Did Confederate Flags Fly at a Gun-Rights Rally in Virginia?
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I was there for the rally, and moved through the crowd, including the capital grounds.
I saw NO confederate flags, but saw an abundance of others, mostly USA and Gadsden Rattlers.
That evening, I saw a photo showing ONE confederate flag, and one gay-rainbow flag.
I saw NO confederate flags, but saw an abundance of others, mostly USA and Gadsden Rattlers.
That evening, I saw a photo showing ONE confederate flag, and one gay-rainbow flag.
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And yet, there they were. I'm curious, were you looking for confederate flags? Because if you weren't, why would you have noticed them?
So you missed both of those, do you think you may have missed others as well?
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I was looking for (and at) all flags, taking everything in.
I couldn't miss them (had they been there), since the crowd was shoulder-to-shoulder most of the time.
I think the "missing" was a matter of timing; it probably wasn't displayed very long.
The area in the photo was relatively small (capital grounds), and a person can see all of it at once. Hard to miss anything that is there.
I couldn't miss them (had they been there), since the crowd was shoulder-to-shoulder most of the time.
I think the "missing" was a matter of timing; it probably wasn't displayed very long.
The area in the photo was relatively small (capital grounds), and a person can see all of it at once. Hard to miss anything that is there.
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Found this, but as you said you may have simply missed it:
Helicopter footage shows massive crowd at Virginia gun rights rally
tulc(finds things tend to move around in crowds)
Helicopter footage shows massive crowd at Virginia gun rights rally
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And yet, there they were. I'm curious, were you looking for confederate flags? Because if you weren't, why would you have noticed them?
So you missed both of those, do you think you may have missed others as well?
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My husband noticed a lot of pink guns, but he wasn't looking for them, he noticed them because they stand out.
Perhaps this other poster didn't see something because he didn't walk past the one group (out of 10's of thousands there) who had one such flag.
I mean, you should applaud those who had to look so hard for something to complain about, they actually found a thing.
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Yes, 3 helicopters were in the air for the entire rally.
I watched the video twice on full-screen mode and saw no confederate flags; did you see any?
If so, where and when?
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Okay...of course if they weren't there people wouldn't have found them either.
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uhmmm...I couldn't recognize any flags in the video I posted, so...
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Okay...of course if they weren't there people wouldn't have found them either.
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Sure, but one flag? People like pink guns apparently far more than they like confederate flags.
(Yea! for pink guns.. lol)
And they like the U.S. flag and the Gadsden rattlers more than all of it...wonder why..?
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Okay...of course if they weren't there people wouldn't have found them either.
tulc(thinks that's another way of looking at it)
tulc signs off after shooting himself in the foot......twice.....over a gun rights rally.....poetic justice?
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It's one of those times when the extreme right shoots themselves in the foot. Instead of letting that woman jerk them around and reflexively denying the fact, it would have been easy to dismiss it, saying, "a few people waved Confederate flags, but they were greatly outnumbered by those waving American flags."
Instead, they denied everything, and missed the opportunity to make a valid point. Not a very smart way to handle this.
Instead, they denied everything, and missed the opportunity to make a valid point. Not a very smart way to handle this.
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...how did you come to the idea I "shot myself in the foot?". The article I posted pointed out there were confederate flags at the rally just as she said, and if we were going on just "flags we can identify by video taken from the helicopters" I couldn't say with any certainty what flags were there. But I understand, people sometimes like to pretend to have "scored points" in a thread, even if those "points" only exist in their own imagination.
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Why would it be interesting though? From the videos I saw there was tons of flags of different natures. Maybe there was more, but there were tons of other flags of different themes. They certainly out numbered them if there were some.
I saw more people of just about any background wearing stickers that said, "Guns Save Lifes". You see plenty of those same people carrying openly which is legal of course.
I think the media was disappointed that there was no violence, chaos, property damage, fires, riots, and lol people walking about in their KKK gowns. That story pretty much died as soon as the rally was over, but BOY did they hype it!
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CBS was reporting on the rally, and they had asked their reporter if he saw any White Nationalist, KKK, etc there. He said No. This was an African American, and told the office that was asking him questions that they normally let themselves known.
I paused it at that point in case you didn't want to hear the entire the interview exchange. CBS
I paused it at that point in case you didn't want to hear the entire the interview exchange. CBS
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Actually, the interesting thing for me were the reactions people had to what Rep. Ocasio-Cortez said. People lost their mind at her, accused her of a lot of things, said she was lying and so on. But it turns out, she was right, and now people want to try and make this about "Well, people have the right to fly any flag they want to fly." Which isn't actually what this thread is about. What it's about is: she was right, they over reacted, and now they're trying to move the goalpost to try and cover for that.
tulc(finds that part interesting as well)
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