# AP News reports: Suspect in shooting death of Portland Trump supporter shot dead as federal officers tried to arrest him

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**Created:** [September 4, 2020, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-news-reports-suspect-in-shooting-death-of-portland-trump-supporter-shot-dead-as-federal-officers-tried-to-arrest-him/919779 "2020-09-04T06:00:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2020, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-news-reports-suspect-in-shooting-death-of-portland-trump-supporter-shot-dead-as-federal-officers-tried-to-arrest-him/919779/21 "2020-09-05T19:16:43Z")

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Just a note here, the socialists in Germany were also opposed to the Nazis. Yeah I know, many right wingers can not understand how that was possible. But Hitler knew how to ignore labels, he sent both socialists and communists to concentration camps too.

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**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2020, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-news-reports-suspect-in-shooting-death-of-portland-trump-supporter-shot-dead-as-federal-officers-tried-to-arrest-him/919779/22 "2020-09-06T02:10:42Z")

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> [@octopus](#):
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> Germany did and they were called communists. An ideology that led and continues to lead to more death and suffering than the Nazis.

The thing you call “communism” was really just a form of autocracy that is functionally indistinguishable from the plutocratic regime that lies at the endpoint of Republican plans and policies. In new-speak, it is packaged as “freedom”.

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**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2020, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-news-reports-suspect-in-shooting-death-of-portland-trump-supporter-shot-dead-as-federal-officers-tried-to-arrest-him/919779/23 "2020-09-06T03:03:28Z")

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The thing I call communism is the thing Lenin, Mao, and Stalin were part of.

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**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2020, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-news-reports-suspect-in-shooting-death-of-portland-trump-supporter-shot-dead-as-federal-officers-tried-to-arrest-him/919779/24 "2020-09-06T04:40:54Z")

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Lenin and Stalin being noted German communists, Mao being Austrian doesn’t make the list of noted _German_ communists.

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