The Absolute State of Portland OR - 2024 edition 

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Trying to explain austrian economics to the average portland/eugene resident is like trying to teach a cat to play the trumpet.

Trying to be a cop in Portland challenge (impossible)

No business in their right minds would want to invest in this city.

"Yes, I actually live here" Sorry to hear that, lad

man thats terrible, almost as terrible as not having a gun-rights video

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It is so bad how desensitized american cities are. 50 years ago it was a statewide shock if anyone was shot randomly, and now it happens 3+ times a day near the city I live in. Random shootings are not normal, Feeling unsafe walking down the street is not normal, Everything being old and falling apart is not normal, Hard drugs being done/sold on the street is not normal. Yet people who live here will say that all is fine, or this is just how things are. That is the general sentiment of anyone I ask who lives here (or worse they are confused that I even bring this things up as being a problem)

19:39 - And here we see Canadian refugees fleeing from the tyranny of Trudolf Castreau...

If only people cared about the border as much as they care about some conflict in the other side of the world.

I don't think Rand is an ideal "wake up" for anyone, right or left. There are more intellectually disciplined writers and philosophers who advocate for individualism.

Zero state solution.

Thank you for feeding us with content, Papa mentis

Literally driving to Portland as we speak, RU-vid is listening to me again.

I was in Portland in October of 2023. I had just got out of boot camp, and my uncle lived there, and I promised I was gonna visit him. And I rented a truck, and I went downtown, and it didn't look so bad, and I was surprised that is wasn't like a zombie apocalypse you found some of the portland stereotypes but nobody messed with me and the people were pretty chill. And I was overall floored with how I thought I would be and how it was. I enjoyed my time in Oregon, and I didn't just stay in the city. I went out a little into the country, and I my jaw was on the ground with how pretty it was. I see why my uncle moved there and lived there until his death.

Being fair, the media ignoring the Libertarian party is for the better given how bad they make libertarianism look with their consistent bad takes and shilling for the CCP.

Reasons to support mentiswave on kofi: 1. The wrong reason: "I wan't to support his channel monetarily." 2. The right reason: Since he gives me entertaining content and I give him back nothing, Were technically in commensalistic symbiosis, and that reminds me of communism, which is cringe.

My mother is the Boomer Lib you described, she’s politically stunted.

I'm a Washingtonian, and I hate driving through Seattle and Portland with all the craziness. But I love Washington and Oregon, and how beautiful and majestic it's mountains and forests of the Pacific Northwest.

Portland, here in Oregon, is the real-world equivalent to the Divide in Fallout New Vegas.

The Socialist thinks they're so smart but, they can't even do a funny haha.

As a former discord mod for Dev/SFO for a few years, the comment about him was pretty spot on, he sees the issues and has some pretty spot on takes on the social stuff, but has been pretty steadfastly center-left in everything else, sometimes stubbornly in a way that angers people. He's definitely good at getting everyone to have beef with him. Though honestly I can at least say that despite him being a bit of a dumbass sometimes, he has made a few really good videos, and he's a genuinely nice person to talk to otherwise though, he's even kept up and asked how i've been doing a few times since I left. His community is autism incarnate though, jesus christ. They were too exhausting to moderate.

In regard to BoomerLibs, most of them are living fairly comfortable and therefore aren’t really threatened or concerned with a lot of things discussed by everyone else. After all, none of them will ever live to see when their liberal state becomes authoritarian or they’re secure enough to own their own home and not be faced with renting the rest of their lives. Many of them don’t actually live in crime ridden areas and therefore don’t deal with addicts and derelict camper dwellers making neighborhoods unsafe. Talking with them about these issues is naturally going to go nowhere when they’re this insulated.

