protests started like 50 days ago, people started vandalizing shit and the portland police were useless so trump sent in the feds like 2 weeks ago to protect the federal buildings and things have been escalating from there (some guy got shot in the face with a tear gas canister, protestors are apparently using laser pointers and some guy attacked a fed with a hammer), fed police were rolling around detaining people (if you're walking around at night wearing all black 2 blocks from the sites of riots, that probably counts as probable cause) and then releasing them

and then releasing them

So much for a fascist state.

Drumpf can't even do fascism right.

Ugh how boring. Why can't the feds v& people correctly anymore?

We only have reports from the people they chose to release

We'll never hear from the ones they don't release so remember to bring that up that the next time someone tells you that black lives don't matter.

If you have no friends or family to tell your story, you being disappeared isn’t that big of a deal imho.

and then releasing them

Neuter and release

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Imagine if trump was truly the bloodthirsty, fascist dictator they all feared. These kids have no idea

They wouldn’t have the balls to protest if he actually was.

In the northwest 60% of all people will be wearing all black at any given time

arresting all PNWers sounds like a win

This, but for me I'm trying to be Johnny Cash.

"protect federal buildings"

"...Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf, in contrast, has repeatedly taken to Twitter to claim that local authorities are refusing to restore order— "

A furry and a chad? Godallah help us.

They've hybridized.

I'm not reading that

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This is very interesting but you don't have to be a goddamn to lawyer to understand this:

• The rioters are attacking federal property, which is a federal crime.
• When DHS goes out to stop them, the rioters attack them. That's a federal crime.

The contortions that the professional class are going through to try to make this sound complicated are like the woke doctors saying that it's okay to riot because coronavirus discriminates based on your politics.

I'm a lolbertarian and even I can see why this is happening. People on twitter and IG are busy clutching their pearls over feds showing up because protesters are destroying federal property. "Omggg it's the gestapo" Yeah the gestapo was known for putting people in soccer mom SUVs and releasing them after a while

The mental gymnastics required to ignore the basic premise of why the feds are there are astounding.

If something similar were happening to conservatives you'd be losing your mind.

it's been happening to conservatives for a while now.

Anyone who isn't a partisan hack should be concerned about this shit happening at all. That was my point.

it's going to happen a lot more if we cave to the rioters demands. For once I'm supporting the feds

Then let Portland burn. If they try that shit in Texas they get their teeth kicked in. That's the state's decision.

Right-wingers are all for "states rights" until it becomes inconvenient for their worldview.

Which "federal property" are they attacking? And there's enough of it that the property has been under attack for 50 days?

The federal courthouse. Try to keep up. 🙄

So they've been attack this federal court house for the past 50 days? And that makes sense to you?

As I've explained elsewhere, they've been attacking the Justice Center for most of that time. Then the PPB got banned from using tear gas and playing with them too roughly, which is when they decided to concentrate on the federal courthouse. And yes, that makes perfect sense, because kids playing dress-up with gas masks need some tear gas or else the game doesn't really work.

Do you want me to draw you a fucking map of downtown Portland and point out how all these places are within a few blocks of each other or can you just trust me that I know what I'm talking about?

Lol, sure, feds snatching people nowhere close to federal buildings is not questionable at all. They definitely combed through tons of CCTV footage instantaneously to find all those people.

You don’t need cctv when antifa posts their crimes on twitter for clout, along with their poorcel donation link and pronouns.

The uniforms they are wearing do not identify their badge number or what agency they belong to, which is a violation of all norms of policing. If there are any abuses it is impossible to report them. The Attorney General had to file claims against "John Doe 1-10" because it was impossible to identify the officer or even the agency the goons were reporting to.

Clearly this is totally normal situation, please tell me of the plethora of situations in the past when state Attorney Generals were forced to file suits against people who were apparently Federal Agents but could only be identified as "John Doe" in the past. Actually I'm going to save you some time - the count is 0, in fact that has happened a grand total of 0 times in United States history before today. Geez I wonder why that is? I wonder why people thought it was a generally good idea to have Federal Agents have their associated agency and ID clearly on display? I wonder why these guys would dispense with that tradition?

protestors are apparently using laser pointers and some guy attacked a fed with a hammer

I'll believe it when I see it, this is generic shit police always claim is happening to them. Like no matter what happens apparently bricks just fly out of nowhere and hit "my partner" and that's why they massacred the entire crowd. Trust me.

