Portland has turned into a live-action open world role play game for who can be the biggest asshole, and everyone is winning.
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One narrative is that Portland is the tip of the spear in America's fight against fascism, but I think a truer story is that radicals who enjoy this kind of fighting have learned the Portland police will reliably let them have at it without interfering.https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/08/23/portland-proud-boys-antifa-clash/ …
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Analyzing a lot of these people's motives in political terms makes about as much sense as trying to make a connection between soccer hooligans beating the shit out of each other and Arsenal's move to a 4-3-3 formation.
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Downtown is really mostly fine though. It just feels like a downtown
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Yeah. I live in Portland. Downtown is relatively vacant because all of the offices are closed due to COVID so there just aren’t as many people.
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