EZRA KLEIN v MATT YGLESIAS

If you really enjoyed Greenwald's reporting on Bolsonaro or natsec or whatever, or Taibbi on Wall Street, it might be worth tipping them a Starbucks a month as a show of support plus you get a couple of posts.

Taibbi is clearly pulling in enough money to make this route attractive to others

ngl as someone who has been saying things like “bring blogs back” for the last 5 years i actually like substack quite a bit. before sullivan taibbi and greenwald all angrily resigned and it got a reputation as the platform for bad boy anti wokeists, the mailing lists i was subscribed to were (1) an economic historian writing about the lives of inventors in 18-19th c europe (2) rap blogger andrew noz (who retired his substack last week when it stopped being cool) (3) a labor lawyer (4) online friend who does the hipster variant of post-keynesian economics mixed with anime and psychoanalysis (5) leftist tech guy (hasn’t posted in a while, i followed cus of max read recommend). it’s kind of annoying that they go to my email instead of rss but it’s pretty cool to see ppl writing longer form stuff, im getting p tired of twitter threads

Taibbi is still a Rolling Stone regular, seems like substack might be his outlet for things that can’t go to the day job.

If the piece on the Chicago PD that's on the site right now is any indication, they really don't need him for anything and would be better off cutting ties.

FYI flopson you can get an RSS feed of any Substack, just put /feed after the domain. Doesn't work for paid posts though.

if you're gonna call something "slow boring" it better be really good which is why i think it might not have been a great choice

yeah slow and deep is not really the matty g brand lol

ya awful name

Slow Boring: A Podcast About The Band Low

being unshackled from Vox certainly seems to have made Matty's takes even shittier. i'm also reminded of the fact that I heard him on Ezra's podcast relatively recently and I guess I had largely managed to avoid hearing Yglesias's voice in the past, but holy shit, not to nerd-shame, but I think if I sounded like he does I consign myself exclusively to the written word

lol yeah his voice is...a lot

could be a consequence of (apparently) lacking a neck

maybe his OnE BILlION American stance is his best shot at getting to have sex

I was involved in a living wage campaign on campus when I was a student that helped win a big pay increase for janitors and food service workers.

— Matthew Yglesias 🍦 (@mattyglesias) December 3, 2020

This is a lie. I actually was involved in the Living Wage Campaign (fact check: there’s photo evidence in the NYT, I won an award for my participation, among other things) along with @BLMcKean and Stephen Smith of WV Can’t Wait and that’s not true, Matt.

— Ethereal AnarchoPansexual Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (@IBJIYONGI) December 3, 2020

nice

As far as I can recall, you came to a couple of meetings and wrote some articles about us and that was it.

— Ethereal AnarchoPansexual Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (@IBJIYONGI) December 3, 2020

eh I guess this is a reasonable standard for "involved"

rather a stretch for "helped win"

I see way too many people use “hey look it’s activism” as a kind of all-purpose rebuttal to criticisms of people for advancing confused or erroneous ideas, and I sincerely do not believe that this is how effective movements for beneficial change work.

— Matthew Yglesias 🍦 (@mattyglesias) December 3, 2020

Have you ever... done activism, Matt?

— Jillian C. York (@jilliancyork) December 3, 2020

pretty weak

not only is he effectively lying about doing any activism it seems pretty clear that as with pretty much everything he writes about he has not seriously engaged with the subject rather relying on facile first principals logic like so

imo the big problem with “defund the police” is that defunding the police is a bad idea — austerity is bad, public services are good, policing is important, and better policing will be more costly than bad policing not cheaper

— Matthew Yglesias 🍦 (@mattyglesias) December 2, 2020

AND he considers this approach to constitute the superior approach of critical thinking

This seems to me to be not primarily about the 2020 election but about letting social media vibes and a vague desire to be good allies override critical thinking about policy and the nature and purpose of issue advocacy groups.

— Matthew Yglesias 🍦 (@mattyglesias) December 2, 2020

unclear what his theory of change is, blogging, writing big idea books that no one but people interested in writing brutal reviews will read

his phrasing here cracked me up

Want to see me talk with @joerogan for over three hours?https://t.co/vObFlJpkHJ

— Matthew Yglesias 🍦 (@mattyglesias) December 3, 2020

Strong nah

matt mcardle

still take him over lee fang tho

smh show some respect for mattys body of work

'actually, sweatshops are good' classic matty

his biggest hit

a guy who has shown major concern for human rights

some people prefer his early work such as supporting the iraq war

— Pacific Coast Republic (yellow)

— Trumplandia (Red)

— United States of Canada (Green)

— Republique de Québec (Blue)

— Maritime Provinces (Pink)

— Georgia Autonomous Republic (Orange) pic.twitter.com/GwwmILmue4

— Matthew Yglesias 🍦 (@mattyglesias) December 10, 2020

are hawaii and the territories obamastan or ?

China took them over because we didn't reach a billion people

both better and worse than the original shitpost

wasn't this on SNL 16 years ago?

gotta break that red part in to two pieces man, they control too much territory

we should kept Texas or we’ll just have to invade them for their oil later

i mean its all a prelude to war obvs

pic.twitter.com/HtPf6NuOW3

— Mr. Victor Berger IV (@VicBergerIV) December 20, 2020

god I’d avoided ever hearing him speak before

that man is a successful podcaster lmao

a face made for radio and a voice made for TV

Lol

a neck unmade

a head made for floating over the countryside

Real life Nicholas fehn pic.twitter.com/PJpP0CdY2r

— Barrel Caskin’ (@ughprice) December 20, 2020

two titans, engaged in the Marketplace of Ideas

I'm for a modest student debt forgiveness program (which I think is what Biden will do) but as you shift from "modest" to "total" debt forgiveness you are increasingly talking about helping dentists and lawyers rather than sympathetic cases. https://t.co/lmFCDbCyqg

— Matthew Yglesias 🍦 (@mattyglesias) December 24, 2020

Today’s invitation for people to call him a moron.

Conveniently leaving out doctors