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cgod  ·  2848 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The families that can't afford summer

But it's not.





Deltron_0  ·  2848 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Why would you work as hard, for less, when you can move to a place that offers more infrastructure for far less of your own labor? (You might think - but you pay for it in taxes... Not so much when you're so poor that the codes don't apply. Or your own material wealth negates the press of the tax code on your own personal life. Is one of the prevailing issues in the city not this precise conflict incarnate? I noticed a lot of bums and needles walking through downtown a few weeks ago on my way to John Helmer's Haberdashery)

Portland is a wonderful place, where young people go to retire. Much like America is the land of the free and home of the brave today. On the outside everything is peaches, but on the inside.. The city is peaking, and as the basic needs to sustain life become harder to source for the surrounding areas, the town will end up like the others preceding it in history.

The culprit is already showing itself: the openness and inclusion of others in the city is no longer a secret. The irony of a TV show projecting this - and making a good profit doing so 😂. That's what makes the show so demented in my eye..

cgod  ·  2828 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I've never seen "a lot of needles" walking anywhere through this town. I call bullshit.

If you are going to a haberdashery makes it sound like you'd fit right into the imaginary world of the show you dislike.

Deltron_0  ·  2827 days ago  ·  link  ·  

  I saw needles and bums.  You are assuming a lot behind a computer screen to pass judgement on my reference.

You don't know why I was there, what I was doing in the store, or where I was headed before or after.

What is your deal? Do you feel threatened by my words, or what I shared about my time in Portland? I am voicing my opinion and stating what I've observed.

Claiming someone's words as bullshit behind a screen is cowardly. I know you wouldn't call bullshit to my face in person and get away with it. Taking my action of merely walking to a haberdashery as a cause to judge me is naïve. If I saw you in person, I would drop you and kick your fucking teeth in. You don't know me. I might not know how to type or write as eloquent as many here - but I can guarantee you that although I may not always be right, I am never wrong..

cgod  ·  2827 days ago  ·  link  ·  
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cgod  ·  2827 days ago  ·  link  ·  

What kind of hat did you get?