Do you see a parallel in what this regime is trying-"trying" being the operative word--to do w/r/t blue cities here? I think that's a bigger issue than space or population as such, right? Russia just basically has Moscow and St Petersburg, right? We have--many centers.
DC, NYC, Charlottesville, RVA, Baltimore, FfxCo VA, Arlington VA, ALX VA, Philly, SF, LA, Seattle, Oakland, Portland OR, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, many many more!
also i wonder what percentage of us is still rural compared to, again, Hungary (or Turkey, or...) a lot of the "swing" has been in our exurbs and suburbs and idk if that translates as well everywhere. place I'm really eyeballing morbidly right now is the UK. just one rake step after another
like technically we're in a worse place now of course. but as much as people wail and rend their garments over the Dems, I say overall the party's in a MUCH more robust place than Labour, in or out of power. overall this sort of seesaw of normal/fascist happening everywhere isn't sustainable
Yep!
Turkey, Istanbul--maybe Ankara? I don't know the situation at all very well, just that there's been absolute mobs of protest in Istanbul, but maybe concentrated there mostly?
The second biggest metro in Hungary is Debrecen which is a tenth of the size of Budapest and the size of metro Topeka.