sadly this seems to be high profile enough that national politics has gotten involved, which means people’s families and friends from elsewhere are talking about it… that’s a powerful

ideally, yes, it’d be just people from in the region being represented would have their opinions and everyone else would shut up… but that’s not going to happen!

just like i’m australian and i don’t shut up trying to convince many americans that their political opinions and climate are largely immoral, unrealistic, or (and?) abnormal