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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why do people upvote this

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.