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> Several cities in the US were firebombed nightly for months in 2020. What? What is this referring to?
by KoftaBob 4y ago
> Several cities in the US were firebombed nightly for months in 2020.
What? What is this referring to?
- r2_pilot 4y agoFrom the general tone of the rest of the comment, it's likely they're referring to actions taken adjacent to the Black Lives Matter protests which were depicted in some news media as being like a war zone. Oddly, none of the cities today look like, I don't know, Ukraine. But some people will make mountains from molehills.
- ioslipstream 4y agoBut they were mostly peaceful mountains. Right?
- the_sleaze9 4y agoYou seem to be strangely emotionally invested in this issue. Did you witness these events yourself?
- Consultant32452 4y agoThey were live streamed. I watched hundreds of hours of live feeds showing wide-spread violence, looting and burning down buildings. Have there been worse conditions in the world? Obviously. But this isn't a competition for who had the worst things happen to them in all of history.
- KoftaBob 4y agoI was under the impression that “firebombing” exclusively referred to aerial firebombing during war, so it sounded super strange. Now that i looked up the term, i see that it can mean “any act in which an incendiary device is used to initiate a fire”.
- ioslipstream 4y agoPortland, amongst others.
- NoSorryCannot 4y agoYeah, Portland was basically wiped off the map.
- throwaway742 4y agoActual photo of Portland June 2020. https://i.imgur.com/LoNeyZa.jpg https://i.imgur.com/LoNeyZa.jpg
- ameister14 4y agoHow many people died in the Portland firebombings? How much property was destroyed? Are we talking Dresden or Kobe levels? Because when you say 'firebombing nightly for months', that's what I think of.
- ioslipstream 4y agoBLM caused billions worth of damage over the course of the summer of love.
- rootusrootus 4y agoThe Portland Business Alliance, which may not be an entirely unbiased source, put the dollar figure at 10s of millions for Portland, not billions.
- InitialLastName 4y agoHas anyone been able to resettle all the Portlandian refugees? From your comments, it must have been on par with Dresden in March of 1945, right?