someone posted a thing about local news dying out and so everyone just watches national news and all the garbage Politic's they Discourse about is national this seems probably like a big bad deal on a couple axes
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for one thing people are maybe more likely to deal with distant abstract national issues in far mode everything gets to be about Principle's and Value's rather than "if we dont get this practicality right we will be poor and our kids will be even dumber and maybe we die or w/e"
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people sort of know about their city, and they sure have a better idea of what their city is like than they do Every city, and certainly more than they do about Russia relatedly: there's much more Skin in the Game in local politics, rather than plundering far-off outgroup cities
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finally with an emphasis on national politics people probably do spend less time getting to know and being able to work with their neighbors, and perhaps practicing useful Get Along With These Assholes Because We Live Near Them skills
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instead, people in California get to hate people in Texas and they fixate on stupid differences and theyll never have to actually interact with those people and deal with the fact that theyre being real shitheels sometimes no incentive to live and let live idk, its sad i guess
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what if that kind of petty bullshit is better than the national flavor though, you know? local vices, national virtues
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