In favor of defederation. If I start seeing garbage from threads in my feed, I'm switching instances. I don't want Meta pushing their divisive, hateful, misinformation all up in my feeds. Meta will kill fedi. We don't need them.

For the un-initiated, how to build your own https://corsirosenthalfoundation.org/instructions/

It's not that they're nazi-adjacent right wingers, it's that people in Eugene are getting serious compassion fatigue over some categories of crime or quality of life impacts which they blame generally on "the homeless", which, to be fair, is a group of people who cause many of these problems. For understandable reasons? Yes, many times. Is it more the government's fault than theirs? Yes, often. But it doesn't change that people have very real reasons for being upset and pointing the finger in the direction they point it, and the tactic of just shouting down these people as being anti-homeless or compassionless or bootlickers really isn't working any more.

I'm a person who says "fuck the police" at pretty much every opportunity. I also understand people's very real concerns about randomized violence in the streets caused by people in the homeless population and the city's total lack of initiative in solving anything of these problems.

It used to be only nazis and far-right people complained about "the homeless", it was a boogeyman they essentially created and vastly over-stated the impact of to further right wing agendas. That's no longer the case, mainly due to changes in the economy and drug markets. I personally have had several very uncomfortable interactions with homeless folks in this town, in two unrelated instances in a single year I have had my life threatened out of nowhere by a homeless person. There are whole parts of town I don't go to because of that, and I'm a white dude, I'm sure my experiences pale in comparison to people from other parts of our community.

"Eugene Pride will be without public parking for the first time in 15 years due to a time-conflict with a sold-out Ween concert"

AKA the city has a fair, transparent system for permitting these kinds of things and somebody else claimed the spot first and Eugene Pride organizers are throwing a tantrum that they aren't getting special treatment. They planned an event without making sure there was parking available, that's not anybody's fault but the planners. If you run big events, you need to stay on top of your paperwork and do your diligence.

Ya love to see it. Would love to see a ballot measure next election which drops the quorum requirement to something more reasonable.

Every time I have attended a public comment session at Eugene City Council relating to the budget or EPD, I have consistently heard from citizens that they want more of EPDs budget directed to cahoots. Every time, City Council just raises EPDs budget while cutting basically every other service the city provides. It's absolutely maddening.

We need more passionate, intelligent people in all levels of local government. And we need higher wages (or wages at all!) for these positions, otherwise they'll only be filled by upper class people with no representation by working class people.

I would vote FOR 110 again in a heartbeat. Prohibition doesn't work, is a waste of taxpayer money, and churns people through the criminal justice system. It should be no business of the government what you put into your body in your own private residence. If you are breaking the law because of your drug use, then they should enforce those laws which they currently don't for various reasons.

The whole point of ballot initiatives is to go over the head of the state legislature. It is a check on their power and the two party system. They have no right to reverse a ballot initiative. If they think public opinion has changed, they can send it back to the ballot. Any oregon dem who votes to repeal 110 is losing my vote in the primary.

Going for a hike hopefully see some cool birds

ACLU has a decent overview of it. The tldr is that it's re-criminalizing posession. https://www.aclu-or.org/en/take-action-now-tell-lawmakers-we-need-real-solutions-not-more-jails

Leaving lemmy.world if it doesn't defederate from threads. Fuck Meta.

Aah great. Now I can report my house getting broken into or other serious crime into without the inconvenience of waiting on hold for three hours just to find out they're not going to show up. EPD is a joke.

This is radical democrat marxist propaganda don't fall for it

This whole thing seems dumb and petty and a waste of the union's resources. None of the other union's contributed to the recall campaign effort because they apparently didn't think it was worth doing. I can't even find a good list of specific, sourced claims as to what they are mad about. Their claims, when they make them are vague and fall apart pretty quickly upon further inspection.

If I were in this union I would be pissed.

I look forward to their performances every year, looking forward to seeing them!

tldr he killed a bill which included provisions about protecting the right of cannabis workers to organize, he referred the bill to state attorneys who rightly concluded the law wouldn't stand up in court after very similar laws were struck down elsewhere. Every other union still supports holvey, but one of them pushed for a recall over it. If recalls like this are successful, it encourages other special-interest groups to recall reps over small spats like this in the future.

Ballot measures are laws themselves that voters can pass without needing the approval of the legislature, that's the entire point. They can also be "straw polls" to give guidance to the legislature, but most are made to create or amend a specific law or provision of the constitution, as M110 did.

Voting no on this. This is an abuse of the recall process, which should be reserved for cases of serious malfeasance, fraud, etc, not just because a rep didn't vote your way on a single bill. Every other union supports Holvey, he was justly elected by his constituents. This whole thing seems petty, annoying, and a waste of taxpayer money (and union dues!). If I were in this union I would be furious at them for spending my money this way.

The amazing thing is that the cops actually responded

Same. Many business owners donate individually instead of as a business, so it could be they donated that way. I didn't do through the trouble of matching up individual donors to business names.