I think its simpler than that. YIMBYs aren't your normal real estate lobbyists. They cultivate large a large tenant constituency to make their demands seem popular. Its likely that Mamdani simply wanted that tenant constituency in his coalition despite their supply-side housing brainworms.

[–] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's actually a fairly good reason to do this, at least.

[–] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah this isn't a case of fell-for-it-again. The only convincing ones I've seen so far have been concessions to the NYPD. But that's basically him not wanting to become a martyr.

Like people are genuinely convinced that he's a fraud like a politician from a move when the actual analysis is that he's going to fail to implement his policies.

I suspect the people so eager to hand out fell-for-it-again awards aren't yanks and don't really know what a yimby is.

[–] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

don't really know what a yimby is.

YIMBYs are mainly polite-sounding ethnic cleansers. They're "woke" (imagine those quotes are larger for the correct effect) gentrifiers. People are right to be disgusted with them, though as you point out they have some support among the American public.

Like people are genuinely convinced that he's a fraud like a politician from a move when the actual analysis is that he's going to fail to implement his policies.

I mostly agree (he probably means well and thinks concessions are practical and will help him get things done), but sadly the difference in the outcome is not very large.

[–] CoolerOpposide@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Also this is one member of a board of people, not independently directly in charge of anything. His housing committee admittedly could be a lot better, but I think a lot of people are seeing these headlines and think this one not great person is fully in charge of things, when in reality it is one person on like a 20 person committee

[–] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ultras are jumping at anything that remotely sounds bad without actually reading into anything. Its poisoning the well for when he eventually does disappoint us.