This latest round of Portland In The News - how inaccurate is the mainstream media coverage?
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This latest round of Portland In The News - how inaccurate is the mainstream media coverage?
Fuck if I know, haven’t seen it. I’ve mostly been following from the antifa side
- Basically, when Trump came in and all the normies got all #resisty, the bloc types were like yeah! let’s start claiming and enforcing turf! and were at least showy against like a normie GOP picnic
- Anyway especially this crew “Patriot Prayer” from across the river in Vancouver, WA took that as a challenge to show up for periodic colors-showings downtown
- They get pretty fighty when the leftists resist, but Oregon has the strongest speech protections in the country and the city finds itself duty-bound to accept “yay God and rightism” rallies, even if locals don’t like it and some will be knuckleheads about it
- The leftist position of course is the city is remiss in not stopping the rightists so they’re duty-bound, in particular they suggest with some reason that if not engaged, the rightists will roam around looking for fights with the totally uninvolved
- Also it’s really more “Patriot” than “Prayer”, that’s not that old time religion that’s Vancouver has a lot of Ukrainian religious immigrants from like 1990 to which God, America, and anticommunism are very much linked
- This time, the city diverted things to an abandoned KMart quite distant from downtown. Antifa takes credit for driving them off but they would.
- There, the right mobbed an opponent in a truck and flipped a van
- City leadership called it a success, saying no one who didn’t go there to engage was drawn in
- The left says no, they were still a threat to the more subaltern population of the outskirts neighborhood and also that crowd coming into town brought further trouble elsewhere, a guy firing a gun downtown and other stuff