Re:Congestion pricing in Manhattan is a predictable success
by recursive on Friday June 20, 2025 @12:29PM
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Based on this comment tree, I'm tempted to believe neither of them mean anything. Or at least very few people are aware of whatever real definition they have. But many people have opinions about it.
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Re:Congestion pricing in Manhattan is a predictable success
by tekla on Friday June 20, 2025 @12:34PM
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They do mean things, but most who toss the words around only use it to mean "thing that I don't like"
Re:Congestion pricing in Manhattan is a predictable success
by rsynnott on Friday June 20, 2025 @12:57PM
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> Or at least very few people are aware of whatever real definition they have
I mean, like many things, the meaning of 'liberal' has shifted over the last few centuries, and always differed somewhat between regions anyway. Words in English mean what people use them to mean.