Ok, I'm sorry but I'm blocking the instance, and I think there should be a discussion about making a separate instance about elections in the USA or something. It makes no fucking sense that people outside the US in Hexbear know the name of a mayor candidate to Los Fucking Angeles. I wanna have some input to conversations about electoralismo worldwide, not the sub to be a circlejerk of the DSA. USAcentrism is a big issue in the website NGL.

[–] spectre@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago

This community was born from an American politics podcast. The Ameri-centrism can be criticized but it will never be eliminated.

I am also against the concept of fine-tuning the content by elimination. If you want to see a different mix of content, post what you'd prefer to see! Site engagement is down and further "purity testing" (lack of a better term) of the content is going to kill it off, especially in the least radical comm of the instance.

[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

If you want to see non-USA content then feel free to post it. Though you're also free to block the comm, that's fine too.

To the extent that electoralism matters at all though, LA is significant on a global scale, having a population of 4 million in the city proper and 18 million in the greater metro area. It's not like this is some Nate Silver micro-analysis about some random town in Iowa ahead of Super Tuesday (if that sounds like gibberish, then my point is doubly made)

It would also be significant if a DSA tide does happen after Mamdani, so this story has more of a national relevance than LA in isolation.

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago

Hexbear is made up by like 90% americans, they are going to talk about local american politics