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Portland, OR | He/Him & They/Them | Developing an interactive API of humane, ethical, nonviolent resources for community safety.
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I hear what you’re saying, but the cities exist already. And as it stands, our local & state government needs tax revenue to afford all the necessary infrastructure & social programs that benefit everyone.
Society isn’t quite ready to transition into a resource-based economy just yet.
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More finger wagging & strongly worded letters, huh, Ron?
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And Portland OR -
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I’m certainly down to help craft language, as well as help organize potential stakeholders for consideration in formulating localized supply chain compacts. That’s probably the biggest hurdle to establish this. And also determine localized talent (which could easily be mobilized via talent drive).
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With that said, I do understand the humanitarian crisis that creates, by making it more difficult for people abducted by ICE to coordinate with their support systems and families, if those people are hauled off to another city or state (like Tacoma). That makes it a logistical challenge to fight.
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An enforcement arm of an authoritarian regime that has a physical base of operations, gives them operational cohesion & literal/figurative insulated infrastructure. That just makes it easier for them to operate. Not harder.
It’s also communally disruptive, if they have a tangible headquarters.
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There’s a lot that you say, that I agree with. Where I stop short is in the idea that shutting down the ICE facility is somehow counterintuitive.
We can walk & chew gum at the same time.
ICE having operational, centralized facilities actually empowers them…
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That’s simply not enough.
There’s tremendous demand for Portland to innovate in this way. And again, if Portland city/publicly-owned co-ops established supply chains with local suppliers, that vertically enriches & insulates our state, keeping tax revenue flowing INTO our state, and not out.
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Establishing a publicly-owned co-op that utilizes local suppliers/supply chains, would insulate us from similar fallouts, and drive competition, by fully filling the voids left behind by Target & REI’s abandonment.
Downtown Portland proper has 1 Safeway & 2 CVS stores, and a couple faux bodegas…
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Any of the corporations operating out of the state, aren’t doing anything cutting edge that can’t easily be replicated by the state, established as a publicly-owned co-op. Especially because the human labor/talent of our state is what’s actually driving the innovation. Not the corporation itself.
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4. Tax ongoing revenues if those corporations still derive business & profits from our state.
5. Eminent domain any abandon corporate campuses that still derive IP or manufacturing value from Oregon.
6. Establish publicly-owned enterprise & worker co-ops to supplant those corporations…
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3. Implement exit taxation policies that essentially clawback all the tax breaks that were afforded to those corporations in exchange for them setting up headquarters here. If they’re not willing to pay their fair share, then they don’t get to keep the profits from their tax breaks…
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If Kotek were committed, she could do the following, and cement her legacy for generations:
1. Partner with state universities to retrofit abandoned infrastructure into publicly-owned manufacturing hubs.
2. Threaten to redirect resources & support that corporations have generously benefitted from…
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The thing is, Kotek has leverage. She just doesn’t want to mobilize that leverage, because:
1. It’s a major disruption & policy shift, short-term, which could potentially jeopardize her legacy.
2. She’s enriched by those legacy corporations. Especially when she caves to their whims…
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The problem with that assertion is that those corporations are essentially threatening to leave the state for more tax-friendly havens if they don’t get their way.
We’re seeing the same thing play out in the NYC mayoral race, where corporations are threatening to leave if Mamdani is elected…
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She and our attorney general have actually been effective at leading & winning several multi-state pac lawsuits against Trump’s regime.
The problem with Kotek, and other Oregon Governors (it’s not unique to Kotek) is she’s funded & influenced by corporations that she asserts the state depends on…
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• Tina Kotek being a Lesbian does NOT make her progressive.
• Tina Kotek being a Democrat does NOT make her progressive.
• Tina Kotek slightly opposing Trump’s authoritarianism does NOT make her progressive.
Why? Because she’s still willing to do the bidding of wealthy donors.
We CAN do better.
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Is Kotek better than Christine Drazen, or Betsy Johnson? Yes, in the sense that she’s not a full-on christo-fascist or gun-toting A-ranked member of the NRA.
Is she still corrupt? Yes.
Is she still pro-cop? Yes.
Is she a corporatist? Yes.
Is she doing the bidding of wealthy donors? Yes…
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🤣 good looking out
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• And closing the FARA loophole that allows a foreign government (Israel) to lobby our Congress.
• And overturn Citizens United.
• And overturn the Prison Industries Act.
• And overturn the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, to fully reinstate Glass-Steagall.
• And fully reinstate the Fairness Doctrine.
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In the kidnapping video I posted above, the young kid in the blue Walmart vest getting roughed up by ICE, is 20-year-old Adrian Martinez, a US citizen who was taken hostage by ICE for speaking up for his kidnapped coworker.
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Please don’t blame his bullshit, greedy, treacherous behavior on his clinical depression.
The man is bought & paid for by AIPAC, and he’s willing to sell out his constituents & this country for more of that AIPAC money.