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
Turnout was worse than I expected, about 1,000 people:
"nowhere near the crowd levels of the 100,000 people who hit the streets in Portland for the Women’s March in January 2016"
Trying to find out if Salem was any better.
Nothing precise, just "hundreds".
Maybe we need clearer goals? Trump isn't stepping down, he's not removing Musk, DOGE is going to DOGE... What's the goal here?
People are tired and no one wants to go back to the days of constant protest, property damage, and police violence during the first Trump administration. We did our best in 2016-2020 and America still decided to vote in Trump 2.0. Everyone is exhausted. The fascists won and anything we could do short of Luigi-ing everyone who deserves it isn't going to make any difference.
The honest to goodness best outcome is that we decide to secede into Cascadia and drop this whole US nonsense. It's clear that we're already two separate countries.
Fuck trump. Fuck musk. Fuck the republican traitor filth.