Just as J6 was motivated by MAGA lies and fake media reports, Trump’s threatened assault on Portland seems to be based on footage from 2020 he saw on Fox recently. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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There is some footage from 2020. I would say the preponderance of the footage in that FOX segment was from this summer tho.
sep 6, 2025, 2:15 pm • 1 0 • view
The job of Fox News is to scare not only old white people, but also an old orange one.
sep 6, 2025, 2:06 pm • 1 0 • view
My son lives and works in Portland and he sent me this dispatch from the carnage last night.
sep 6, 2025, 1:59 pm • 207 14 • view
Swear to god, before I'd had enough coffee to think about the very-real implications, when I read about Trump's PDX statement, my first thought was: Maybe if enough Republicans hate on Portland there will be more parking.
sep 6, 2025, 3:31 pm • 1 0 • view
the things in that bowl were hacked up by a knife, rip
sep 6, 2025, 2:02 pm • 3 0 • view
Also that is a FINE bowl of soup
sep 6, 2025, 2:14 pm • 1 0 • view
Seattle here, and we are suffering from the smoke of the battles.
sep 6, 2025, 2:12 pm • 1 0 • view
This is a link to the FB post by that J6er. In 15 hours it got 715 shares and has elicited 1200 comments, almost all of which are “freedom loving” Oregonians cheering on a military invasion of their state. www.facebook.com/share/r/19qq...
sep 6, 2025, 2:08 pm • 64 10 • view
Zuckerberg's BOT armies, I'd guess.
sep 6, 2025, 2:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Possibly some...but the ones I clicked through on seemed to be real people who live in Oregon.
sep 6, 2025, 2:17 pm • 2 1 • view
Big Data sifts out our weakest members for further exploitation. Amen.
sep 6, 2025, 2:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Historian Joseph Fronczak has described fascism as a form of "participatory anti-democracy." That FB post is a perfect example of that dynamic. It's not just that ordinary "conservative" Oregonians are tolerating a military crackdown on their state, they are positively thrilled by it.
sep 6, 2025, 2:13 pm • 115 24 • view
This is the razors edge. All MAGA needs is a push, and you've got a Nationalist suicide pact on your hands.
sep 6, 2025, 2:17 pm • 2 0 • view
I've had many an Oregonian tell me that one of the defining features of the state's political culture is a gut-level "libertarianism." There's some truth to that...but it misses the extent to which those white, reactionary, insular libertarians are willing to accept state violence to "protect" them.
sep 6, 2025, 2:16 pm • 107 15 • view
And this is where two key features of MAGA political culture become especially salient--nostalgia and conspiracism. Conservative Oregonians love to hate Portland and how supposedly "chaotic and violent" it is. You know how conservative Oregonians viewed PDX in the 80s--as "chaotic and violent."
sep 6, 2025, 2:53 pm • 62 6 • view
Both of those items appear on Umberto Eco’s list of the characteristics of fascism. www.openculture.com/2024/11/umbe...
sep 6, 2025, 2:58 pm • 1 0 • view
Have these people traveled or lived literally anywhere else? I grew up in Mexico City in the 80s, lived in Chicago for a few decades, and now live in Portland. It’s as close to perfect as you can get in an American city. Violence is negligible. This place is quaint and quiet by comparison.
sep 6, 2025, 3:19 pm • 0 0 • view
There were literally gangs of neo-Nazi skinheads roaming the streets of Portland harassing people in the late 80s. It was not uncommon to be accosted by these assholes when going to a concert or just waiting for a bus. They murdered an Ethiopian immigrant in inner SE PDX in 1988.
sep 6, 2025, 2:55 pm • 87 9 • view
I used to be confused by Oregon's wierd libertarianism where gun-toting hippy communes could loosely coexist with the "4th generation" racist settler families. Times were simpler with the Rajneeshis poisoning the food & water. Now it's NAZI's sabotaging the electrical grid & Texas BBQ everywhere.
sep 6, 2025, 7:02 pm • 2 0 • view
The other animating feature of authoritarian "conservatism" in Oregon is the widespread belief that everything they don't like is the outgrowth of some evil-intended conspiracy funded by George Soros, promoted by woke Commie academics, or hatched by Tony Fauci. rightlandia.ghost.io/its-funny-un...
sep 6, 2025, 2:58 pm • 58 8 • view
It's a bit disturbing how attached some of them are to their theories and how it's like they can't see contradicting information. It's like anything that could shatter their beliefs gets shunted immediately away from their brains and doesn't exist.
sep 6, 2025, 3:25 pm • 3 1 • view
I was listening to the podcast of an influential Oregon-MAGA activist the other day--someone with direct ties to Trump, Noem, etc--and what I learned was that the mayor of Boston is a trojan horse for the CCP. This is a college-educated person with intergenerational wealth. bsky.app/profile/seth...
sep 6, 2025, 3:05 pm • 42 5 • view
While this person thinks the mayor of Boston is illegitimate & un-American, she also looked upon a couple hundred liberals protesting in her rural Oregon town and thought "these are all paid protesters." Those protesters were residents of the town of which she was the mayor! bsky.app/profile/seth...
sep 6, 2025, 3:09 pm • 46 10 • view
What's going on here is not hypocrisy (we're ok with protest when we do it but not when they do it), it's (Carl) Schmittian illiberalism in which they do not see their opponents as fellow citizens to be argued with, but rather illegitimate/degenerate/Satanic enemies to be eliminated.
sep 6, 2025, 3:15 pm • 81 14 • view
Oooh, I know who you're talking about and...she's seriously nutbar. Keep in mind, however, that area was heavily inflitrated by Y2k preppers at the turn of the century and...it's never been the same since then.
