look like someone wanted to replay Charlottesville with I think the same car in Portland. Things are getting wild up there tonight
https://twitter.com/bittertier/status/1299919302137585665?s=21
They just killed someone.
I don’t know the details of the perpetrator so just assuming it’s right wingers, but the video is out there. A Trump caravan revs past macing people, then a dude is shot and killed on the streets. A livestreamer on Facebook who got maced caught the shooting on video, possibly accidentally, he seems to have no idea as his eyes are burning and he’s asking for help while a dude is dead on the ground, I don’t think he knew what happened.
The murderer was definitely on the street and did not appear to be shooting indiscriminately or for max carnage.
Frankly, this shouldn’t be a surprise. It’s just the beginning. There will be many more
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Some are saying the shots came from a car. I really don’t think this is true, but it’s not that easy to see.
Seriously what the fuck? A mess of Trump fucks show up rolling through downtown Portland and literally get away with murder.
https://twitter.com/DarnelSugarfoo/status/1299927999324672000
Here’s the actual shooting. Probably not Trump-parade related. The probably shooter in a light-colored jacket with white socks runs off the screen to the right.
This is what Trump has been pushing for months now…sigh…
I thought I had a hot take about this, but I don’t really. It’s just a bunch of ideas swimming around. Dudes are driving around in monster pickup trucks with tacticool gear firing paintballs into crowds… it’s cargo cult masculinity. It’s the 21st century and antifa guys have wooden shields, I dunno, this is all weird. Like, you all have insanely easy access to guns, what are we doing here. I don’t have dvaut skills, so I can’t give you guys a cool take here, but shit is very strange.
Another random thought, the police everywhere switched their uniforms from blue to black everywhere, right? That’s kind of creepy? I’m watching the local news in small-town Ohio and they’re definitely suited up in all-black uniforms, whatever happened to them being the boys in blue?
I’m old enough to remember when the cops wore blue so you could recognize them. They were on some Norman Rockwell Officer Friendly shit being a part of the community. If you were a white kid with short hair, you could hang with them at the local diner.
Fast forward to 2020, these cops are all in all-black outfits. It creeps me out.
And it’s not even big cities, look at the sheriff of idyllic, small-town Belmont Ohio:
WHAT THE FUCK IS IT WITH THIS DYSTOPIAN SHIT? Does anyone want to hang out at the local diner with this creep with the wraparound shades and the shit-eating grin? The whole scene is creeps me out and it’s weird. There are fewer than 500 people in Belmont, Ohio, and this guy has a matte black belt buckle so he can go on stealthy night ops or some dumb shit. Does anyone want to hang out at the diner with this dipshit?
Meanwhile in West Carolton, Ohio, population 13k: they got the all-black color scheme with a thin blue line that’s a vestigial reminder of the time when the cops used to wear blue.
This is all happening in sleepy parts of the Midwest, if you live in a major city, the cops look like this:
You might object and tell me that these color schemes are just an aesthetic choice, but no, fuck that shit. Symbolism and color are very real and powerful things. What other institutions have adopted an all-black color scheme? Pirates, ISIS, the SS, and the cops in suburban Ohio. Cool, cool.
Postscript: This post isn’t even fair to the Nazis, tbh. The SS had all-black uniforms but they also had the dash of bright red from the armband. Fuck the Nazis, but they did have a rudimentary sense of style.
https://twitter.com/ByMikeBaker/status/1299939511971921923
Welp the boogaloo guys are getting closer to that race war they jerk off to.
I’ve eaten at this place several times. It’s Joe’s Diner in the town of Lee, MA. Exit 2 on the turnpike, about a mile up Rt. 20 just before the river.
If you’re ever in the area, don’t stop, because it’s a pretty crappy diner.
A quick google search tells me that the Lee cops roll out looking like this:
I dunno, am I being weird here or is this legitimately unsettling to you guys? I want to hang out with the cop in blue in the Norman Rockwell picture, but who are these creepy weirdos with the all-black scheme?
I’m weirded out here. The cops are all 100% adopting Waffen SS color schemes, from New England to the Midwest to anywhere. The cops are all bad everywhere. It’s like all cops are bad.
The black cop car with the black matte lettering is even worse.
There is a long circulating (and likely apocryphal) story that the Nazi SS copied their uniforms from the MA state police. We’re trailblazers up here!
I have been noticing more and more unmarked cars around my city. The SUVs don’t stand out from civilian vehicles until you’re right on top of them. Sneaky fuckers.
These people love their trucks and treat them as surrogate penises, so maybe an appropriate response that doesn’t harm people is doing something to ruin their paint jobs.
You know, say what you will about Nazi Germany, they at least had a basic aesthetic sense. They knew they had to throw in a dash of bright red to make their SS uniforms pop. These Midwest/New England Nazis with their banal all-black color schemes of black/white/dingy grey are just embarrassing.
This is the banality of evil right here: it’s jizz-moppers with wrap-around sunglasses in all-black patrolling small New England towns with their souped-up SUVs with cow catchers. They’re all bad, from New England to the Midwest to the Southwest to Cali, the cops are all creepy weirdos and I don’t feel comfortable around them. How come they stopped wearing blue? Why are they all in black now? The color scheme matters.
https://twitter.com/zerosum24/status/1299938822915006464
Enhanced video of the shooting. You can hear yelling as the patriot prayer guy shoots mace at the guy who shot him a split second later. The guy filming complained of getting mace in his eyes.
Even though the shooter looks black in this video - he’s very likely a white guy that someone captured earlier hanging around.
The skateboard guy seems like he had to know what was coming. Or at least he knows the shooter and didn’t want to stick around for questions. Just casually goes back and gets his board and gets out of there.
What else can you do?
“I didn’t see anything.”