The story of how the Portland police are now just letting Proud Boys and antifa go at it without intervention is hard to believe. So is the fact that downtown Portland has been trashed for over a year. Amazing thread here.https://twitter.com/MrOlmos/status/1429548341671596033 …
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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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99% of Portland is totally unaffected by any of this.
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What? The people of Portland are showing up to stand up to people literally invading their town. I can't believe you are both-sidesing this.
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The whole "portland is a warzone" thing is a right-wing meme and afaik is about as true as most of the rest.
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It's not a war zone, it's just trashed. I'm saying that based on what I saw there, not memes.
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