Be the change you want to see. Lead by example.
Start clap with clap yourself! clap
Snark aside, this is just like the goddamn internet "eat the rich" buffoons. Most of those fools would be on the "plate" as well which they just cannot seem to understand, and if they do not start there, they will end up there because they have just a bit more than the masses.
That would require more hard work and effort than video blogging about it for internet headpats, so highly unlikely unfortunately.
Random stabbings and shootings are not part of "Keeping Portland weird"? Kinda feels in character to me.
That is a fair assessment.
It is hard to shoot a target, let alone a moving human, but considering the volume of rounds, you think they would at least hit someone.
Unless it is more of a "look how strong we are, be afraid" performance, like two primitive tribes screaming insults and throwing rocks at each other from opposite sides of a river, both groups knowing that the chances of actual bloodshed are slim as they are relatively safe but feeling compelled to make an effort anyway.
From one faceless forum user to another, I am glad you are alright, or at least not physically harmed. If you are not planning an exit strategy already from the greater Portland area, I would recommend at least thinking on it.
If I may ask, how do you know it was gang related?
When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.
The left cannot meme, but they certainly are one.
It is the euphemism treadmill, but more politically charged. "People of color" replaced "coloreds/colored people" which replaced something else before it, and I would argue that the lefty in-group of now use "people of color" as a way to show their allegiance while the old timers use "colored people" as it is what they knew was acceptable in polite company or a general term for non-whites.
Eventually, PoC will be seen as what the out of touch/elderly/racists use with whatever new term being a way to show how up to date and (insert new slang term for woke) those who use it are.
Resident senile creep maybe.
Indeed, but making them free turns them into an entitlement, and when a family of hu-cows waddle in and demand basket after basket after basket, lowing uproariously if they do not get their "free breadsitcks" when they want them, it really devalues the breadsticks.
Nothing to see here folks! Not a woman using a child for personal/social/political gain, or that same child being driven to self harm! This is not that thing that people keep saying that happens! The child will not go down a path of self sterilization by taking her advice! No sir!
Mocha Brown and the Seven Magical Entities. Alternatively, Snow Aint and the Seven Specifically Diverse Hires.
Nothing erodes value quite like making it free. See free love, free health care and free breadsticks as examples.
And so is the higher education it bought in these cases.
A long time ago, that phrase meant "schlocky, but fun family entertainment" like The Cat From Outer Space and The Gnomemobile.
Identify This Human is a game I consistently lose, so I must ask, who is this?
In group versus out group identification, aka "racist dog whistle"?
Taking a page from the Greta Thunberg School of Environmental Advocacy playbook I see, though "Do as I say and not as I do" has been around forever.
Home owners are the petite bourgeois anyway! They have more money, so they can take the loss and help people of color at the same time! -lefty midwit who then is shocked when the homeowners leave and their town becomes Detroit-lite
It's a serious problem that some people in Japan think allowing transgender people to use women's toilets will lead to an increase in criminal acts. We have to make it clear that these are two completely different matters.
Enjoy being openly preyed upon in the bathroom by government mandate.
Sounds like a Stonetoss comic.
The mirror just reflects what is or is not there.
Male feminist being a complete ass? Very believable, though why come out with this story now? Does she feel obligated to knock him down a peg or is it to cover for something she has done which may soon come to light?
Look at "her"! "She" is the team captain now.
Oh yeah, that was an aspect Black Lives Matter (when it involves whites or police of any color).
College using their funds to patronize black athletes in the form of scholarships and subsidies: good.
Individuals using college funds to patronize black athletes in the form of bill payment and assistance: bad.
Or at least that is how it looks on the surface. I wonder what other kinds of backroom dealings this coach (and likely the whole athletic program) got up to that has yet to be investigated.