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> It's full of what I like to call PINOs (borrowing from RINO; Progressives in Name Only).

I call them PINO NOIRs: Progressive In Name Only, NIMBY-Only In Reality.

It's weird to frame wealthy people who divide their time between mocking the locals claims to be trying to maintain the livability of their neighborhoods and talking about how disgusting the homeless are as the litmus test for being progressive.

It only sounds weird when you intentionally frame it euphemistically like that. The people we are mocking are the selfish people who put their own desire to reduce subjective eyesores ahead of the need to address the country's housing crisis.

There is no housing crisis in the country overall.

https://imgur.com/a/yQa1JUj

Livability being defined as a total lack of anyone making under $300k a year.

Most livable places I’ve lived have been diverse walkable neighborhoods , which NIMBYs call a nightmare. I think a bunch of strip malls and Targets are a nightmare.

> Most livable places I’ve lived have been diverse walkable neighborhoods , which NIMBYs call a nightmare. I think a bunch of strip malls and Targets are a nightmare.

It's funny, because the former is also the most accessible kind of neighborhood for people of all ages and abilities. It doesn't matter if little Johnny or grandma can't drive, they can just walk to the grocery store to run errands or the coffee shop to get some coffee; they're fully independent.

Good one. Can you work in a "T" after PINO?

Though?

Well done!

I'm stealing that.

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