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 @markasaurus @IDoTheThinking and
they literally held tech workers-for-Prop C rallies and then other kinds of rallies with like... medical professionals for Prop C etc.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @markasaurus and
Yes. It wasn’t a populist attack against the villain tech or ron Conway. It was straight forward, connected to larger goals shared across the community.
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Replying to @ValisJason @kimmaicutler and
It doesn't hurt that not a few DSA peeps came out of tech and understood the texture and nuance
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Replying to @RevClown @ValisJason and
DSA has a lot of tech workers in its membership & leadership though?
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @RevClown and
Right which makes that dynamic somewhat confusing but thinking back to their demon pig thing, that self-awareness shines through.
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Replying to @IDoTheThinking @kimmaicutler and
Generalizing from a small number of data points, a lot of DSA are pre-2013 tech workers (2013 as sort of the inflection point between "oh god the housing crisis will doom us all" and "oh god housing prices will doom us all")
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Disagree. I think a lot of them are newer, younger than I am.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @IDoTheThinking and
Interesting. My working hypothesis has been that YIMBY happened because we finally imported enough people like Sonja who were culturally from actual working cities and didn't want to become Californians
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Replying to @kevinriggle @kimmaicutler and
i.e. East Coast cities. Although I would believe that we did that *and* the same cohort who actually wanted to become Californians became DSA instead
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