Not sure how many is normal though.
Portland has issues with homeless...no one can deny this fact. Things are a little better since hard drugs were recriminalized, but the city is far from "fine".
Yes, Portland has a homeless issue. It has had one since I moved here in 2013 (and probably before then). Covid made it worse but the issue is slowly getting better. But again, homelessness isn't what the President and Kristi Noem are talking about.
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Independent media gets fatigued calling you out, people tune out or accuse them of bias, and so eventually they just give up and "both sides" it - treating basic facts like an unknowable super-positional state.
Activist billionaire takeovers of media platforms coupled with inflammatory “good enough” AI videos have the potential to irrevocably rupture shared reality.
Now they are saying I should move based on what they see on Fox News. I'm dumbfounded; Don't you remember what it was like when you were here? It hasn't changed.
Part of it is a small town mentality, the big city is just dangerous. The rest of it is just being spoon fed clips of the same protest footage over and over and over again.
https://gizmodo.com/fake-protest-videos-are-the-latest-ai-sl...
pdx_flyer•2h ago
For reference: https://imgur.com/a/portland-ice-protests-perspective-lRFsQa...