I love that the administration has focused on Portland. It’s such a beautiful city with such an amazing vibe, portraying it as anything other than a bougied up giant village feels just wrong. The whole narrative about hellhole falls apart after five minutes on the ground.
The same thing with the “LA has burned to the ground, we’re sending the national guards”. Most of the protests and the “rioting” were happening in a 5-6 block area, the rest of LA was business as usual.
I don’t even live in the US and have never visited Portland and I even know that Faux News and the Trumpanzee are trying to paint a deceptive picture of the city. How fucking dumb are some of these Americans to believe that shit.
How fucking dumb are some of these Americans to believe that shit.
I’ve lived here most of my life and knew it was bad but had no idea just how bad it was until Trump 1.0. Then covid-19 happened and it was a real eye opener for many of us. Now it’s not just willful ignorance but a deep-seated dedication to remaining ignorant at all costs.
Don’t judge them too harshly. If everybody surrounding you starts talking about how Portland turned into a shithole, you’d start eventually believing it, too. I know people that live 20 km South of San Francisco, who claimed they would not come see me in town when I was visiting because it was too dangerous. They were baffled not only that I walked everywhere, but that I survived the ordeal unscathed.
Propaganda is strangely powerful. I still remember the run-up to the Iraq War, when Bush et al. were talking about weapons of mass destruction and everybody believed them. I thought to myself: if the Iranians are not concerned about Iraqi WMDs, and they are sworm enemies and right next to each other, why should anyone else be?
A similar thing is how if you listen to anyone from the Inland Empire talk about LA it will sound like it’s a toxic waste site. In reality we just don’t like their attitude and also fuck LA traffic. We don’t have anywhere to squirm on crime, ever been to San Bernardino or West Highland?
I love that the administration has focused on Portland. It’s such a beautiful city with such an amazing vibe, portraying it as anything other than a bougied up giant village feels just wrong. The whole narrative about hellhole falls apart after five minutes on the ground.
The same thing with the “LA has burned to the ground, we’re sending the national guards”. Most of the protests and the “rioting” were happening in a 5-6 block area, the rest of LA was business as usual.
I don’t even live in the US and have never visited Portland and I even know that Faux News and the Trumpanzee are trying to paint a deceptive picture of the city. How fucking dumb are some of these Americans to believe that shit.
I’ve lived here most of my life and knew it was bad but had no idea just how bad it was until Trump 1.0. Then covid-19 happened and it was a real eye opener for many of us. Now it’s not just willful ignorance but a deep-seated dedication to remaining ignorant at all costs.
You see where we’re at now…
Don’t judge them too harshly. If everybody surrounding you starts talking about how Portland turned into a shithole, you’d start eventually believing it, too. I know people that live 20 km South of San Francisco, who claimed they would not come see me in town when I was visiting because it was too dangerous. They were baffled not only that I walked everywhere, but that I survived the ordeal unscathed.
Propaganda is strangely powerful. I still remember the run-up to the Iraq War, when Bush et al. were talking about weapons of mass destruction and everybody believed them. I thought to myself: if the Iranians are not concerned about Iraqi WMDs, and they are sworm enemies and right next to each other, why should anyone else be?
A similar thing is how if you listen to anyone from the Inland Empire talk about LA it will sound like it’s a toxic waste site. In reality we just don’t like their attitude and also fuck LA traffic. We don’t have anywhere to squirm on crime, ever been to San Bernardino or West Highland?
It’s easy to believe someone who tells you what you want to hear.
Including the president, king of dumb.