(((Matthew Lewis))) cults & consequences
@mateosfo
Housing theory of everything, buses, bicycles. Be the strange you wish to see in the world. Words for @cayimby, now available on Bluesky! Same handle.
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Man I've been making the YIMBY case against fossil fuels for 15 years and now Chevron just comes right out and ... writes a giant check to the NIMBY.
Folks it doesn't get more on the nose than this. NIMBYism benefits the oil industry.
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It's the car industry's continent. We're just living in it til we realize how much they hate us, and want us dead and broke.
The blowup within the left/Democratic coalition around building stuff -- houses, solar, really anything -- has the potential to crater the Party and destroy actual left priorities for a generation, or longer.
YIMBYs saw this coming a decade ago. It's now here.
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Berkeley's NIMBYs have fought to block every one of these buildings using the argument that students wouldn't be living in them and that the greedy capitalist investors would just keep them empty.
You know, for profits.
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