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Oscar Wild posted:It's good to know the people of Seattle are making the effort to do something about the chronic homeless and drug problems of the city. This new shelter, mental health facility, and drug treatment center will be a big benefit to the community. King County city council did this, not Seattle city council. King County CC doesn't seem to give a poo poo about homelessness whereas Seattle CC gets concerned trolled to death by Amazon when they try anything.
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Hey remember that teacher's strike in Tumwater? Well, https://www.theolympian.com/news/local/education/article217915555.html#storylink=mainstage
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http://komonews.com/news/project-seattle/seattle-considers-criminalizing-dumping-trash-at-homeless-camps-by-those-not-homeless Get ready for some searing hot takes on this
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The Oldest Man posted:http://komonews.com/news/project-seattle/seattle-considers-criminalizing-dumping-trash-at-homeless-camps-by-those-not-homeless I am happy that bags and sanitation are being provided to homeless people and all cool with making it a criminal offense for others to take advantage of the situation and dump garbage there illegally. It makes the homeless people look bad too have so much extra garbage piling up that isn't theirs, so it is understandable that they are upset. I wish portland would provide garbage service to its own homeless camps. Mostly I wish we could give them all housing and services though.
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The Oldest Man posted:http://komonews.com/news/project-seattle/seattle-considers-criminalizing-dumping-trash-at-homeless-camps-by-those-not-homeless
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anthonypants posted:Meanwhile in Portland, our mayor held a press conference a few days ago about how we need to clean up the trash in this town https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2018/09/portland_must_clean_up_trash_a.html He's not wrong about how much more trash there is in the street now vs back when, but I would rather he deploy resources to getting our homeless population into housing. Today I saw an encampment on a sidewalk on top of an overpass instead of under it. Also my autocorrect changed encampment to embarrassment and I almost left it because it is an embarrassment that we have people sleeping on sidewalks out in the open.
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anthonypants posted:Meanwhile in Portland, our mayor held a press conference a few days ago about how we need to clean up the trash in this town https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2018/09/portland_must_clean_up_trash_a.html Maybe we can pay a living wage to people who would like to collect the trash?
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therobit posted:He's not wrong about how much more trash there is in the street now vs back when, but I would rather he deploy resources to getting our homeless population into housing. Today I saw an encampment on a sidewalk on top of an overpass instead of under it.
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anthonypants posted:Ted Wheeler's last major budgeting push was for a hundred new cops, so he's using garbage as a dogwhistle to mean the homeless. Ok Tony, sure.
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therobit posted:Ok Tony, sure. More than half the arrests in Portland last year were of homeless people, so he's probably right?
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therobit posted:Ok Tony, sure. He's posted a wealth of examples. What you got?
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The fact that Wheeler is literally talking about the various different trash collection companies and authorities within the city and that it will be a job to coordinate them? I'm not saying he likes homeless people, but I don't think it is some nefarious plot when he says he wants a clean city and then talks about trash collection.
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therobit posted:The fact that Wheeler is literally talking about the various different trash collection companies and authorities within the city and that it will be a job to coordinate them? If you are focused on the bi-product but claim impotence about the human problem, you're an rear end in a top hat.
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therobit posted:The fact that Wheeler is literally talking about the various different trash collection companies and authorities within the city and that it will be a job to coordinate them?
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anthonypants posted:Meanwhile in Portland, our mayor held a press conference a few days ago about how we need to clean up the trash in this town https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2018/09/portland_must_clean_up_trash_a.html My first thought at seeing this headline was "oh please god let this mean they will pick up trash every Friday now"
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anthonypants posted:I would encourage you to understand the term "dogwhistle" as I used it in the post earlier. I understood it, but I don't actually think that is what is going on. And I think that like many of the young white leftists I meet these days you sound like you are a whole lot more interested in fighting enemies real or imagined than you are in building something or bringing people to the table. I don't know if that is just your edgy online persona or if it is real, but it is how you come off in your posting. Calling people out and making accusations isn't really a good way to get anything done, and it turns off people who might otherwise work with you. Wheeler might be a dud, but he is still miles better than Tom Potter or Charlie Hales were, and I don't really see Sam Adams as a shining example of an effective and progressive mayor either.
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therobit posted:I understood it, but I don't actually think that is what is going on. And I think that like many of the young white leftists I meet these days you sound like you are a whole lot more interested in fighting enemies real or imagined than you are in building something or bringing people to the table. I don't know if that is just your edgy online persona or if it is real, but it is how you come off in your posting. Calling people out and making accusations isn't really a good way to get anything done, and it turns off people who might otherwise work with you. qft
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Maybe while you’re working on “poo poo most cities tend to have” you could add water fluoridation to your list.