The police version of events is always the least authoritative source of information in any context. They are always lying. They are physically incapable of making a factual claim.

BTW the protests in Oregon are literally lighting right back up because people are pissed off about the secret police. Thanks a lot, at least you got to look tough and jack yourself off.

I notice as well that you have suddenly dropped the facade that this has anything specifically to do with protecting federal property, because it does not. Thank you for making that realization, that people are being arrested in general on "probably cause", IE whatever the fuck the pig feels like at the moment. Geez here's a little problem though? The DHS has zero statutory authority to arrest people in general on "probable cause".

They only have the authority to protect federal property. That's the entire reason they were talking about federal property in the first case, even though as you correctly point out, the motivation was general suppression of the right to assemble and suppression of political speech disagree to the political ideology of the individual officers and the President, they have to tangentially relate it to the protection of property or else what they're doing is illegal. Thing is that there are like zero consequences for them doing this illegal thing, so they do it all they want, but still even though it's completely absurd their PR department will claim

There is nothing that rightists seem to love more than brazen displays of lawless authority that violate rights and the law? You guys really hate the law. Because you consider yourselves to be at war with the cities, you want to conquer and destroy them. You are not applying the law, just like with immigrants, you are not enforcing the law, you are waging a war and seeking to cripple the enemy combatants and establish your will over an unwilling populace. This is why you are so excited. This is literally the definition of fascism, the emotion you are feeling is fascism, the application of colonial policies of total war against the people in an area you are attempting to colonize, to the homeland.

The oppression of your own people, this is what you enjoy, because you have a sick mind and have become dissociated from all morality. You are a cancer attached to the people, and the people are justified in rebellion. IMO the people are being too peaceful, they do not recognize the danger they are in and the rebellion should be much more forceful if they are to successfully protect their freedom and liberty from those who view them as rodents to be suppressed.

the only reason ur being downvoted is because drama is full of rightoids

actually, another reason is words, words, wordds

I just like to dab on homeless commies.

Mostly the words

Yeah too many words. Also Commies

Honest question; doesn't this facade require an enormous amount of time? Like if you just posted "lmao fascists" you'd get similar results but with much less effort. Why go all out and type literal books that no one will read? Is there some leftoid out there that you follow and just copy and paste his ramblings? Genuinely curious.

You may think watermark is larping as a lefty but he actually a lefty who is larping as a communist.

You’re a words words words tárdposter, but you actually have a point

You sound like you fuck black guys.

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Not a commie like you, but hear, hear. Rightoid downvotes are so much séethe.

Vandalizing? They put art on the boards over windows. OMG art is so scary.

How do I know? I live in downtown Portland. The cops are vandalizing - not the protesters.

I live in downtown Portland.

Congratulations. You can ride the streetcar to all the trendy bars with seasonal beers! That definitely makes me value your opinion more than ordinary decent Oregonians.

I'm a block off skid row - wtf do you think lives downtown?

Don't downvote the 😂🐮, people.

Don't downvote the lolcows.

Yeah, all my friends in Portland say whenever the roving gangs of cops roll through breaking windows they're followed by the protesting brigades of artists covering up the damage with the most amazing pieces. Some say banksy is coordinating their efforts via the interwebz.

You need to put that on r/conspiracytheories

That would be a good idea if being one of the many thousands disappeared by Trump's SS goons was on my bucket list. All the conspiracy subs are Russian honeypots funded by the trump campaign and the national association of beekeepers. Trump has managed to stoke tensions between the bees and Mexicans despite the ten thousand year truce and, together with the NSA, they've managed to augment the bees natural clairvoyant abilities using special internet routers placed strategically in data centers throughout the us. You better have a few epi pens and extensive mental training before visiting a conspiracy sub if you're not a trump supporter.

If you've been part of a protest, you're on the disappear list. So go for it.

Fuck that, I've got a family. My wife just had triplets and one of them has a club foot. You've seen the artists covering up the police vandalism. You're brave and you have an inner beauty that isn't necessary for attractive people with friends and loved ones so you won't really be missed. I nominate you for this prestigious task. Good luck!

LOL! I like that you jumped over the Reddit!twins and went beyond the usual allergies excuse. :)

I'm not a big fan of disabled people so when Clubby McGrossfoot plopped out my pastor was all like "Perhaps this is how the Lord blah blah blah compassion for those less fortunate." I said "ok, whatever," and silently thanked God for sending me two beautiful boys and one nearly complete set of spare parts.

