To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use

Re:To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use by renegade-otter on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @09:20AM (#38612386)

Absolutely this. A country needs a healthy government and public employees dedicated and honest. A culture of sacrifice for public good. Not "but meeeeee!" culture.

It does not work where the "Deep State" is the enemy and grifters run for Congress to become Twitter trolls.

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Re:To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use by mminer237 on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @12:04PM (#38614932)

I don't disagree with you, but I don't think that's the problem here necessarily. I admittedly don't know much about the attitudes of Portland's commission members.

I think more to the point the issue is that you can't legislate morality. Some people will break the law no matter how harsh the penalty, and some people will take advantage of permissiveness no matter how much you try to help. Some problems the government just can't fix.

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Re:To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use by local_crmdgeon on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @09:48AM (#38612807)

I don' think this one is on the Republicans, a group that effectively doesn't exist in Portland politics.

This is a progressive failure

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Re:To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use by mlrtime on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @09:33AM (#38612596)

Which congress trolls?

You are blaming Portland's currently fail[ed|ing] policies on federal congress members that have nothing to do with Portland?

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