that never stopped Darius McCollum

Oh. My God.

okay but I actually NEED a gif of Zohran smiling while doing the "waa waa waa" baby crying

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Hell, look at figure skating - it's *perceived* as a "gay" sport, but as Adam Rippon has shown us, the perception of outsiders doesn't match the reality of how figure skating actually is

I haven't seen it yet, but tbqh I think this is still pretty true of sports in general. Hockey IME leans on the more conservative side in this regard, but I don't think it's fundamentally that different in most other sports

like, if anything, the show is way too *optimistic* about how being gay would be treated (which makes sense, given that it's fiction and the genre)

that's also extremely accurate for hockey though

but also, yes, there are literally two Georgian spots in my neighborhood alone, and it's not even an Eastern European neighborhood - it just happens to have them

I'm talking globally, not just the US! Even most other "cosmopolitan" cities don't have a fraction of the diasporas that NYC does

New York is diverse on a level that I have found it's hard to explain to someone who has lived in (e.g.) Europe their entire life and never traveled elsewhere.

I can cite statistics but they're so outside the realm of the familiar to people that they are too abstract to hold meaning.

One could read it as an attempt to shore up his credibility with the leftier parts of the district - "look, I paid respect to the DSA and made an effort".

It's a very different strategy from ignoring them and using them as a foil so that he can push more to the center.

If anything, the fact that Reynoso is making an attempt despite Clare Valdez having such strong DSA ties is a signal that he recognizes the DSA as a meaningful political force to be engaged with, a bloc that can't be disregarded or ignored.

This victory is all because of Our Time - and by proxy Zohran Mamdani, and the countless people who organized around this.

When we fight, we win.

And we've only just begun!

Hochul is the one announcing it because she's the governor and she's the gatekeeper of the budget, but the credit for this lies 100% with Zohran Mamdani and the countless people who lobbied their legislators and the governor this last week through the Our Time organizing campaign.