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&date=2024-02-10
Ballot in question:
Mayor:
District 1:
I guess I don't understand why this is such a difficult concept to understand.
Pick as many or as little candidates you want for the position and then rank them.
If you are wanting to phone it in just vote for the one candidate like the old system.
I feel like if they would have put Choice 1, Choice 2 or 1st Choice, 2nd Choice it might have gone over better.
I mean, it's not like it doesn't make sense how it is, but it could have been simplified even further. Some people apparently need that.
Could have easily been written that way on purpose also to discourage people from using it.
I mean it's just like asking a kid what they want for Christmas. If you ask them to give you a list they will probably let you know exactly which ones they want the most. It's really not that difficult but people often overthink these things and this is what you end up with.