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The same thing happened in Portland in the summer of 2020: sure, we were Black Lives Matter protesting downtown at night, but even two blocks away from the protests you would never have known it.

Truly a city of neighborhoods.

I've seen nothing unusual other than it seems traffic is a smidge down this week.

i can’t stop laughing about the fact that most stories culminate in the tragic deaths of waymo cars

Years of propaganda have convinced large numbers of Fash rank and file that major cities are desolate bombed out war zones. They really, truly believe that entire cities have been laid waste by antifa super soldiers.

Portland, hearing about a city being described as a riot laden wasteland:

They used the same narrative in Portland. It burnt down every night. The next morning it had all been rebuilt. We have amazing construction business's here

Same. I’ve seen nothing out of the ordinary. It’s all propaganda over some people exercising their first amendment rights.

Yeah this exactly what it was like in portland in 2020. You’d be sitting on a bar patio drinking with friends while the lady on the TV insisted that the city must be on fire around you.

So you mean to tell me that some humans are.. exaggerating about something?

I vote that “Together in Traffic” become our new motto

Or somewhere people go only when they get called for jury duty or a traffic ticket. I lived in a DTLA loft for a bit years ago, it was cool but even then it felt like a pretend big city (comically amplified by the film crews outside every day literally pretending it was NYC)

I love two miles from downtown and have been to two different birthday parties for children at two different public parks in the last two days. Uh, it’s all extremely fine and pleasant and normal, folks. With god tier weather and food and people, to boot.

Sounds like Minneapolis in 2020. 🤷‍♂️

people having no ability to comprehend life in cities is such a huge problem. boomers in omaha NB who have never been to a city with over 1M ppl in it only know about cities from Fox and Facebook. So they see one city block on fire and assume the whole town is like the combat zone from cyberpunk

It's a big place. We know that. We understand it is not all over the sprawl. But...we know it is happening in a part of LA and that's enough. Because, we understand that if it can happen in one area it can happen anywhere. Even in the areas you visited today.

Had some Aussie brainwashed Trumper pals visit Portland the day after Trump was elected. They were astonished at how clean and lovely it was as they thought "Left protests" had destroyed it. "I guess Trump fixed it already.* They said. Sigh.

In my town, during the protests following Floyd's murder, a lot of my exurban conservative acquaintances made a lot of declarative statements on social media about what was happening around my neighborhood downtown that did not comport with reality. In the slightest.

You're actually wrong. I seen the documentary Escape From L.A.

I’m not saying the cities are comparable in any other way, but I feel about the land area of Los Angeles the way I feel about Kansas City: Just how much space does this burg take up??!!? Because there is just so much land area and getting anywhere outside your local community is an effort.

Me too. I was up there this afternoon and no one was around except for a few cops . Someone on facebook called me a liar. I wasn’t lying it was the truth. I drove all around that area. I did see a lot of graffiti but that was it

I was in Egypt during the revolution. I had a picnic in front of the Egyptian Museum. It’s always one area.

Now you understand what it's like being from Chicago.

DnD??? Where???

That's not what I'm seeing on my TV. These networks are not our friends.

There are no riots and no need for National Guard or the Marines. I was here for the Watts and Rodney King riots and the few incidents that the pathetic POSER and his posse are whining about pale in comparison.

I live in Portland. During the unrest of trump 1 here, a buddy of mine that lives in Indiana asked me "what the hell is going on there?" because the local news he was watching was Portland Anarchy 24/7. I was genuinely perplexed at the diff between his perception and reality.

Sounds like Seattle during the BLM protests and after.

good or the other thing take care 🙂

Cosign for NYC whenever it gets labelled as a scary place by pants-pooping conservatives

They said the same s*** about Portland, Oregon during the BLM protests. It all took place in two city blocks.

POST MORE VIDEOS OF THE TRUTH!!!!!

D&D? It's even worse than we feared!!!

We dont have pride parades in LA. We have entire cities made up entirely of gays

Racist narratives don't push themselves, ya know!

Can confirm in the greater metropolitan area of 34,000 square miles and 19 million people most only know this is happening from the news.

I've been told this about NY; meanwhile, on my last trip, me and a friend closed out a bar, closed out the bar his bartender friend then goes to after work, got pizza at 4am, and walked back home, pizza in hand, as the sun came up on the city. These places rule man.

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Thanks for the update.

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Sadly this reporting is happening with British news as well, labelling it as a riot. I had to explain to my family of what was really going on.

On Fox "News" they are constantly showing in the corner of the screen a clip - on a loop - of a single small fire in the middle of a street. Their message is clear - all of LA is on fire!

Seen it reported that the level of disturbance is a 3/10 Whereas Trump’s assault on the Capitol where people actually died? 11/10? And he pardons those rioters Has no one in the press asked him about his, er, inconsistencies?

It's the same in any democratic city. I've been to Philly and NYC every few months my entire life. The worst thing thats ever happened to me is the guy selling his CDs hit on my mom and not me.

I live in Portland. The same people were saying the same stuff about us 4 years ago. Not a syllable of any of it was true, so I just assume history is repeating itself, as it is wont to do.

It's always the West Coast cities that MAGA like to call "apocalyptic hell holes"... Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle have all be portrayed as antifa havens that need to be taken over by federal government "right think" to save the citizens of these cities.

Sorry that yall are getting the Portland treatment now 🫠

It’s all so the media does not talk about the Epstein files.

Almost like they are a bunch of lying mental cases

That's because by all accounts, it is fine.

It's so scary! Just a total war zone.

Republicans love to do this about Chicago too.

