“DAMN THE MAN!”
[screeeeech—THUNK]
“THE MAN MAKES A COMPELLING POINT!”
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I was thinking there might be problems along those lines. Sort of like how this might be qualified as “Anarchist Fresco Restoration”:
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(looks at photo)
You call that a pothole?
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I would suspect that in Portland (as in most municipalities), the demographics of a neighbourhood play a role in the quantity and quality of municipal resources provided for residents. If PARC only works on the potholes that have been neglected for an egregiously long time, I suspect they’ll mostly find themselves working in working-class, predominantly non-white neighbourhoods, which is probably a part of why PARC is doing this in the first place.
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They are wearing safety vests. It’s hard to tell because they’re in anarchist black.
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It’s like that in my city too - When I’ve reported road damage, the city has patched it within a very short time.
People complain and whine and moan about the potholes. Ask any of those people, “Have you reported any of these potholes to the city?” and you get a blank stare.
Apparently it’s not good enough that the city repair potholes that are reported to it, they have to read the person’s mind to discover where the potholes exist - asking them to make a phone call or type a pothole report in a website is unreasonable.
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That reminds me of when Reclaim The Streets were planting trees in the M41 in London. Of course, there weren’t any potholes there.
At least, there weren’t any before the protests started.
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It’s always good to check your work, but they don’t know the quality of their patch jobs, which indicates that they don’t necessarily know when a patch job will do, or if more extensive repairs are required, or what a good patch job looks like.
My father was once part of an inquest to determine the cause of a sinkhole opening up under a shiny brand new road. It swallowed up a taxi like a hungry Sarlacc. The cause was rank incompetence, and while I can’t see an inappropriately applied pothole patch leading to a sinkhole, these people are amateurs. I expect an amateur job. It’s not enough to have good intentions, please know what you’re doing. Roads aren’t just asphalt patches sitting on bare ground, it’s a little more complicated than that.
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Your suspicion is out of place in this instance.
Have you read the Emmet Grogan autobiography “Ringolevio: A Life Played for Keeps”?
Yeah I’ve noticed that when you start reporting things to the city, authorities actually respond pretty quickly… How many people just assume that these things are other peoples’ problems that somebody else is in charge of? Your klout score doesn’t even improve when you report a downed power line!? Fuck that!
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fuck yeah. up the punx!
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yup. direct action gets the goods.
i can see you’ve never been in a riot. they’re pretty fun.
I’d like to go on record that I’m entirely in favor of Anarchist Road Care. More power to 'em. I’m considering starting up a Libertarian Road Care in my community, which by the end of every spring looks like it’s been subjected to a WWI pre-attack barrage.
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Since the patches applied by our Official Government Road Department have never been known to last more than a year, I can’t see how these folks could be any worse.
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I kept misreading “pothole” as “portal” and it made an interesting thread all the more interesting.
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If you can do that then I wouldn’t have a problem with it.
Right wing libertarians are extremely uncommon in the UK, even when compared to libertarian socialists. The only time I have heard of any of their groups was when the Libertarian Alliance were democratically ejected from the London Anarchist Bookfair. They had come in and hijacked one of the stalls that wasn’t being used though, not that they would have been allowed to have a stall even if they had applied for one. It didn’t stop them claiming they had been there for three years previously. Maybe they had but it wasn’t with them running a stall, but they should have known that their political views would not be welcome if it was true.
I expect that the Liberal Democrats really eat into their potential membership.
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I acknowledge that entropy and the forces of time are not in abeyance, and that yes, that is a thing.
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