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
― lag∞n, Saturday, 22 May 2021 13:20 (three years ago) link
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.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 22 May 2021 13:24 (three years ago) link
generally this is true of americans of all wealths
― lag∞n, Saturday, 22 May 2021 13:34 (three years ago) link
yeah I recall a poll showing exactly that
― k3vin k., Saturday, 22 May 2021 13:44 (three years ago) link
the richer you are the more obsessed you are with minorities taking your money hmmm
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 22 May 2021 13:52 (three years ago) link
crime is funny in that the more police there are "doing their job" the more crime there is, weird
― John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Saturday, 22 May 2021 14:18 (three years ago) link
the memo has gone out
Important thread. On some issues, e.g. homosexuality and marijuana, public opinion has moved to the left and will probably stay there.Crime is different. If crime surges, public opinion will move back to the right, fast. If progressives don't rein in crime, conservatives will. https://t.co/eTjXXSGCZo— Will Saletan (@saletan) May 22, 2021
― lag∞n, Saturday, 22 May 2021 16:04 (three years ago) link
Silicon Valley weirdos are melting down over an alleged “shoplifting epidemic” pic.twitter.com/sk7SMHGceI— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) May 22, 2021
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Saturday, 22 May 2021 16:18 (three years ago) link
Idk I cringed when I saw the tweet, but I'm going to listen to the podcast later to understand EK's perspective better.
― jaymc, Saturday, 22 May 2021 16:36 (three years ago) link
so is this like a US attempt at blue labour or is it just reheated 90s clintonism
why does this prick's racism deserve a more generous reading than trump's or whoever? because he's got graphs?
― Left, Saturday, 22 May 2021 16:45 (three years ago) link
idk stinks of a manufactured moral panic and I guess I just don’t believe em. guess we’ll see in time.
― Washington Generals D-League affiliate (will), Sunday, 23 May 2021 02:40 (three years ago) link
wonder where wed be if anyone on the dem side ever tried to sell the fact that weve had a huge drop in crime oh well
― lag∞n, Sunday, 23 May 2021 02:43 (three years ago) link
ratchet effect
― Washington Generals D-League affiliate (will), Sunday, 23 May 2021 02:47 (three years ago) link
― jaymc, Saturday, May 22, 2021 12:36 PM (ten hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
thing is regardless of how thoughtful the podcast is doesnt excuse him writing fucked up sensationalistic headlines, pushing literal trump talking points, and further overnight this shit is just all over centrist media/politics, its trash
― lag∞n, Sunday, 23 May 2021 02:52 (three years ago) link
Matty: not very bright
https://i.imgur.com/G4oqbOi.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/ar6XZtz.png
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Sunday, 23 May 2021 22:40 (three years ago) link
loll
― flopson, Sunday, 23 May 2021 22:42 (three years ago) link
omg
― mh, Sunday, 23 May 2021 23:24 (three years ago) link
p surprising that the first ngrams instance of empathy was around 1950
― flopson, Sunday, 23 May 2021 23:39 (three years ago) link
Someone on Twitter traced its growth to a paper from 1957.
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Monday, 24 May 2021 00:37 (three years ago) link
i bet the people looking into this are very empathetic
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Monday, 24 May 2021 00:49 (three years ago) link
I retweeted the Yglesias tweet because I think Ngrams are neat, and I even paused before doing so to wonder whether it was case-insensitive, but the screenshot showed the words "Case-insensitive"! But I guess that's something that you have to click, which would've highlighted that little bubble. I deleted the retweet after I saw that exchange. :/
― jaymc, Monday, 24 May 2021 03:45 (three years ago) link
this guy
https://i.imgur.com/K7pMtAh.png
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 June 2021 00:48 (two years ago) link
What a guy to call someone “incurious”
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Friday, 4 June 2021 00:52 (two years ago) link
Young Matt Yglesias
https://media2.giphy.com/media/3oriff8YpKIxspTvsA/giphy_s.gif
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Friday, 4 June 2021 00:56 (two years ago) link
Well saying "nothing is popular at the start" is clearly hyperbole.
― o. nate, Friday, 4 June 2021 02:14 (two years ago) link
Today in "if only someone had tried this brilliant idea before!"