It is fine. This is a protest. Breaking out all over the country to support LA. #WethePeople

DTLA could be a war zone and folks in Pasadena, Santa Monica, Norwalk etc would have no idea. Folks who’ve never been/lived there can’t grasp the sheer size of LA. 👍❤️👍❤️ #ILOVELA

I visited with friends in 2009. We got the train from Anaheim to Pasadena. It was nearly 2 hours, and the train wasn't particularly slow. We were inside the city the whole time. "Sprawling" does not cover it.

journos are NOT going to help with this and show what we’re talking about—never ever is my prediction

Millions of Americans still believe Portland is a smoldering pile of rubble, abandoned years ago like it was a wild west ghost town

lol, fact

True!

and here the BBC playing that same line and it influences people ...

What character class are you playing as?

Due to everything that's happening in LA right now, I made a California Starter Pack to help people get connected. go.bsky.app/zDHeLy

...the earlier, quieter homerun derby games. Just to be clear.

Heck, Summer Game Fest (the new E3) was this past weekend and I saw a whopping *one* person say "Oh yeah, there's some protesting outside my hotel"

Portland redux. Big cities are big!

That's the same as it was with the 2020 protests in Portland, which Trump kept saying had been burned to the ground. Almost no one who lived in the city was even aware of the protest happening in front of the court house.

Fox news lives in an alternate dystopian universe.

That's exactly what a Ghorman terrorist would say.

I suspect if we could see a map with the protest areas plotted out, people would be shocked by how little grounds is actually being covered. Looks like a lot of actions only spans a block or so. This isn’t a mass movement of 10s or even 100s of thousands, this is a relatively small group of people.

Hard to overstate how irrelevant downtown is for most Angelenos (sad but true.)

The people who were very calm about armed 'tourists' carrying Confederate flags into the Capitol sure do have thoughts about protests in California. Weird!

I just wish MSNBC would just shut down the coverage.

Idiots must think LA's a small bum ass city. Not realizing how big it is.

I just watched this delightful vid of the burning hellscape. People are dancing. Cops look so bored. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Mv5QdA/

I don't know about you.... But I'm still recovering from seeing all those Mexican flags!

Said it before, will say it again: bsky.app/profile/wilh...

Same. Strange, right? Wonder where the disconnect could possibly come from🤷‍♀️

Said it before, will say it again: bsky.app/profile/wilh...

Aren't there around 4 million people in the city itself and several million more in commuting distance? The most breathless coverage is putting the protest numbers in the few thousand range. It's a statistical rounding error.

That could apply to Sydney, Australia or any large city equally as well; but anyone with a sense of justice and decency would show empathy with their diverse fellow residents and see the events as the opening to wider attacks on many residents. 'First they came for...'

Panic sells, bud.

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Yup, Portland went through this during the BLM protests. The feds arriving ignited the whole thing which was confined to a few blocks. But we were “on fire!”

Of course it is. All but those idiots in MAGA world know the truth.

They did the SAME with "the border" for 8 years.. now #TrumpRegime needs to manufacture a #crisis across the WHOLE country so he starts With the largst city in the BIGGEST most wealthy #BlueState which intimidates him

Well fairness and objectivity demands that we give equal weight to statements from people who claim there's nothing left of LA besides a smoldering crater.

ABC LA STOP ANSWERING MY CALLS.

We are remote employees and 3 of us are in LA area, one gal says she can hear it, but she is in her home and the dog isn't even agitated. She is in the Compton area, not sure where, the two other had some quick power interruptions, but not much at all but they are not in the main city center.

LA is great, it is a beautiful, peaceful city full of art and life. Crime, especially violent crimes have been going down like most cities around the US. The only violence and crime come from ICE and trump.

It's just the start of their excuse to impose martial law so he can further abuse his power and cancel any future elections

This was Portland during his last term.

That’s what they always do. Same thing happened during George Floyd protests. The acted like Seattle and Portland were some dystopian hellscape. Sure, that’s why everyone keeps moving there. 🙄

Fox News: LA is burning down with violent insurrectionists! On Screen: People hanging out and chilling by a campfire in the middle of the street.

The media in the U.S. is a major problem! @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy @abcnetwork.bsky.social @cnn.com @nbcnews.com and the print media just as bad!

Sprawl has it’s advantages, I guess.

Oakland, too.

Have a fun game!

The power of propaganda. Id keep getting the message out that everything is pretty normal. Important for the country to realize that.

Los Angeles = Portland in the sun Los Angeles = Minneapolis on the water

During the alleged mayhem in LA yesterday, one artist I know was vending at a street fair and another was having an art opening (which I hope both went well!) Not to diminish what's happening at all, but I mean... these are block parties. Sternly worded letters. Not even close to full potential

I'm off to work at the veterinary clinic I've been at for seven years. Foggy skies, but that is it.

I went out yesterday and was accosted by a parade. I was trembling😱 With a good time and beautiful people.

Armed service and national guard members who live in LA have noticed this as well. It's just a blip in the normal LA churn--not even near 1992 levels.

Pretty sure it was another Trump "False Flag" event

As usual, the LA riots are all "TRUMPED UP" propaganda so that our wannabe king leader can declare martial law and flex his baby prez muscles. Gross!

I think mostly because LA is fucking awesome.

They did the same for NYC during BLM marches. The city was always just fine until the cops showed up and escalated things.

I liked They Live before it became a documentary

like, most people don't really comprehend how fucking big Los Angeles (and California in general) is. It's a city with *multiple smaller cities* inside it. LA has a larger population than most states.

bsky.app/profile/hawa... And people are talking like the whole city is going to be in shutdown or smth

It's unfortunate that you Ghormans are so resistant to Imperial norms.