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MineralMan

(149,825 posts)
32. You are correct. It's obviously not Portland, too.
Sun Sep 28, 2025, 10:18 AM
Yesterday

It's a satirical post. It is a photo of war-damaged Kyiv in Ukraine. That is a "war-ravaged" city. Portland looks nothing like that. There is no war in Portland. There is a war in Kyiv.

Satire is interesting. It uses things like wildly inaccurate depictions of something that is completely non-representative of the reality. That should trigger in readers a realization that something is up in the post. Then, logic comes into play. The reader realizes that Portland does not look anything like that. Then, a little thought goes into the process. So, if Portland doesn't look like that, what is the point of the post? Ah, it's playing off Trump's statement that "Portland is a war-ravaged city, so we have to send troops in to rescue Portland."

Then comes clarity and an understanding that the intent of the OP was to attack Trump's false claim about Portland.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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