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Succession's Shiv spitting in book at USA Track and Field for barring Runner Sha'Carri Richardson, Jan 6 Insurrection LARPers, Idiots whose unleashed dogs cause Seal pup deaths, the UnVaxxed, focusing on Chef Eduardo Jordan while ignoring Blaine Wetzel, Britney Spears incompetent Lawyers & her dad, recall Sawant signature collectors, violent and abusive ex-spouses, and anybody who doesn't like Succession

Did I miss anyone?

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Man, you could probably fill a stadium, or 10, with idiots on social media saying stuff like "pot may be legal in America, but the Olympic rules are international." Sorry puritans, the US Anti doping agency does not make up rules for the world. At Richardson's expense, it may hopefully lead to more acceptance of pot in the mainstream. Fuck off with all that olympic roll model shit.

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@2: And on the other side of the State is Buffalo they elected their first socialist mayor:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/india-walton-mayor-buffalo-byron-brown_n_60d2b41ce4b052e474fb6b36

Now fuck off slaver.

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@6 Seattle's only got 724k people in it, so if Buffalo is piddly diddly, then Seattle is less than three diddly piddlies.

Buffalo's mayor represents 256k people, but one districted Seattle city council member represents less than half that, at only 103k-- so we can all just relax and stop caring about Sawant, too, right?

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@9 NYC is vain and politically dysfunctional and aggressively myopic, absolutely, but damn man have you ever dipped into London's local news?

I mean yeah of course NYC media is insular but the idea that America's cultural capital city is further up its own butt than the rest of the world's cultural capital cities is, well, kinda provincial.

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@13 The politics of Chicago's aldermen is unique, and very much of another age.

Paris didn't have an elected Mayor, or municipal autonomy at all, until the 1970s. Tokyo has 23 wards, 26 cities, 5 towns, and 8 villages, each with their own independent local government-- a patchwork of fifedoms comprising a nation, except for a city. London is governed by the Lord Mayor and the Court of Common Council. Does any of this sound modern to you?

NYC's political structure is very unique. The political structure of every large city that's been around for more than a century or so is "very unique." All you have to do to see the absurdity of NYC exceptionalism is to turn around and ask: "OK, then what do you think is the standard or 'normal' form of government for a large, historic city?"

Big-city politics, worldwide, is weird. and broadly speaking, it's weird precisely because it's entrenched-- NYC's got nothing on its peers there, either.

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@15 I'd like to think it's OK to divert a conversation out of the debate-club etiquette of direct responses to main points found in topic sentences, and instead get struck by throwaway hyperbole like "the most provincial megacity on earth" and see where the thought takes you, but killjoys gonna kill joy I guess.

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The banning of Sha'Carri Richardson is not a national travesty, its an international one. Fuck the gold medal. Just a dynamic, explosive, fun athlete that got banned for smoking pot.


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