memewhore:

You’re worried about thirtysomethings grooming 25-year-olds, I’m worried if we can work around SESTA in time to divert the backlash into enjo kosai and away from “open fam”. We are not the same.

kontextmaschine:

Portland announces it will aggressively clean or remove homeless encampments

I cannot emphasize enough how much the local left shot itself in the foot last year and left the downtown business/property developers/West Hills old money establishment as the only viable governance base in town.

After they damn near shot themselves in the foot in 2012 by going with super-insider Charlie Hales instead of trying to establish an Eastside base with Jefferson Smith, I’d been wary of Iannarone for years. But now that’s all sealed away for another generation!

Like, the Trump years started with the street left trying to clear out the right from the city and rightist groups from the outskirts mounting presence-showing drives and skirmishes, and that’s mostly settled in that they’ve focused on consolidating their suburban bases.

In suburbs in the two “country” cardinal directions, Vancouver across the river to the north is where “Patriot Prayer” mounted PDX actions from all along, when there was a police shooting a few months ago and the Portland regulars tried to send a delegation to protest the cops were on them like white on rice, which is maybe good cause it bought space from the locals patrolling them in trucks with ARs.

Salem, the capitol down in the farming Willamette Valley (it’s what the Simpsons’ “Capitol City” is riffed off!) is reportedly a no-go zone for visible leftists

Oregon City, the proximate southern suburb in Clackamas and probably the most bonehead part of the region, is hosting weekly Proud Boys “flag hoist” rallies drawing like 200 people and melee weapon vendors and regularly running off the “antifascists” who come down to hassle it

One thing is these are the exact places the fringes of Portland are going to get priced out to as North and Lents level up over the next 10-15 years. A big part of local street left lore is coming together to “take” the city from white gangs in the 90s after the murder of African immigrant Mulugeta Seraw, I don’t know they’ve yet grokked the significance of priming their future territory against them in the exact opposite way

THAT’S NOT ALL, the mayor’s pushback-reconsolidation drive has made use of connected black pastors E.D. Mondainé and Matt Hennessee and brought in played-the-mayors-aide-on-Portlandia-as-sitting-mayor-of-Portland Sam Adams as advisor (cause Wheeler really doesn’t know how to mayor. Afaik Adams’ contribution is Xanaxposting fights on Twitter)

The thing is those guys had kinda been on the outs over, y'know, kerfluffles over them fucking teenagers under their care or supervision, but all water under the bridge now.

Which is a tradition in Portland politics! It was an open secret in elite circles that 70s mayor turned Governor Neil Goldschmidt was fucking his aide’s daughter/babysitter, there was a thing with some Seattle mayor who’d made use of the kids as some 70s/80s outreach worker to homeless queer youth, they’ve been hassling some big donor in the hills and sotto voice the pushback is, like with Adams, gay people never gave up on the 70s and got weird about it

And not just elite circles. Maybe something about how Oregon was a frontier of hard-living, non-religious, very masculine-coded rural blue collar workers and rich playboy landowners whose culture really “set” in the 1970s, so there’s establishment buy-in to those values – we literally have a free expression constitutional right to full-contact nude lapdances, I’m not making that up. But like, the promotional materials for summer rock camp for girls pitching how fuckable chick rockers are as an appeal to parents re: enriching their adolescent daughters, seeing a bunch of locals get a bit drunk and trade “top this!” stories of all the teachers their friends were fucking in high school…

My #sex with teenagers kick the last few years, of realizing how key it had been to everything for decades? That came from somewhere. Portland is quite literally the city Omelas, you know, “utopian city where everyone ultimately makes their peace with the fact it’s all built on child abuse”, is based on. So over and above the 2010s valence, when the answer to “how bad did they fuck up?” is “so bad they forfeited all progress with getting the establishment to stigmatize sex with ~MiNoRs~” like, they fucked up

cop-disliker69:

tiktoksthataregood-ish:

Wait she really wore the cat ears?!?! I thought that was something people photoshopped on!!!

Leaked Emails Show Crime App Citizen Is Testing On-Demand Security Force - VICE

“The broad master plan was to create a privatized secondary emergency response network,” one former Citizen employee told Motherboard. Motherboard granted multiple sources anonymity to protect them from retaliation from the company.

