• Serinus@lemmy.world
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      5 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.)

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        5 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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          5 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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          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.