Stay weird Portland.

[Valmy]

If you can't handle an edgy situation, don't stick your nose in it.

Sure. Of course that's easier to judge in retrospect.

Right. Unfortunately yelling racist shit is not uncommon enough for people to think that the person doing it is a dangerous felon. That is a pretty specific situation.

[CountDeMoney]

If you can't handle an edgy situation, don't stick your nose in it.

Sure. Of course that's easier to judge in retrospect.

You do realize he's using tasteless knife-related puns because he's being a dick, right? Or are you just being a counter-dick in retaliation?

[11B4V]

If you can't handle an edgy situation, don't stick your nose in it.

Sure. Of course that's easier to judge in retrospect.

You do realize he's using tasteless knife-related puns because he's being a dick, right? Or are you just being a counter-dick in retaliation?

We walk a razor's edge here at Languish.

[Eddie Teach]

That's putting a fine point on it.

[Syt]

Also happening in Portland:

Man yells racist things at brown women on the train. Two bystanders intervene and are stabbed to death by the racist guy.

http://www.opb.org/news/article/portland-train-attack-stabbing/

No win situation. You intervene, you get stabbed. You don't do anything, you empower to the douchebag. You call the cops, they laugh at you for calling them on this non-issue.

[Eddie Teach]

I'm not sure ignoring crazies yelling things on buses "empowers" them.

[Syt]

I'm not sure ignoring crazies yelling things on buses "empowers" them.

Not sure "empowers" is the word that describes what I meant. He would walk away thinking, "Well, that was all right, and no one interfered, so they tacitly agreed." Or at a minimum not noticing that this is not socially acceptable behavior.

[garbon]

One of the guys that died intervening was a vet.

[Razgovory]

I guess the moral of the story is that you should shoot Nazis at first contact.

[Maladict]

One of the guys that died intervening was a vet.

That didn't make sense at all, I actually started looking for an obscure pun, until I realized you meant veteran. 

[garbon]

One of the guys that died intervening was a vet.

That didn't make sense at all, I actually started looking for an obscure pun, until I realized you meant veteran. 

This place has changed you, man.

[viper37]

Also happening in Portland:

Man yells racist things at brown women on the train. Two bystanders intervene and are stabbed to death by the racist guy.

http://www.opb.org/news/article/portland-train-attack-stabbing/

Good bless America, where your only options are:
1) Mind your business
2) Carry a gun

and be at an immediate disadvantage?  No thank you.

[Valmy]

I think that is a knife that puts you at a disadvantage. I miss Top Cat.

[The Larch]

Apparently the county's GOP chairman is floating the idea of getting militias to act as security forces for Republican public events. 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/29/portland-attack-republican-james-buchal-militia-groups

Portland Republican says party should use militia groups after racial attack

County GOP chair James Buchal says security forces may be appropriate as tensions rise after two people died in a racial attack on public transport

(...)
Multnomah County GOP chair James Buchal, however, told the Guardian that recent street protests had prompted Portland Republicans to consider alternatives to "abandoning the public square".

"I am sort of evolving to the point where I think that it is appropriate for Republicans to continue to go out there," he said. "And if they need to have a security force protecting them, that's an appropriate thing too."

Asked if this meant Republicans making their own security arrangements rather than relying on city or state police, Buchal said: "Yeah. And there are these people arising, like the Oath Keepers and the Three Percenters."

Asked if he was considering such groups as security providers, Buchal said: "Yeah. We're thinking about that. Because there are now belligerent, unstable people who are convinced that Republicans are like Nazis."

The Oath Keepers are described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as "one of the largest radical antigovernment groups in the US", recruiting current and former military and law enforcement personnel. They have recently appeared at rallies from Berkeley to Boston, standing with activists from the far right, activists holding what were once fringe positions who have recently risen to national prominence.

The Three Percenters are described by Political Research Associates as "a paramilitary group that pledges armed resistance against attempts to restrict private gun ownership". They were a highly visible presence in Burns, Oregon, before and during the occupation of the Malheur wildlife refuge by rightwing militia early in 2016.

And nothing dispels accusations of being nazis than employing a private paramilitary force for security!

[derspiess]

I guess the moral of the story is that you should shoot Nazis at first contact.

He was a Bernie voter.