Wake up guys Mentis has dropped

17:38 Dev mentioned 🎉 Bay area has been getting progressively worse, but I'm happy Portlandia is healing

i grew up in the Seattle area and i only slowly recognized woke dishonesty. im ashamed because for so long i wanted to be woke, because i do believe in tolerance, kindness, and unconditional support to fellow human beings. so i tried to brainwash myself. but i never could, because i could not lie to myself. goodness does not exist outside of critical thinking, it actually exists within it. so i attempted arguments for woke beliefs but could never find a compelling answer to all the rational, logical faults with socialism, gender politics. wokeness makes you feel evil for doing the right thing. its next-level gaslighting...but the west coast has beautiful nature unlike anywhere else, so i don't think i'll ever be able to leave either ^^'

BASED Rain Enjoyer.

Life is Strange and its consequences were disasterous for an entire generation of Portlandians

It’s sad. My perception of Portland a decade ago was that it was liberal in the best way-a relaxed, accepting, artsy place. I hope the wound can be healed.

As an avid outdoorsman and waterfaller, I appreciate the footage.

Same story in Vancouver, BC. Every year the drug and random violence problem gets worse, and every year the same ideologues rally support for "harm reduction" because it's "just not been tried hard enough yet."

I live in Upstate New York... you are right, it is like standing on the edge of the abyss.

Ah Portland, haven't visited in a decade specifically because of the behavior of the politicans and residents. Use to be a nice place to visit.

Portland is close to Seattle, where CHAZ/CHOP happened. Looks like it's not much different.

The biggest wound, in my view, was the reaction during covid. It made me realize 90%, would support any authoritarian command. Without question. If the people in the right position told them too. And they still do not seem to have realized this.

As a conservative in the Bay Area I feel your pain. The people here are either clueless or just stupid but the weather and my career keep me planted here.

Just earlier today I rewatched you other video about Portland. Now you posted a new vlog. I find this coincidence hilarious

I am not pro Palestinian, I am not pro Israel. I simply watch both sides carefully, for I am the watcher (Insert Marvel's what if reference here)

recently got diagnosed with erectile dysfunction, but your videos never fail to make me rock hard. thanks👍

Ooga booga

Sargon has a job posting with the Lotus Eaters.....in London. Funny thing is, he also had the exact same job listing in Swindon launched at the exact same time, and stopped taking applications over a week ago. As I run a live broadcast production company, I am very much qualified for the job. But I am NOT moving to London. Sargon is still trying to fill that position in London. A city with something like 30x the number of people in Swindon. This should tell you everything you need to know about the Portland Effect, and that Austrian economics is undoubtedly 100% correct on the subject.

One summer when I was very young, my family was traveling back to the US from Japan (where my dad was stationed), flying Space Available... which is a free way for military members and their dependents to fly on military aircraft, but you can only claim seats that are available (hence the name). This method of travel led to a lot of connections and huge "layovers" (i.e. several nights in hotels). On this particular summer, we came via Anchorage, then Washington (McChord AFB), on our way to California (Travis AFB). That stop in Washington... it stuck in my brain: the clean, clear air... the greenery... it felt like paradise. Wanting to experience that again, I had the opportunity to visit a friend from college who moved out to Portland back in... I want to say I went in January 2008... we saw There Will Be Blood in a theater, so it must've been... anyway, it immediately won me over... it took me right back to that memory of Washington but with the additional appeal of things that only adults like: functional and affordable public transit, the coffee, the closeness to the ocean, the mountains... I wanted to move there. Then the housing market crashed, and I got stuck in a go-nowhere job, afraid I'd never find another job with my useless college degree. Never could I have known at the time that a market crash would work out in my favor, as ever since, Portland was on a deep, deep decline... though in retrospect, even back then, the city had problems with drug use and homelessness... nowhere near as bad as things got, but still... my friend that I had gone to visit said I should stay away from Old Town. Anyway, I'll never forgive leftists for fucking despoiling the Pacific northwest... from Vancouver to Northern California, they've turned what should've been an outdoorsman's paradise into an utter dystopia.

A lot of people don't understand politics for the same reason most people don't understand furry fandom, it's complicated, it's bullshit and it's disgusting. So they assume they can just be a passenger.

