Yeah, /r/portland can be pretty rough at times. Glad that there is a community here; thanks for starting that up.
this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2023
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/r/portland, where taxes on high income earners is literally oppressing the middle class.
It would be cool to have a place that doesn't represent the "very liberal" politics of the city, if you know what I mean
Like /r/PortlandOR ?
Definitely not like r/PortlandOR, yikes!
I was always under the impression that is why PortlandOR was created. More of the conservative/right "free speech" version or Portland.
Yeah that sucks tbh
r/Portland liberals: "We need to deal with the 'homeless problem'. The city government should 'crack down' on them. Solutions that don't involve harassing them are complicated and expensive, but someone should do something..."
r/PortlandOR chuds: "Let's go out there ourselves and grind homeless people into a pulp ourselves instead of waiting for PPB to do it for us"
Yea, not really any middle ground between the two. I have high hopes for this new frontier.
My hope is that this comm can grow to represent a "united left" faction of online Portland communities, now that people are trickling in.
It sucks that on r/Portland I almost always see left-of-liberal viewpoints in response to center-right comments that are so prominent there. It would be nice to have a place where constructive discussion can be had and opinions can be refined, since I know in real life such views are fairly well represented among our neighbors.
I hope that our mod @[email protected] is sympathetic to cultivating this sort of space. At minimum they recognize here in this post the crimeblogging happening on the subreddit which is a significant issue.
My politics don't really fit in a tidy box, and I'm not really interested in wielding my personal ideology to craft this space (beyond rejecting hate). As we figure out what this place will be I hope we can work together to make it a space for those that use it. As we need more mods and new perspectives we should add those as well.
For transparency though, I am of course biased (like everyone). I was born and raised in Portland. I'm a union member. I'm middle aged. I'm socially and fiscally far-left, but I'm also a bit of an individualist who loves freedom and guns. So, if I start wielding power to enforce those ideas (again beyond rejecting hate) then call me out on it.
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