olympiawoman [she/her]

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Cake day: January 31st, 2022

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  • Safer than most, in my opinion. The Evergreen State college's reputation as commie central isn't baseless (though greatly exaggerated by right wing media), and there's quite a few mutual aid programs that exist to a limited capacity, like EGYHOP that do needle exchanges in the street. Unfortunately they are largely full of radlibs but they still do good praxis. There's certainly room for a budding leftist movement to (locally) emerge there

    As far as safety goes, MOST days you'll be very safe, but there are many days when there's some large scale right wing rally where chuds from miles around come to congregate in their oversized, pristine pickup trucks. They typically announce their comings weeks in advance and usually only stay for a few hours so they are really easy to avoid



  • oly pd are less brutally fascist than the tacoma pd?

    I've heard anecdotes from the homeless that the OPD is generally softer on the homeless (IMO, I think there's just too many homeless for the police to harass), but to everyone else they're still racist, jackbooted thugs like any other American PD. They'll also occasionally run encampment sweeps, but I have no idea how those shape up to other encampment sweeps in the area



  • Using a throwaway here

    I live in Olympia. Back in 2019 (I think) the local bus line, Intercity Transit, needed to refit the entire bus fleet with new fare collection devices, which would have cost several million dollars. Olympia already is a city that is mostly government employees and college students who weren't paying for fares anyway, and the company only received 9% of its income through fare collection. Ultimately, they made the decision that it just wasn't worth it so they said that they will be removing all fees for riding the bus for the next 5 years and see how that turns out

    Compared to that one article about how the NYPD spent $250,000,000 to stop $200,000,000 of turnstile hoppers, it's nice to live in the slightly less capitalist nightmare city