Portland Riot Aftermath, photodump

"sony1492" (sony1492) 05/30/2020 at 13:10 • Filed to: Rip george floyd

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Photos taken this morning. (courtesy a family member)

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > sony1492 05/30/2020 at 13:18

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that poor toilet....

like it didnt have enough shit to deal with already

interstate366, now In The Industry > sony1492 05/30/2020 at 13:21

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Senseless. Both the act that caused the riots, and the riots themselves.

Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! > sony1492 05/30/2020 at 13:23

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I want to understand the logic behind riots. What are your accomplishing by destroying someone else’s property or looting?

I get wanting to protest, and I certainly understand the anger of the situation. I just don't get violence. What will it really solve?

jminer > sony1492 05/30/2020 at 13:25

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This is tragic and getting serious for sure.

I’m currently on the phone with the Minneapolis branch of my work and we’re working on moving operations out to their DR location in the suburbs.  

Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo > sony1492 05/30/2020 at 13:25

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Holy shit.... Portland still has Rite Aid?

WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 05/30/2020 at 13:27

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They’ve tried kneeling and marching. Guess what happened? nothing. People are mad, and they are right to be . When they’re mad they lash out.

sony1492 > Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo 05/30/2020 at 13:32

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*H ad

JMordu becoming “savethemilanos” > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 05/30/2020 at 13:32

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Ask the cops who caused and perpetrate this violence. Both “indirectly” by murdering and oppressing the people they are sworn to protect and directly with everything from undercover riot-starters within peaceful protests to overzealous use of dangerous and damage causing “crowd control” munitions. Rubber bullets break windows and tear gas canisters start fires all the time.

As do panicking crowds when their peaceful protests are met with state violence. Is property violence worse than violence against human life? It’s not.

Every drop of blood and shard of glass is on the hands of the oppressive and racists cops and polices of this failed state we call america. Don’t blame the oppressed for being oppressed, blame the oppressors!

DipodomysDeserti > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 05/30/2020 at 13:32

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I want to understand the logic behind trying to understand the logic behind riots.

We riot when our favorite team wins the last sportsball game. Suddenly people riot for an understandable reason and everyone’s like “there is no logic behind what these people are doing!”

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI 05/30/2020 at 13:33

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This.

Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! > DipodomysDeserti 05/30/2020 at 13:34

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I meant that to be I think all riots are dumb. At least with this there's a reason for anger. Rioting because your team won? That's just moronic

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > sony1492 05/30/2020 at 13:34

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Apparently those anarchist scooters came in handy for bashing out windows.

Jb boin > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 05/30/2020 at 13:35

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In most of the cases its just the “herd immunity ” : Everybody is out and angry at the authority and the cops are overwhelmed so lets break and burn things like on videogames or on the TV to have fun or because “it’s t he only way to be heard ” and because attacking banks and shops in a nice neighborhood that are representing “the system” will not hurt anybody (“they are insured ”) .

You now have your own gilets jaunes, at least yours are all protesting for the same cause .

fintail > sony1492 05/30/2020 at 13:35

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At least the tourist trap/Voodoo Donuts is OK.

I wonder how many in the smashing group were wanna-nazis from outlying counties.

JMordu becoming “savethemilanos” > DipodomysDeserti 05/30/2020 at 13:36

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This 1000x

“ Why do brown people do what I do when my team wins/loses the big game after centuries of oppression? I just can’t understand it?”

dogisbadob > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 05/30/2020 at 13:36

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Those who make a peaceful revolution impossible make a violent revolution inevitable

Look at the way Dylann Roof and other white shooters were treated by cops vs the way innocent black people have been treated. There is an image like that comparing them, but I can’ t find it right now. It will probably show up on your social media feeds, though.

sony1492 > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/30/2020 at 13:53

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Elec tric technology is leading to societies collapse

Spaceball-Two > sony1492 05/30/2020 at 13:57

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What is ACAB?

interstate366, now In The Industry > Spaceball-Two 05/30/2020 at 14:06

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My favorite Genesis album.