Ah, a fellow rain enthusiast and sun hater! My kind of man. As a recent sub, I'll have to check out your backlog more extensively

Thanks for mentioning dev, i still listen to him a lot but it gets on my nerves how often he says something along the lines of "progressive policy bad, but anyone on the other side *also* bad so i can still be a centrist." Its quite common for him to have 10+ minutes of refuting progressive ideals, then just drop a "lmao right bad" and never elaborate.

As a fellow Portlandian, I salute you!

Loving this frequent uploads

Listen man, you wanna fix Portland? The solution is called TND.

Born and lived in Portland until 2015 and I followed some family that moved to Idaho. I went back to visit friends in 2022 and Jesus it felt like a completely different city. Good on you for sticking around, i miss it pretty often and i hope it gets better. It won't and i know that but i hope anyway.

Oh boy here we go!

Thanks man, I recently found your channel and enjoy your content. Thanks for taking the time

Always enjoy tuning in

again, the PNW is very beautiful. I fully agree. I am just tired of the people culture.

i'm stuck in california. i HATE the climate here. the way you describe it, i'd probably be no worse, and at least a bit better over there than here, but i stay here because my family comes from a long line of san franciscans (as in born in san fransisco, who would willingly live over there nowadays?) from back when california could have been considered "ancapistan". plus, the state of jefferson isn't as bad as the rest of this hellhole, and i can at least pretend i'm not in the same state as the dumbasses, but whenever i have to go to the leftist strongholds, i feel a part of myself dying.

i live in city center i often think about making a channel where i just walk around silently lol

My grandmother is a Boomer-Lib. Me and her younger sister have attempted to explain to her CNN is lieing, she becomes despondent and shuts down. Her entire world view is entirely based on CNN. Without that, she has no idea whats real. She's terrified of the fact she doesn't know whats going on.

im a libertarian from Italy, a similar thing happen here about boomerliberal, and i Always say to look at Italy if u guys in america keep going this way

When trying to convince people they are wrong or misinformed, you seemed to run into it already, will run into the backfire effect eventually

The thing about junkies is that they behave weirdly on drugs, so they wake up the next day, are emberassed and cope by taking more so they don't have to deal with thinking about it. They numb themselves.

Learning what taxation is like happened really fast with my best friend, he wasn't even a leftist but the millisecond he saw just how much the government steals from your wages, he immediately understood the line "Taxation is theft". Note, we're Canadian, so he lost a LOT of what his wages would have been.

As a rightist in California: Can relate

The west coast is a political thunderdome. Please, for the love the Lord, GET OUTTA THERE!!

I quite like the nature background footage, nice video

Your videos are great, man. Keep it up 👍

PHYSICALLY REMOVED! If you could Mentis, either include on your next sub question video or possibly do a video refuting "Muh late stage capitalism" and "state capitalism" nonsense terms that I see commies constantly making. That would be quite helpful and much appreciated.

Lol!!! ... "Not on fire that much anymore...". Hey, the bright side

WHOOOOO NEW MENTIS VIDEO!!!!

You’re not wrong about passing as a lefty. I’m a bisexual conservative but I don’t tell people who are left that. They just assume since I’m LGB that I’m automatically a far leftist, so they’ll spill their guts on all of their views and (shocker) much of it doesn’t hold up to scrutiny.

Do these people even know who Amin al Husseini is? the grand mufti of Palestine? and who he worked for in the 30s? why the war started? (cant say no more, record time of 8 minutes after the previous ban for going too much into detail)

You're my favorite e-famous influencer!

"Went to Woodstock and never came back" is a hilarious description

I'd love to see you have a conversation with SFO

I live near(ish) Portland, and I hate going there every time I have to. Especially since I have to pass through downtown

March on Brother!

