The one thing about today's Portland protest that would be incomprehensible to a Hong Konger—a padlocked public bathroompic.twitter.com/12BoKqM3mt
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It was in both NYC & Boston. There were other long term encampments that couldn't have been better or it would have been news. But this answer steps over the entire question of why folks were there in the first place.
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