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>I am sympathetic to a perspective that says this is not the responsibility of a mayor of a single city... But also; who else is going to do it? With a populat
by colechristensen 3mo ago
>I am sympathetic to a perspective that says this is not the responsibility of a mayor of a single city... But also; who else is going to do it?
With a population of 8.5 million if NYC was a state it would be the 13th largest so I'm quite all right with the city going beyond the normal purview of a city government.
- culi 3mo agoAnd if it were a country, it would be the 10th largest economy in the world and the 105th most populous
- myko 3mo agoTruly insane that the US political system fucks people who live in population centers. Horribly designed.
- DangitBobby 3mo agoCompletely agree. It's a bad system, to put it mildly. I'd say it's a surprise it's lasted 250 years, but it hasn't. It lasted 100 years until the Civil War practically rewrote the Constitution with the 14th Amendment and it's been 150 years since then.