Parade attendees booed and heckled him when he appeared in the parade last year.
  • Kid_Thunder@kbin.social
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    7 months ago

    Uh violating First Amendment rights? The parade organizers are a private entity not the government. It’s too bad a representative in state legislature doesn’t understand the Constitution.

    Also

    Basabe responded, writing, “You have no right to exclude me, not as an individual nor as an elected official, nor may you attempt to set me up again with a bogus ‘public safety claim.’ I have always attended this parade peacefully.”

    So he’s saying the security/safety claim is bullshit.

    He also accused organizers of allowing “extremist” protesters “to agitate the crowds and incite violence against me for political purposes” during last year’s parade.

    Now he’s saying it isn’t.

    I thought the GOP was all about private entities refusing service to whoever they want and in a bigger sense less regulation from the ‘nanny’ government. I guess that only applies when they are being ‘discriminated’ against.

    • eldavi@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      the goal is to bankrupt the organization as much as possible and he’s using the legal system to do so; if the organization doesn’t respond, he automatically wins in this legal system, so they must spend $$$ on lawyers to fight the lawsuit.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    He can participate all he wants, they just don’t have to give him his his own float…

    Like, imagine the shit show every parade would be if anyone that wanted to got a float.

    The Macy’s day parade would be going on till new year’s

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        7 months ago

        I know the first Mad Max is considered a prequel because there’s some semblance of society left…

        But goddamn, I would love it for this to be the origin of their society. Like one year it reaches critical mass and a major parade is still going when the next is scheduled to start.

        And the only way to replace one is to destroy the ongoing one thru combat

        We go thru generations of the Parade Wars, with shit becoming so all consuming that it’s the only thing that survived. The instinctual compulsion to ridiculous performative vehicles that actually move incredibly slowly when you think about it.

        • Furimbus@lemmy.world
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          7 months ago

          I could see how the whole “witness me!” thing originated more civilly, with the requirement being two unrelated witnesses and a notary on float application paperwork.