Welcome to the lemmy.world community for Portland, Oregon!
This community has kind of been empty since it was created, I'm hoping to change that!
Unlike "other" Portland communities you may have seen "elsewhere", I believe in a "warts and all" approach. You are free to take off your Rose tinted glasses and talk about topics that are dragging our city down.
At the same time, sunset pics, snowmageddon, traffic monster, cones, that's all welcome as well. Let's collectively keep Portland weird!
2024 is going to be an interesting year politically with all the changes to city government, I will attempt to tag political threads with a [Politics] tag and encourage users to do so as well.
Other than the lemmy.world restrictions on spam, copyrighted material, and adult material (USE that NSFW tag!), there's only one real way to get in trouble here:
It's OK to go after Teargas Ted, it's OK to say Rene Gonzales is a fascist, ACAB, BLM, whatever floats your boat (WEFYB).
It's NOT OK to attack or diminish another user. Feel free to disagree, you can point out the many ways you think they're wrong, just don't start throwing perjoratives AT OTHER USERS.
Links to know!
Portland Trailblazers Schedule!
https://www.nba.com/blazers/schedule
Portland Winterhawks Home Game Schedule!
https://www.rosequarter.com/events/winterhawks
Portland Timbers Pre-Season Starts in February!
https://www.timbers.com/schedule/matches#competition=all&%3Bdate=2024-02-10
OH!? WHO THE FUCK COULD HAVE SEEN THAT HELPING PEOPLE GOING THROUGH HARDSHIP INSTEAD OF CRIMINALISING AND MARGINALISING THEM WOULD ACTUALLY HELP?!?!
What a fucking shocker, people don’t want to be homeless?! And maybe given the means, will pull themselves out?!?
It really is baffling. Smh. I always thought the way to help people was to give rich people tax breaks.
But what about the bootstraps?!? Why isn't anyone thinking about the bootstraps?
For many people, it's important that there is suffering by people who "deserve" it. Giving people money feels wrong and unjust. People who think like that are assholes
It cannot be overemphasized how much easier it is to help people early, before they fully sink through the cracks, programs like this absolutely pay for themselves. Exactly the kind of program that needs investment.