Anarcho DoggoMar 2, 2024

So fucking infuriating. Criminalization is not a solution to substance use struggles. Housing, mental health support, community, holistic well-being are the goddamn solutions.

This NIMBY ass liberal fuckshit. 110 was an amazing step in the right direction and instead of building on it, OR state legislators are just kowtowing to developers and soulless wealthy residents who want to see houseless people struggling just disappear into a prison cell.

https://www.opb.org/article/2024/03/01/oregon-legislature-passes-bill-recriminalizing-drug-possession-sends-to-governor-measure-110/

I knew this would go this way. Democrats with an overwhelming legislative majority proving constantly why they do not deserve anyone's fucking vote.

Oregon’s drug decriminalization experiment appears dead

The voter-approved Measure 110 is nearing its end as the Legislature sends a bill unwinding Oregon«s drug decriminalization toward the governor»s desk.

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Show threadCyMar 2, 2024
Welcome to democracy! Oh what's this, a bill people are voting on? They voted to pass the bill, and now it's law? What a great democracy! Oh by the way legislators un-passed the law, so your vote doesn't count anymore. No you don't get to vote on that. Democracy! :D
Show threadLee Bogomil

@cy
It's not really a problem of the process being undemocratic. See the polls I cited above; if another referendum were held on 110 this year, it's pretty likely it would be rolled back by popular vote. Just over the past 2 or 3 years Oregon's (especially Portland's) political culture really has lurched to the right at a dizzying pace. I mean, it's depressing how many conversations I've had with people in Portland who publicly self-identify as radical leftists, socialists, etc. but have privately told me they strongly support both this and Ted Wheeler's camping ban. 🤮

"Sometimes the problems we face stem not from capitalist conspiracy, or from anything conscious on the part of the state, but literally just from people sucking and there being a lot of them."

https://mastodon.social/@rechelon/111934823258084399

Mar 6, 2024 at 4:56amWeb
Show threadCyMar 6, 2024
It may have been likely, but they didn't trust us to vote the way they wanted. They took away our vote. That could apply to any vote on anything, unless I'm really missing the mark here.

It is depressing how (cough Intel) big companies dragged in a ton of dazed, gentrifying commuters, trained from birth to be antisocial and isolated, but those "consumers" actually get credit for being unpredictable enough that the legislature had to pull back the curtain and just kind of... remove the democratic process. This is a hope for humanity, and a reminder that fascists target power hierarchies, are always a minority, and never play fair.

Also they always put the blame on people sucking in general, especially when they start going into overpopulation and eugenics. Doesn't mean people don't suck, but I'm skeptical when someone says that's the problem.