Bunch of Twitter users in different areas of focus who spent the last decade furious that things were going their way but not as far or as fast as they wanted and performed that fury as a way to whip things on harder dealing with the new situation that things are going to be going against them for the next 15 years at least and they no longer have any traction on the situation about as well as you’d expect
So yeah, that phase is over, we’ve cleared Charybdis, now we gotta try and slingshot off past Scylla, shift our stance to defend rightward. I mean, my circle on here is disproportionately trans Jews.
Feel comfortable in Portland for this phase cause it’s sure not going hard right (LOL) but after 2020 the establishment has been armoring it against the hard – or even just too-much – left.
Well, someone from the homeless encampment down the street was apparently trying to siphon gas from the U-Haul lot and started a fire that apparently blew several of the trucks and maybe the propane tank
Portland’s would be a nature god we all thought of and celebrated as verdant and loving for two centuries already before we realized he tosses off a 9+ megaquake and coast-scouring tsunami every so often
The west side of the river is the “nice” one in Portland, and old money in the West Hills aside, the wealthy suburb on this side of the hills is Lake Oswego, around an artificial and still access-restricted-in-defiance-of-state-law lake. Locals my age say that since at least elementary school it was called “Lake No Negro”, and I can only imagine what it took to get a reputation as monoethnically white in 1980s Portland.
Honestly maybe it’s cause it was so close to the 1980s inner city that was noticeable. Our MLK Boulevard was the first north-south artery just across the river (it had originally been “Union”, early Portland was “Free State, Free Labor” Republicans that appreciated “freeing the slaves” as something akin to “deporting the illegals”).
In Along Martin Luther King, the 2003 coffee table book about America’s MLK Boulevards to get your Afrocentric dad for Christmas, it’s mentioned as the only one where the author saw white people living by choice, but then again I remember people challenging the official civic history of “we stopped residential segregation by asking realtors not to in the 1990s” by saying that no, that was just when the ghetto started to gentrify, reducing our official segregation metric of people who had no one of a different race on their block.
The west side of the river is the “nice” one in Portland, and old money in the West Hills aside, the wealthy suburb on this side of the hills is Lake Oswego, around an artificial and still access-restricted-in-defiance-of-state-law lake. Locals my age say that since at least elementary school it was called “Lake No Negro”, and I can only imagine what it took to get a reputation as monoethnically white in 1980s Portland.
They really leaning on raising the visibility of “fires spreading from homeless encampments” in the moderate, put-a-bird-on-it, think-of-themselves-as -chill Gen X media to establish the background of why the homeless are a threat to you (or at least good peoplelikeyou) and just leaving them alone in place won’t yield acceptable results
Jesus, just heard 10 shots in a row at most 4 blocks away, which is especially fucked cause I’d otherwise been hearing groups of kids going by on the street tonight.
Have found bar crawls along established drags are most rewarding now cause if one bartender suddenly twigs to how I’m standing or ordering slightly unstable fine, I was only 12 minutes from heading to the next bar under ideal conditions anyway
Introducing a tap-phone-to-pay system to the Portland buses – one that handles transfers automatically and upgrades to all-day/month passes as you hit the point you’d have paid for it already – makes boarding much faster and really lowers the felt barriers to jumping on the bus
I also live in Portland, and your pet theory about leftist street activism in 2020 leading to conservative backlash seems like a rather poor explanation for what's going on in the governor's race. Everyone's talking loudly about homelessness/public mental illness/street conditions, all of which are highly salient to anyone who spends time in the city and none of which have much to do with 2020 politics; the voters aren't clamoring to be rescued from antifa bandits or whatever.
I think it was critical to non-Portland Oregon coming to define themselves against Portland and understanding it as non-Oregon, even Eugene got it together to clear their own streets
Overhearing more people walking down the street in psychotic yelling mode lately. That’s new, we never used to have that even when I first moved in and the neighborhood was still kinda “Felony Flats” with bars on the windows.
The rain cleared the air and shined the streets, bringing new vibes to my traditional late-night walk pondering topic, how amazing it was we executed a perfectly timed zeitgeist parry and how perfect it’s gonna be now