Really  it stands for “all cops are bastards”. 1312 is the numeric representation of the same thing, corresponding to those letters’ placement in the alphabet.

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > sony1492 05/30/2020 at 14:10

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That’s a sweet Murano in that color...**

** My mom always told me that, if you can’t think of anything to say, to at least say something nice.

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > DipodomysDeserti 05/30/2020 at 14:12

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Detroit was always consistent— sports team wins the championship? 100 cars tipped upside down and lit ablaze.

Sports team loses in the championship?  100 cars tipped upside down and lit ablaze.

Spaceball-Two > interstate366, now In The Industry 05/30/2020 at 14:12

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Ah ok! Plus yeah best Genesis album 

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > sony1492 05/30/2020 at 14:16

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Nowhere to poop now!! Anarchy!

Poor_Sh > sony1492 05/30/2020 at 14:24

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Through extensive research of these pictures I surmise these people are rioting against the existence of glass. 

ranwhenparked > sony1492 05/30/2020 at 14:37

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Portland is going to have a huge spike in COVID-19 cases in the next couple of weeks, if these protests were anything like the ones in Minneapolis, I’ll bet hardly anyone followed proper social distancing during it. 

For Sweden > Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo 05/30/2020 at 14:49

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Yes, but there’s never an employee at the ice cream station

For Sweden > WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI 05/30/2020 at 14:51

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Who are “they?”

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For Sweden > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 05/30/2020 at 14:52

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The logic is a plausible cover story for nefarious motives

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Textured Soy Protein > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 05/30/2020 at 14:54

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You have to think about what it’s like to be a member of a particular community that’s been discriminated against for generations, still faces inequality in many/all aspects of society, and rightly fears that at the very least cops are not going to treat them fairly and at the worst might kill them.

Now think about all that and add an event like George Floyd’s death. The reaction is not going to be peaceful and rational. Rioting is not a logical, carefully-considered attempt to solve problems. It’s an expression of primal, pent up anger at that big-picture oppression punctuated by a specific instigating event.

This is not to justify the behavior, but you have to acknowledge that this shit happens for a reason. 

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > sony1492 05/30/2020 at 14:54

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Forgive my ignorance, but Portland is pretty fucking white and pretty fucking liberal? Who is rioting?

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > sony1492 05/30/2020 at 15:04

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They’ve certainly contributed to a decline in civility.

Spanfeller is a twat > sony1492 05/30/2020 at 15:06

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Whop, proof Ricola is disgusting is that no one looted it. 

Spanfeller is a twat > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 05/30/2020 at 15:17

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I think that annoying comfortable people is a way of making them think about the discomfort others feel. Hey, they broke the glass of your restaurant? That’s really shitty, but think how shitty it is that living as someone in a minority group is really hard, or even lethal, in many countries.

When the feminists rioted in Mexico City last year they filled Reforma Avenue, the most expensive avenue in the city, with graffitti, and they also destroyed a police station. Reforma is the financial center of Mexico, and every time the people that work at the corporations there see the Angel of Independence covered in graffiti (the plaque has “Mexico feminicida” written on it) they’re made uncomfortable, and they think about this stuff. Ultimately, I don’t know if it’s the best way to find change, but they’ve gotten people thinking about it. To the point that when women called for a general strike around three months ago all of the banking corporations announced they’d be no consequences for not showing up to work for female employees . I guess it’s mostly PR, but they’re giving in rather than fighting it out. Which is part of the change in and of itself. 

DipodomysDeserti > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 05/30/2020 at 16:30

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In poor areas, police largely focus on protecting property rather than protecting people. If you can overwhelm them and destroy property, then everyone can see the emperor has no clothes.

WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI > For Sweden 05/30/2020 at 16:30

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Yeah I’ve read articles discussing this. Evidently other organizations want to butt in on the oppression of people of color now that white people are losing their monopoly on it.

