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Out of Portland tear gas, an apparition emerges, capturing the imagination of protesters

Ya gotta love Portlanders. Kookiest bunch of people on the planet.
 
Diesel said:
That is a well written account of a mesmerizing incident. There are videos on YouTube, but I'm not sure if I can link them since Americans have a problem with tits.
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Well written in terms of an op-ed piece. I agree. It's a good human interest story. However, it's not really a news piece, and this really isn't news.

In summary - a woman 'protested' by doing naked yoga for the police officers. No one shot her. After about 15 minutes, she left.
 
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This article and the incident it describes eloquently shows exactly how responding to protests, especially protests of police brutality, with force is like trying to put a fire out with gasoline. Imagine the social and political blowback if news organizations had the opportunity to broadcast around the world graphic videos of this vulnerable nude woman being brutalized by rubber bullets, mace, or police batons. Instead, the fire was left to burn itself out, and burn itself out it did.

Kudos to whomever it was that ordered the police to leave that scene and let the protesters have it. There is a lesson to be learned here for those who advocate for these social justice protesters to be met with overwhelming force and violence of action, and these people should be thankful that they didn't have to learn this lesson the hard way in this instance.
 
lwf said:
This article and the incident it describes eloquently shows exactly how responding to protests, especially protests of police brutality, with force is like trying to put a fire out with gasoline. Imagine the social and political blowback if news organizations had the opportunity to broadcast around the world graphic videos of this vulnerable nude woman being brutalized by rubber bullets, mace, or police batons. Instead, the fire was left to burn itself out, and burn itself out it did.

Kudos to whomever it was that ordered the police to leave that scene and let the protesters have it. There is a lesson to be learned here for those who advocate for these social justice protesters to be met with overwhelming force and violence of action, and these people should be thankful that they didn't have to learn this lesson the hard way in this instance.
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Resorting to force as the first measure is usually a sign that the people using force are too stupid to do anything else.
 
While New York is now officially a **** hole, Portland is maintaining their charm.
 
dcsports said:
Well written in terms of an op-ed piece. I agree. It's a good human interest story. However, it's not really a news piece, and this really isn't news.

In summary - a woman 'protested' by doing naked yoga for the police officers. No one shot her. After about 15 minutes, she left.
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Meh. It's information. Whether or not you consider it "news" is between you and the mods. I enjoyed reading the account and shared it with some people.
 
Diesel said:
You consider a nude human form to be "porn"? ****ing protestants trying to ruin everyone else's lives.
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Is a nude woman sitting on the ground with her legs splayed exposing herself to strangers pornographic or just artistic? Mind you, I'm not denigrating it. I like pron as much as the next person.

This may be a case of, "I can't define it but I know it when I see it."
 
eman623 said:
Is a nude woman sitting on the ground with her legs splayed exposing herself to strangers pornographic or just artistic? Mind you, I'm not denigrating it. I like pron as much as the next person.

This may be a case of, "I can't define it but I know it when I see it."
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Well, as with everything else in life, intention has to account for something. Based on what I know, I sincerely doubt the naked protester was attempting to be sexy. She didn't engage in any sex acts. I don't consider anything about her actions pornographic.
 
Logical1 said:
If the idiots in Portland cant handle the criminal rioters, someone has to.
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The naked protester did a better job of defusing violence than the armed troops did.
 
Diesel said:
Well, as with everything else in life, intention has to account for something. Based on what I know, I sincerely doubt the naked protester was attempting to be sexy. She didn't engage in any sex acts. I don't consider anything about her actions pornographic.
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We will have to agree to disagree here. You don't have to engage in actual sex acts to be pornographic.

OTOH, splaying ones legs as widely as she did, and giving people full frontal nudity is usually considered porngraphic.
 
eman623 said:
We will have to agree to disagree here. You don't have to engage in actual sex acts to be pornographic.

OTOH, splaying ones legs as widely as she did, and giving people full frontal nudity is usually considered porngraphic.
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OK, you clutch your pearls. I'll focus on what she intended to be focused on.
 
Diesel said:
That is a well written account of a mesmerizing incident. There are videos on YouTube, but I'm not sure if I can link them since Americans have a problem with tits.
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Good one. Trump is an exception, he loves tits especially if they're not his wife's.
 
eman623 said:
We will have to agree to disagree here. You don't have to engage in actual sex acts to be pornographic.

OTOH, splaying ones legs as widely as she did, and giving people full frontal nudity is usually considered porngraphic.
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Only to people who have serious hangups. A yoga position is a yoga position
 
Diesel said:
OK, you clutch your pearls. I'll focus on what she intended to be focused on.
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Clutch pearls? Why does everyone always make these discussions personal? People can't just disagree anymore. You have to be clutching those pearls while I am focusing on the important stuff (Except for all those posts I made with you about the nude lady. Those don't count.)
 
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