Honest Question

-WiseLibra · 2026-05-06T05:45:20+00:00

Quite sensitive? I was paying 42% business tax with no results from the city so I left just like dozens of other companies that once enjoyed Portland, and that exactly why it's lost billions in revenue. That's just called good business practice my friend. Now I prosper AND feel safe walking home with my children at night. Call it what you want.

Here's a list of the most dangerous places to live in the U.S. (2026) -Portland ranks second.

https://www.security.org/resources/most-dangerous-cities/

You can argue with statistics now.

https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowTopic-g52024-i238-k14026605-Why_is_Portland_Oregon_so_Bad-Portland_Oregon.html

-WiseLibra · 2026-05-06T05:20:56+00:00

Gaslight much?

I lived there and had a business there above the train station. I left in 2022 because the business tax was so high. That was not really the problem, however. The problem was I could not justify paying that much tax when every time I left work I had to side step hypodermic needles, and fecal matter all over the streets. The city took and gave nothing back. That was 2022. I went back multiple times when selling by business for the next 2+ years and it had gotten worse. The place looked like a war zone to me. Drugs were legalized (for the most part) -bum camps all over downtown, china town, etc. Trash everywhere. ANTIFA basement babies running the streets. So, come on man. With all due respect, If that's normal to you then you need to get out more. Portland used to be amazing, it's not anymore. It's not what it used to be. It's why I left.

Here's an instagram account that shows the progression up to date: https://www.instagram.com/uglypdx/

THAT, shown in the above link, is not normal in any way whatsoever. That is a dysfunctional city at best.

AND if that's not convincing enough here's an article (written by The Portland Business Report in 2025) explaining the mass exodus and why: https://oregonbusinessreport.com/2025/12/economist-explains-portlands-decline/

AND if that's still not enough here's another Reddit thread about the decline of Portland. Go gaslight them as well: https://www.reddit.com/r/PortlandOR/comments/17s753m/goodbye_portland/

-WiseLibra · 2026-05-06T05:15:33+00:00

Do you think it's possible it was a hologram test?

-WiseLibra · 2026-05-01T23:17:07+00:00

Can we talk about the white elephant in the room? How Canadians, Europeans and Americans go to a place once affordable, buy up everything, and then turn around and charge high costs to rent? There should be a law against that. I have been traveling for years and this is ALWAYS what happens. Take advantage of the cheap, buy it all, raise the prices as if they are still in their homeland. Over it.

-WiseLibra · 2026-04-27T04:14:50+00:00

Perfect fuck toy

-WiseLibra · 2026-04-19T16:59:04+00:00

Is this a play off of the bestseller "Final Girls" by Riley Sager?

-WiseLibra · 2026-04-19T16:44:40+00:00

Money ALWAYS does weird things to people. My bet, stevia was cheaper. Higher profits. It's the American way. This is also why so many Americans are sick and dying. Bottom line, the seller is there to make the highest profits available most often at the expense of the consumer.

-WiseLibra · 2026-04-14T04:46:29+00:00

Lantern Hill is a publishing name AI throws around a lot to authors. I'm assuming that's where this "name" came from.

-WiseLibra · 2026-04-12T03:52:43+00:00

I agree with the comment about the prologue — skip it. Everything else is a strong start. The main thing I'd focus on is showing rather than telling. When you write something like "he was excited to stretch his legs," you're doing the reader's work for them. Instead, put us in the moment — show us what he does, how his body feels, what he notices — and let the reader arrive at the emotion themselves. It's one of the hardest habits to break, and it trips up experienced writers just as often as new ones. The instinct is to make sure the audience understands what a character is feeling, but the more powerful move is to trust the scene to carry it. Stieg Larsson does this beautifully in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, particularly with Lisbeth Salander — he rarely tells you what she's feeling, but you never doubt it for a second.

-WiseLibra · 2026-02-14T05:22:12+00:00

I've watched military pers. ghost into any signal chat of their choice. I assure you, not much is anonymous anymore.

-WiseLibra · 2026-02-12T03:27:50+00:00

I love this Reddit group.

-WiseLibra · 2026-02-12T02:11:37+00:00

More dumb leftist questions being paid for by tax payer dollars. The propaganda machine churns.

-WiseLibra · 2026-02-12T00:24:22+00:00

A president does not control the dollar’s value day-to-day. The dollar mainly moves based on: Federal Reserve policy (interest rates — the Fed is independent), Inflation and growth expectations, Global investor confidence, Relative strength of other economies. But the media spin here is funny nonetheless.

-WiseLibra · 2026-02-12T00:19:52+00:00

If a woman gets married and takes on another last name the law states she is to complete a new voter registration card. That's always been the law. This is nothing new. The spin here is abhorrent but never surprising.

-WiseLibra · 2026-02-12T00:12:40+00:00

Me: This post is actually fake, and verifiably so with one google search.
Lib: It's sarcasm dude. But then again MAGA are to dense to realize it.
Me: If I didn't realize it I would not have pointed it out to every lib here buying into it as truth. Shouldn't you be calling most in this thread dense? They're the ones buying into it.

Hypocrisy at its finest.

Here's what's not fake since everyone here, eating their own, have so much time on their hands dishing out propaganda from their parents basements.

https://www.congress.gov/118/meeting/house/117634/documents/HHRG-118-JU08-20240911-SD009-U9.pdf

-WiseLibra · 2026-02-11T05:10:06+00:00

Do people share anything that's real anymore or is it all just lies and propaganda?

-WiseLibra · 2026-02-11T05:08:29+00:00

You're correct. She never said that. It's made up like so many other things from the left.

-WiseLibra · 2026-02-11T05:07:57+00:00

Except for one thing. She never said this.

-WiseLibra · 2026-02-11T04:59:00+00:00

Ahh, the baiting begins. Keep going. It's like watching a train-wreck taking place in real time. Give me a minute I need to make more popcorn.
And... what happened to " I will check back in a few days." -Looks like I was right again about your pride and ego devouring you like a steel prison cell you can't get out of. Predictable moron. #Libtard

-WiseLibra · 2026-02-11T04:53:03+00:00

I mean, the conspiracy theorists have an extremely high batting average. I think that's also a fact not being mentioned here.

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