@lionel_trolling Is this how the term is commonly used? I always took it to be a statement about the founding of Israel, a way of quietly saying the Israeli state is illegitimate from the start
@Noahpinion Actually I’ll amend that: you are stuck flying American domestically, but you can fly partner airlines internationally. That’s the American Airlines dream, engage with the program, not with their planes
@Noahpinion I’d say it’s more, crime was the proximate cause of NIMBYism a few decades back. But crime fell and NIMBYism remained, I think because the NIMBY’s built a system that just keeps rattling on + NIMBYism is a way of life for people who just want no change to their built environment.
@mattyglesias@conorsen This is literally exactly what happened in Chicago with Mott St. and then Mini Mott. But then they made Mini Mott into a sit down restuarant and it closed. Which maybe proves your friend’s point.