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You’re fear mongering and spewing ignorance. I live in Portland and it’s not even close to what you say. It sounds like you’re scared and pushing it off on ever

You’re fear mongering and spewing ignorance. I live in Portland and it’s not even close to what you say. It sounds like you’re scared and pushing it off on everyone else. The only thing to be really scared of is the police here because they by and large don’t help anything or anyone. They’re also rife with white supremacists who can’t be fired because of their union and an absolutely pathetic wormlike mayor. This same dialogue blames “homelessness” for downtown being dead instead of overpriced rents and an absolute lack of culture that never recovered from covid.

wil421 3y ago
My coworker who lives in Vancouver, Washington calls it the Portland war zone. When the riots were going on he would say I’m not sure if I see smoke or tear gas over there but it’s definitely not fog.
- rubyn00bie 3y ago
  They were protests not riots. The police were gassing non-violent protests in residential neighborhoods. This is exactly the fear mongering I’m talking about. Some people who you “know” have second hand information, or just made things up, and you’re peddling it third hand. Once again, there were no riots, and anyone who stated this is lying or being fed bullshit from their TV news.
  - slowhadoken 3y ago
    The protests were protests, the riots were riots. I knew some of the people at both. It was half panic and half LARPing. I had to work because I was put my wife through college at the time.
slowhadoken 3y ago
I’ve been visiting Portland since 2002. I knew all the old school business owners and locals. I was at Occupy Wall Street PDX. I lived there off and on for ten years after 2008. For the first half I worked in Chinatown. For the second half I worked with police, hospitals, social workers, homeless shelters, etc. through Covid and the George Floyd riots. Cops still do stuff but their role has been limited by public opinion and they’re trying to keep crime stats low so the turn break-ins into welfare calls. The transplants after 2014ish turned Portland into a mess.

wil421 3y ago

My coworker who lives in Vancouver, Washington calls it the Portland war zone. When the riots were going on he would say I’m not sure if I see smoke or tear gas over there but it’s definitely not fog.

rubyn00bie 3y ago
They were protests not riots. The police were gassing non-violent protests in residential neighborhoods. This is exactly the fear mongering I’m talking about. Some people who you “know” have second hand information, or just made things up, and you’re peddling it third hand. Once again, there were no riots, and anyone who stated this is lying or being fed bullshit from their TV news.
- slowhadoken 3y ago
  The protests were protests, the riots were riots. I knew some of the people at both. It was half panic and half LARPing. I had to work because I was put my wife through college at the time.

slowhadoken 3y ago

I’ve been visiting Portland since 2002. I knew all the old school business owners and locals. I was at Occupy Wall Street PDX. I lived there off and on for ten years after 2008. For the first half I worked in Chinatown. For the second half I worked with police, hospitals, social workers, homeless shelters, etc. through Covid and the George Floyd riots. Cops still do stuff but their role has been limited by public opinion and they’re trying to keep crime stats low so the turn break-ins into welfare calls. The transplants after 2014ish turned Portland into a mess.