EZRA KLEIN v MATT YGLESIAS

gates update

Bill Gates hoped Jeffrey Epstein would help him land the Nobel Prize, "which is what Bill wants more than anything else in the world,” ex-foundation staffer tells us. With @LachCartwright https://t.co/SAwuMyqgfd via @thedailybeast

— kate briquelet (@kbriquelet) May 18, 2021

man who would have ever guessed that the quickest way to a Nobel prize AND sex trafficked teenaged girls was through one weird guy from Coney Island

what i want to know is why gates thought epstein was his ticket to a nobel

Dumb guy probably

Ezra Klein vs Matt Yglesias vs Jeffrey Epstein

seem like it but still there must be some reason, which tbh could be as simple as epstein telling him he could xp

if bill gates wants a nobel prize why doesn't he just ask to buy one from an actual winner for the low low price of $5 bil or so

btw lol at bills entire deal with philanthropy being trying to get a medal, our lords are deranged, which is why we must relieve them of their estates

also lol at melinda just assassinating him via the news media, incredible

wonder if she trying to remove him from the foundation

Imagine how much he regrets not just getting divorced 15 years ago or w/e

“Paul doesn’t have to put up with this shit he’s dead”

imagine how much he regrets not getting a prenup

Shoulda bought a basketball team like his buddies

he was already the second richest person in the world when they were married

Again, dumb guy

my own dumb guess is that prominent members of the Committee just have a taste for underage girls, too, and ol Jeffy was a prime dude to have in the Rolodex

is epsteins blackmail scam just common knowledge in oligarch circles, is he telling bill hes got some of these guys in his pocket and bill just knows what hes talking about, does bill just think epsteins got normal connections, is bill just making all sorts of stuff up in his head cause epstein seems well connected, last one seems unlikely cause like isnt gates himself insanely well connected

i think epstein had to have been overtly gassing him up about the award but who knows what he was saying and what bill believed to be true

erza got the intellect of a local tv news anchor

Violent crime is spiking. Homicides in cities were up by 25-40 percent in 2020, the largest single-year increase since 1960. And 2021 isn’t looking any better.

This is a crisis on its own terms. But it’s also a crisis for the broader liberal project in two downstream ways.

— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) May 21, 2021

It actually isn’t, crime is basically fine.

This is my most extreme take, most crime is fine,

imho violent and many but not all other crimes are bad but ezra is indistinguishable from some sensationalistic enumerate right wing freak there

like crime is short term up from historic lows to still low, and it was a very weird year

like "spiking" what is he up to, seems fucked to me

isnt he supposed to be mr sensible, must have something to sell

didnt check on ezra but there was a ton of stuff coming out of centrist land about how krasner couldnt survive

We’re not there yet. Larry Krasner survived his primary challenge in Philadelphia.

But we are seeing other signs. Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms isn’t running for reelection after being attacked by challengers as soft on crime. https://t.co/KhFq8wOZ1a

— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) May 21, 2021

and by survive of course we mean landslide

anyway this shit is shameful and prob part of some larger pr campaign in service of an establishment freakout about over the left making waves

it’s extremely weird.

his vocab and cadence now indistinguishable from people like friedman. does the nytimes just do this to people somehow? no analysis, just a lot of “i spoke to a guy who says liberals need to wake up!”

Many people are saying it.

def time to discipline the left

violent crime shit is just naked trumpian white supremacy isn't it? why are liberals so fucking racist

Noah Smith should probably be added to the Klein/Yglesias scourge-of-the-left axis:

Even at our nadir of crime in 2013, we were still an order of magnitude more violent than other rich nations

— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) May 21, 2021

oh this wanker

accidentally right about american violence. it's not "crime"

PMC lib crime panic is completely unsurprising. That’s how you get Joe Biden complaining Reagan isn’t being tough enough on drug crime.

yup

Homicide rates are up. Don’t know if homicide is considered crime though.

So’s suicide but the ghouls hollowing us out don’t do much about that

But that’s why we have to reopen everything now! (or so I’m constantly told)

Suicides aren't up

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/15/health/coronavirus-suicide-cdc.html

isn't that tweet a promo for Ezra's podcast with James Forman Jr?

i mean, i haven't listened to the episode yet, but this is the full description:

Early estimates find that in 2020, homicides in the United States increased somewhere between 25 percent and nearly 40 percent, the largest spike since 1960, when formal crime statistics began to be collected. And early estimates indicate that the increase has carried over to 2021.

Violent crime is a crisis on two levels. The first, and most direct, is the toll it takes on people and communities. The lost lives, the grieving families, the traumatized children, the families and businesses that flee, leaving inequality and joblessness for those who remain.

It’s also a political crisis: Violent crime can lead to more punitive, authoritarian and often racist policies, with consequences that shape communities decades later. In the 1970s and ’80s, the politics of crime drove the rise of mass incarceration and warrior policing, the political careers of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, the abandonment of inner cities. If these numbers keep rising, they could end any chance we have of building a new approach to safety, and possibly carry Donald Trump — or someone like him — back to the presidency in 2024.

There’s still time. Just this week, Philadelphia’s progressive district attorney, Larry Krasner, handily fended off a primary challenge. But the politics are changing, and fast: Democratic primary voters in New York City say crime and violence is the second most important problem facing the city, behind the coronavirus but ahead of affordable housing and racial injustice. And just a few weeks ago, Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms of Atlanta, who was facing political challengers attacking her for being soft on crime, announced she would not seek re-election in the fall.

So do liberals have an answer to violent crime? And if so, what is it?

James Forman Jr. is a professor of law at Yale Law School and the author “Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America,” for which he received a Pulitzer Prize. In the book, Forman uses Washington, D.C., of the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s as a case study to explore the political and psychological dynamics that rising crime produces. We discuss the toll of living amid both street and state violence; what the crime wave of the ’70s and ’80s did to Black politics; the causes of the “Great Crime Decline”; the extent to which policing and prisons actually reduce crime; why we should think of violence the way we think of pandemics; the Black community’s complex views of policing; the three-pronged approach liberals should take to safety; and much more.

Idk maybe try taking some people’s guns away

that podcast description is the dictionary definition of concern trolling

anyway

The subways will be filled with cops due to the political class's conviction, in the face of all evidence, that it is still 1980.
https://t.co/1L6hdj9zRs

— VICE (@VICE) May 18, 2021

In my experience, affluent New Yorkers (off all political colors) ALWAYS think crime is going up. They think it's going up when it's going up, they think it's going up when it's going down.

generally this is true of americans of all wealths

yeah I recall a poll showing exactly that

the richer you are the more obsessed you are with minorities taking your money hmmm