Is it bugs? I bet it’s bugs.

What’s an interrobang‽

I’ll adjust my comment because I realize it might be confusing. It’s protected by ADA but it doesn’t meet the requirements for a disability claim under Social Security:

Whether you are totally, legally, or partially blind, you may be eligible for the Social Security Administration’s Disability benefits for the blind. In order to qualify, the SSA requires that your vision loss be quite significant and be present in both eyes. Those blind in one eye are not eligible.

I hope they recover their vision. As someone who lost sight in one eye I can attest that going from binocular to monocular vision is life altering AND not considered a disability under the law Social Security requirements but typically is covered by ADA.

Edit: clarification.

You don’t raise a gun and point it at people unless you intend to shoot it at them.

You’re also supposed to be sure of your target and what is beyond it. That’s literally rule 4 of gun safety. It exists so that you don’t, ya know, shoot and kill or injure innocent bystanders.

It’s odd how a peacekeeper for the protest felt there was such an imminent threat they fired in an unsafe manner and yet Gamboa didn’t return fire, or shoot into the crowd or, in fact, fire a single round. The short clip floating around seems to show him running after being shot at.

1. Treat every firearm as if it were loaded: This means assuming a gun is always loaded, even

2. Always point the muzzle in a safe direction: Never point a gun at anything you don’t intend to shoot, and be mindful of the direction the muzzle is pointed, even when the gun is not loaded.

3. Keep your finger off the trigger until you are ready to shoot: Keep your finger straight and off the trigger until you are on target and have made the conscious decision to fire.

4. Be sure of your target and what is beyond it: Before firing, identify your target and be aware of what is behind it, as bullets can travel through or ricochet off of objects.

Brandish a firearm in public

Be real careful applying the term “brandish”.

Utah is a constitutional carry state, meaning anyone 21+ who can legally own a firearm can carry it concealed or openly without a permit.

In my state, Minnesota, you have to take a class and qualify to carry a firearm and during the state approved training your told to follow these steps:

1. No force - avoidance, retreat or de-escalating
2. No force - Telephone for help, Verbal warning
3. Unarmed self defense
4. Less than lethal - exposing firearm
5. Deadly force - pointing the firearm at another person, shooting at someone, shooting and killing someone

The issue I have in the US is that, in Minnesota at least, the only reason to move into a crosswalk is to turn right on red however you’re supposed to stop at the crosswalk before proceeding across it and almost nobody does.

Edit: Also, happy cake day!

It might have been intended as a joke but I, and I’m sure thousands of other Minnesotans, don’t find it funny. It also serves to normalize the behavior of America’s wannabe despot and spreads misinformation to those who don’t know better.

Responding to a polite request with some variation of “It was just a joke” speaks volumes.

Intent is different from impact; we may intend a comment in one way, but it may be interpreted by others differently. Importantly: we are responsible for the impact, not just the intent, of our words and actions.

Truth.

I guess, though Saint Paul is a different county and they’re literally all over.

Stillwater, Olmsted County, State Patrol, Richfield, Eden Prairie, Edina, Bloomington, St Louis Park, Airport and Hopkins, Sauk Rapids, Golden Valley, U of M police, Inver Grove Heoghts, Blaine to name a few.

that’s not what I see in the countless threads here in Lemmy

Your sample size is Lemmy. No issue there, definitely representative of the US and its population as a whole.

Your premise is flawed and the Occupy movement demonstrates it. 5 years of sustained protesting to not achieve the kind of change you seem to expect to see.

Your under the misconception the sustained non-stop protesting is equivalent to sustained action and activism. I’ve already covered this and I’m not going to go over it again, I’ll just copy and paste what I already wrote:

The problems in the US have been building and evolving for decades, if not longer, and they’ll take at least that long to get a handle on.

Non-stop protesting has the same hurdle as a nationwide general strike and is just as unrealistic, especially considering how long it would have to last.

Again, you’re just repackaging the same bullshit sentiment as OP and all over everywhere else on Lemmy.

I’m not going to engage you any further as your agenda seems to be to argue in opposition of the movement occurring in the US.

