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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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?
It’s easy to believe someone who tells you what you want to hear.
Including the president, king of dumb.