EZRA KLEIN v MATT YGLESIAS

lol should be, tho in his defense he has made quite a career out of it, good work if you dont mind people calling you a soulless moron every day, and also being a soulless moron every day

no, you don't understand, that's the name of his dog

pretty incredible that yglesias began his career by supporting the iraq war and here we are 20 years later with him denying its effects, the story of national decline as told through one blogger

Doing it on ilx for free is some sicko shit tho, what are you getting off holding a blue tick by your head and scattering pictures of a pig taking a shit around yourself

the tweet didn't say the us is a terrible place to live it said People really underestimate how dystopian the United States is

― towards fungal computer (harbl), Friday, December 10, 2021 3:38 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I doubt her conclusion is that the US is barely a dystopia.

Her conclusion is that US is more dystopian than people estimate which is unfalsifiable

Unfalsifiable but also insulting to people elsewhere, as you can see in many tweets.

The US is a terrible place to live for a significant percentage of its population.

"other places are also bad" or "other places are also dystopian" are, shockingly, even less useful than "the US is a dystopia"

Your "making guillotine jokes about billionaires is insulting to the people of Algeria" schtick was better, IMO.

oh gosh i didnt know this was a repeat performance i wouldve just ignored it, this thread is my only interface with the ilx politics massive

people underestimate how good i am at finding more than one thing to be bad

Oh yeah that moment where you guys were cool with the death penalty and using the civil war imagery of other nations without reflecting on it. Another great moment in left ilxor Americana.

i know about more than 10 bad things

Seems insulting to the 11th

VHS right now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IFcm4yu7QU

you guys were cool with the death penalty

When it's royalty it's cool as hell. Kept hoping the Crown would end in an alternate timeline where Liz got the chop chop like Charles I.

You realise it wasn't just the royalty right?

xp
Barbados missed a trick there tbh

one might ask about the motivation to take the word dystopia and the imagery of the guillotine super literally, but we dont have to ask its in order to scold

everyone on ilx is American and poor VHS stands alone against the barbaric hordes

imagine crying tears for the rich who’d sell you for parts without thinking about it? Couldn’t be me!

pray 4 canada they dont know how to make their own tv shows

Honestly when even the most dedicated simp for the ruling class is calling your defence of the status quo dickish

What VHS is doing is pretty similar to Carlson in that monologue btw. 'Ignore the problems this is a beautiful place'.

And not even American himself, inspiring, isn’t it?

VHS backs the filibuster because he thinks "the nuclear option" actually involves an ICBM.

pray 4 canada they dont know how to make their own tv shows

― lag∞n, Friday, December 10, 2021 4:02 PM (two minutes ago)

ice cold, which is fitting

Kids in the Hall is brillant, to be fair.

'Ignore the problems this is a beautiful place'.

― xyzzzz__, Friday, December 10, 2021 4:03 PM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I am not going to watch a Tucker Carlson video but I never said to ignore the problems.

it's hyperbole

I might be too neurodivergent to handle that much hyperbole all the time.

People's lives ruined by the state being described as exaggerations and 1st world problems xxp

Kids in the Hall is brillant, to be fair.

― Van Horn Street, Friday, December 10, 2021 4:06 PM (eighteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

one of my all time faves

VHS, plz notice that you will make no headway in resolving this disagreement and it is not because you are failing to make your points, but rather because your points do not penetrate the carapace of the people who are still responding to you.

...Oh, so that's what's been happening itt, I see, I see (briskly turns and leaves)

Man I wish we could bottle whatever caused that

lol

i think his points are clear but stupid

i also found them to be very clear. transparent even.

VHS, plz notice that you will make no headway in resolving this disagreement and it is not because you are failing to make your points, but rather because your points do not penetrate the carapace of the people who are still responding to you.

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, December 10, 2021 4:30 PM (sixteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yeah, I'm getting to that conclusion. Considering it comes from the usual people who seem to take pleasure in insulting other people instead of advancing a discussion, it doesn't matter much.

The good news is that most of them live in a country with very high standards of living.

I’m really sorry Aimless but I have a rare form of synaesthesia that causes me to hear all your posts as a long fart noise, so I can’t engage with whatever it is you’re saying :(

Someone remind VHS how much he cares about Muslims when they happen to live in the same countries as the rest of us and can’t be used as props in an argument.

You are making a lot of assumptions.

VHS, plz notice that you will make no headway in resolving this disagreement and it is not because you are failing to make your points, but rather because your points do not penetrate the carapace of the people who are still responding to you.

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, December 10, 2021 4:30 PM (sixteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yeah, I'm getting to that conclusion. Considering it comes from the usual people who seem to take pleasure in insulting other people instead of advancing a discussion, it doesn't matter much.

― Van Horn Street, Friday, December 10, 2021 4:53 PM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

dont make me tap the if youre going to be condescending you have to be smart sign again

No, I remember things you’ve posted. I don’t think anyone will have a more accurate take on you than lagoon though.

(long wet fart for the aural entertainment of gyac)

oh now it's bad to make assumptions, from the guy who implied none of us care about people outside the U.S. and told us to travel

Honestly when even the most dedicated simp for the ruling class is calling your defence of the status quo dickish

― coombination gazza hut & scampo bell (wins), Friday, December 10, 2021 3:02 PM (fifty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol is that me? I think I have some hang-ups about demonizing individuals, but I freely admit that the system is fucked

damn did u have to make it wet