Love to target designated legal observers with pepper spray for no goddamn reason.
https://twitter.com/RetiredMaybe/status/1287551740607225856?s=19
Portland Police working with the feds to arrest people and obstruct the media. I guess this is what standing down looks like
Agreed all
Next thing I know someone will tell me this doesn't own hard
https://twitter.com/RichieMcGinniss/status/1287651553453563904?s=19
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did one of the cops try and shoot at it after? LMAO I doubt it but that is what it looks like
Hey, @big_ass, is this the PPD standing down?
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1287671569603391489?s=19
@big_ass is this the Portland PD not cooperating with feds as they were ordered?
https://twitter.com/45thabsurdist/status/1286975510912720898?s=19
In full support of trump's stasi police doing what they need to do.
Nice bait
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I watched all of your twitter videos and here are my thoughts
- You can't get a complete view of the world from 5-second clips on your social media feed
Social media feeds are in many ways more manipulative (though perhaps unintentionally) than even mainstream media but it's largely because they are presented without context and can very easily serve an emotional narrative
For example - the 5 second clip we saw the other day of some Navy vet standing in front of a bunch of officers with his arms at his sides getting sprayed by tear gas and hit with batons.
We don't have any context for this situation, we don't know what events led up to the moment being filmed, what we do know is reported by a random person on social media whose biases and sources we aren't aware of - all we see is some dude getting attacked.
Social media barrages us with hundreds of such clips, all without context or nuance, until we are emotionally overwhelmed and exhausted and believe all of the things that I laid out in the previous post - us against them narrative, our very existence is at stake, we're sick and tired of being sick and tired, we need to fight back, and so on.
Another example - one of the twits you posted (a 5 second video without context, used to support an emotional narrative that the cops in it are doing something wrong) was itself posted without context. When I clicked through to the origin of the tweet, the poster is actually a journalist on the ground documenting the situation in the PNW.
Here are some of his other tweets/videos on the situation
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1287692504167415808
https://twitter.com/Brittany3l/status/1287664696758329344
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1287662286786633728
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1287721297523257344
Point being that even in this thread, out of context clips are presented with an emotional narrative which is not necessarily supported by the clips themselves, by the origin of the vid (the person on the ground actually recording it), or by the facts. It is an emotional argument that feels valid but isn't necessarily truthful
- You're applauding somebody throwing actual explosives at cops