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FakeNoose

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27. I think it's more "nimby" than anything racist
Thu Jan 22, 2026, 02:24 PM
12 hrs ago

"Nimby" means "not in my back yard" and that's how the ultra-wealthy all-powerful conservatives feel about everything. They can throw their weight (and money) around and they always get what they want. Build it somewhere else, not in my back yard!

Less wealthy, more average, citizens don't get to do that as a rule, so the offending projects-for-the-public-good end up going where the protesters don't care. Yes, sometimes it's in the minorities' neighborhoods, but often it's in the wide-open countryside where there are more cows than voters to complain.

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I think it's more "nimby" than anything racist FakeNoose 12 hrs ago #27
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