Couldn't make it out there myself this time, so this is is via reddit.
It appears to have been much more a crowd of normal people than the "punk rock" zoomers and aging hippies looking for fights who populated these protests in Trump's first term. In a shithole like Portland it's easy forget that the majority of the population actually aren't weirdo redditors. Of course we do still have a few of those too:
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Sometimes I think 35 year olds go out and protest to pretend to be young and fighting or something more than for any actual purpose.
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Protesting is more of a social phenomena than a political one at this point.
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Pretty much. It feels a lot more like social therapy than anything else. I remember when the French were protesting and getting sucked off for their "protest culture" it all felt to me like more a "10 seconds of rage" type deal than a significant political phenomenon.
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Yeah for all the "it's in the Frenchman's blood to protest" they sure have been ineffectual at actually accomplishing anything since ol Charles left.
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Always has been.
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Normally that's all protestors on both sides in Portland. This is the first time I've seen one where most of the signs at least make sense.
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You can't "both sides" portland.
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Were you not around back ~5 years ago when we used to have left vs. right tardfights in the streets? It was a lot of fun to watch.
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I AM SHOCKED.
UTTERLY ASSPOUNDED.
COMPLETELY FRICKLEFACED.
LITERALLY FLABBERVAGINAED.
UNCONDITIONALLY ABORTED.
OUTRAGIOUSLY CUCKIFOLDED.
UNIRONAICALLY BUTT AGAPE.
!LGBT
Also frick you FĂĽhrer
@ukstubbs for dening my re-application to LGBT after the forced ping group removals.
@DudeBussyLmao this is bullshit as I love cute twinks more than anyone here. Approve my application and yeet this hateful bigot
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I think you're right.
The main sign in that picture could certainly mislead one into thinking that Portlanders embrace Trump and Putin's unconventional but completely valid love.
But then you catch sight of those 'hands off' signs in the background and it becomes clear that Portlanders really are hateful bigots who will never accept a McDonalds-gobbling commoner like Trump, rich tho he might be, sullying Putin's correct and proper, upper middle-class bussy.
Shame on you Portland, shame.
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it's fricking always a gay s*x fantasy with these people. always. they can not talk about trump without writing their gay fanfic. it's so fricking weird
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How do you know that they aren't lusting for Putin though?
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Wow, if Twump has even wost Pwortland he'ww nyewer win anyother election again.
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B-word can barely write. No wonder she's got no job.
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Redactor, we've both been to Portland, I feel your statement about most not being weirdo redditors is a little off
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I've seen Portlandia, so I also have to doubt him.
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I unironically can't even laugh when I watch that show because it's too true. Everything is exaggerated a lot but none of it is made up out of whole cloth.
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It depends on exactly what you're area you're counting. Inner SE, 110% of the population is like that. As you get farther away, maybe 5+ miles, you start running into relatively normal people. Some aren't even white. At a range of approximately 10 miles the human "normie" phenotype is predominant.
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Even Portlanders?
Like not the odd Portlanders?
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!evenchads are the only people who matter
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We own then lmao
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the blackpill
is that they don't seem to be protesting
the tariffs? the only hope for america
is for a neoliberal
paramilitary organization to coup the government and start throwing
populists out of helicopters.
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Turns out federal employees were just a jobs program and our taxes are solely used to leverage more debt
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So why did Trump need to fire them and make the biggest tax increase in US history at the same time?
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When you say "even portlanders"... when were they not?
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Usually leftoids consider anything less than enthusiastic encouragement of gay BDSM to be worse than anything Trump ever does.
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They give consensual BDSM a bad name.
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"People are not homeless if they're sleeping in the streets of their own hometowns."
Snapshots:
reddit:
undelete.pullpush.io
ghostarchive.org
archive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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"majority of the population actually aren't weirdo redditors". you realize everywhere on earth is like this?the only reason you worried about new thing here is because ur online or young.
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Most Portland protestors have been weirdo redditors tho. I know because I used to go downtown and watch when they were more fun. Don't tell me you thought I was joking about this:
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