Kontextmaschine

8th July 2017

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Speaking of YIMBYs

Just out on the road, saw three pedal bikers, young, stylish in the gay thin way, one had a sign on his back

this road
needs a
DIET

obvs they came from Foster, which for a while there’s been stenciled anti- signs up in the businesses, which are basically all taking advantage of the cheap irregular lots (Foster cuts diagonal to the grid) to serve builders of LMC housing - tile, fixtures, furniture, lumber.

not gonna be LMC housing any more, that’s the point

the more important thing is it’s a commuter route from Clackamas but that can’t last as things build so may as well pull the band-aid and shove them to 205->82 or the MAX already

interesting it’s an obv. outlet for gentrification but unlike Division or Glisan the lots are triangular so that might slow things, in clusters you’re already seeing the twee stores that obviously couldn’t make rent unless developers were subsidizing them as plants

but there’s that cluster of sex businesses at the mouth, the strip club, modeling studio(/brothel), adult store(/scum brothel), they just put in the “sex-positive coffeeshop” and I bet they’re gonna make the developers buy them out DEAR

But oh, the bike YIMBYs. Is that your radical ~activism~? That was what Matt Yglesias made his name on, repeating the Harvard conventional wisdom of 2003, you fucks, somehow you’re worse than Shepard Fairey, worse than Banksy, than fucking Adbusters, fuck you you millennials you found an axis to be worse on than the Boomers, fuck you fuck you fuck you

you killed my heimat you fucks

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