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What regions belong in the Pacific Northwest?
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Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord
glowing-fish is a punk rear end bitch.

when cascadia rises, i hope they bring back nwcn. the dentist's waiting room will feel empty without it.

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Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord
Or a functioning tongue.

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord
Wouldn't it be more impactful to end no-cause evictions all together? Or are there legit reasons to keep it?

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord
Jay Inslee is definitely okay, but given the national need to push democrats further left, I don't think he's the guy.

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord

seiferguy posted:

This was spotted at the Capitol Hill light rail station:



e: apparently it's satire and was created by this guy as an art-piece: http://www.plasticjesus.net/

Huge missed opportunity not calling them Sanctuary Districts.

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord
Rent control is increasingly sounding like the only option left.

I think someone in the previous thread had a good argument against it, but his solution was "build more", and now that we can see building more isn't helping, might as well give rent control a shot.

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord
It should be a capital offense to charge more than $1 per square foot of space.

also kinda relevant (warning: nudity)

Freakazoid_ fucked around with this message at 15:43 on Apr 9, 2017

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord
Cop pay should be the index for minimum wage. 60k a year to flip burgers, with a gradual increase to 90k after 5 years? That'd fix the economy quickly and nobody would have to be a cop to become middle class!

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord
You guys make it sound like boeing workers pretty much have to eat poo poo.

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord
That thing about Everett having lots of trucks is true though.

Also they park them on their front yard.

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord
Interesting that's it's limited to food and retail service. Why them specifically? Why not all job types?

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord

reignonyourparade posted:

People should only be allowed to move to washington if they don't pronounce it warshington.

worsh'ton :clint:

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord

DrNutt posted:

I don't mean to pry and by all means don't answer if you aren't comfortable, but do you have a job lined up? Do you have experience and education in a high demand field? If not, reconsider.

^^Follow this goon's advice. My father recently told me of an old friend of his who moved to the Seattle area from Boston. He left a good paying job for a worse paying one and also pays more rent, just because he missed living in the Seattle area, and it sounds like he regrets it.

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord
gently caress off, I like guns fireworks.

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord
Cascadia is a cool name for a chill region like the PNW and it doesn't deserve to be co-opted by racists.

There was a time I believed the PNW could secede and bring a more progressive government, but since bernie ran for president, it seems the US is opening up to socialism in general. While I still think it would've been cool to do our own thing, it's irresponsible to leave our newly woke US comrades behind.

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord

anthonypants posted:

Also a slumlord, because she called him a slumlord. And not without reason.

Rent control all apartments throughout the state to $550 a month.

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord

Solkanar512 posted:

The worst part is that Amazon already knows where it's going to have a new site, they're just going to take the sweetest offers they can find, shove them in the face of the city they want to move to and tell them it's theirs to lose.

It's gross as gently caress.

Sorta like how the NBA used seattle to get a better deal out of sacramento!

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord
Dhingra has it in the bag, but you guys need to check out this "attack" ad if you haven't seen it already.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjjZmn-7IAk

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord
It isn't just seattle either. Parts of south everett/mill creek have bounced back from the sub-prime mortgage crisis and then some. I've talked to some real estate agents about it and nobody knows why it's so hot.

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord

Peachfart posted:

What exactly could Democrats do to revitalize small towns? Most of those towns were founded to exploit natural resources that are no longer there. They will die, and accepting that is more sensible than pretending magical *real* leftists would save the small towns somehow.

Give them the money. Basic income, more than enough to live on.

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord
Happy Minimum Wage Increase Day, washington state! 50 cents an hour is more than what I would've gotten from my yearly performance review.

I gotta hand it to all the scummy small business owners (mostly espresso stands) who have no problem howling about the minimum causing a price increase, but stayed as silent as a sheep when it came to all those other price increases. Transparency only when it suits their interests.

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord
I like burgermaster but it's not really worth the price. Unless it's all-you-can-eat spaghetti mondays.

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord

Thaddius the Large posted:

Er, sure about that? Pretty sure it’s Sunday. . .