sep 6, 2025, 5:08 pm • 1 0 • view
They said that when she was in DC.
sep 6, 2025, 3:50 pm • 0 0 • view
From what I can tell, being very wealthy means you can afford to have batshit ideas
sep 6, 2025, 3:07 pm • 3 0 • view
Shouldn't -I'm old enough to have lived thru skin heads, soccer hooligans, gang wars & more- but it's always jarring to be reminded that a % of human males just wants to fight and hurt people on the regular. Like "wanna BBQ & play Halo or go beat up people or destroy a fishing boat with a missile?"
sep 6, 2025, 3:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Off topic at this point but what would you point to as defining for OR political culture? I can think of some things but they’re mostly hyper-local observations and I don’t know if they transfer to the state level as well
sep 6, 2025, 2:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Really? That's not something I would finger.
sep 6, 2025, 5:17 pm • 1 0 • view
I have a very simple rule: if violence is threatened/used, it's fascism.
sep 6, 2025, 2:20 pm • 1 0 • view
Yep. The typical PNW right winger is “libertarian” when it comes to us city liberals telling them what to do with their guns, but is eager to see troops sent in to Seattle and Portland to cure us of our liberal ways, using state violence.
sep 6, 2025, 2:18 pm • 10 0 • view
Or maybe 5 years www.theguardian.com/us-news/vide...
sep 6, 2025, 2:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Hard to believe it’s been 9 years www.cbsnews.com/news/interne...
sep 6, 2025, 2:53 pm • 2 0 • view
When I drove through rural Oregon last summer, it reminded me a lot of rural NYS...lot of the same social dynamics.
sep 6, 2025, 2:22 pm • 3 0 • view
The town i moved from this year on the central Oregon coast they love to parade their tanks down the road, have been for years. Oregon is already militarized and absolutely facist in disguise, esp in the small town and rural areas and it will be so easy for them to take over unless people rly fight
sep 6, 2025, 2:24 pm • 2 0 • view
They never think past the takeover though. Concepts of a plan fail. Minority Rule is a bitch. bsky.app/profile/laur...
sep 6, 2025, 2:33 pm • 2 0 • view
They have some huge plans, but how they'll execute them even after military implementation, is questionable and pathetic and ofc frankly evil. I think that the general cognitive dissonance and programmed individualism of the majority of Americans is a bitch and everyone is about to find out ):
sep 6, 2025, 2:45 pm • 1 0 • view
Yeah, it's not looking good.
sep 6, 2025, 2:47 pm • 1 0 • view
I say this as a disabled houseless very obvious intersex and gender fluid human, people aren't fighting back like they should. Complacency is potent across the nation. I still have hope but facts are facts. I am helping with the local politics today even, a huge event.. but I am still so cautious.
sep 6, 2025, 2:47 pm • 1 0 • view
I hear you. I think that people raising kids while making payments on homes, cars etc. are super time stressed. They don't have time to notice each new twist of the knife when the kids have to eat and get a bath. It's frightening when you know the freight train is coming. 😔
sep 6, 2025, 2:55 pm • 2 0 • view
Honestly, the scariest places are on the fringes of Portland. Boring. Damascus. Sandy.
sep 6, 2025, 5:15 pm • 2 0 • view
Libertarianism is merely neo-feudalism
sep 6, 2025, 2:17 pm • 0 0 • view
One of the FB comments: “local media won’t even cover it”. What if I told you they did cover it, but because you were busy doom watching Fox or Newsmax all day you didn‘t notice when the local media reported on a peaceful protest of under 50 people out at the ICE facility?
sep 6, 2025, 4:23 pm • 2 0 • view
We do have a nasty little pocket of Trumpers here. They stand out so much with their trucks & homes ridiculously decked out in US flags & stickers everywhere. They're deranged. Small pocket of extremists but apparently they all showed up for that thread. JFC.
sep 6, 2025, 2:54 pm • 1 0 • view
The carnage looks delicious.
sep 6, 2025, 3:57 pm • 1 0 • view
I live downtown. Last night me and my wife rode our bikes to Powell’s, caught a movie, had a Shake Shack shake, and rode home. Portland was clean, vibrant, and felt safe. There were a ton of people out enjoying a late summer evening. #PDXProud
sep 6, 2025, 2:28 pm • 2 0 • view
How is there anything for troops to occupy? I have been repeatedly informed that nothing more exists of Portland--it was all burned down by Black Lives Matter protesters in 2020 & the poor defunded cops had no choice but to pull out of the area & regroup at donut shops until civilization re-formed.
sep 6, 2025, 2:01 pm • 4 0 • view
Yep. 🎯
sep 6, 2025, 1:58 pm • 0 0 • view
A President that can be fooled by a propaganda network falsely broadcasting a 5 year old video and says “I watched that last night, I’m very good at this stuff.” Just beyond crazy
sep 6, 2025, 2:14 pm • 1 0 • view
As someone who lived in Portland in 2020, even then the issues were mainly contained in like 4 square blocks. I was maybe a 20 minute walk from there and had no issues. These folks just seem to be dedicated to being afraid of cities and protests generally
sep 6, 2025, 4:04 pm • 6 1 • view
I took a photo of a Lamborghini and some other supercar parked on the street 4 blocks from the justice center on our way back to our parking spot after one night’s activities.
sep 6, 2025, 5:55 pm • 2 0 • view
Yes! Like believe me, if it was actually on fire, people wouldn't be leaving their Lambo in the street
sep 6, 2025, 11:04 pm • 1 0 • view
It was all contained in a very small area with a couple of outlying protests. Both of those only targeted police departments and were a response to police violence.
sep 10, 2025, 5:49 am • 2 0 • view