Do we know anything about why there was an announcement and then a reversal and everything?

Just giving the app the CBS news treatment

Technically all of these responses are political. I think we know what OP meant though, and the discussion is all the better for it!

Crockett is behind in the latest primary polling, right? 🙏🏻

I think this has been proposed before, but i think that the instance with the most users (whatever it may be) should be deprioritized on join-lemmy, for the health of the federation. Its not like people won't come into contact with the largest instance like right away anyway (and could just kale a new account if they really want to)

Everyone read "Custer Died For Your Sins" pls

It's a settler-colonial project built on the exploitation of stolen land and exploited labor. As true in the 1700s as it is today. It isn't possible for this sort of entity to mantain stability once the supply of land and people to exploit runs out.

"Prosecute every employee of ICE" is the center-left position. "Abolish ICE" is centerism and they can't even bother with that.

Neither of these are extremist positions and are fully compatible with a liberal democracy. I just want to see these people given a fair trial and punished appropriately for their violations of the law.

"Defund ICE" is already a right-wing position.

"don't take the bait" because our city and state will lose 100/100 times to the federal government. If the US federal government is going to keep up with oppressing our city, I wonder what our local leaders are doing to organize an actual resistance to this shit.

"Vote in Democrats" is not an answer. Portland already does that ~100% of the time and this is what we get.

Lol I'm plenty aware Ukraine is Nazi infested, but the downvote stays.

This is a meme comm, not necessarily a political debate comm. The meme isn't really that high of quality.

I think we need a city leadership with some real "vision" which is now a possibility for the first time in a long time with the new charter allowing better representation at the top level. Near the end of the article, they briefly mention the idea of the City purchasing the Fred Meyer building, which could be the start of a way out, but it would take drive, patience, and vision to actually come to a solution. I'm picturing some sort of redevelopment that takes advantage of the proximity to public transit.

I think the bad news is that there's no simple solution to restoring Gateway, and the neighborhood is suffering from so many of the same problems we see elsewhere in the city. It's going to take a lot more than shuffling tax dollars around and trying to "gentrify" the area to bring the city to a high standard of living.

I'm so disappointed with the state of tech and the way the "FOSS movement" as flawed as it can be at times is so weak.

Not surprised though, it was just a matter of time (about a decade) after the capital started really flowing that everything was required to go to shit.

Thank you for respecting Democracy ^TM

The loss is slightly offset by state-level changes such as a small increase in projected business tax revenue, but the net result is still a loss of about $621 million in general fund dollars. The decrease tips the 2025-27 biennium into negative territory, with a projected general fund deficit of $373 million.

Karl Marx - The Principles of Communism

Finally, the third category consists of democratic socialists who favor some of the same measures the communists advocate, as described in Question 18, not as part of the transition to communism, however, but as measures which they believe will be sufficient to abolish the misery and evils of present-day society.

These democratic socialists are either proletarians who are not yet sufficiently clear about the conditions of the liberation of their class, or they are representatives of the petty bourgeoisie, a class which, prior to the achievement of democracy and the socialist measures to which it gives rise, has many interests in common with the proletariat.

It follows that, in moments of action, the communists will have to come to an understanding with these democratic socialists, and in general to follow as far as possible a common policy with them – provided that these socialists do not enter into the service of the ruling bourgeoisie and attack the communists.

It is clear that this form of co-operation in action does not exclude the discussion of differences.

Anarchist thought is applying criticism to hiearchy and abolishing those that fail tonl justify themselves. Unfortunately people online don't read their theory and just say whatever they're thinking.

I didn't want a mod tag next to all of my posts, and Lemmy doesn't let you disable it.

Yeah this isn't my main account