Yes, great, fine, wonderful. I didn't say anything about developers though, so,
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Incidentally, your assertion that Birchers "helped cement" NIMBYism as a movement or an attitude is, on top of being vague, nothing more than an assertion. It's pretty much baseless.
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You're just (mostly) wrong about why it is so, and because of that, your solutions to the problem are also wrong.
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Who said, hinted, or remotely implied that they were? Not me.
You're wrong about needing more buildings, but that's just it: the reason I don't call YIMBYs shills for developers is because I don't think most of you are that at all. You genuinely want to make housing less expensive.
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That's it, that's the comment. Hope you weren't expecting anything more nuanced or thoughtful. And thank you for asking!
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...or other sorts of fringe reactionaries, on no evidence whatsoever other than that both groups tend to live in suburbs, is an order of magnitude more ludicrous than the Shill Libel, and I suspect you know it
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OK, here it is: Look, I'm sure you YIMBYs get tired of being called shills for five-over-one developers, and I understand the temptation to do some name-calling of your own, but tarring people who prefer SFH neighborhoods with vague accusations of being Birchers...
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I do. Would you like to read it?
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Oh good lord, come on
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Now you know what the Pledge of Allegiance looks like to the rest of the world