That's true but inheritance and generational wealth are real things in our modern society. If we want to make things equal we can either remove wealth inheritance rights from everyone or we can try to compensate the decendants of people who were wronged in the past. Anything else would be treating certain groups as second class citizens.

Manchester, NH

That would be a BANANA

build absolutely nothing anywhere near anything

This

Yeah, except that selfish, entitled NIMBYs have spent decades blocking adequate housing from being built in this state, and now we have a housing crisis.

It has nothing to do with being scared.

It’s “I got mine, fuck everybody else” selfishness.

More specifically, NIMBY is a pejorative used to pressure homeowners into allowing construction near their homes which they otherwise would not allow. It’s no different from calling someone a pussy because you want them to do something risky and they’re scared.

So whether it’s low income housing, a casino, or a power plant, it’s important to recognize that anyone using a pejorative to pressure you into agreeing with them is not your friend and probably not well informed on the subject being discussed.

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enjoy your weight loss

No way! This is the best February ever! Winter is dead 🌞

Due to the phenomenon of generational wealth, the descendants of people who were wronged in the past are indeed still suffering as a result of those wrongs.

The policies which created racial inequality were practiced well into the 20th century. There are still people alive who were stolen from their families and forced into boarding schools. This isn't old history

So what if I already filed and got my return? Do I need to amend it? I didn’t itemize not sure if that matters.

> So the government can do heinous things, and as long as they wait long enough to admit it was wrong, nothing can be done about it? Sounds like quite the loophole to me.

Yeah, that's how time works. Unless you can re-animate the dead you can't give them back what you stole.

Today it's 65°F where I am. That's really weird for February...

"Last week of June."

Eh. NIMBY is someone who agrees it should be build somewhere, but not in my back yard. Someone who doesn’t want it built anywhere, I’d say, is not a NIMBY.

So the government can do heinous things, and as long as they wait long enough to admit it was wrong, nothing can be done about it? Sounds like quite the loophole to me.

This is more to do with the legal right of Indian tribes though— there's an enormous amount of land that legally belongs to various tribes due to treaties which are still in effect. The government has been illegally violating these treaties for centuries, in some cases.

Alot has changed since the entire concept was voted on, including Covid, several other casinos establishing themselves first, and legalized sports betting. I'm pretty sure there will no longer be a 300 room hotel, concert venue, shopping plaza, and waterpark, and would assume this means a scale back on the casino size as well.

I miss when we actually got a spring.

I agree with your literal definition of NIMBY but also find it weird to be used to describe someone not wanting a casino built in their neighborhood. Like opposing new housing is imo purely selfish but I think there are reasonable objections to a casino

I agree with your literal definition of NIMBY but also find it weird to be used to describe someone not wanting a casino built in their neighborhood. Like opposing new housing is imo purely selfish but I think there are reasonable objections to a casino

And “may rain continuously”.

I’m 40 years old and I’ve never experienced a winter this warm, especially February, this is bizzare

Is it the right thing? Why should descendants of people who were wronged be entitled to special rights? Why don't other people who were wronged get special rights? Like... all the millions of descendants of slavery? Their slave great-great-grandparents were even promised "40 acres of a mule" and never got it.

Generally though it just seems like an error in public policy to be rewarding people of the present (who did not directly suffer any harm) by taking from other people (who are not directly responsible for the suffering of those people in the past). Is that justice? It doesn't feel like it.

Teach about the past so it doesn't happen again in the future, sure, but it's an endless rabbit hole if you start trying to turn past grievances into present property rights. It's monetizing the ghosts of the past.

The real history of this state and New England itself, which isn’t taught in schools, would shock you to the core.

Nah, that's way more work. When doing these kind of meet-on-the-street videos, they'll just film the interactions up front and then have a secondary team of producers to get the people to sign releases afterwards. It's legal to film people in public, you probably just want their permission before showing their faces on TV to avoid a lawsuit. I'm sure these are all the natural reactions from these people, they were just unlikely to get releases from anyone who was particularly spicy (so they'd have to blur their faces and anything else identifying if they wanted to use those spots).