as a canadian, I’m slighlty disappointed. I unironically think your country would implode if gay marriage were banned. It’d be way too unpopular, more unpopular even than ICE. The opposition would be galvanized.

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enshittification is user-negative changes which somehow benefit the software creators. I’m not sure relative dates qualify.

fair enough; I don’t use proprietary sm anyway so I don’t know what’s common there.

this is like a 2 year old meme at this point. Please don’t strip out the date when you take a screenshot of social media.

can you give some examples of things that would count as world news to you? I would think world news is stuff that affects everyone throughout the world. U.S. politics affects everyone quite a bit.

right but what about the other stuff i said

A long-term losing strategy, yet short term it normally reliably drums up support in the kind of range that can tip an election. Quite eye-opening to me that an election can still be won with far-from-center politics.

After all, NYC is not part of the world.

Oddly enough, the NYPD have offices internationally, in Qarar, Israel, Colombia, Germany, and numerous other countries. Also, the New York health department is the one that cracked open the case on lead contamination in turmeric farming in Bangladesh. It’s probably one of the most international cities, for whatever that means.

not the only issue, but as a lemmy.ca user I feel obligated to put in a word

canada is supposed to touch the Pacific