Mmm... savage.

I'm sorry, I used up all my data and cannot view images at the moment. I do believe I'm doing gods will tho. I'm pretty sure if he didn't want me to use the club foot baby as spare parts for the two boys then he wouldn't have made it a girl.

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I've seen people saying that the feds are "occupying" and that the fed is messing in "sovereign" affairs. Bitch you're not a country.

Libertariancels OUT OUT OUT

They went confederate mode

🐴👠

The North will rise again!

(I'm referring to Peter North, of course)

American states are sovereign entities. You rightists continuously jack off over the constitution but apparently you're unaware of this fact once it becomes convenient.

US states are not sovereign. You literally can't be sovereign when there is a government that's above you. That's the entire definition of the word.

States are sovereign entities. It's just that the federal government has sovereignty over them. Learn about federalism.

It's "shared sovereignty" but that's mostly in name only. A federal courthouse owes sovereignty to the federal government.

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Any Portlander with a job and a life should applaud this

Both of them?

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Hey Chinese guy :)

^{this guy is a chinese propagandist}

Imagine being this new.

Tbh I can’t blame him for not understanding watermark. Most meme accounts attempt to be funny : ^ )

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand watermark.

Shut up you little cock goblin

One in particular tonight was very inspiring. There was a lot of running and confusion after the cops started rioting when midst the flashbangs and billowing gas I saw a lone protestor walking calmy and resolutely toward the police wearing nothing but her own bare skin.

It was a really powerful moment that stopped the cops in their tracks and compelled me to march back and stand in solidarity despite the gas and other threats. She seemed at that moment the most vulnerable of us.

And the absolute strongest.

This is their version of Tank Man.

It's so laaaaame

lol it's real, dumbest fuckin shit imaginable preserved forever in hidef
https://twitter.com/DonovanFarley/status/1284410621283328000

Lmao at the dude with the shield protecting her 🤣

when a simp ruins your activist photoshoot goldmine

mayo foid

Imagine my shock.

It's not just real, the slut literally saw the pigs off. Amazing.

https://twitter.com/DonovanFarley/status/1284412288774975489

Imagine being ugly enough to run off police.

From my past visits to Porland, that there is top tier for the locale.

That's really not how this works. 🙄

Sure it does. When you declare an assembly illegal, give out ultimatums, shoot off tear gas, and the flee when some methed out stripper shows up - you got run off.

Having witnessed this first hand and paid quite a bit of attention over the last 50 days I can tell you that no, when the PPB move to another location it is not because they "got run off". They do that when nothing is happening.

Dafuq you out there for, leave the streets to the retards.

I was r/drama's self-appointed official observer for the antifa vs. alt-right spergfights a couple years ago. Goddamn that seems like so long ago. A more innocent time when the boys and girls would actually get arrested when they were too naughty.

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The sight of her unkempt bush clinging to the wet pavement was enough to make the police throw deuces and hightail it.

What's the matter? Can't stand the sight of a strong, natural woman?

Don't you get it!? People are getting BRUISED out there!

;( so powerful. Its like when Caesar stopped the rout at Dyrrachium by charging forward himself

"many times I had fought for victory, but this time I fought for my life"

I love their narrative that the cops do the rioting.

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Its Customs and Border Control and they are protecting Federal property they probs have some footage of some people destroying some of it. In any event they are detaining some potential terrorists or sympathizers, will photo and fingerprint them, then use the NSA to trace their phone contacts (in their address book and also proximity) to get other people.

In any event they are detaining some potential terrorists or sympathizers

I doubt they even need that much. Plus with the vague "antifa" being considered a terorrist org, they can just lump anyone in with them.

I doubt they even need that much. Plus with the vague "antifa" being considered a terorrist org, they can just lump anyone in with them.

Thanks for patting yourself on the back for this, you have literally come up with your own generic label you can apply to illegalize any political dissident. This is bascially your version of "counterrevolutionary" or whatever. I'm glad that you have reached this step in your development of fascism, you must feel like this is a real advance, like you're a fucking genius right.

The law on terrorist organizations btw only applies to foreign entities. It would not be possible to pass such a law in the United States because it would be a suspension of the right to associate. If you'll notice, the Ku Klux Klan has never been declared a terrorist organization. It's not legal to straight up declare membership or association with any domestic association as a criminal act in and of itself.

