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> https://isportlandburning.com/ https://isportlandburning.com/ If the goal is to show how the government is exaggerating or lying why not set up webcams aroun
by kcplate 1y ago
> https://isportlandburning.com/ https://isportlandburning.com/
If the goal is to show how the government is exaggerating or lying why not set up webcams around federal facilities in Portland?
Seems to me that this is just the other side of the same coin. If the government is going to be dishonest and just point to where the “fires” are and pretend like there is no place that isn’t under siege…it’s just as dishonest to pretend like there are not places in Portland that are problematic.
- queenkjuul 1y agoThere are parts of Portland being burned to the ground, as the government has claimed?
- kcplate 1y agoThere are certainly parts of Portland that are dealing with protests that appear, to me, to be dangerous enough that I have no interest on being anywhere near them. You certainly do not see those places on that website, nor any mention of them. Everybody has a story to tell and a perspective that they want to tell it from.
- sterlind 1y agoshow me, please.
- kcplate 1y agoDo you deny that there have been protests around that ICE facility and that there has been some violence and arrests in connection with those protests?
- queenkjuul 1y agoShow us
- kcplate 1y agoI recognize this stupid game. Let me guess, there is no news story I could post here that would satisfy you, am I right? MSNBC, CNN, local Portland TV stations? All have stories detailing the ICE protests, acknowledge that there has been violence and arrests in Portland, and are easily accessible to you via a google search. But…I know y’all know this already and it doesn’t matter to you who is reporting it, you will just obfuscate, spin, or provide some stupid reason why those specific sources or story cannot be trusted. No thanks, I don’t need to play…but y’allhave fun storming the castle!
- queenkjuul 1y agoNo, i asked for evidence that "Portland is burning to the ground" and will happily accept any evidence from any source, but you haven't provided anything resembling one, presumably because no part of Portland is burning. I genuinely know nothing about Portland, but i know that the way Chicago is described is entirely unmoored from reality, and that none of the protestors in Chicago have been violent, so you can back up your claim or continue to look like you're making things up
- tptacek 1y agoI live a 20 minute bike ride from the Broadview ICE facility (the focus of the protests here) and there has been no indication whatsoever of violence originating in the protests (the average age of a Broadview protester appears to be 45, the average hair color "balding"). It is annoying the residents of Broadview though, since ICE/DHS is erecting barricades and disrupting traffic flows.
- kcplate 1y agoI never made that claim. All I said was that there have been protests at the ICE facility in Portland, that there has been violence, and there has been arrests. All of this is well documented by a lot a news outlets and not just from those that are considered right-leaning.
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- queenkjuul 1y agoThat's not what i asked