re: Woke outerwear clothing brand REI is shutting down its flagship Portland store

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What kind of person delights at the dysfunction of an American city?

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When that dysfunction comes from pompous asshats who purposely continued down a specific path and elected others like themselves?

When those same asshats thumbed their noses at, ridiculed and looked down on any who dared try to disagree with them?

When the philosophies of those people had already been shown as failing, so instead of changing course they egotistically doubled-down on them because they thought their enlightened beliefs somehow trumped the history of human behavior for no other reason than because they did not believe they could ever be wrong?

I am absolutely the kind of person who delights in their dysfunction finally biting them in their egotistical asses. The only thing which would delight me more is if it caused them to stop trying to react to the world as they wish it was and start looking and reacting to it as it truly is.

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but the Pearl is still prime real estate and the average condo price in that neighbourhood is well over $400k.

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My guess is they see the writing on the wall. If the city isn't going to continue to push "harm reduction" while almost completely ignoring arrest and prosecution, the addiction problems which attracts and exacerbates homelessness and crime are just going to continue to spread into nicer neighborhoods as the sheer amount of people engaging in them increases.

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What kind of person delights at the dysfunction of an American city?

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I do when the woke companies made their beds and now they get to lay in it.

I do when commies like you advocate for this $hit and it blows up in your faces and cities collapse because of it.

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I know REI has always been granola/lefty, but it was a good company and it sucks that you could no longer avoid the advocacy.

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When I lived in Denver almost 10 years ago I loved going to REI and they never had anything political in the store. These companies start one way and once already successful, fill up their corporate ranks with leftist women who proceed to destroy them.

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When I lived in Denver almost 10 years ago I loved going to REI and they never had anything political in the store. These companies start one way and once already successful, fill up their corporate ranks with leftist women who proceed to destroy them.

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Woke is a metastatic cancer for sure

So Portland’s racial demographics are: White: 73.79% Asian: 8.53% Two or more races: 7.99% Black or African American: 5.63%.

So that means that 73.79% of the thefts are done by white people, right?

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So that means that 73.79% of the thefts are done by white people, right?

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Portland definitely has a higher % of white criminals than most any other city in America. If you watch the local news, it's still clearly below 50% (I'd peg it at about 20% to 25%) but still considerably higher than other places. Asians are at 0% just like everywhere else. They're the best.

Walmart bought moosejaw, then dicks bought it from them.