skin deep, but ethnic identity and identification often uses it as shorthand, and there is as far as I know no stereotypical American ethnic appearance.

It's propaganda.

Well then call me the outlier, cause I'm a childless man who has been happily working remote since before covid. I'd rather be jobless than go back to office work. I have a small group of non-work friends that I enjoy spending time with, and back when I did office work the majority of my friends were not work friends.