Portland
Welcome to the lemmy.world community for Portland, Oregon!
This community has kind of been empty since it was created, I'm hoping to change that!
Unlike "other" Portland communities you may have seen "elsewhere", I believe in a "warts and all" approach. You are free to take off your Rose tinted glasses and talk about topics that are dragging our city down.
At the same time, sunset pics, snowmageddon, traffic monster, cones, that's all welcome as well. Let's collectively keep Portland weird!
2024 is going to be an interesting year politically with all the changes to city government, I will attempt to tag political threads with a [Politics] tag and encourage users to do so as well.
Other than the lemmy.world restrictions on spam, copyrighted material, and adult material (USE that NSFW tag!), there's only one real way to get in trouble here:
- Don't attack other users.
It's OK to go after Teargas Ted, it's OK to say Rene Gonzales is a fascist, ACAB, BLM, whatever floats your boat (WEFYB).
It's NOT OK to attack or diminish another user. Feel free to disagree, you can point out the many ways you think they're wrong, just don't start throwing perjoratives AT OTHER USERS.
Links to know!
Portland Trailblazers Schedule!
https://www.nba.com/blazers/schedule
Portland Winterhawks Home Game Schedule!
https://www.rosequarter.com/events/winterhawks
Portland Timbers Pre-Season Starts in February!
https://www.timbers.com/schedule/matches#competition=all&date=2024-02-10
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Yeah I'm not in Oregon, in my state voters get to read the name on the ballot and that's all the prep they get. Anything else they learn is from voter outreach.
Honestly weird that in this day and age you could have a campaign for county commissioner and not even a mention of you online, right?
Oh, definitely, but even before we went 100% vote by mail in 2000, there were voters pamphlets.
Which state are you in? You'd think there'd be a website or something.
Here's ours:
https://oregonvotes.gov/voters-guide/english/votersguide.html
The only obvious one missing is Trump, but his campaign refused to file a statement.
https://www.kgw.com/article/news/verify/donald-trump-primary-ballot-oregon/283-1f481f17-ab1d-498a-a4a2-65e3459bf946
I make a personal policy of not giving out information about myself. When somebody searches my real name they see a picture in the newspaper from a charity event 6 years ago and that's it.
I get it, I have the same name as an actor who popped up in Star Trek. When his name hit the credits, my phone didn't stop ringing for 3 hours. LOL.
"Yes, I saw it, no, it wasn't me." Click.
"Yes, I saw it, no, it wasn't me." Click.
"I dunno, he was a Klingon or something." Click.
"I dunno, he was a Klingon or something." Click.
Anyway... a SURPRISING number of states don't do voters pamphlets.
https://ballotpedia.org/Features_of_official_voter_guides,_compared_by_state