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New Yorkers will spend hours talking about how unique and special bodegas like other cities dont have grocery stores

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[–] xiaohongshu@hexbear.net 79 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (10 children)

cultural capital of the world

Wait 10 years and Shanghai will show you what is the cultural capital of the universe

New Yorkers really believe they are the center of the universe lol. And I say this as someone who used to live there for years.

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 55 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

the whole idea of there having to be a single "capital" of culture or science is euro shit, steeped in colonialism and the need to maintain cultural hegemony. The global south is home to thousands of cultures, more vibrant and alive than lmayos can even imagine, and they all have their centers and reference points, that are looking to the West less and less, as of late.

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[–] woodenghost@hexbear.net 47 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Didn't they only get the revolutionary new sanitation technology of "trash cans" this year?

[–] 9to5@hexbear.net 21 points 1 month ago

that one was pretty far down the New York tech tree

[–] sisatici@hexbear.net 37 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (12 children)

I don't think new york is even cultural capital of usa lmao

[–] Euergetes@hexbear.net 25 points 1 month ago

of course, it's actually Hitlerville, Oregon

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[–] huf@hexbear.net 60 points 1 month ago (7 children)

New Yorkers will spend hours talking about how unique and special bodegas like other cities dont have grocery stores

well, i watched some mormon missionaries speak about their missionary experience in the totally exotic culture of uh... new zealand. and they were just absolutely in love with the idea of a small grocery store on the corner, in walking distance. just in awe at this eldritch cultural practice. they'd never encountered anything like it (i guess they came from utah?)

so... uh... y'know.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 44 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Character idea: Mormon who travels abroad to a normal country as a missionary but has his own heart changed, becoming a convert to urbanism.

[–] Omegamint@hexbear.net 34 points 1 month ago

Finally a good anime

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[–] kristina@hexbear.net 57 points 1 month ago (1 children)

China doing a revolution which leads to 1.4 billion people under communism? Nah have you considered New York elected an urbanist

[–] xiaohongshu@hexbear.net 48 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Let’s be fair here: this is a decisive victory of left wing podcasting, the true innovation of 21st century revolutionary movements, and NYC is where 99% of the global leftist podcasters are concentrated in.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What if Xi Jinping could harness podcast power?

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[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 56 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It appears that the left is divided among those who consider Xi Jinping its most important global leader, and those who hold the same esteem for Bob Esponja.

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 46 points 1 month ago

In Latam its Goku goku-doorstep

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[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 52 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Back on my "wishing new yorkers would shut the fuck up about new york" arc

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[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 52 points 1 month ago (2 children)

most importantly cultural

What zero materialism does to a mf.

Also that's just not true. Before social media, Hollywood was the center of global cultural production. Nowadays it's too chaotic and individualized to have a center, but if it had one it'd be Silicon Valley.

[–] Krem@hexbear.net 38 points 1 month ago (5 children)

broadway shows, woody allen films and 90s young-people-in-apartments sitcoms are what shapes global culture, actually

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[–] sangeteria@lemmy.ml 48 points 1 month ago

This probably doesn't even scratch the top 50 of "global left wins" lmao, and even that might be generous

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 43 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Mamdani who?" ~93% of the world

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[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 41 points 1 month ago (1 children)

New York isn't even the cultural capital of New York

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[–] lil_tank@hexbear.net 41 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sorry Lenin, reshaping politics and international relationships for centuries to come isn't such a big deal compared to promising food for people in one city and failing to deliver

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 26 points 1 month ago

Castro may have started and won the Cuban Revolution, but has he ever seen a bodega cat? smuglord

[–] XxFemboy_Stalin_420_69xX@hexbear.net 40 points 1 month ago (2 children)

im coming to hate mamdani just from him causing new yorkers to do the most annoying thing in the universe, which is talk about new york

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[–] Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml 39 points 1 month ago

The whitest thing I read all day.

[–] 30_to_50_Feral_PAWGs@hexbear.net 38 points 1 month ago (3 children)

geordi-no Outdoor cats

geordi-no Indoor cats

geordi-yes Bodega cats

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[–] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 37 points 1 month ago

"Maybe ever"

catgirl-huh ok chill

[–] Rod_Blagojevic@hexbear.net 35 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Inadequate rent control > Eliminating the landlord class

stalin-bummed

Edit: I'm happy for the people that made this happen, I'm sure it was really hard work. I'm also pretty sure most people, outside a few internet weirdos, don't actually place this above the Russian Revolution or even something like the 1930s UAW strikes.

[–] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 36 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm also pretty sure most people, outside a few internet weirdos, don't actually place this above the Russian Revolution

Most people in Amerikkka think the Russian Revolution was a bad thing.

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[–] jackmaoist@hexbear.net 35 points 1 month ago

"Cultural Capital"

[–] Super_Lumalo@hexbear.net 33 points 1 month ago

Ayyyy, I'ma fucking culturally walkin' ova' he'a AyyyyyOC

[–] StillNoLeftLeft@hexbear.net 28 points 1 month ago

Main City Syndrome from the evil empire, nice. /s

[–] KrasMazov@lemmygrad.ml 28 points 1 month ago

USians try not to ignore the rest of the world exists challenge (impossible)

[–] mathemachristian@hexbear.net 27 points 1 month ago
[–] axont@hexbear.net 25 points 1 month ago

Eeyyyy I'm doin peoples protracted war over here

tony-cheer

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 24 points 1 month ago

I don't know, i think the Oktober Revolution was probably a tiny bit more important

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 24 points 1 month ago
[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Almost every culture has a bug up their ass that what they have is unique.

Here in rural nowheresville, people will pat themselves on the back for “food, family, slower pace of life”…as if Southern Italy doesn’t also do that and in much more style.

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[–] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

how long do you think it'll be before the am*rileft unironically call nyc AES?

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[–] mar_k@hexbear.net 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Spätis in Berlin >>> Bodegas in NYC (I've been to both)

Spätis started in the DDR and encourage loitering/drinking/socializing, rather than calling the pigs on you. A späti (translates to "latey") is a 24hr convenience store, usually with benches/seating outside, that's a major part of Berlin late-night culture

It's considered a meeting place like a coffee shop, but for beer/food/snacks at 2am. It's the first place every drunk goes to wind down after clubbing. A lot of them function as basic grocery stores by day and a more laidback party/bar spot by night

Most Spätis are run by Middle Easterners, especially chill Turkish uncs if you're in Kreuzberg (Berlin's "Little Istanbul"). so yes, they often have a store cat like bodegas do

[–] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 1 month ago

and people wonder why no one takes the yankee "left" seriously

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 1 month ago

muricans trying to make everything about themselves challenge LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE

[–] MohammedTheCommunistPalestinian@hexbear.net 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

lol no it's not

Americans are so self absorbed , maybe in the USA but definitely not in the world

[–] RedSturgeon@hexbear.net 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'd love to hear @ KaoticLeftist explain to me what exactly is New York going to do in order to change the "global left". Come on you say you are a real leftist so just must be on Hexbear, answer me.

interviewer

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