The divisive nature of San Francisco requires SF YIMBY to pick a prominent side in order for its policy goals to be achieved. It was sensible to endorse the side that happened to be pro-development. SF YIMBYs still moved that window quite far compared to even the mayors race
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Replying to @IDoTheThinking @ValisJason and
At the start of this year, Jane Kim was fearmongering about highrises in the Sunset District at West Portal and Leno was absolutely silent on any pro-housing policies. One London Breed victory and vindication of yimby later, the explicit nimbyism wasn't as evident with the progs.
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Replying to @markasaurus @ValisJason and
I don't either, but media does and thats what many candidates were reading. YIMBYs had been vindicated with Breed's "yes in my backyard" speech and explicitly backing building housing. Yimbys got a lot of media attention and the progs certainly noticed.
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Replying to @markasaurus @IDoTheThinking and
Breed was actually initially anti-housing and was making anti-housing comments in the beginning of the campaign but when she realized she'd lose the d2d/canvassing volunteers from YIMBY core, she changed her message.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @markasaurus and
And then I think that reverberated into prog strategy. Matt, unlike Jane, seemed super careful about not being positioned as anti-housing.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @markasaurus and
And then, like I said, Prop. C was such a good campaign because they understood - in a way unlike previous prog campaigns and like what I've been saying all along - that the tech industry itself and the workers it brings are not a homogeneous entity.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @markasaurus and
If anything, after 2016 a LOT of tech workers have been feeling very anxious about publicly fighting for progressive causes (not SF progressive, just progressive). Look at all the internal activism at google
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Replying to @ArmandDoma @markasaurus and
yeah... it's a very different economic & political climate. Obvs, the 2016 election and the feeling that platforms contributed to it. But then also, the oligopolistic position of Big Tech was much less obvious pre-2016.
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five years ago, there was much more of a feeling that an incumbent company could be displaced by upstarts. Now that's not so much the case, and that fundamentally changes the balance of power between labor and capital within these large companies.
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