But of course you are a colonial empire, and you are so used to that tool when oppressing people abroad, it naturally is the first thing that comes to mind when you seek to oppress your own people. Because that's what you're doing, fascism, you're applying colonial policies to your own people. Because you are the enemy, you have renounced your status as an American, you are an enemy of all free Americans.

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then use the NSA to trace their phone contacts (in their address book and also proximity) to get other people.

Hey retard, you don't contact the NSA to subpeona the telephone company. You are a fascist and don't even know how you're apparatus works, Jesus Christ modern fascists are so degenerated.

Modern fascists are inept

Guys we have to be scared of fascists they're gonna take over

Subpoenas. How quaint.

Yeah, "potential terrorists". Nothing concerning about this label being applied to US citizens. Then again, I suppose it's about time the US population get a taste of the same tactics they've sat by and watched performed on brown people countries.

Then again, I suppose it's about time the US population get a taste of the same tactics they've sat by and watched performed on brown people countries.

I will sleep soundly at night knowing Poortlanders are being rounded up and denied rights.

Let's get the ruralcels next, for the sake of both sides.

Your poor farm people don't have much to ride up against right now. They only seem to care about masks just now so probably no need for the feds to get them.

Sadly the beer flu don't kill enough so we can't count on it to save us from the r*rals.

Yeah, legal precedent and institutional inertia are meaningless.

I hope they come for you next.

Naw, I'm not a pasty layabout like you.

Don't confuse me with some disgusting American.

Fair enough.

This is because you're a fascist

Don't downvote the lolcows

t. newfag

You're the lolcow

Then again, I suppose it's about time the US population get a taste of the same tactics they've sat by and watched performed on brown people countries.

This is the literal definition of fascism. The tactics of fascism are developed against colonial peoples, it is a natural outgrowth of a security apparatus which seeks to control and suppress and unwilling populous. Eventually that apparatus comes home and is applied against the natives of the country itself, the people are treated as if they are enemies in a total war with the totalitarian state. Rule of law is suspended and the people are treated as enemy combatants, the law of war is instead applied.

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are posts linking to r/Portland allowed in r/drama? they seem to always get deleted, maybe 5 or so in the past 3 weeks are still live?

Why does the Portland flag look like a close up of a swastika?

Top post: Hey second amendment supporters, where are you now?

Unironically seething at this. You vote against gun rights every chance you get, degrade gun owners as psychopaths, baby killers, selfish, r*tarded hicks, and then you're surprised when none of them can be fucked to help you with your anarkiddie shit? Fuck off.

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https://old.reddit.com/r/Portland/comments/htdups/i_think_we_all_owe_the_protesters_a_round_of/

How the fuck is this helping to convince me that r*dditors are human?

Yes, but there has to be drama. The stupid non-drama posts will get removed because r/Portland has rules set up in such a (stupid) way that people abuse crossposting to get threads in r/Portland locked.

So basically you simp for Portland. Pathetic

Nah Pewkie is 100% right here, not only would it kill the drama in those threads, but the whiny mods over there would 100% go crying to the admins about "brigading"

It would lock the drama if anything, and prevent brigading as they lock the threads

The old drama is dead. I think the poly sub had the same feature not that long ago and we had a blast linking every single thread from there until they decided to take it off. TBH I wish the mods would just let this sub go out with a bang, rather than the boring pussy shit its turned into.

Yeah, torturing them was pretty great, because they unironically believed using the auto lock was a good feature

Do you have any idea how much braindead shit there is on that sub? I could post at least one red hot retard take per day just by scanning through it for 10 minutes. It would totally dominate r/drama if that was allowed.

Look at the first one about second amendment people not showing up to schwack the fedbois.

Father forgive me, for I have commited seethe.

Drama is drama, who cares about the source?

Let em lock up

The couple I've seen were generally a couple days old, I'd assume those are fine as the threads already would've died out by then?

I was reading the sub today and yeah they're all having a meltdown over the federal police.

Which agency? There is no "federal police".

Oh yeah you don't actually know because their uniforms do not identify themselves! That's why your just referring to them as federal police! Huh that's strange, this is a new sensation, I don't think I can recall this before, I wonder why this is?

oooh look guys a schizo

They're DHS and some Customs and Border Protection officers.

