{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "This latest round of Portland In The News - how inaccurate is the mainstream media coverage?", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/660420951285071873/", "html": "<div class=\"question\"><strong>Anonymous</strong> asked: <p>This latest round of Portland In The News - how inaccurate is the mainstream media coverage?</p></div>\n<p>Fuck if I know, haven&rsquo;t seen it. I&rsquo;ve mostly been following from the antifa side</p><ul><li>Basically, when Trump came in and all the normies got all #resisty, the bloc types were like yeah! let&rsquo;s start claiming and enforcing turf! and were at least showy against like a normie GOP picnic</li><li>Anyway especially this crew &ldquo;Patriot Prayer&rdquo; from across the river in Vancouver, WA took that as a challenge to show up for periodic colors-showings downtown</li><li>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 &ldquo;yay God and rightism&rdquo; rallies, even if locals don&rsquo;t like it and some will be knuckleheads about it</li><li>The leftist position of course is the city is remiss in not stopping the rightists so they&rsquo;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</li><li>Also it&rsquo;s really more &ldquo;Patriot&rdquo; than &ldquo;Prayer&rdquo;, that&rsquo;s not that old time religion that&rsquo;s Vancouver has a lot of Ukrainian religious immigrants from like 1990 to which God, America, and anticommunism are very much linked</li><li>This time, the city diverted things to an abandoned KMart quite distant from downtown. Antifa takes credit for driving them off but they would.</li><li>There, the right mobbed an opponent in a truck and flipped a van</li><li>City leadership called it a success, saying no one who didn&rsquo;t go there to engage was drawn in</li><li>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</li></ul>"}