Quick AI assisted search gives this:

There are currently 13 black mayors of major cities in the United States. The cities with black mayors include:

1. Los Angeles, California
2. Chicago, Illinois
3. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
4. Charlotte, North Carolina
5. Washington, D.C.
6. Memphis, Tennessee
7. Baltimore, Maryland
8. Milwaukee, Wisconsin
9. Atlanta, Georgia
10. Detroit, Michigan
11. Tulsa, Oklahoma
12. Killeen, Texas
13. New Orleans, Louisiana (Mayor LaToya Cantrell)

Don’t know if this is an exhaustive list of black mayors of major cities, but it definitely is a familiar sounding list

I think this is legitimately it.

This isn’t sycophantic, it’s desperation. They’re watching the future of their industry (mRNA) disappear right in front of them, along with the related money.

They need Trump to get it in his head that the vaccine makes him a hero, so that MAGA will come around on vaccines and keep them rich.

No doubt in my mind. I bet that hurt to come out and say publicly.

Tbh I’m not sure the average Reddit user is who we want to attract here anyway. Not to be elitist, but there might be a benefit to at least some barrier to entry. From a bot/spam/troll perspective as well.

Here from Reddit, have high hopes. This is a marketing problem though, I doubt even 1% of Reddit users know of something like lemmy at all