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67 sats \ 3 replies \ @denlillaapan OP 8h \ parent \ on: Why the Nordics Are Better... Ish (Bloomberg, Lionel Laurent) Politics_And_Law
Secondly, they are about the size of a U.S. city.
eeeeh, state ok! Finland = Minnesota
small, local, racially homogeneous self governed communities
oh, they wanna be rural Republicans, yesyes? ...but like, with progressive values?
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14 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 8h
Minnesota is smaller than either NY or LA and about the same size as the next tier of American cities. Most of our states are smaller than our largest cities.
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69 sats \ 1 reply \ @denlillaapan OP 7h
I wasn't counting the megacities. They're ridiculous
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69 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 6h
The point renains. Social structures are much harder to maintain when they grow and become filled with people with less in common.
The dumb people always equate this to race alone, but really it could be based on anything. The point is, is having a common cultural bond.
Its like trying to decide where to go eat with two people vs 20. Its never easy but everything doesn't scale as well as we'd like it to.
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