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0 pointslikeabatterycar1y ago0 comments

The Floyd riots in Portland a few years ago which got memory holed.

Rioters were shining high power military-grade lasers at peace officers, assaulting cops. They sieged government buildings and destroyed and burned much of their own city. Nothing happened to most of them.

A young boy was shot and killed in Seattle (where a few blocks of the city 'seceded' from the US) and I watched some LARPing teenager dressed like a dollar-store ninja hit a cop in the head with a baseball bat (the ninja turned out to be a local politician's son so I can imagine the punishment levied). The mayor went on TV and described all this madness as a "summer of love".

The behaviour I observed was abhorrent and eclipsed anything that transpired on Jan 6.

Yet it was all conveniently forgotten.

Smashing some doors and windows was child's play in comparison, and the melodrama surrounding 1/6 was over the top. I actually heard someone describe it as "worse than 9/11". They were serious, too.

And you want me to believe the guy on 1/6 with the buffalo horns is somehow comparable to the cowards blinding people with industrial lasers? The Portland riots to this day is some of the most insane footage I've ever seen and the lack of punishment and length of time it was allowed to go on is unbelievable.

Most of the Portland rioters should still be in jail but most got off with a slap on the wrist if they got any punishment at all.

It's an inconvenient truth for some because I remember even middle aged Google engineers were arrested for acting like fools. You would think educated people would know better.

There is a 100% chance some posters on this very website were at the Portland or Seattle riots and somehow have justified that their participation was righteous.

I imagine the 1/6 folks felt the same way.

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nxobject1y ago

Where on earth are you getting “burned and destroyed much of [Portland]” from? As a Portlander, the biggest effect of the Floyd protestors was boarded up buildings in the 10-block radius around the local county jail, in the middle of a moribund pandemic-era office skyscraper district. Please, if you believe an American city’s been destroyed, at least pause and double-check before making it the centerpiece of an argument.

(Many of those arrested were let off because of insufficient evidence. I think that requiring evidence to convict someone is a good thing.)

likeabatterycarOP1y ago

"Uhm acksually, it was only 10 square blocks"

I know what I saw, it was repugnant behaviour, don't try and split hairs. The fact that the madness was contained to only 10 blocks is, on the whole, irrelevant.

Good luck with your future riots.

nxobject1y ago

Oh no, I was disputing the "burned and destroyed" part – don't pick and choose what I said and ignore the rest.

I know what I saw: between 2020 and 2024 I worked at PSU and took a bus that went over the Hawthorne Bridge, went past the Justice Center, and dropped me off near City Hall. Once in a while I went to Pioneer Square to eat lunch. I worked late nights, and on the way back home after midnight I either walked back on Broadway or 4th, to City Hall, and took the same bus back. Those are the "10 blocks" you're talking about. The fact that they were all standing, not burnt, and were in use during business hours is fairly relevant to the conversation.

The worst I saw was the glass broken in the fancy glass entrance to the Oregon Historical Society. The best I saw was murals painted on the boards Apple had put up to protect their store in Pioneer Square.

So: what did you see?

selimthegrim1y ago

Portland is the seat of government of the USA now? (I used to live in Kenton/St Johns when the latter was still called Tweakville, although I moved away well before 2020)

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kelnos1y ago

Ok so even if I agree with your description of those two events, two things don't make "happens all the time".

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0 pointslikeabatterycar1y ago0 comments

The Floyd riots in Portland a few years ago which got memory holed.

The behaviour I observed was abhorrent and eclipsed anything that transpired on Jan 6.

Yet it was all conveniently forgotten.

Smashing some doors and windows was child's play in comparison, and the melodrama surrounding 1/6 was over the top. I actually heard someone describe it as "worse than 9/11". They were serious, too.

Most of the Portland rioters should still be in jail but most got off with a slap on the wrist if they got any punishment at all.

It's an inconvenient truth for some because I remember even middle aged Google engineers were arrested for acting like fools. You would think educated people would know better.

There is a 100% chance some posters on this very website were at the Portland or Seattle riots and somehow have justified that their participation was righteous.

I imagine the 1/6 folks felt the same way.

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nxobject1y ago

(Many of those arrested were let off because of insufficient evidence. I think that requiring evidence to convict someone is a good thing.)

likeabatterycarOP1y ago

"Uhm acksually, it was only 10 square blocks"

I know what I saw, it was repugnant behaviour, don't try and split hairs. The fact that the madness was contained to only 10 blocks is, on the whole, irrelevant.

Good luck with your future riots.

nxobject1y ago

Oh no, I was disputing the "burned and destroyed" part – don't pick and choose what I said and ignore the rest.

So: what did you see?

selimthegrim1y ago

Portland is the seat of government of the USA now? (I used to live in Kenton/St Johns when the latter was still called Tweakville, although I moved away well before 2020)

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kelnos1y ago

Ok so even if I agree with your description of those two events, two things don't make "happens all the time".

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