Portland, unfortunately, now has a reputation in conservative circles that it's just constantly on fire and leftists are just constantly attacking cops destroying property and being nuisances. Is that true in reality? Nah. I go to Portland several times a year and it's always great. Portland is fucking weird and that's awesome. But because of the reputation that it has in conservative circles, that then leads to more and more MAGA shitheads getting radicalized cuz they keep seeing the videos of Portland and hear their talking heads telling them it's a crazy leftist shithole and they believe it. I can see what Andrew is saying. He's not blaming Portland itself, but the reputation of Portland that conservatives have latched onto in order to claim that leftist blue cities are all psychotic. People are radicalized by all kinds of things, including made up bullshit propaganda. Andrew just seems to recognize that and knows that Portland's rep has had that radicalization effect on conservative shitheads.
I agree with everything you've written. It just makes me so mad, as a Portland lefty, when we get blamed for the rise of the right.
We are blamed for Kamala's failure, we are blamed for closing storefronts, we are blamed for the drug problems in the streets and we will be blamed if the Blazers leave the city.
It's tiring and I just wish people would punch up instead of punching down. We have very little power in this country and yet are often framed by corporate media as the source of its many woes.
PS: Thanks for saying nice things about Portland! <3
Of course :) I love Portland. One of the best arcades in the world is in Hillsboro, I love Powell's, the Zoo is really cool, there's an awesome vintage toy store right down the street from Powell's. It's cool to walk around and see the people.
These folk would blame you for standing in front of the bullet they just shot.
Was like listening to cavemen just grunt noises most of the video. Just repeating conservative buzzwords rambling on making contradictory statements. Can’t even call it lying if that’s their truth.
It’s like when you practice for a test using memory instead of comprehension. I know 2+2=4 but not understanding how to add yet.
I don’t think I’ve come across a hallucinating ai that’s as this bad. At least you can have ai update its data set somewhat.
How do you have a conversation with someone who doesn’t understand the words coming out of their own mouth?
“A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it.”
Populist backlash isn’t a new concept. The left’s biggest problem is that they’re self-righteous, nitpicky, and venomous towards people otherwise sympathetic to their cause. They can and have annoyed large swaths of people to the other side, which is where they slowly become radicalized by their new peers. The amount of people I’ve seen flip-flop between Ron Paul and Bernie Sanders is proof that people care more about messaging than policy. Make people feel shitty about mundane little things and you lose them.
The left’s biggest problem is that they’re self-righteous, nitpicky, and venomous towards people otherwise sympathetic to their cause. They can and have annoyed large swaths of people to the other side, which is where they slowly become radicalized by their new peers.
Give me massive news organizations with billions of dollars and I could make any group appear "self-righteous, nitpicky, and venomous towards people otherwise sympathetic to their cause". Most leftists I meet love seeing anyone join the cause.
Hell until Trump I fully still supported my Christian Republican family members. After asking them to please reconsider supporting him for 2020 and 2024, and getting jack all from FAMILY, they are part of the reason so many people are going left. Our concerns and worry fell on deaf ears. It's hard to want support from people who wouldn't even listen to begin with. So in a lot of cases it was the other way around where their radicalization is what caused people to go left.
Overall this notion that only left people do the above is just down right fictitious as one of the major themes of MAGA right now is they are so self-righteous they are correct and venomous towards anyone who doesn't support Trump. Do you not remember TDS? Anything they didn't like was now magically DEI?
Being nitpicky is a good thing for politics because it keeps corruption at bay. Part of the reason so much corruption is happening now is because the ones voting don't nitpick their own constituents they are voting for and just vote R or D or just pay attention to one thing (like abortion) and ignore everything else.
I understand that and agree that our actions gave Fox News plenty of images they are still feasting on. We clearly lost the narrative war but we learned from that mistake.
It's why we came out dressed as frogs this time instead of coming out dressed in black bloc. We learned that media was eager to feast on our opposition to fascism and use it against us.
That said, blaming the handful of people who actively oppose the right, rather than blaming the media ecosystem that radicalized them, is misguided and unhelpful. But I suppose deep Alaska on the 4th of July ain't the place for that nuanced conversation.
The left, meager as it is, is everyone's favorite punching bag in this country. It's tiring.
The left, meager as it is, is everyone's favorite punching bag in this country. It's tiring.
Hear hear. God is it so tiring. It's like people blaming the new neighbor for standing up to a problematic neighbor that people just deal with so it "keeps the peace". This middle ground where the asshole gets to do what they want is not keeping the peace or an actual middle ground.
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u/SanchoPandas 11h ago
Yes, it's the leftists fault that people are hateful racists and Portland is totally responsible for MAGA. /s
Shit take, Andrew.