Photo by Kainoa Little/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Far-right protesters in Portland, Oregon, march through Tom McCall Waterfront Park as part of a fascist rally on Aug. 4, 2018. Another rally, this one planned by the neofascist Proud Boys gang, is scheduled for this Saturday.

PORTLAND, Ore. — The more fascists that turn up in Portland this weekend, the more money they’ll end up raising for an anti-fascist cause. Members of the neofascist Proud Boys gang and other militant far-right groups are set to invade the City of Roses this Saturday for yet another rally along the riverfront. But for each fascist who shows up here, counterprotesters have pledged to donate money to a local Latino immigrant rights group. If, for example, someone pledges a dime per fascist, and 300 fascists show up Saturday, that person would owe a $30 donation. “Every one of the fascists that shows up is raising money for a cause that they hate,” explained Jesse Goldman, a spokesperson for Popular Mobilization (or PopMob), a local coalition of groups organizing the counterprotest. The money will go to Causa, which advocates for Oregon’s Latino population at the state and national level, and helps protect local undocumented immigrants from deportation.

Can't #BeTheSpectacle in person Saturday? You can still help us fight hate! We've partnered with @CausaOregon and Pacific Northwest United Against Hate to create a fundraiser that uses hateful protestors to protect immigrant families. — (Pop)ular (Mob)ilization (@PopMobPDX) August 14, 2019

The Proud Boys and their fascist fellow travelers are decidedly anti-immigrant. (“All the immigrants that jump our border, we should be smashing their heads into the concrete,” one Proud Boy associate was filmed saying into a megaphone at a Portland rally last year.) The tactic of turning fascist gatherings into benefits for anti-fascist causes has gained popularity in recent years. For every meter of the route neo-Nazis marched through Wunsiedel, Germany, this past November, residents there arranged for 10 euros to be sent to a program called EXIT Deutschland, which assists people escaping extremist groups. Residents hung banners making fun of the Nazis, thanking them for their donations. (All told, 10,000 euros were raised.)

Counterprotesters in Portland are hoping to strike a similar mocking tone Saturday. The PopMob coalition — which includes anti-fascist groups, labor unions and other assorted leftist organizations — distributed flyers this week explaining its strategy. “These far right jerks want to come to our city, clad in military gear and camo, acting out their sick war games fantasies, so they can put it on YouTube and recruit more gross dudes like them with their toxic masculinity riot porn,” a flyer said, continuing: “We have had enough. We decided instead of giving them the fight they’re looking for, we want to make it virtually impossible for them to get a single shot of themselves looking as tough and macho as these dweebs have convinced themselves they are.” And so PopMob is encouraging people to embrace the absurd. There are plans for a contingent of protesters to dress up as poop emojis. An anti-fascist brass band will be dressed as bananas. “We want every photo opportunity they have to be ruined by a banana playing the tuba, a giant poop emoji, an inflatable unicorn, bubbles, glitter, rainbows, proud ecstatic queers, drag queens and every kind of absurdity you can imagine,” the group’s flyer says.

We're getting ready! Grab some friends and come downtown Saturday (8/17)! Let's show these jerks Portland stands with marginalized people and against Trump + his bigotsquad. Perform, lookie-loo, or just bang a gong! It's your city. #BeTheSpectacle#EverydayAntifascist#AllOutPDXpic.twitter.com/CzORV6V03c — (Pop)ular (Mob)ilization (@PopMobPDX) August 11, 2019