Alexander ClarksonYIMBYism and the attack on "woke capitalism" as a product of different branches of the Right that are now culturally estranged from one another desperately seeking the "this one big thing fixes everything" narrative that once brought them together in euroscepticism
Alon@APHClarkson Wait, YIMBY is a product of the right? What? In Germany the most improtant YIMBY politician is Kevin Kühnert, former head of JuSos; in the US, it's Scott Wiener, who for his work on LGBTQ rights is loathed by the alt-right.
Diego@Alon @APHClarkson In Belgium too PS politicians are quite YIMBY, especially the younger ones.
@DiegoBeghin @APHClarkson Yeah, and in the UK, Labour is running on building more housing. The center-right thinktanks in Britain are atypically YIMBY, but that's about it.
Kyle@Alon @DiegoBeghin @APHClarkson I see much more of the deregulatory side of YIMBYism pulling in libertarians and moderate business conservatives who can then be opened up to other more left-coded elements of urbanism and walkability than I do urbanism recruiting left of center folks and transforming them into market fundamentalists.
@Kyleric @DiegoBeghin @APHClarkson In the United States, the people likeliest to be against having a state are NIMBYs, because of the peculiarity of how American educational segregation rests on local control. Here it's pretty neutral (again, Jusos).