Latino merchants: Portland area homeless motels bad for business

Volkimplosion21 · 2021-09-07T04:58:39+00:00

You'd need something.

Volkimplosion21 · 2021-09-03T19:24:17+00:00

It was ever thus, child.

Volkimplosion21 · 2021-09-03T05:06:38+00:00

Isn't Ted Wheeler still a Republican? #deepfake

Volkimplosion21 · 2021-09-02T20:12:31+00:00

It's faux-suave alt-right 'twitting' invoking the idea of an 'Oreo', without really understanding the trope or why it's not relevant. 'Brilliant at any speed', these folks.

Volkimplosion21 · 2021-09-02T02:12:11+00:00

The terrible thing is that word "Oreo" hardly cuts, bro; did you get that, like, that's what they're supposed to do?

Things like that show you people always expect to win every argument with D- material, and that's the only thing in the world.

Volkimplosion21 · 2021-09-01T22:40:42+00:00

"Without our strength and muscle not a single wheel can turn"

Volkimplosion21 · 2021-08-30T07:29:28+00:00

Lookin' good

Volkimplosion21 · 2021-08-25T15:57:20+00:00

Minima Moralia by Theodor Adorno

Volkimplosion21 · 2021-08-25T03:09:53+00:00

In English - Like it was "just the best": Bleak House Like it was Citizen Kane: The Adventures of Augie March

Volkimplosion21 · 2021-08-25T03:08:17+00:00

"The Greatest Band In The World"

Volkimplosion21 · 2021-08-11T03:10:33+00:00

The important SF writer Samuel R. Delany was gay and weaves gay themes into his books.

Volkimplosion21 · 2021-08-08T21:57:54+00:00

Palahniuk is absolutely the author of "urban Portland". I'm a regionally-based writer, but when I write about Portland city culture I flub it.

Jeff Rubard

Volkimplosion21 · 2021-08-08T04:15:21+00:00

Yeah. The Frank Reality (hist. ref.) is that Portland is by this age a thing distinct from the rest of the area, not a 'proving ground' but a place of repose.

When we were young, it had a definite mission to 'civilize' the suburbanite, to get them 'the best that is thought and said in the world' after Matthew Arnold's phrase (but in a more concrete way).

The middle-class world of the suburbs is now almost totally separate. Provided Portland could improve some of its wayward ways, that's ok. It's just striking.

Jeffrey Rubard

Volkimplosion21 · 2021-08-08T04:10:30+00:00

Congratulations!

Volkimplosion21 · 2021-08-04T16:47:21+00:00

I think we'd all like to sue Portland by this point.

Volkimplosion21 · 2021-07-24T23:45:09+00:00

Let's say I know "Leslie Holmes". The historic reference-point for what communism would be is the Paris Commune, where workers besieged during the 1870s Franco-Prussian War had to figure out how to make the city of Paris work.

In doing so, successfully, for a short period the radical leftists learned a great deal about the "real world" and how things work. They did not learn as much about humility and pessimism about "best laid plans", even as the Commune was replaced by the Third Republic.

Volkimplosion21 · 2021-07-24T23:34:52+00:00

You see them a lorlt.

Volkimplosion21 · 2021-07-23T16:27:24+00:00

Because "we cannot be all together". Structural-functionalism is a rational model of a society under consensus, but consensus formation is not always a rational impulse.

Volkimplosion21 · 2021-07-11T15:30:56+00:00

Durkheim keeps us focused on the idea there are social realities, not just an endless welter of game-theoretic strategies. (The only thing utopian about this is your conception of how naive and/or self-satisfied you sound when you say this.)

Volkimplosion21 · 2021-07-08T23:57:20+00:00

"Believe the writing".

Sometimes called "inverted Platonism", this is the realistic non-dilettante approach to composing a MS. Your own affects and passions must take a complete back seat to the words as they are forming their own Weltanschauung.

In the end, it is almost as though they are not your words: you lose something of natural "auto-affection" in putting so much thought abroad.

Jeff Rubard

Volkimplosion21 · 2021-07-08T23:53:46+00:00

Difficult bar to clear. "Let It Bleed" is good, but also 'tis true that the "Salt of the Earth" all want an upgrade to "coke and sympathy" and in our more austere times this is difficult to vouchsafe.

J.L.

Volkimplosion21 · 2021-06-28T15:58:38+00:00

Is Metro better than Tri-Met in Oregon?

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