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Eve Sturges's avatar

wow this is so complex; I admire your tenacious attempt to clarify and explore this issue! Without living in Portland and understanding the issue(s) firsthand, it feels like a microcosm of the larger social conflict(s) we're facing everywhere.

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Richard Cheverton's avatar

The real question: who's paying for these masked thugs? The history of the radical movement in recent history is liberally salted with FBI/intel agents who seem to appear and disappear at random. Some are arrested--good show for the comrades--and then, poof!, charges disappear. Antifa come; Antifa go. Nonprofits launder "contributions," but no one knows where they come from (the Supreme Court that radicals profess to hate guaranteed the right to keep that little secret).

General rule: if someone says it's so, it ain't.

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