The police are tweeting but not announcing anything directly to the protesters The police also can't figure out how to do a tweet threadhttps://twitter.com/PortlandPolice/status/1308263835199971330?s=19 …
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I've been chatting with some activists about where things go from here Gonna discuss/analyze for a second while nothing's happening The Portland protests have ebbed and flowed. We're in a bit of an ebb right now
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The MO right before the fires was: go out, face down the police, drain their resources. But they were doing those mass arrests and that drains the protesters' resources. Fiscal and emotional. Even with the DA throwing out charges, it takes a human toll
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Protests have mellowed post-forest-fire. ICE on Friday was a shit-show obviously but the next three days have been incredibly chill. Dance parties, marches, not much direct action Less casualties. But is it bothering anyone? Is it putting pressure on the city?
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Some people think protests of federal buildings is the way. Feds have a hair trigger, they'll come out over nothing and show the whole world they're fundamentally opposed to free speech Big headlines. Big attention. Big pressure
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But some of those headlines could backfire. An excuse for Trump to impose martial law pre-election seems real dangerous to me. For sure it'll role up his base and scare law-and-order centrists. Is that the way to go?
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It feels like there should be other options. Other way to express that the social contract is broken, that we won't put up with it, that we need massive structural changes to how we look at policing and justice in Portland and beyond
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What's the answer? No idea Worth thinking about, I think. It feels like we're at a bit of a crossroads, like we were at the end of July
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Happening now: "My neck! My back! We've got to get these streets back!" I missed pictures of a brief flag-burninfpic.twitter.com/3InSTj2eJa
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And a chud has decided to grace us with his cute dog. He's threatening to "attack liberals" so that's fun He also threatened to punch
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A big confrontation. The gentleman is an asshole. I'm not gonna run down the whole thing, but my God this fellow is an asshole. He was mean to Richard He's also super fucked up And his super cute dog is off leash So it's not great
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This is dumb This is so dumb His dog is super cute though. Sure wish he wasn't off leash running up on MSCO property getting close to the police, that'd be coolpic.twitter.com/EOAYa9Mpm4
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For some reason activists are trying to have a conversation but he's unable to form coherent sentences so it's very confusing to me. They have more patience than I do I'm getting dumber listening to this
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The protest has thinned considerably and I'm going to take this opportunity to leave a protest before midnight for once Solidarity with everyone still out here!
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