*** BREAKING: STATE OF EMERGENCY IN OREGON ***

[BlunderMaker]

Downtown is now utter trash with homeless drug addicts everywhere.

this applies to basically every city now

[Brittney Griner's Clit]

Can't argue with the job creating economics of the full service requirement, although those jobs tend to be filled by young men. How about full service bathrooms where a teenage chick holds your cock for you while you piss? Creates jobs AND promotes gender equality.

Yup if little boys should get to handle dick so should little girls.

[Sloppy Joe]

I dont know,, you do raise a valid point. id love to see real stats as to who is really distraught over this. I guess after seeing all of the comments the past few days i really have to wonder. I even had a FB friend who originally lived in Oregon and commented to me how shit is so backwards and so many residents are in their own world - hey, im just telling you what he said...but yes he is just one person.

i lived in oregon. portland is one of the most progressive places on the planet but 30 minutes outside and its farm country dotted with national parks where honest to god white militias have rallies.

its seriously terrifying and very very real.

so yeah those people are comedy gold when it comes to this sort of thing but outside the rural nightmare zones, its basically just seattle with less homeless junkie teenagers. and by less i mean like 5 or 6 less. oh and a great food truck scene too.

This is remarkably accurate. I commute to Oregon City often for meetings and see more confederate flags than i did in North Carolina.

And the white trash here are not the fun loving, hunting/fishing country bumpkin type. Every ruddy-faced fuck in a faded hoodie walks around dead eyed and brooding.

[sonatine]

i lived in oregon. portland is one of the most progressive places on the planet but 30 minutes outside and its farm country dotted with national parks where honest to god white militias have rallies.

its seriously terrifying and very very real.

so yeah those people are comedy gold when it comes to this sort of thing but outside the rural nightmare zones, its basically just seattle with less homeless junkie teenagers. and by less i mean like 5 or 6 less. oh and a great food truck scene too.

Not sure if you been there for awhile . Downtown is now utter trash with homeless drug addicts everywhere.

I havent been there for ... I guess about 4 years, I'm sure youre right tho. I drove to the airport in Seattle this summer, and on i5 there were tents under every fucking overpass. It was like a 3rd world refugee crisis. So yeah I can only imagine what Portland is like at this point.

Thanks to the internet mostly, the teenage runaway boxcar junkie scene between Seattle/Portland/SF has absolutely exploded and is basically the new 'mom Im going backpacking in Europe' for every disaffected white youth from coast to coast, and I can only guess that a big percentage of them wash out end up stranded in all 3 of those locations, 'spanging' for dope bags before diving vein first into street level sex work to feed their pitbulls and top off their habits (not in that order).

But yeah to Sloppy Joe's point, remember when the Bundy militia took over a fucking national wildlife preserve?

Yeah you know how that ended? With a jury of their Oregon peers acquitting almost all of them of all charges.

That's some Turner Diaries shit right there, that's the status quo in rural Oregon.

Turner Diaries with a side of bathtub meth.

[gut]

There's really not much of a difference between rural Oregon and rural other western states. I've seen worse in Colorado when I lived there.

[v12cl]

[MumblesBadly]

Can we get back on topic here? There's a real crisis brewing there, dammit!

[herbertstemple]

There was a time when almost everywhere was full maintenance. Kid would pump the gas, wash the windshield & check the air in your tires, & check your oil if you ask him too. Gas was $.35 a gallon. Then the first oil crisis hit, the price of gas went up a dime & people freaked out. Also convenience stores started popping up everywhere & self serve gas was born. The gas was a little cheaper & service stations started disappearing.

[SenseiKreese]