DipodomysDeserti > For Sweden 05/30/2020 at 16:31

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Cheeseheads.

RangerSmith > WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI 05/30/2020 at 16:45

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Not true at all . Pretty well documented that Portland (as well as other cities ) has a long history of people(criminals/anarchists) taking advantage of otherwise peaceful protests/marches . Doesn’t matter the cause.

wafflesnfalafel > sony1492 05/30/2020 at 20:13

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right - a bunch of those contract “anarchists” are up in Seattle now too...

Thisismydisplayname > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 05/30/2020 at 20:19

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I was always told if I didn’t have something nice to say, to not say anything...  I don’t talk a lot.  

WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI > RangerSmith 05/30/2020 at 20:29

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not true “at all?”

Not everything is black and white (no pun intended). The world exists in shades of grey. Of course the people who are there just to fuck shit up are deplorable and can get fucked, but to completely and unilaterally dismiss it as an effective means of getting people to listen , causes many of the pro blems that we face this day in age.

Look at every revolution in the history of the world. Rioting and unrest have been at the epicenter of every single one of them. Does it suck that now, in 2020, it’s still a necessary part of the process? Of course! But that’s the bed we’ve made, and now we have to sleep in it.

WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI > ranwhenparked 05/30/2020 at 20:46

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While that may be true.....

F ighting generations of atrocities is more pe rtinent than the eliminating the chance of people who have an almos t infinitesimal chance of dying from a virus. People in their 80s aren’t out there marching.

WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 05/30/2020 at 20:47

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So is Minneapolis (I live here). Honestly it has seemed to create an even greater divide between whites and POC because whites have power in numbers.

ranwhenparked > WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI 05/30/2020 at 20:47

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The people that are marching will give it to their family members, or give it to someone else who gives it to a family member, that’s the whole damn point of social distancing. More than 90% of the population isn’t at any real risk from the virus, but we have to lock down and isolate to keep us from spreading it to the other 10%.

Mass protests and riots shouldn’t be allowed until an area is is phase 3 of reopening, at least, and even then, only with face masks and 6ft distancing. 

WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI > ranwhenparked 05/30/2020 at 20:54

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“Mass protests and riots shouldn’t be allowed”

Are you under the assumption that the powers that be are * allowing* these demonstrations?

I’m not trying to be rude, and I agree, under ideal situations, keeping people distanced is extremely important. But when a genuine opportunity to change this country for the better presents itself, you have to take it.

ranwhenparked > WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI 05/30/2020 at 20:56

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I don’t care how many people in Portland the CEO of Rite Aid murdered, take your revenge after the pandemic is over, or at least wait until there’s more testing in place. 

WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI > ranwhenparked 05/30/2020 at 21:02

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Gu ess we’ll just have to agree to disagree on that one.

ttyymmnn > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/30/2020 at 21:17

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I was surprised by how resilient the glass is in that Apple store. Must be armored or something. 

AestheticsInMotion > Poor_Sh 05/31/2020 at 00:16

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I left the window washing business in the nick of time 

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > For Sweden 05/31/2020 at 00:18

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Iowanarchists...

The I-35 Road To Ruin !

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > For Sweden 05/31/2020 at 00:20

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I do always wonder about this storyline in times of civil unrest—- It’s always reputed to be “professional troublemakers from out of the area”. If that’s true, it doesn’t seem like it would be hard to track, would it? Especially with no planes flying. Who’s buying those Megabus tickets?

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > DipodomysDeserti 05/31/2020 at 00:21

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Easy to track, though... follow the bratwurst wrappers.

DC3 LS, Fuck Hyundai, now and forever > sony1492 05/31/2020 at 01:35

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What if this is actually a 200 IQ deep state play to re- start the economy by employing everyone as window repairmen?

Jim Spanfeller > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 05/31/2020 at 02:46

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If you can’t think, say nonsense!

MrSnrub > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 05/31/2020 at 05:33

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It is a very old, very racist tactic meant to delegitimize protests. Do not believe it.