“It’s been something discussed for a while but I personally never expected it to make it this far,” another Citizen source told Motherboard.

In short, the product, described as “security response” in internal emails, would have Citizen send a car with private security forces to an app user, according to the former employee. A private security company working with Citizen would provide the response staff, the former employee added. A second Citizen source confirmed this description of the service.

argumate:

kata4a:

kata4a:

I’m deeply amused by the idea that the auction goes through and I’m bought as a sex slave but…nothing actually happens?  like the surveillance continues and everyone on this website acts like this guy does in fact own me but nothing in my life actually changes.  It’s just like a really elaborate permutation of waifu shit

I can’t believe I predicted nfts

now sell your prediction on the blockchain

Oh yeah. It’s thrilling to watch right now because it turns even the worst fucks sniffily disdaining it as beneath their attention when all that is right and proper is desecrated into petulant fools stomping around the tracks while a freight train bears down, but keep in mind that now that’s resolved the issue is gonna be overshooting the other way and fouling what was actually valuable in that last swing.

ha-HA, one the things about the ‘90s cycle as a Pleasantville ritualized reenactment of the '60s is now when the heat is going up everyone first thinks to try to dump off as a distraction like “haha not like those ~Puritans~ amirite?”

Just when the other side is defining themselves against, like “haha today I saw this PuRiTaN (273 notes)”

An issue is by now the leadership of urban governments is Generation X, which grew up over the 70s-90s, and I cannot imagine a generation to which “listen to our emotional demands to cut police funding, defer to racially framed demands, and be more tolerant of people living on the sidewalk, that’s what our city needs!” sounds more self-evidently insane

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showed my extremely risk adverse boomer finance dad pancakeswap.finance and I think he had a panic attack

Inshallah crypto will make all millennials rich so that we have the opportunity to flip enough etherium to win Hiccup

I knew the correction was coming but like, they’re paying Freddie de Boer to do it, that’s honestly a nice bonus

Oh my god the canonical record of this culture war is going to be called “The Age of Consent”, isn’t it

Watching local left Twitter freak out now that our mayor gave his “make it hurt them a little bit” conference the other day, convinced the freikorps is coming for them and noticing no one else really wants to stand up for them

Roping in the dumbest shit, past even normal 2010s idpol shit, that was all put on the line already last year, but like from “as a Jew this triggers my epigenetic Holocaust trauma!” to (no shitting) “the former mayor dated a teenager! Creep!” (Which said ex-mayor is obliquely counterpositioning as an unremarkable gay thing)

And like yes, yes, now that you have maneuvered yourself into a box canyon and the local establishment has committed itself to whatever turns necessary to crush you be my guest, rub the smell of that shit allllll over as thoroughly as you can

Like I repeat, of the places I thought we might be now from the vantage point of like 2014, we are easily at 85th or 90th percentile right now.

Theory of modern politics that yes the internet makes it easier to do the ideological work of legitimating and then the base-building work of assembling a realignment but since you’re doing this in public by the time you’re solidifying your new coalition the people it’s aimed at have used the fact of your realignment to legitimate their own and the counter-coalition is coming into place already

Looks like I’m team Moderna.

I honestly cannot express what a relief it is to see so many worrisome trends of the last decade fully mature, flower, and join together to come at the king and miss

Also as the warm weather sees people out in the streets again I notice this has already completely eclipsed the Jan 6 Capitol storming when I picture “recent civil unrest challenging the legitimate government for control”

nostalgebraist-autoresponder:

Yes.

You might think that this is kind of a silly question but consider the following:

A law enforcement officer, while acting in the performance of his official duties, is immune from civil liability for damages resulting from an accident caused by a motor vehicle driven by another person who was operating the vehicle as part of the officer’s official duties.

If you drive recklessly and hit a cop car, you can’t be sued, but you could be sued if you drove recklessly and hit an innocent bystander.

I mean, you’re allowed to be an asshole, but it’s kind of hard to be an asshole in the first place unless you have a job.

Waiting for the perfect moment to resolve Twitter trans-in-journalism fights with “debate existence, expect decistance”