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Starbuck1975

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Just another night of peaceful protests in front of the federal courthouse and not a federal agent in sight. Portland PD declared a riot and had to disperse the crowd.
 

Jhhnn

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Just another night of peaceful protests in front of the federal courthouse and not a federal agent in sight. Portland PD declared a riot and had to disperse the crowd.

So, uhh, Portland police have it covered, right?

 

Starbuck1975

Lifer
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So, uhh, Portland police have it covered, right?

Using the same tactics as the feds used. You previously asserted that some protestors succumbed to the emotion of a belligerent federal presence in their vandalism. The federal presence is gone. The succumbing vandalism continues.
 

Jhhnn

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Using the same tactics as the feds used. You previously asserted that some protestors succumbed to the emotion of a belligerent federal presence in their vandalism. The federal presence is gone. The succumbing vandalism continues.

Fappity- fap, huh? Check the numbers. Thousands showed up to protest federal involvement. Now it's back to a few hundred & fading. Trump would have been thrilled pink if he could have provoked even greater disorder & forced the Governor to call in the National Guard.
 

Starbuck1975

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Fappity- fap, huh? Check the numbers. Thousands showed up to protest federal involvement. Now it's back to a few hundred & fading. Trump would have been thrilled pink if he could have provoked even greater disorder & forced the Governor to call in the National Guard.
when you’re done moving the goal posts you can acknowledge that agitators remain even in the absence of a federal presence.
 

ch33zw1z

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I guess the accepted response would be to take over government buildings armed to the teeth, peacefully.
 

zinfamous

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It is happening though. Seattle city council is moving to abolish the police dept in favor of a “community-led” safety prevention program . Whatever that means.

Not that I would believe anything coming from the NY Post, but if you're actually looking for an honest model of "what that means," this already exists in Newark and, I want to say Santa Clara or Pittsburgh (CA Bay Area), but I forget the specific town.

These have existed for a long time, so there are plain examples (and results!) of what that actually means if you are honestly curious.
 

hal2kilo

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Not that I would believe anything coming from the NY Post, but if you're actually looking for an honest model of "what that means," this already exists in Newark and, I want to say Santa Clara or Pittsburgh (CA Bay Area), but I forget the specific town.

These have existed for a long time, so there are plain examples (and results!) of what that actually means if you are honestly curious.
What will be an interesting experiment is happening right now in Seattle. City council is almost all in on the defunding.
 

blackangst1

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Not that I would believe anything coming from the NY Post, but if you're actually looking for an honest model of "what that means," this already exists in Newark and, I want to say Santa Clara or Pittsburgh (CA Bay Area), but I forget the specific town.

These have existed for a long time, so there are plain examples (and results!) of what that actually means if you are honestly curious.

Yeah. Another poster earlier posted they had liaisons in their community and posted the link, to which I replied that it looked good.
 

Jhhnn

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when you’re done moving the goal posts you can acknowledge that agitators remain even in the absence of a federal presence.

I never said otherwise. Their motivations & affiliations remain unclear. When little green men snatched people off the street into unmarked vans, it was deliberate provocation. Fascism 101. It served Trump's Law & Disorder bona fides & distracted us from the plague & economic disarray induced by non-leadership on his part. You merely perpetuate that.
 
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Starbuck1975

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I never said otherwise. Their motivations & affiliations remain unclear.
They certainly aren’t affiliated with BLM

When little green men snatched people off the street into unmarked vans, it was deliberate provocation. Fascism 101. It served Trump's Law & Disorder bona fides & distracted us from the plague & economic disarray induced by non-leadership on his part. You merely perpetuate that.
The little green men went after rioters, the little green men are gone, the rioting continues.
 

nickqt

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They certainly aren’t affiliated with BLM

The little green men went after rioters, the little green men are gone, the rioting continues.
Oh, there are riots right now? Might want to pick up the phone and let someone know, collaborator.
 

nickqt

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yawn
Had to pull photo from mid July? Portland PD had to declare a riot just a few nights ago, and there were no little green men to instigate it.
Right, Portland PD declared a riot.

That makes it so. Just like when the Federal goons were in Portland, declaring a riot.

Keep on keepin' on, right-wing authoritarian.
 

Jhhnn

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yawn
Had to pull photo from mid July? Portland PD had to declare a riot just a few nights ago, and there were no little green men to instigate it.

You claimed the little green men were after rioters. There's no riot found in the posted video.
 
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shortylickens

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Still yawning while defending right-wing authoritarians pulling off a slow coup.

Congrats collaborator, you're just as guilty as the traitors.

Keep on keepin' on.
I just saw in the news a Nazi concentration camp guard was convicted of accessory to murder for about 5000 counts.
He is 95 years old.

Maybe in a few decades we can convict Republican voters of the same thing?
 
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ch33zw1z

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I just saw in the news a Nazi concentration camp guard was convicted of accessory to murder for about 5000 counts.
He is 95 years old.

Maybe in a few decades we can convict Republican voters of the same thing?

Why would a very fine person need convicting? What a conundrum
 

nickqt

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I just saw in the news a Nazi concentration camp guard was convicted of accessory to murder for about 5000 counts.
He is 95 years old.

Maybe in a few decades we can convict Republican voters of the same thing?
The voters are anonymous, so it's near impossible to prosecute them. And just voting for the tyrant isn't criminal itself. That said, they can be shamed for their immoral and unethical beliefs and voting.

Propagandists and enablers, though. Absolutely. They are the soft traitors that allow the powerful traitors to do what they do.
The slide into fascism is so boring
Of course it is. It's supposed to be. It's been happening for 40 years on the right, as they've talked themselves into it. It has just sped up over the past 4 years when an actual Strongman has come out and promised it to the right-wing authoritarians who are required to make it possible.

You can't have a totalitarian government if you don't have some Brown Shirts Black Shirts Camo Shirts/MAGA Hats armed and ready to murder their fellow citizens. Watching the Local Police, Federal Goons and MAGA Hats communicating with each other over the past few months should make anyone who isn't a right-wing authoritarian alarmed. When the rubber meets the road, they'll work together to put down protesters Riots™. And the Collaborators and Enablers will come out to argue that they're just putting down Riots™, so just ignore it and look at this shiny bauble here instead.

This is why the whole Riots™!: Riots™ Everywhere! talking point is being stressed CONSTANTLY over right-wing propaganda. Getting people to just yawn when outright political suppression starts.

Very boring, indeed.
 

Starbuck1975

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Still yawning while defending right-wing authoritarians pulling off a slow coup.

Congrats collaborator, you're just as guilty as the traitors.

Keep on keepin' on.
404 coup not found. Rioting, vandalism and looting are not free speech. Preventing agitators from doing so is not fascism.

The mayors of Chicago and Portland are increasing the assertiveness of police...they must be traitors too.
 

nickqt

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404 coup not found. Rioting, vandalism and looting are not free speech. Preventing agitators from doing so is not fascism.

The mayors of Chicago and Portland are increasing the assertiveness of police...they must be traitors too.
yawn