>>1418405>Yimby is clearly too easy to exploit then. Yimby should be specifically for dense housingOther way around. You are being exploited by YIMBY. YIMBY is a faux grassroots movement fabricated by corporate interests to split the proponents of public transport, micromobility, mixed zoning, and other "good development" memes, using wedge issues that they have identified. The end goal is to exploit tribalism and pit the middle class against the poor and get the middle class to think they're going to win big if they just say yes to everything.
If you favor a new apartment tower, it just means you favor a new apartment tower, no more no less. Whatever else you may favor (bike lanes, parking garages, highways, trains, etc) is an individual decision, you can be for or against any of those, in different cases, because each case is different. Importantly, by supporting more/better/denser housing you do not automatically favor ANY AND ALL PROJECTS.
At face value of course you'd say "wow that's dumb who would support anything without question, that's how the Bronx was destroyed" But that's how YIMBY wants you to think: Yes/No. It's a false dichotomy but because no one wants to be tarred as a NIMBY people, people fall for it. Oh, that NIMBY over there doesn't want a bike lane, therefore if you've ever objected to anything ever you're an EEEVIL BOOMER NIMBY. Oh no! I'm no boomer! I'm a futurist, you say. Well great, but use your head. Ask to see the plans. Look into what they're NOT saying. Don't blindly accept the analysis of their own paid "experts".
Once you see the agenda it's obvious what they're doing, but you have to disengage from the knee-jerk NIMBY not-a-NIMBY reactionary urban politics and stop letting them put you on the defensive. And remember: even Robert Moses did some good things (Riverside Park anyone?). Sometimes yes is good. Sometimes no is good. Don't fall for fake movements.