Customs and border protection

This watermark clone has grown rotten. Hit him with the banhammer, toss him in the trash heap and fetch a new one fresh from the vine from the lolcow farm.

Shit going down bro. Hope this helps

words words words

The lack of information and suddenly "wheres muh meal team 6 cosplayers" made me ponder if there was any arrma.

Statement on CBP Response in Portland, Oregon

"While the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) respects every American’s right to protest peacefully, violence and civil unrest will not be tolerated. Violent anarchists have organized events in Portland over the last several weeks with willful intent to damage and destroy federal property, as well as injure federal officers and agents. These criminal actions will not be tolerated.

CBP agents had information indicating the person in the video was suspected of assaults against federal agents or destruction of federal property. Once CBP agents approached the suspect, a large and violent mob moved towards their location. For everyone’s safety, CBP agents quickly moved the suspect to a safer location for further questioning. The CBP agents identified themselves and were wearing CBP insignia during the encounter. The names of the agents were not displayed due to recent doxing incidents against law enforcement personnel who serve and protect our country.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its components will continue to work tirelessly to reestablish law and order. The Federal Protective Service (FPS) is the lead government agency that CBP personnel are supporting. CBP personnel have been deployed to Portland in direct support of the Presidential Executive Order and the newly established DHS Protecting American Communities Task Force (PACT). CBP law enforcement personnel have been trained and cross designated under FPS legal authority 40 U.S.C. § 1315."

CBP? Elsewhere I heard it was the Federal Marshalls wasn't it? So apparently the CBP and the Marshalls are wearing the same exact interchangeable uniform? That's kind of strange don't you think, being as that they have entirely different legal powers and functions, and are not interchangeable, and need to be recognizable as such to legally perform their duties.

The names of the agents were not displayed due to recent doxing incidents against law enforcement personnel who serve and protect our country.

Then show your badge number idiot. God the police are such whiny babies. Fuck you. The people survived before the police, they will survive after it, if this is how we are going to be treated we can afford whatever damage may occur from the abolition of the police.

Not every agency has a specific, identifiable uniform. It's easier just to give everyone cammies, chest rigs and kevlar with a big velcro patch that says POLICE

It's getting to be a borefest by now.

They need to keep it fresh to keep an audience interested.

I've already been banned from aaaar Portland😭

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loads of gay sex i suppose

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The Department of Homeland Security has in fact turned into a Secret Police and deep state and is operating without regards to the law and invading localities who's political ideology it disagrees with. This was an inevitable result of the incredibly stupid post 9/11 decision to create a branch of the military who's authority applies in totality to the nation itself. You do not create a military who's authority is applicable to the people themselves, it is literally a recipe for subversion.

There are some factual inaccuracies, like why are they wearing dessert camo in northwest USA? I think it's supposed to be humorous, dont know if it's supposed to be trump joke, or maybe the producers doing some 4th wall bit, but i dig it. Season has been pretty good though far, like 8/10.

why are they wearing dessert camo in northwest USA?

Dessert camo seems entirely appropriate for the US.

lmao ZING

That was pretty good and gave me an IRL chuckle.

Allahu Akbar brother

Hmmm why would CPB own desert cammies?

But seriously I would guess they didn't have time to don their Portland pattern unis before they deployed.

Portland pattern units

This but unironically.

We've been fighting in the middle east and other desert environments for the past two decades. Desert cammies are in abundance.

Look at pics from the 80s. We expected to be fighting in Europe, so Woodland was the pattern you saw everywhere.

Lotta bootlickers in this sub, damn. Secret police are by definition anti-drama, they lock up the lolcows away from the public

If you don't want to get disappeared then stop rioting and burning your city down. It's not a difficult thing to do. I'm actually doing it right now.

Not that I'd expect a SRDine to not be too r-slurred to comprehend that.

If I had 100k reddit karma in a little over a year I’d be so fucking ashamed of myself

how have you been on this site of 9 years and not moved on?

It's not my fault people upvote my incredibly r-slurred takes. I'm not forcing them to give the stupid shit I say internet points.

Centrism is profoundly totalitarian, extremist, and authoritarian ideology. All normal people are freaked out about this. These people are fucking psychopaths who are apparently completely unaware of how weird they are.

All normal people are freaked out about this.

that what the voice in your head tells you? "all normal people" don't want to see their cities burned by domestic terrorists.

retard

We've hit peak Watermark

This is some Enya-level Watermark.