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@palkyrie.bsky.social

east portland, politics, surviving while poor, snark, halfBlackness #RinkBack #FuckDundon #YNWA between forty and fifty, between lower-class and upper lower-class, between pendleton and rainier. bnuuy hug on Goblin. inchoaterica.wordpress.com

Here’s what’s going on. Baby boomers bought houses for cheap and then spent decades showing up to meetings demanding nothing else could be built in their neighborhoods so that their houses would see exponential increases in value, and now they don’t want that value taxed.

Politico@politico.com · 11h ago

“I’m old. I’ve paid my home off,” said Ray Warner, a 72-year-old Akron resident. “Why would I pay property tax?” Across the country, homeowners are asking the same question and revolting against property taxes at a scale not seen in a half century.

So you’re not from Oregon, but you have very important pearl-clutching to do about an OLCC? I mean I favor the current system: OP doesn’t. But your statement indicates you have no earthly clue how alcohol is sold in Oregon. So why such an interest in silly little Oregon?

Emmet @emmet987.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Nothing makes a neighborhood look run down faster than a liquor store. Maybe get some exercise by walking to a liquor store outside of your neighborhood, or choose something healthy instead, like a small vegetable smoothie.

The problem is that everyone (and especially dense people like Gladwell) treat police as a mere quantity issue, when the problem is quality It doesn't matter if you have 50 cops or 5,000 if they'll all indoctrinated into the sick warrior cop culture. More community safety officers? I'm OK with that

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 12h ago

“In recent years, many Americans have decided that their country’s problem was that it had too many police officers, when in fact its problem was that it had too few,” Malcolm Gladwell writes: