Max Steele

It’s not going to work.

Oh let me be clear. I like both of those people. I think they’re just swell.

It’s a lot more than I can say about most of your pals here in the biodome of 2010s Twitter.

Yeah. He is pretty nice right? A little Bernie for me but I think he’s got a good heart.

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Because you’re a troll and it’s typically unproductive, by design.

It mostly gets boring and I have a job.

The under vote is massive.

Portland’s a much bigger market than my homeland. I’d guess the advertisers had to choose and chose us.

This doesn’t address chief argument. It addresses one made by @shanedkavanaugh.bsky.social

I’m arguing against the “80% of Portlanders chose this council” from @counciloravalos.bsky.social.

There’s still plenty to argue about re: 2016-2024 and the impact/incentive differences with RCV+STV.

John is actually correct. You *really* shouldn’t boost me. You only score points with a dozen Bluesky users.

Meanwhile I get more opportunities to speak. You’re never going to bait me into snapping or dropping some mask because I’m not an anonymous internet user pretending at something.

50 thousand of our fellow Portlanders left council blank.

That should chill you if you care about representation. I want to hear from those 50 thousand. Even if it’s all DSA. I want to hear the full voice of everyone who turned in a ballot.

Listen I get you’re a troll with internet poisoning but yes, the average voter had no idea who these people were.

They were overwhelmed by # of choices and distracted (understandably) by Trump.

The fact that almost no motion occurred through STV is because the winners won by big margins.

For progressives?

D1: Routh
D2: Penson, Hudson, Marshall
D3: Knab, Cornett
D4: Freeman, Silkie

All those choices are better than what we got.

If she had meme'd like one of our city councilors she would have won. The Roy Kent "little bitch" meme would have been worth 2,000 votes alone.

Also she had a sense of humor and it felt like she was told to tamp it down. Big mistake.

Glad to know the elevated tone and exaggerated language started out of Mitch Green's office.

I'm shocked. 😐

I'm claiming that there is a lineage re: historical antisemitism, Nazism, Soviet antisemitism, Islamism, up through modern radical movements on the left.

It's a virus that uses anticapitalist or whatever critical theory you'd like, positioning Jews as the final boss/epitome of [problem].

You may be right about that. I still refute Griggs/Green's back door/private framing. (especially rich from those 2).

Glorified listening sessions, a step up from the emails I send to various offices. No back room deals were made that I've ever been witness to. People gripe, store owners ask who to call when someone is dumping waste in front of their shop, etc.

Many downtown Portlanders felt abandoned after 2020.

Oh good Lord. The meetings are open to the public. Taylor's readers would know about them if they participated in their local communities.

It's not a shadowy cabal. Meet your local cafe owners. Talk to the couple who own the bodega. Go to a summer concert.

What if I want to hire you to disregard what people are really saying and concern troll? Maybe that's why I was checking. You never know. Your books are open. Don't walk away from a lead.

That’s what you’re talking about? I linked an article?

Okay dude. Have a nice life. That’s very reckless behavior.

Okay, show me where you have asked Mitch, Tiffany, or Angelita about their extremist views?

Show me where you have covered Rev Bike Club’s violent politics.

Or are you just making vague threats?

That’s a very fucked up thing to say. Be careful with that shit.

Not something to joke about for any reason.

Agreed to disagree I guess.

Okay fine.

It's not wrong to care. It's *performative* to come for a photo op to launder your rep when you are an extremist who needs to appear cuddly going into an election season.

Plus the papers have been brutal to you (deserved) and you're horrible at your job.

It's not complicated.

No.

I’m just trying to sell mirrors here.

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Yep. That's exactly what I said. In fact, you should limit thoughts to your own block, but only the part you can see out your front door. The other half is not your business unless you can set up an array of mirrors.
You figured me out rat. Dang.

You definitely care what their politics are. Come on. Let's not do that. No one here is an idiot.

You like their politics, insofar as they align with yours. Anything ugly you can overlook. We all make those judgment calls. I think you made the wrong call. Simple as.

You are the member of a hate org sweetie. You’re like two steps removed from a nazi. Jonathan might be dumb enough to work with y’all but I’m not.

Ain’t no amount of friendly pro-social posturing that can erase “globalize the intifada” being screamed at Jewish parents in Beaverton.

That's fine. You live here. Jonathan and the rodent don't. Morillo and Koyama Lane certainly don't. You're getting your way and the org I'm part of even backed your position. We agree (at least on this).

I'm just open to both outcomes and sick of your party of weirdos creeping in our neighborhood.