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Solkanar512 posted:Maybe while you’re working on “poo poo most cities tend to have” you could add water fluoridation to your list. Next you're gonna say we need self-service gas stations
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therobit posted:The fact that Wheeler is literally talking about the various different trash collection companies and authorities within the city and that it will be a job to coordinate them? The article specifically cites a person complaining about trash from homeless people like 4 paragraphs in.
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The mayor of Portland hates the homeless so much,
And let's not forget that time Ted Wheeler Maced A Baby.
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Christoph posted:Next you're gonna say we need self-service gas stations Just timed a road trip mileage to avoid having to fuel up in Oregon. Im 100 percent in favor of make work. It just feels so weird.
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I would literally rather pay the same amount for gas and have it fund unemployment for the exact same people instead, just so I don't have to wait for them to quit smoking and slowly waddle over to push the same buttons on the pump that I would otherwise be pushing myself. This is the most backwards poo poo ever.
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But seriously, no candidate in the state of Oregon can even jokingly discuss the issue of healthcare reform or aid to the poor without first having a plan to add fluoride to the water. That’s one of cheapest, easiest, most trivial loving things that happens just about everywhere else, red state or blue. It’s absolutely pathetic that the folks living in Oregon continue to ignore what is a very serious public health issue.
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Solkanar512 posted:But seriously, no candidate in the state of Oregon can even jokingly discuss the issue of healthcare reform or aid to the poor without first having a plan to add fluoride to the water.
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anthonypants posted:To be fair, the city did try to fluoridate the water, but people went apeshit when they found out, gathered enough signatures to put blocking it on the ballot, and the rest is history. Yes, and those candidates need to take a strong stand against idiots who hate public health and poor people.
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Javid posted:I would literally rather pay the same amount for gas and have it fund unemployment for the exact same people instead, just so I don't have to wait for them to quit smoking and slowly waddle over to push the same buttons on the pump that I would otherwise be pushing myself. This is the most backwards poo poo ever. Sure so would I, but that's not really an option is it? I mean it's not like the American social security net is particularly generous or reliable given that it's constantly under attack by Republicans. The station I typically go to has one woman literally running around doing all the pumps. She's nice, quick, and effective. The world would not be better if she didn't have a job. Let's get the basic minimum income system going first, rather than putting people out of work and offering them promises. This kind of thing will become more and more of a big deal in the coming decades, and Oregonians should be treating it as a test case of how to balance automation with human interest. Same thing with grocery cashiers - I'm certainly guilty of using the automated kiosks and bagging everything myself, but the reality is that I'm not really helping anyone by doing that - those cashiers need work to do or their paycheck ends up as part of the corporate bottom line. Kaal fucked around with this message at 06:00 on Sep 11, 2018 |
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Can we at least take away their squeegees because they keep loving up my Rain-X
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Some good news:The Seattle Times posted:OLYMPIA — A Thurston County judge has doubled the daily contempt-of-court fines against Tim Eyman and his associates in the state’s lawsuit against the initiative activist. gently caress Tim Eyman forever.
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George posted:At what point does he face jail time? When the laws that govern reality cease to function.
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George posted:At what point does he face jail time? I'm real cool if he gets bankrupted instead of jailed since I'll be ponying up for his living arrangements then
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Teabag Dome Scandal posted:I'm real cool if he gets bankrupted instead of jailed since I'll be ponying up for his living arrangements then On the other hand you can write him mocking letters while he rots in a cell.
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Keep Portland Weird https://twitter.com/afrolivia/status/1040003423104462848 e: original tweet got taken down, the racist lady got doxxed p bad, allegedly lost her job https://twitter.com/_SJPeace_/status/1040090751085019136 anthonypants fucked around with this message at 00:11 on Sep 14, 2018 |
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When I get my car back I'm gonna drive around playing accordion-heavy Mexican music and see how many dirty looks I get from oh-so progressive Portlanders (I'm very white).
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https://money.cnn.com/2018/09/13/technology/jeff-bezos-homeless-fund/index.html Someone's trying to buy back some PR after killing the head tax. Yeah no gently caress you, Jeff.
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Xand_Man posted:https://money.cnn.com/2018/09/13/technology/jeff-bezos-homeless-fund/index.html “But it’s more money!” the idiots will cry
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anthonypants posted:Keep Portland Weird https://twitter.com/afrolivia/status/1040003423104462848 Read through, the racist is 1) a stripper, and 2) actually not a stripper anymore, she got suspended from work because someone sent it to the strip club and they're upset with her lol
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