My mom is "a boomer lib" :( Can't refute anything I say when I try and show her that *all* the state media proxies (cnn, msnpc, fox, etc.) are either being disingenuous or flat out lying by providing evidence as well as walking her through the critical thought process of how their narrative almost always discredits itself if you don't let emotions cloud your judgement and apply a bit of logic. She tells me that I'm the smartest person she knows, and has been telling me that for most of my life (I'm in my 40's). Still can't accept that the mainstream news isn't a credible source of information. Still believes everything they say. It's exasperating. Part of the problem is that these people are kept angry and overly emotional by design - it clouds their judgement. You can't persuade them by appealing to reason - they aren't operating at that level because emotion is preventing it. So you have to figure out how to appeal to their emotions. To people that do think logically and base their viewpoints on facts, this feels manipulative or likely to present a weak argument. You have to speak the language (figuratively soeaking) of the person you are conversing with. If they soeak facts and logic, you have to do likewise. If it is emotion you have to do the same. The extreme example of this is when one party chooses violence as the language of discourse; logic as well as emotion are worthless in defending your "position." You have to respond in kind.

The scenery in this video is beautiful, I'd love to see more of it as background footage in other videos

My condolences.

Portland could totally be recovered. . . It would just require an increased 'Helicopter Budget'. So difficult line to cross.

I like that you and Dev are both aware of how much your audiences overlap lol.

liberalism is basically why the US world standing has plummeted but we just have to adapt to it

You should make a video about audience accountability in the future, as the Noah Samsen vs TBYS stuff has been an interesting debate. Same with the Hbomberguy plagiarism stuff.

Those people don't even know the first thing about our conflict yet they think their opinion matters

Let's gooo long video! Always enjoy these in the background, you have an unnaturally good voice to listen to lmfao. Btw you ever consider doing Livestreams? Been following you for a while and I don't think you've ever done one....

My condolences to you from Vancouver (thank God it isn't as insane as Seattle and Portland, especially outside of Vancouver proper where I live)

It's so incredibly comforting to find SANITY in this day and age. You're such a blessing to listen to you have no idea.

I hope to attend university this year as an undergraduate in Politics. Does anyone have any advice for how to survive as a right-winger?

WE LOVE THIS CONTENT!

Moved away after college in 2000. What a place Portland was in the 90's!

are those pictures from the portland area? very beautiful

PoliticalJuice did an hours long video discussing his college experience at the U of O, as well as general Eugene shenanigans, when it was getting REALLY bad around 2016-2018.

I used to work a summer job cooking in a kitchen so I could train for ski racing at Mt. Hood for 12 weeks every summer and I'd occasionally spend a day in Portland. This from 2010 to 2015. I thought Portland was a fantastic and fun town then. I'm saddened to see it's gone the way it has, but I'm glad I got to enjoy it while it lasted.

"why did i move here? i guess it was the weather."

Wow, I didn't even know you live in Portland just like me, should have a meetup for the few fans that live in the capital of clown world

Why are civil rights terrible legislation?

Hey man! A friend sent me this video, because he knows I am in PDX too 😅

Gorgeous photography!

My stance towards the levant situation is one state solution. Specifically, i believe the land rightfully belongs to the roman empire or kingdom of Jerusalem. All other positions are cringe, and republicanism is gay. DEVS VULT

My brother used to live in Portland. Also, I've created my own ideology I call Political Corruptionism. It's basically where you believe every government and every governmental and economic system is corrupt. Thus you believe all governmental and economic systems are all equally terrible.

I actually once was a lowkey koolaid drinker, I never went full into it, but rather I was onboard the Liberal train, but didn't fully go with the wokeism, I felt it wrong and anti-liberal... Now days I'm a staunch Libertarian Monarchist. (If you don't think that makes sense, you should look into it)

I’m in the same boat, born and bred in Vermont, one of the most blue states. Ive thought about moving somewhere cheaper and that has better morals, but this is my home, and it is beautiful, I will not abandon it. I was on the left not so long ago so I know there is hope. TRVMP 2024