Please stop spreading this. He will be charged by the state which would require the Minnesota Pardon Board to vote to pardon him. That’s the Governor, the State AG and the Chief Justice of the state Supreme Court. 2/3 would be required to vote in favor of a pardon.

More frightening, I think. I worry most for the children and young adults in the US.

Because a lot of states, Minnesota included, have more sensible processes and rules than the federal government.

The mistake you’re making is thinking Minnesotans will let this man walk free because the Pretender in Chief says so.

We’ll stick this asshole with the 28th Virginia battle flag and they can come and try to collect him.

Notice the merelly starting the very sentence sentence you quote from me about the George Floyd protests. The pigs are still often holding people down by putting their knee on that person’s neck, so how exactly has the largest demonstration in America changed anything?!

Assuming you meant merelly as merely I saw it but your claim that no change occurred is wrong. The change that did occur was unsustained because people in the US got complacent. They protested and cared for a while but then they stopped paying attention and things started back the way the were, now worse in some areas.

Notice how I said sustained effort? The thing that didn’t happen after George Floyd.

If all that people do is walk and shout with lots of other people and then at the end of it go home with a feeling of achievement and do nothing further

“Do nothing further”? You mean further than the protests 2 days ago that set record numbers? Or the ones that have been ongoing every weekend for months? That have been building and increasing to the No Kings day protest? Is that the do nothing further you’re referring to?

People here are way over-celebrating something which means very little unless we see that it has led to many following it with getting involved in politics and/or grassroots movements

Are you in regular contact with the majority of the US population that you can say that hasn’t been happening? I’m pretty sure the growing numbers of protesters is people getting “involved in politics and/or grassroots movements”.

it’s premature and it makes me suspect that for many who participated this one demonstration was it and they aren’t following it through with next steps.

Oh, you’re predicting the future 48 hours post protest. This is just the same bullshit “your protesting isn’t good enough” sentiment everywhere else on Lemmy repackaged and with more words.

So my point is that people need to keep their eye on the long term solution for America’s problems, and that doesn’t stop with kicking Trump out, it requires a far deeper cleanup of the American political system and addressing the problems of common Americans so that another guy like Trump (or, more likely, worse) doesn’t get eventually get in power after Trump is out.

Denigrating the effort to date doesn’t do anything to further your point. Instead it serves to quell support and push a negative outlook and view of protesting.

Offering support, encouragement and advocating for sustained effort would.

You mentioned the George Floyd protests and said, in relation to that, “merelly coming out and walking for a bit in your own time while holding a board up doesn’t seem to achieve anything” but that’s not true.

During and immediately after George Floyd the protest effected a lot of change but then the protests stopped, complacency set in.

Trump is not the disease, he’s a symptom, so merely Trump out isn’t going to cure it.

No, the cure is sustained effort. The problems in the US have been building and evolving for decades, if not longer, and they’ll take at least that long to get a handle on.

Ah, now I understand your “logic”. I didn’t pay attention to the instance you are from at first.

I’m not sure if you forgot a /s or if you’re being serious. If serious this is some ridiculous logic.

Protests aren’t about the Political and Money “elites” as you put it because they don’t care no matter what.

You think they’d give a shit if what is happening in LA is happening everywhere? They’re like cockroaches that will skitter into hiding until it’s safe to come out and monopolize on the ruin.

Protests are about galvanizing support and building unity among the populace. The US has been so divided for so long and that division has been manipulated and grown to benefits those “elites”.

I do think a general strike may be effective but it’s unrealistic. A nationwide general strike would require massive financial and material support. Where will that come from?

They work on a smaller, union scale because they’re supported by the union and outside supporters that are not on strike. They work in other countries that have the social programs in place to support the people which is something the US does not have.

I keep seeing this repeated comparison to France but let’s look at that. France is a country a little smaller than the state of Texas with an adult population only slightly more than the total population of California.

I’m going to go out on a limb and say it’s a little easier to coordinate a general strike in a country with 1/6 the population of the US spread across an area 1/15 the size of the US.

Protests in the US are getting bigger and more widespread but it’s like a slow wave, it takes time to build.