• Serinus@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    But it was done, which is kind of the opposite of NIMBY. Also it’s not a project that could go anywhere, except that no one wants it.

    Closing Guantanamo was a NIMBY thing because, while everyone agrees it should happen, no one wanted the detainees in their backyard. (As ridiculous as that is.)

    • Rayspekt@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      The Panama canal was a US NIMBY project I’d argue. Give us the canal but without impacting our territory.

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        7 months ago

        Your comment is actually insane.

        There is no way the US would not have preferred the canal to be in their backyard.

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        7 months ago

        We didn’t maintain administration of the canal for just over a century for no reason. We would have put that shit in the Rio Grande, if we could have. Unfortunately that river runs dry for several months a year.

        Especially since that particular area of the world is some of the least developed.