They poured accelerant on the front of the building and set it on fire. It was extinguished right away. They called themselves antifa. What is incorrect here?
WELL CHUCK.... Capitals because someone I
respect seems to be spreading poor information without doing much
research.... DETAILS MATTER... specially if you are getting
pretty close to yelling fire in a theater... Is there a
difference between a union hall and a police station, YES, are
they both building that the police use, YES. Is burning one
worse than the other Yes and no. Did the building actually burn
NO. Your response was so far below what I would expect from
you, I have to either figure you are seriously stirring the pot
for no good, or you just don't care anymore what people think of
you.
Chatgpt...
I couldn’t find credible evidence that Antifa
definitively burned a Portland police station.
What I did find is more nuanced — there were
fire-and-vandalism incidents in Portland during protests,
sometimes targeting police or police union buildings, but no clear
record of Antifa burning a full police station.
Here’s a summary of what I found:
What does appear to be true
During the George Floyd protests in Portland (2020-2021),
protesters broke into the Portland Police Association (PPA)
building on North Lombard Street and set fire inside it. Some
windows were smashed, security cameras damaged, and a dumpster
was set ablaze among other acts. (Wikipedia)
These events are documented in multiple sources, including
reports that the PPA (a police union building) was vandalized
and partially burned. (Wikipedia)
What I didn’t find confirmed
I did not find credible, well-documented
evidence that a full police precinct / station house
was burned down or destroyed by Antifa (or protesters
self-identifying as such).
Some reports, particularly from less reliable outlets or
opinion/rumor sources, make claims like “BLM or Antifa
protesters burned a police station,” but these are not
substantiated in reputable news or official records. For
example, a claim in the New York Post says
protesters set a police station on fire. However, that article
lacks verification from local fire or police department
sources. (New
York Post)
If you want, I can try tracking down any fire department or
official records to see exactly what was burned and when — that
might clarify whether “station house” means union building vs
precinct vs administrative offices, etc. Do you want me to dig
into that?
On 9/18/25 3:20 PM, Chuck wrote:
All the maskef antifas burning police stations proclamed they were
antifa.
I guess I don't see anyone from Antifa
telling comics that they have to get off the air. Actually
I have not heard ONE single person declare themselves as
antifa, but plenty of MAGA saying that someone was antifa
because they didn't like the words coming out of their
mouths. And then actually striking out against that
person. Physically or politically...
On 9/18/25 1:29 PM, Cameron Crum
wrote:
When Antifa says fascism, they just mean
anything not on the extreme left. If they disagree with
you, you are a fascist. There is no relevance to actual
fascism like you think about from WW2, and in fact most of
their "actions" are far closer to that fascism than
anything the "right" is doing.
On Thu, Sep 18, 2025 at
11:56 AM Bill Prince <[email protected]>
wrote:
What a lot of people fail to understand is that
there is no "antifa" organization. It's more of a
philosophy (IMO). Sure, a lot of marginalized people
probably ascribe to the notion of antifa.
However, I would say that the majority of Americans
are against the idea of fascism.
Tell me you're in favor of fascism.
bp
<part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
On 9/18/2025 9:46 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
Is
your sphere of influence real life people you
know, or online stuff? I honestly have never
had a single person IRL mention Antifa, much
less belong to such an organization. And Utah
seems an unlikely place to have Antifa cells.
But
Howard from Big Bang Theory reminds us you
don’t need to experience something to know you
want it:
Maybe
you mean nihilism and not literally Antifa.
There seems to be a bumper crop of disaffected
nihilists these days. Not sure that fits
neatly into a left/right political narrative.
More like there will always be people who
think the world has screwed them over and want
to burn the whole thing down.
From: AF <[email protected]>On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2025
11:16 AM To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users
Group' <[email protected]> Subject: [AFMUG] OT Politics (slow
day, need my trolling fix, dopamine you
know)
Odd
that the majority of the people in my sphere
of influence that are espousing the goodness
of antifa are all uniformly: uneducated, pot
smoking, un churched, and in many cases with
minor criminal records, but all of them are as
poor as dirt it seems. Poverty is what drove
the Russian revolution. Perhaps that is the
driver here.
I
just cannot get behind the ideology. This is
what Wikipedia says:
