Trigger warning: Calvin Welch "The battle lines are too entrenched" is just another way of saying "Calvin Welch's ideas are too powerful, and we can't come up with better ones"
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"the battle lines are drawn" also means you can't convince me to vote for trash moderates who treat support for the homeless or progressive taxation like they're tantamount to full communism
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I don't think you should vote for mods, but I think fresher progs like Haney and Preston should break with shitty people like westside NIMBYs and Dennis Richards, and all the other folks who are part of LC or close allies
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Replying to @bufordsharkley @uhshanti and
Mark it is very charitable of you to describe Dean Preston as a fresher prog but the average SF urbanist thinks he's just as bad as Calvin Welch
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Replying to @peterjgowan @bufordsharkley and
The conditions for this coalition do not exist yet because SF urbanists are *significantly* to the right of urbanists in most places.
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Replying to @peterjgowan @bufordsharkley and
*Vito Corleone voice* you ask for compromise but you do not pay respect. you come to me, on this, the day of your Matt Yglesias gala
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Replying to @cafedujord @uhshanti and
It is just true though. Trauss would be beyond the pale in many of the progressive-leaning urbanist orgs on the east coast / PNW. And she is basically an icon for SF urbanists.
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Replying to @peterjgowan @cafedujord and
I'm pretty sure Seattle urbanists would be throwing tomatoes and blacklisting any elected who didn't support a tax on big companies to fund homeless housing & services
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Replying to @uhshanti @peterjgowan and
tenant folks and more housing supply folks tend to be on the same side in Seattle because there is no RC. Also the tax process is totally different. A lot of YIMBYs, including myself, were supportive of Prop. C.
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That said, I also view the process that happened in SF as deeply problematic, as in -- the whole business tax system has to be redone, Square/Stripe had they been paying attention could've probably worked out a compromise in the spring that acknowledged that
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @uhshanti and
gross receipts affects fintech companies differently, before the whole thing became set in stone through an initiative process.
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