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by asdff 16 days ago
The issue is deciding importance and most people are too stupid to understand nth order effects. So that will turn into the usual pitchforks.
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People don't pick up pitchforks because they don't understand something; people pick up pitchforks because they're told to pick them up. The issue is bad-faith reporting like what happened with Mamdani and the NYC enclave map, not government transparency.
>The issue is bad-faith reporting like what happened with Mamdani and the NYC enclave map, not government transparency.

What was bad faith about it? As someone who literally only heard of this drama because of this comment, so far as I can tell the controversy is that they omitted some white immigrant neighborhoods (eg. little italy), and Mamdani backtracked on it?