A good way to not have everything held hostage by Joe Manchin would be to nominate politicians who are more conservative than Joe Biden and try to win senate races in North Carolina, Florida, Iowa, Ohio, and Texas.— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) June 4, 2021
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 5 June 2021 14:17 (two years ago) link
lol unbelievable
― lag∞n, Saturday, 5 June 2021 14:43 (two years ago) link
theres literally never been a time when the democrats havent been doing that
― lag∞n, Saturday, 5 June 2021 14:44 (two years ago) link
The centrist troops who ran against Cornyn and McConnell got crushed IIRC
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Saturday, 5 June 2021 14:46 (two years ago) link
yeah centrism as practiced over the last 30 odd years is just not too popular right now
― lag∞n, Saturday, 5 June 2021 14:51 (two years ago) link
Is there any reason to think Theresa Greenfield isn't more conservative than Joe Biden? Was Cal Cunningham a flaming liberal? Not as far as I know. What exactly is the bad choice he thinks the Democrats are making here?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 5 June 2021 14:54 (two years ago) link
and the only democratic senator in those five states (Sherrod Brown) is markedly less conservative than Joe Biden
― symsymsym, Saturday, 5 June 2021 17:03 (two years ago) link
Maybe he wants to clone Strom Thurmond circa 1946 and bring back the Dixiecrats.
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Saturday, 5 June 2021 17:09 (two years ago) link
Hardcore identity politics surfaced in 2016 as an opportunistic anti-Bernie gambit but most of the Young Left took the critique to heart and woke radicalism was very in vogue in 2020 as Sunrise etc hopped on the defund police bandwagon. Adams now bringing it back full circle.— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) June 20, 2021
totally
― lag∞n, Monday, 21 June 2021 00:49 (two years ago) link
Sunrise etc
― symsymsym, Monday, 21 June 2021 03:28 (two years ago) link
what percentage of americans have any clue who adams is
― mookieproof, Monday, 21 June 2021 03:33 (two years ago) link
Who is he talking about? The Dilbert guy?
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Monday, 21 June 2021 13:37 (two years ago) link
nyc mayor candidate
― lag∞n, Monday, 21 June 2021 13:46 (two years ago) link
Not going to make an argument that this guy was ever good, but it's pretty clear that twitter has steadily fried his brain over the past 6 years or so
― intheblanks, Monday, 21 June 2021 13:59 (two years ago) link
the twitter/substack combo has made brain fry irresistible to a handful of famous bloggers
― lag∞n, Monday, 21 June 2021 14:05 (two years ago) link
him greenwald taibbi sully are just out there tweeting "big woke identity politics cancelation today" then writing insane emails and making millions of dollars, easy work
― lag∞n, Monday, 21 June 2021 14:08 (two years ago) link
Yeah, was gonna say seems like Vox helped rein in some of his worst/laziest impulses.
― jaymc, Monday, 21 June 2021 14:10 (two years ago) link
i think one thing with the aforementioned substackers is despite building careers around being iconoclasts they really all are ultimately elitists and mass movements like blm really just offend their sensibilities
― lag∞n, Monday, 21 June 2021 14:14 (two years ago) link
its amazing that matty tries to categorize defund the police as identity politics, its name is literally a policy proposal lol
― lag∞n, Monday, 21 June 2021 14:15 (two years ago) link
oh so Iglesias has become one of those people who uses woke ironically/unironically, scare quotes/no scare quotes
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 June 2021 14:28 (two years ago) link
It's not just Adams, the fact that none of the top three candidates in the Democratic primary in a famously liberal city are willing to support "defund the police" as a slogan is telling.
― o. nate, Monday, 21 June 2021 15:34 (two years ago) link
amazing that matty tries to categorize defund the police as identity politics
not so amazing if matty firmly believes that the major function of the police is to enforce racial and class norms and that voters clearly understand this and vote according to where they stand within that system of privilege. I've no idea if matty grasps this concept consciously and openly or just unconsciously and implicitly bcz he's a white American.
― What's It All About, Althea? (Aimless), Monday, 21 June 2021 16:54 (two years ago) link
reasonable point
― lag∞n, Monday, 21 June 2021 17:07 (two years ago) link
someone posted a screencap of Yglesias in 2016 essaying about how you can't divorce identity politics from politics because it's the only real and consistent form of politics
but Matty has deleted yesterday's tweet so I can't find it
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Monday, 21 June 2021 18:39 (two years ago) link
The contrarian grift is getting competitive so here's Matty insisting Tucker Carlson and Stephen fucking MILLER are not white nationalist extremists: https://t.co/zb11RWpfr1— Eli Valley (@elivalley) June 25, 2021
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 25 June 2021 23:49 (two years ago) link