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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

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)

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

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.

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.

Literally driving to Portland as we speak, KZfaq is listening to me again.

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.

Zero state solution.

Thank you for feeding us with content, Papa mentis

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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 ^^'

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."

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

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

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.

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.

Wake up guys Mentis has dropped

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

BASED Rain Enjoyer.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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)

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.

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

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.

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.

Loving this frequent uploads

As a fellow Portlandian, I salute you!

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

I quite like the nature background footage, nice video

Oh boy here we go!

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

Always enjoy tuning in

Ooga booga

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

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

Your videos are great, man. Keep it up 👍

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

As a rightist in California: Can relate

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.

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

Friggin' great video mate

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

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

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 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.

are those pictures from the portland area? very beautiful

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

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

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

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)

March on Brother!

I'm from Idaho. and I came too portland not too long ago to see a concert with family I actually often visit oregon with my family. it's just the newport/west coast area that me and my family often go. The only time i remember being in portland was 2 times. one was when my brother screwed up and got us on the wrong turn. and we had to spend a long time in traffic(I remember we were singing the entire 'the wall' album while waiting) second time was do too possible car issues and we had to turn to portland as a safer route(We often go on the mountain route past bend) My family didn't want to stay in portland long so it was just there for one night. have dinner and breakfast. then we leave. We made it to china town and got to the hotel. and got our stuff. When we went to diner we went to a nearby ramen place sense everything else was for some reason closed on that day It was alright, But personally I feel like the people who ran it should probably add more filling's. Along the way the place felt more like a red light district. barred up/abandoned building's. broken atm machines. constant graffiti. strip clubs. and right next to it was the occasional nice hotel or restaurant. my mom decided to drop my brothers at a arcade and go back to the room(I couldn't join because i'm 19 and it's 21 only). While me and my mom where in our room I decided to turn on the tv sense i was bored and tuned on to Palestine protesters taking over a library. and a poll on if they should be forcefully removed(a huge amount of people surprisingly said yes). We got ready for the concert and went. And i got a general taste of the local's...and hmmm..several people next to us where talking about 'how to finger a girls ass'. One was extremely loud and annoying. And talked like a 'wacky' ubisoft character. During the account their sound system was crap. in fact similar to our's here where they rise the drum's way too high and you can barely hear the guitar. One of the girls seemed to didn't know if she was in a rave. a club or a metal concert. kept dancing. flipping her hair and didn't have a single concept of personal space and kept stomping on my brother foot. My mom also left to get a whisky and coke at the bar(back issues) and was shocked to learn that you can't even be on the lower floor when drinking. Which is way more restrictive then anything we have here surprisingly enough. The concert was over and along the way we saw someone who pick their tent spot in the middle of the road...for some reason(forgot to mention. my brother saw human feces while walking back from the arcade) we all vented at our issues with the city for the night and went to bed. During the morning we walked to a nearby cafe for breakfast. it was actually quite good. Got a mexican coke. good waffles. and a overall decent breakfast. and we processed to leave. As we were getting in. we saw someone who was just staring into the road. no one around. not even holding a phone and yelled "WHO THE HELL SAID MY NAME?". we all quickly got in the car and leaved as soon as possible It was interesting experience. certainly made me feel better about my home. and i certainly didn't hate the place as much compared to my family. sense i kinda don't mind the occasional weirdo(unless they're on drugs) or the graffiti. But it was definitely not great. and i probably wouldn't want to go again. And it was odd to see a place that decriminalized all kinds of drugs be so strict on stuff like alcohol. more then it is here. It was funny getting back to Boise and noticing just how much of a difference it was

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)

You're my favorite e-famous influencer!

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

WHOOOOO NEW MENTIS VIDEO!!!!

i live here too, moved from florida for cold weather, got familiar sights of crackheads, cracked up at a bad dragon sticker, than saw a walking dead esq scene of some paramedics trying to help someone OD'ing with 30-40 odd homless around the car shit didnt feel real lol

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.

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 really like the nature shots for this video. You live in a very pretty area.

Not a native to Portland. Lived here only 3 years. From Mississippi originally. That place sucked horribly. Portland is good enough for me, but it can definitely be way better then it is. While I have both conservative and progressive views, I consider myself an independent politically. I have seen the damage caused by ultra conservatives and liberals. The solution to our problems does not lie in extremism, but in finding balance between traditional and progressive beliefs.

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.

My condolences.

Gorgeous photography!

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

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?

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

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

3:37 I read the "what do beavers eat" card title first, so I misread the other as "beavers eat engineers" LMAO

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?

It's just such a shame because oregon and the whole pacific northwest has such beautiful nature, and for some time I had always wanted to live there. But the politics of the people in the region would make it uninhabitable for me

Haha this is Brilliant! Pretending to be a leftist is what I do in Portland as well (born, raised, and still living here), as long as you're easy going and chill to anyone there's usually never any conflict. I just know when and where to not state my true beliefs lol. Stellar video, you earned a sub.