• odelik@lemmy.today
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    5 months ago

    What do you think NIMBY means?

    I feel like we have two different meanings for it.

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      5 months ago

      Guaranteed they just plucked a woke phrase out of the ether and figured it’d do just fine.

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        5 months ago

        I knew what it meant, but the person I was responding to appeared that they didn’t. Then they replied and did know the meaning but used it wrong due to a reading comprehension fail.

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      5 months ago

      It perfectly describes what this person is doing - not caring to solve the problem, just to move it along so it’s not in their own back yard.

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        5 months ago

        Except that’s not what they were implying. They were implying that there’s already “race wars” going on in the world and if he really really wanted to fight in one, he doesn’t have to look too far.

        If I were you, I think I would have taken the loss on not knowing the meaning of NIMBY over showing that my reading compression was lacking.

        Even then, who the fuck wants a war in their neighborhood?