Naked bike riders demonstrate against federal troops in 'quintessentially Portland' protest

[hunter]

13. I find this perspective a bit perplexing. The metaphor is obvious.

They are telling the Trump administration and Republicans leaders in general, "Hey, I've got nothing to hide, how about you?"

Everyone in the Trump administration has something to hide.

How about those Epstein files? is just a small sampling of what they hide.

I think we are beyond the point of offending voters who may still be "on the fence." If they are still on the fence they are lost souls and the best we can hope for is that they will abstain from elections instead of voting for Republicans.

Personally, I don't worry much about nudity. Half of why I wear clothes is environmental -- I sunburn very easily and I don't like to be cold. The other half is that I pay attention to social norms, however arbitrary and inexplicable those might be.

Plenty of people have seen me naked, photographed me naked, and drawn or painted me naked, for the most part in social contexts where nudity is generally accepted within our society. ( And most of that was before the internet could turn the most innocent sorts of casual nudity or art into a scandal. )

If newly minted ICE agents or young National Guard soldiers from "conservative" U.S.A. are shocked by naked bike riders, maybe this is a good thing. Maybe they'll secretly wish they were hanging out with those interesting people. The U.S.A. is not Iran (yet?) where they'd have license to beat naked protesters bloody and haul them away to prison, possibly to die.