idk if you're just memeing but there were actually people like this in the early united states, they were so racist they wanted to abolish slavery so they could deport all non-white people.
i think it's cuz it is one of the few cities on the west coast where you can still get by on a basic service industry wage; it still has a radical working class
Can you imagine a suburb full of working class people pushed out of the metro area? I can't. It's still the 60s and suburbs are exclusively white and affluent, right?
portland has really been punching above its weight class this summer considering it's only a city of 650k
Portland is so fascinating. It's a city of hyper liberals, and full on praxis.
It’s cause we are surrounded on all sides by white Supremacists and reactionaries
Not fun fact: Oregon was originally founded as a state where it was literally illegal to be black and exist in the state.
When you're so racist you ban slavery
Horse shoe theory, the one true theory.
idk if you're just memeing but there were actually people like this in the early united states, they were so racist they wanted to abolish slavery so they could deport all non-white people.
same with illinois, land of lincoln
I was a lib in Portland, their DSA is extremely active and aggressive. The one meeting I ended up going to is what finally radicalized me.
i think it's cuz it is one of the few cities on the west coast where you can still get by on a basic service industry wage; it still has a radical working class
Really? That's really fascinating. I was expecting it to be like Austin and super expensive.
It’s quite expensive, comparable to Seattle. Not sure what this comment is talking about.
having lived in many west coast metro areas, portland is still very affordable in comparison
Unless things have changed dramatically in the past few years Portland is significantly cheaper to live in than Seattle.
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Damn, Austin is expensive to you? Cries in Californian
That's why you fucking Californians keep moving here
It's expensive because they keep moving there.
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portland has a history of deep rooted community groups building solidarity with each other, something a lot of other cities are missing
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it the years of Nazis invading.
Actshually, the portland metro is like 2.5 million people
yeah, all those antifas from Beaverton showing up to Mississippi i'm sure
unironically i know some that do. Public transit is actually good here.
also city lines are a spook anyway
Can you imagine a suburb full of working class people pushed out of the metro area? I can't. It's still the 60s and suburbs are exclusively white and affluent, right?
That's Gresham though. Beaverton's still pretty affluent
Yo where you live