So the cops have to drive an extra two blocks on their routes and locals need to drive an extra 3 blocks to get to Fred Meyers. When you weigh that against human lives, I can see how it’s a tough call. Nimbyism will kill us just as surely as any of the other things going on.
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NIMBYs are the small scale test of the Paradox of Tolerance. Fascists are the large scale. Right now, the US is failing both the small and large scale test of the Paradox of Tolerance.
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Skyler Brocker-Knapp is director of Portland Solutions, a city bureau formed in 2024 to address homelessness and related “livability challenges.”
What in the chamber of commerce rotary club capital government capture is this, now? One of those parasitic health & human services 501C money suckers has burrowed it's way into being an actual city agency? We're paying tax dollars to employ this unelected clown? Out! Out!!
Can't the police just use ebikes if they are going between freddies and couch park?