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:
