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In reply to the discussion: Heads up Portland on the weekend of 17th. White power v. Antifa expected. [View all]maxsolomon
(33,327 posts)70. Andy Ngo was picking the fight.
He attempts to provoke.
Antifa are not MLK combined with Ghandi. Only in America is opposing violence with perfect non-violence the standard.
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Heads up Portland on the weekend of 17th. White power v. Antifa expected. [View all]
Grasswire2
Aug 2019
OP
I think of the violent ones like the anarchists that pretend they care about capitalism
AJT
Aug 2019
#39
They are a bag if desructive @$$holes. They did this without any counter protest groups.
CentralMass
Aug 2019
#25
Shouldn't that make you happy that they didn't include the "peaceful" protesters?
Downtown Hound
Aug 2019
#27
There were peaceful protesters at that anti tRump rally in November of 2016 and that zmay Day
CentralMass
Aug 2019
#31
A violent destructive @$$hole who's intent is to commit destruction of property and personal imjury
CentralMass
Aug 2019
#38
They've never hurt anybody that wasn't, in some way, shape, or form, trying to hurt others
Downtown Hound
Aug 2019
#41
I was fighting the Bush administration and their fascist invasion of Iraq
Downtown Hound
Aug 2019
#92
Not a whole lot you can do about it without trampling the constitution. n/t
Downtown Hound
Aug 2019
#14
If the government can't, could the venues and surrounding businesses refuse them?
Initech
Aug 2019
#36
Counter advice: go downtown en masse. Own your city. Don't give it to out-of-town Fascists.
maxsolomon
Aug 2019
#7
Then you have no business telling people to go downtown when these @$$hole are planning to riot.
CentralMass
Aug 2019
#28
I've been to enough of these marches to know that if you want to avoid trouble, you can
Downtown Hound
Aug 2019
#48
I agree. I've been to a couple in the past year and a half: one in Denver and one in
KPN
Aug 2019
#75
When we fear even expressing disapproval of fascism, then fascism has won.
MarvinGardens
Aug 2019
#53
Playing right into the RW agenda and going to get the rest of us totally screwed.
Crunchy Frog
Aug 2019
#54
also, there are multiple closings of sections of the freeways and streets...
Grasswire2
Aug 2019
#59
Just check that link for freeway closings and delays if you need to use freeways on East side. nt
Grasswire2
Aug 2019
#61
Portland should stop these un-American white power Nazis.The USA in the past shot those pos
rockfordfile
Aug 2019
#80