Matty: not very bright
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― 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 (three years ago) link
What a guy to call someone “incurious”
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Friday, 4 June 2021 00:52 (three years ago) link
Young Matt Yglesias
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― Joe Bombin (milo z), Friday, 4 June 2021 00:56 (three years ago) link
Well saying "nothing is popular at the start" is clearly hyperbole.
― o. nate, Friday, 4 June 2021 02:14 (three 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 (three years ago) link
lol unbelievable
― lag∞n, Saturday, 5 June 2021 14:43 (three years ago) link
theres literally never been a time when the democrats havent been doing that
― lag∞n, Saturday, 5 June 2021 14:44 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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
He deleted the tweet — the sad part is, I bet it's because he spelled Miller's first name with a "v" instead of a "ph".
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 26 June 2021 00:00 (two years ago) link
The tweet
Deleted already, usually he waits a few weeks pic.twitter.com/tq5787D9dN— Eli Valley (@elivalley) June 25, 2021
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Saturday, 26 June 2021 00:09 (two years ago) link
Do you think he has an inner life or is he just an automaton
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Saturday, 26 June 2021 00:11 (two years ago) link
Anyone defending this fucker past this point is extremely suspect imo
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Saturday, 26 June 2021 02:02 (two years ago) link
brooks to yglesias is approximately the rate of change pic.twitter.com/ZXZTg49X26— Whet Moser (@whet) July 3, 2021
― jaymc, Saturday, 3 July 2021 00:42 (two years ago) link
tf
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 3 July 2021 07:40 (two years ago) link
lol at "twitter is real life" tbf
― lag∞n, Saturday, 3 July 2021 13:47 (two years ago) link
hell yeah bud they’re totally buying in on those hard hitting truth bombs you’re selling out of the back of your substack, and def not just a bunch of bloodless freaks who require their worldview reflected back to them while the ocean burns
― Washington Generals D-League affiliate (will), Saturday, 3 July 2021 15:46 (two years ago) link
i know haters itt won't cop to it but klain reading yglesias is a huge improvement over obama reading david brooks. just on monetary/fiscal policy (probably the most important thing the white house has leverage on rn) matt is way more dovish than the median wonk
― flopson, Saturday, 3 July 2021 17:06 (two years ago) link
in general it's kinda wild how online the biden administration are. like economists on staff and in advisory positions are disproportionately ones who have been active on twitter within the past 3 years
― flopson, Saturday, 3 July 2021 17:10 (two years ago) link
Yglesias may be relatively dovish but the Biden team still seems to be fixated on triangulating with increasingly extreme (R) positions which I guess is how we end up at privatizing the TVA. That, or they’re just using all this posturing to cover for the fact that the core platform of the Democratic Party is still rapacious neoliberalism.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Sunday, 4 July 2021 01:08 (two years ago) link
Failing ever upward...
🚨NEW: D.C. journalists @lkmcgann and Mark Bauman are launching a new, DC-based media company with $10 million+ Series A funding— @mattyglesias will be editor at large — Have already hired 20+ people, aiming to have ~60 by end of year— Launching Septhttps://t.co/syKJXKefrd— Sara Fischer (@sarafischer) July 10, 2021
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 10 July 2021 16:34 (two years ago) link
Guess we'll never get to witness the pure race science era of Matty's substack career.
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Saturday, 10 July 2021 16:55 (two years ago) link
(Until whatever billionaires are funding this pull the rug out when Biden's not in the White House anymore.)
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Saturday, 10 July 2021 16:56 (two years ago) link