True to form, Ice-holes still arrested two naked people for …well, I don’t know. They made shit up, probably. For dodging pepper balls that are barely legal?
“We’re cold, but not as cold as ICE” LOL
I love my city but portland is tempting.
Look at all those Antifas
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This is the kind of protest I like to see
Naked people means lots of people will click on it, even MAGAts, and they’ll see that Portland is very much not a hellhole.
I don’t know, a lot of Maga people will see anywhere that large groups of naked people are out in public as a hell hole based on that alone.
oh yes. definately. so bad. so evil. thats it yeah. you going to hell you little minx. yeah. ride that bike. yeah. oh your the one doing something something something WROOOOONNNNNNGGGGG!!!
Some will.
But for just about everyone, it shatters the lie that the Portland streets aren’t safe if people are biking naked on them.
I thought about that too, later.
But they’d still watch it every time!
Oh course they would. As you know, heat maps of gay and trans porn consumption is about a 1:1 to a heat map of conservative voters.
I love that the administration has focused on Portland. It’s such a beautiful city with such an amazing vibe, portraying it as anything other than a bougied up giant village feels just wrong. The whole narrative about hellhole falls apart after five minutes on the ground.
The same thing with the “LA has burned to the ground, we’re sending the national guards”. Most of the protests and the “rioting” were happening in a 5-6 block area, the rest of LA was business as usual.
I don’t even live in the US and have never visited Portland and I even know that Faux News and the Trumpanzee are trying to paint a deceptive picture of the city. How fucking dumb are some of these Americans to believe that shit.
One of those things where it’s difficult to talk about because conservatives go wild with anything bad about a city in a blue state. A blue city in a red state and they’d have to look up the party association of the city council members and mayor so until they’re widely known as a blue city, they don’t get attention.
Portland is nice. It’s quiet. Things close early. COVID hit Portland and Seattle like a freight train. So there was about a 2 year period where the homeless were a major issue, still a nicer place to live than most red communicaties you drive through. For how bad downtown Seattle and near the water Portland got, drive like 10 minutes away from the dense part of the city and it’s quiet suburbs.
The thing about poor communities along the west coast is that these days, yes people are poor and desperate but go to poor communities in like Arkansas, Indiana, Tenessee, Louisiana. It’s a world of difference. Like east Portland scares suburbanites and then I drive through to grab something I wanted to eat and it just looks like an average suburb where people aren’t paying landscapers to keep everything aesthetic.
It’s an example to me where people visit the US from almost anywhere in the world and be like, “even the poor people are rich.” And it’s about how people manage to have these comparative to their countries: big houses, expensive phones, multiple cars that are pretty big too, a substantial front and backyard
Ya there were problems with homeless people setting up barrel fires for warmth/etc and those getting out of control. Homeless people occasionally posting up dumping all sorts of whatever in residential streets. Occasional hyper aggressive homeless that’s a danger to others surrounding them. But peak COVID was 4-5 years ago. Portland is back to having the common large enough city homeless problem every large enough city has and it’s back to being a relatively quiet sleepy city.
The main knock on Portland is the passive agressive racism that comes with being very close to a mono-color city and the denial from people that racism could be a problem in Portland especially not from themselves a vocal leftist. Better than cities that don’t try. Also I’d say there’s an odd classism in Portland similar to like Paris, France. Intersection of leftist rhetoric but you got to play up your rhetoric and have the correct occupation (and color though people try not to be racist but people in Portland don’t live around very many non-whites. They see them at restaurants) or else get weird treatment.
Portland’ers treat non-white people with the concern of a terminally online social leftist who tries to be culturally sensitive by watching tourism videos of other countries and trying to connect very awkwardly like - I love rice. I know how to use chopsticks. I really enjoy the Djembe. I have a mortar and pestle (big smile and knudge on their shoulder), a molcajete. You’re native, I did my genology a year ago and I’m 1/16th Cherokee - I’m on the rolls - Thanksgiving is so awkward isn’t it? Look at all my Buddhist prayer beads and urns and drums and rugs and paintings and incense and …
How fucking dumb are some of these Americans to believe that shit.
I’ve lived here most of my life and knew it was bad but had no idea just how bad it was until Trump 1.0. Then covid-19 happened and it was a real eye opener for many of us. Now it’s not just willful ignorance but a deep-seated dedication to remaining ignorant at all costs.
Really fucking dumb.
They’re told day after day for hours on end that all cities are dangerous shitholes. It’s part of the right wing propaganda to keep this a cultural war instead of the class war is should be.
