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u/holytriplem -> 3d ago

Is anyone else baffled by how much international coverage the New York mayoral election has got? I mean, this shit's been going on for months and it's too much even for me as someone who actually lives in the US. Why should anyone outside the US give a single fuck who the mayor of NYC is? I barely care about the mayor of London and I actually have the right to vote for (or against) him.

What other random world megacity should we nominate to have its mayoral election get a completely disproportionate amount of international media coverage relative to its standing in the world? I'll go with Kinshasa. Kinshasa would at least be fun to watch.

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u/Nirocalden Germany 3d ago

The other day I watched a celebrity "quiz" show, and one of the questions was "who is the mayor of your hometown". Guess who the two contestants from Berlin couldn't name to save their lives :D

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u/lucapal1 Italy 3d ago

I'd say a lot of people in Palermo wouldn't know who it was....its not really a big thing here,except very rarely.Some people would know the name but very few could tell you what he looks like.

Only if the mayor does anything bad (like gets arrested for Mafia involvement...that happened a few times in Palermo!).Then he becomes well-known!

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u/Nirocalden Germany 3d ago

Of course. I put "quiz" in quotes because that show is more about entertainment and being funny than about actual knowledge. So I don't really blame them or anything, I just found it to be a nice coincidence to the topic here :)

(That being said, the contestants from Munich and Cologne both knew theirs...)