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Pass this on, this driver should be in prison.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/50257590

The City of Portland and Multnomah County seem to be struggling to keep up with Dundon's tactics, communications and pressure. Why would they be?

They're dealing with someone who started their illustrious careers as a used car salesman focused on sub-prime (high interest, high-risk) loans who settled lawsuits in multiple states, multiple times for illegal business practices.

Billionaires don't come to their wealth without abusing others. COP & Multnomah County need to get some adults who are capable of putting their foot down and not giving away half a billion dollars to a grifter billionaire.

We need affordable housing. We need sustainable energy and investment in public transit. We need equitable economics--not billionaire giveaways.

The City of Portland and Multnomah County seem to be struggling to keep up with Dundon's tactics, communications and pressure. Why would they be?

They're dealing with someone who started their illustrious careers as a used car salesman focused on sub-prime (high interest, high-risk) loans who settled lawsuits in multiple states, multiple times for illegal business practices.

Billionaires don't come to their wealth without abusing others. COP & Multnomah County need to get some adults who are capable of putting their foot down and not giving away half a billion dollars to a grifter billionaire.

We need affordable housing. We need sustainable energy and investment in public transit. We need equitable economics--not billionaire giveaways.

Not eaeth-shaking case of precedent but a nice reminder of why legal systems exist and why many have become disengaged by them.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/47186075

https://lemmy.world/post/46959884

I opened this thread and clicked the image to zoom and it was all blurry. I thought the Op had out in. Low quality image to the post but when I clicked and downloaded the image and opened it, the image was much higher quality.

Is this someone using the "thumbnail" field in the post feature which maybe isn't used that often which is why it hasn't come up for me before? I'm no fediverse expert, is it someone cross posting from another linked site or app and that's why it's displaying differently?

Just strange to have such a low quality image when clicking on the image to view vs. downloading a higher res version.

TIA

The contrast of career banker adults who have aggrandized the exploitation of foreign soil and peoples, usury, debt with that of innocent children (and the average person who wants nothing to do with the above) is a sterling (pun intended) takedown of banking.

Extra, that you probably already knew, Dick Van Dyke, who also played Burt the chimney sweep and common man character in the movie, portrays the elderly bank director here in the same movie. A front runner to Sellers and Carrey's multitudinous talents.

Oregon is often listed as a "progressive" state, but in fact, has failed to keep up or institute some worker, job and wage pieces and are embarrassingly behind as of 2026:

• Washington and California both have statewide minimum salaried/exempt wages. As of 2026, the minimum annual salary an exempt(salaried) WA employee can be paid is $80,168.40, and in CA it's $70,304. WA's bill is particularly progressive and in the last 3 years has caught up to and now passed CA for the required state salaried minimum. New York, Maine and Colorado also have salaried minimum thresholds. Meanwhile, Oregon has...nothing for salaried/exempt employees and only toes the Federal line, current still at $35,536 since 2019 when a Texas lawsuit and corrupt judge clawed back an Obama increase to $47k. More on that history across presidential administrations since 2004 here but at any rate, it's embarrassing Oregon hasn't moved on this despite Democrats having total control--easy to see who pads their pockets.

• Oregon has no job posting salary disclosure requirements. Both CA and WA have required job posts to have the salary range in them as of 2023. Oregon, continues to provide employers the benefit of darkness where inequality pervades and employees invest the time and effort in application to jobs where by the time an employer may disclose the salary the grip of sunk cost may not leave the candidate with other options. This is embarrassing and could be easily fixed, the only people advocating against this are greedy, or incompetent--even a basic passage of this is not hard and decent employers already do it as they don't want to waste candidates' or their own company time.

Yell at your local governments to stop flushing money on tax breaks.

Pharma manufacturer Gilead making available at cost (2 million doses in most needed countries) while generics are developed and can later be distributed. Decent play from a Pharma company.

Help me understand the administration angle here. I mean, obviously, it disenfranchises American workers and corps have been abusing it for 30nyears now, no news there. Is it to pressure concessions elsewhere from tech companies as the corporate-technofascist state solidifies?

Here's an article from 2022 about how when working in VC he of course invested in companies that proscribe to the visa abuse practices he's railing against: https://www.axios.com/2022/04/22/jd-vances-investments-made-use-of-h-1b-visas-he-opposes

Is the snake eating it's tail here? Is the left hand slapping the right hand? TF.

Even with all those incentive dollars, tax breaks, and innumerable concessions this will always be what happens. Governments are captured by corporate money, power and influence and then governments give away the people's wealth and corporations take.

Hello, would love to see the option to mute/filter posts by some criteria, e.g. down vote score of -10 or greater.

Down voting is supposed to make bad content less visible, it would be nice to allow users to not see troll, bot and other low quality posts based on their preferred criteria.