They can enjoy it now, because this is getting built. The BRA made them feel important this one time so that they can shoot them down when this is back on the next agenda.
This is a small victory for the community, but it’s not a victory in the terms of what we’re asking for,” said Representative Byron Rushing, the Democratic state legislator whose district includes the project site.
Gotta love the democrats. I'm going to go out on a limb and say 95 percent of NIMBYS are democrats
Let's leave politics out of this.
Gotta love the democrats. I'm going to go out on a limb and say 95 percent of NIMBYS are democrats
NIMBYs change their tactics as the process moves forward (often adding increasingly cumbersome social justice demands), but ultimately NIMBYism is an inherently (small-c) conservative exercise. Residents like the way things are and don't want their neighborhood to change. It's traditionalist; provincial; conservative. That's the root of most NIMBY attitudes. Many political liberals fall into literal conservative provincialism when change is in the works. Hypocritical? Absolutely. But fairly cheap political points as far as it goes.
So leave politics out of this but keep the personal attacks in (seen a lot of those on here) Good to know. Also since politics plays a major role on what gets built around here it kinda should be part of the conversation.
I don't understand how people even get into arguments on this website for the most part.
95% of the people who post here are Democrats(or further to the left) so that's probably not a great angle to play.
How about Byron Rush - A(for asshole, among other things)
Pot, meet kettle.
I think his point is that conservatives are generally in favor of change and new things, whereas progressives prefer that everything stay the same.