It could also be a setup to treat city dwellers as other than human because they tend to be Democrats.
How fucking dumb are some of these Americans to believe that shit.
You see where we’re at now…
Don’t judge them too harshly. If everybody surrounding you starts talking about how Portland turned into a shithole, you’d start eventually believing it, too. I know people that live 20 km South of San Francisco, who claimed they would not come see me in town when I was visiting because it was too dangerous. They were baffled not only that I walked everywhere, but that I survived the ordeal unscathed.
Propaganda is strangely powerful. I still remember the run-up to the Iraq War, when Bush et al. were talking about weapons of mass destruction and everybody believed them. I thought to myself: if the Iranians are not concerned about Iraqi WMDs, and they are sworm enemies and right next to each other, why should anyone else be?
A similar thing is how if you listen to anyone from the Inland Empire talk about LA it will sound like it’s a toxic waste site. In reality we just don’t like their attitude and also fuck LA traffic. We don’t have anywhere to squirm on crime, ever been to San Bernardino or West Highland?
It’s easy to believe someone who tells you what you want to hear.
Including the president, king of dumb.
Damn you can’t download the video on bluesky
Haha I’m sure these misogynistic assholes didn’t mind the tits. Maybe liked the penis too.
My kneejerk reaction was “it’s not going to do much” too, but I’ve kind of mulled it over and I’m kind of inclined to feel more charitable towards the Portland stuff.
What did the Trump administration want when it was sending National Guard out? Images of conflict, material that they could use to show that there was some dire threat and dangerous criminality that the administration was handling. They got footage of a frog air-humping and some nude bicyclists that’s basically useless for that.
Looking at Fox News’s front page, they have:
- Emergency flights diverted from Portland hospital amid ‘laser party’ threats at ICE facility: report
and
- Portland mayor orders removal of police tape despite federal demand for perimeter at ICE facility, report says
Which I think even the most die-hard MAGA fan is going to have a hard time getting too worked up over.
And it did accomplish some of the goals that a protest in that it helped build make visible that there were people who did object to what was going on.
I’m not sure that it was the absolute, optimal thing to do, but it might have been reasonably-canny.
Also they can’t say naked people were threatening them.
I’ve been waiting for this moment for years. I knew that when Oregonians got serious about protesting trump, it would be a bunch of geared up military vs a bunch of naked unicyclers. And you just can’t sell that as threatening.
“He was pointing something at me, your honor. I couldn’t be sure it wasn’t a weapon.”
“Your honor he was packing heat! No he didn’t have a gun.”
On the one hand I think you could be right, but on the other hand, the average maga idiot has thought of portland as being “burnt to the ground” and non stop rioting for the last 5 years. Which makes no sense obviously. I dont think they will be rationalizing themselves out of a position that was irrational to begin with
Well, any event could be “the straw that breaks the camels back” for someone who is apathetic about politics or supports trump. No single protest or action is going to cause millions of people to suddenly flip, it’s going to be more like a slow trickle.
(Of course, you can argue all day about it not being quick enough, or it not accomplishing its goals in time, but it’s not like other methods would be particularly faster)
Yeah just keep pointing out their hypocrisy while they shovel another twelve hundred people’s remains into unmarked graves why don’t you
WTF are you contributing, exactly? Put up or STFU and let yourself feel a fleeting moment of hope, FFS. 🖕🏼
It’s okay this guy is miserable - kept making comments on other Portland posts too about the naked cyclists. Clearly just jealous.
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Where exactly can you point out my personal complicity?
Clearly you’re just a troll. That’s why you troll around these chats and post nothing but anger and hostility in your comments, demanding people do more but giving no real solutions on what they should be doing, all while you yourself do nothing but berate others online. It’s pathetic and makes me consider you nothing more than a paid Russian propaganda machine.
All this does is show how miserable you are in your own life.
Because you advocate for ineffectual solutions against brutal violence. You want to know a fun fact about Gandhi? He offered medical assistance to the soldiers of the British Empire. Pacifism in the face of evil is bad enough, but browbeating people and sucking all the air out of the room with disgusting antics is complicity. Don’t bother trying to hide it, because the double standards of when liberals choose to roll over and show their belly and when they hiss and scratch is pretty goddamn clear!
You can’t articulate why this should give anyone hope, all you can do is scold them.
Trump was able to make leftist do sport He wasn’t wrong when he said we will be tired of winning
What are they doing? Trying to give DJT a boner?
Making the idea that the city is a violent hellhole look absurd in a way that gets a lot of attention.
My people. 🥰🥹🥰🌈
