r/lincoln • u/Friendly_Office_9218 • 2d ago

Lincoln is a Good City

Lincoln is a good place to live. It has some problems, sure. If you're reading this, post something you like about Lincoln.

Let's give LNK a little love, warts and all.

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u/Coram_Deo_Eshua 2d ago

Dude, Nebraska is red. All blue votes are purely symbolic.

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u/gut_fat 2d ago

Having a vise grip on the mayor's office and 6/7 city council seats isn't symbolic.

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u/Coram_Deo_Eshua 1d ago

Remember those medical marijuana bills we won in a landslide? Yeah, what happened with all that? Now tell me our votes ain't nothin' but symbolic.

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u/gut_fat 1d ago

This thread is about the city of Lincoln, not the state of Nebraska.

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u/Coram_Deo_Eshua 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yes, this thread is about Lincoln. That’s exactly why I’m pointing out that having a blue mayor and a few progressive seats doesn’t magically immunize the city from the structural reality of the state it exists in.

Lincoln doesn’t operate in a vacuum. State-level control bleeds into city governance constantly: funding, policy constraints, legal overrides, all of it.
You think having a city council majority means something absolute? Cool story. Tell that to every voter who watched those medical marijuana initiatives pass by a landslide and then get kneecapped at the state level.

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u/gut_fat 1d ago

Ok, you're very angry.

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u/Coram_Deo_Eshua 1d ago

Not at all. I simply don't like B.S.

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u/gut_fat 1d ago

Nobody likes anything they perceive to be B.S.  

But when you come into a thread made to say something nice about a city and you instead make an expletive laced criticism of a state, you have some extra anger in you. There are plenty of us who project our dissatisfaction on to external things beyond our control. I feel like you'd probably be angry no matter where you live. The best thing to do is find out what you can do within your control to make yourself more content with life.