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03-23-2021, 05:42 AM
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Just another Facist
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Now in Houston
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Good piece on Portland
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03-23-2021, 09:47 AM
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Originally Posted by JustRalph
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No, it's not! It's liberals' version of paradise...which just happens to be hell.
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03-23-2021, 10:40 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2010
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This was a great little city a few years ago. I've been visiting Oregon and Portland for over two decades. My son's family finally moved away into a small rural town in Washington, but he still works there. Their decline is directly related to the Cali migration over other the last couple of decades.
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03-23-2021, 11:02 AM
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PA Steward
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Del Boca Vista
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These are the types of idiots we will be dealing with for decades:
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If there was zeal in using one's power thus, crude as it was, there was also a mandate: If good citizens needed to fight racism, why not start at home? The food world, which arguably more than any industry had put Portland on the cultural map, was the first target. Andy Ricker, whose restaurant Pok Pok was the only place the late Pulitzer Prize–winning food writer Jonathan Gold wanted me to take him when he visited Portland in the early 2010s, was called out for making Thai food while not being Thai. Two young women closed their burrito cart within days of opening it after they received multiple death threats for making homemade tortillas despite not being Latinas. The local press, which had once lauded such people and places, now published lists of business owners "wantonly cooking the food of other countries, arguably at the expense of people from those very cultures."
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That's why this country is dead....or as good as dead if it's not quite dead yet.
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03-23-2021, 01:06 PM
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My wife & I visited Portland and southern Washington in 1990. We seriously thought about moving up there from San Diego. We decided against it. I was disappointed at the time, but now am very glad we didn't. They have destroyed it.
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03-23-2021, 02:08 PM
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Authorized Advertiser
Join Date: Dec 2014
Location: Oakland, Ca
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Excellent article...thank you Ralph.
This comment was a perfect summary of Portland:
"As people of color, this is not our way of getting the message across, by tearing up other people's stuff," says Terrance Moses, head of the Kenton Business Association. "The fact of the matter is that these are young white kids destroying people's property to try and get a message across that they think is what black people want to hear."
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03-23-2021, 03:14 PM
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Join Date: May 2011
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Stevecsd2
My wife & I visited Portland and southern Washington in 1990. We seriously thought about moving up there from San Diego. We decided against it. I was disappointed at the time, but now am very glad we didn't. They have destroyed it.
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many states and cities are becoming Californicated
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