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vorpalhex · 2022-06-30 10:14:42

Tyranny of the majority. New York City doesn't make rules for Eerie, Indiana.

NYC can make rules for NYC.

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Arizhel | karma 1242 | avg karma 1.14 · | 2017-03-15 15:18:41+00:00

But also importantly, it is allowed in New York state, just not the city. Very weird.

NYC should secede from NYS.

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a-user-you-like | karma 13 | avg karma 0.07 · | 2023-04-18 01:43:07

NY is about the only one with roughly sknklarish levels of draconian control.

xyhopguy | karma 133 | avg karma 1.56 · | 2018-03-16 21:16:23

Feels a lot more like NYC is an anomaly where no one cares about rules directly impacting them.

The Pacific Northwest in general seems to have a more communal culture (moreso Oregon than Western Washington). But NYC.... Dear lord.

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Quixotica1 | karma 26 | avg karma 0.68 · | 2021-05-05 03:35:08

New York be like “what?! People running businesses in our state? Can’t have that...”

harha | karma 1201 | avg karma 3.34 · | 2021-11-06 21:14:14

That’s what I love about New York, don’t follow static rules that don’t make sense, otherwise you won’t be able to deal with such a complex system.

kleton | karma 717 | avg karma 2.85 · | 2023-04-09 04:49:07

New Yorker rule

gumby | karma 61183 | avg karma 3.86 · | 2017-02-10 17:04:18+00:00

New York got to be the exception (!?)

douche | karma 9095 | avg karma 2.04 · | 2016-10-22 06:57:07+00:00

New York is kind of fucked as a state. The City has enough voters to completely nullify the rest of the state, so that what is sane to the rural, upstate New Yorkers, is droned out by the paranoia of the city people.

guelo | karma 25003 | avg karma 4.71 · | 2016-10-21 20:36:02+00:00

Visitors don't get a vote. New York is for New Yorkers.

AzzieElbab | karma 1950 | avg karma 1.32 · | 2020-04-26 18:28:53

NYC, to put it bluntly is a country of its own. It requires a completely different calibre of management in the City Hall. Definitely not what they have right now

rrdharan | karma 2981 | avg karma 2.82 · | 2024-03-18 01:37:42

This is not true in New York State.

macleanjr | karma 309 | avg karma 5.52 · | 2013-05-21 14:18:35+00:00

This ruling only applies to the 5 boroughs of New York City, not the entire state.

iron_ball | karma 1532 | avg karma 3.52 · | 2009-12-16 14:36:58+00:00

NYC has good city government and one of the worst state governments in the nation. Guess it could be worse.

mbillie1 | karma 1367 | avg karma 3.51 · | 2015-03-24 22:08:32

NYC bureaucracy is on a whole different level from KS, TN, etc. NYS in general has ludicrous amounts of regulation compared to most states, and NYC is the creme de la creme.

jrockway | karma 72069 | avg karma 3.74 · | 2016-10-22 04:15:41+00:00

This is just New York politics, right?

Here's how it works. We in NYC send all our tax dollars upstate, and then as a favor, they make all the laws for us.

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terra_t | karma 990 | avg karma 3.09 · | 2010-10-16 09:40:45

There's a scene in N.Y.C. too. As an upstater I'm almost tempted to say that we ought to just scrap all our laws in New York and start all over again.

vehemenz | karma 2170 | avg karma 2.57 · | 2022-11-04 11:44:36

Weird to use NYC as the example here, given the ghost town that is Manhattan.

mc32 | karma 33963 | avg karma 2.39 · | 2019-01-30 20:08:19+00:00

NY has some odd laws. On the one hand they are progressive (energy, human health), on the other hand they allow some very neo-liberal things to happen like where debt collectors can continue suing you, if your bank has one branch in NY, and now this nonsense.

nl | karma 29762 | avg karma 2.49 · | 2016-11-13 05:28:33

NYC is always a special case. Most US cities aren't NYC.