For a moment I thought to myself, ok what kind of hosed up northwest tradition is this where you can't have pie on a sunday?

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord

I'm the wine glass and grapes in between yakima and tri-cities

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord
Inslee seems keen on where the winds are blowing, but at the same time he didn't support $15 an hour statewide.

I still think he's a centrist, playing to the non-economic issues farther than most dems in an effort to stave off an actual socialist challenger come 2020.

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord

Thanatosian posted:

Don't most malls have that weird knife/sword store, that also sells pewter wizards holding crystals?

I don't think the everett mall has that store anymore. The anime store has the swords now.

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord
Speaking of weird gifts, Spencer's at the everett mall used to have some really neat weird poo poo 15 years ago, but I went there on a lark a few months ago and it was all halloween masks, anime merchandise, goth merchandise, party lighting and adult gift cards. It's bizarre how much anime in particular has infected the place. I almost bought a one punch man wallet.

Oh, and something from the unicorn thread of all places: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattl...on-report-says/

I knew everett freeway traffic was bad, but I didn't think it was literally the worst in the nation. We're known for something other than boeing now!

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord

ElCondemn posted:

Yes, I think children who do hosed up things are misguided and don't understand the impact of their actions. Sorry to be so controversial!

I agree with you.

It seems like there are a not insignificant number of people who believe teenagers can be held accountable as adults but only when it comes to crime and nothing else. It's bizarre and disgusting.

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord
Nobody in history ever thought that the enlightened middle could be the cause of our suffering even in fiction.

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord

Solkanar512 posted:

Anyone a member of the Everett/SnoCo chapter of the DSA and have any opinions about the group? Or should I take this to a different thread?

It probably wouldn't hurt to attend one of their monthly meetings. It looks like they just started this year so I doubt anyone here has any info on them.

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord
I can't make it to the july meeting but I'll see about making the next one. I'm hoping it's more interesting than my neighborhood meetings.

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord

Solkanar512 posted:

Do we get anything useful for having Murray being in the Senate leadership?

You get her working with Paul Ryan for "bipartisan policymaking".

Is anyone opposing Cantwell this year, or is her position pretty much a lock?

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord

Jack2142 posted:

Vote Good Space Guy.

He opposes the state's new minimum wage tho.

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord
I personally would like to see apodments abolished. I hate them and it was clear from the start it was an excuse to charge the same for less.

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord

KingFisher posted:

I have worked a minimum wage job, at a Pizza Hut during high sxhool. Minimum wage jobs aren't supposed to be "living wage" jobs that support a family, they are an entry level position that allows you to work around something else like school giving new workers the ability to learn valuable life skills.

Surprise! There's not enough jobs for everyone and you can't pay for college with a summer job anymore.

It's time for a basic income and also abolish apodments forever because they suck.

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord

Schmeichy posted:

You may have ignored him because he looks like bubbles from tpb
Steve Hoffman for U.S. Senate - Freedom Socialist Party candidate from Washington State
https://votesocialism.com

I voted for this guy. I'm really glad at lease someone socialist ran on the ticket.

I'm also surprised how many also-rans there are. How do I even begin to engage with local politics when they don't even advertise themselves until the ballot arrives?

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord
The bad air quality hasn't bothered me but it's left my dad house bound. He was just diagnosed with aortic stenosis a couple weeks ago, too.

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord

The whales are universal health care, college education, and basic income. The father is bernie and the mother is hillary, 911 is the DNC.

Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord

FRINGE posted:

I dont own any guns.

I think the histrionics around them are insane.

If you want to ban things "meant to kill people" then all of you crazy people need to focus on banning pistols, but because they arent "scary looking" no one does that.

I'd love to ban pistols but nobody wants to alter or eliminate the second amendment. NY tried to ban pistols and lost. I suspect if the NRA really wanted to they could take this bill to the supreme court and have it fail there too.

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Freakazoid_
Jul 5, 2013


Buglord

poo poo POST MALONE posted:

Imagine murdering a sea lion and feeling all pumped up about your life choices.

It's easy when you justify it in endangered salmon lives.

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