EZRA KLEIN v MATT YGLESIAS

don't give attention to the mean man he say bad things

getting strong vibes that this man had a lot invested in being a 30-ish knowledge master who staffed his office with impressionable youth and rubes, and wanted to make sure they only ever heard things about him from other swindlers and rubes

one of the biggest freaks out there for sure

“I’m like Radiohead for donors — you can’t really explain why I’m good but everyone knows that I’m good at it,” McElwee shouted over the din of bar talk

is the answer because rich people feel kinship with vacuous amoral weirdos

trying all kinds of kool-aid hmm what was the deal with the kool-aid originally idk

tbf it was framed

new one seems like it might be even worse than Crystal Skull

Indiana Jones and the Legend of the Substack Pivot

Temple of the Woke Agenda

"What I remember from my economics textbooks" is the most likely beginning of an answer from this crowd in historyhttps://t.co/1iZpAMF7D8 pic.twitter.com/kKDvmWXtKb

— David Dayen (@ddayen) May 6, 2023

To all the Russia stans who are like "Yes we are in Ukraine, because we spend a bunch of money trying to help them", by this standard we're also in your grandma

— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) May 17, 2023

Lol

I feel myself negative polarizing against the rightwing dreck in the “for you” tab and wanting to do more progressive columns.

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) June 9, 2023

THEY ARE FORCING ME LEFT

loooooool

Coupla tweets away from making underwater basket weaving jokes

I feel like history departments would attract more students to their classes if they taught more “old fashioned” military and political history like you hear on podcasts or see among popular press books.

Maybe nobody cares but… https://t.co/XPFVmGKDY5

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) June 25, 2023

Sure thing, matty. education should always be managed as market-driven capitalism.

if they made college courses more like the books dads read they might attract more dads

Ph.D in Airport Bookstore History

For the Love of the Game by Michael Jordan, autographed by Scottie Pippen

A lot of factors have contributed to the decline in public discourse, but we have reached a point where people who don't know much on an issue think it's a "waste" of time to talk to people who have devoted their lives to an issue if the person rejects a few key premises. https://t.co/U3d5uEv0fH

— Alec Karakatsanis (@equalityAlec) June 28, 2023

Matty really just wants to talk about inventing cheaper cages that are also carpeted.

blocking Matty is one of the best twitter moves

you can still click through and see what sort of dipshittery he's up to though

https://i.imgur.com/Ea1uQBX.png

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F0CeOc7XwAEk8oA?format=jpg&name=medium

https://qz.com/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-nauru-court-case-money-laundering-1850662899

Do you think Sammy would have made room for Matty and Ezra in the bunker?

Isn’t Nauru threatened by sea level rise (and all it’s guano is depleted)?

lmao perfect

Its a guano replenishment program

horrified by this post by josh barro titled "Grilling Is Still Bad — Here's What to Do Instead"

it's not so much the anti-grilling stance--which i disagree with but also whatever--it's the recipes he recommends to cook for a summer backyard instead

on a hot summer day, make a platter of roast pork tenderloin

https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F490665c6-23ca-4936-bd9e-60fe162b1db2.heic

"What could say ‘summer’ more than that?" <- actual quote

next up is...baked fish

https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff022fcb3-0e62-46ef-a315-76e284a2e4bd.heic

he also recommends pork stew and chickpea stew lol

i'm sure these taste fine, but they all seem really heavy and dry, and using your oven in the summer is just insane

luv 2 write columns that include the phrase “A lot of people mocked me”

always funny when pundits decide to talk about cooking

i always thought of josh barro as the poshest of the centrist wonks. or at least on the opposite end of the spectrum from slovenly yglesias. gay, manhattanite, clean-cut menswear style, seems to be a bit of a socialite. so it threw me off that he was like "come to my place in august and i will serve you baked fish"

he really twisted around the words in that podcast that were specifically about hamburgers and then didn’t make one himself. sus

by far the most popular sport in the world

I’m sure this is a simpleton take but just like MLB made baseball more popular this year by finally taking crude measures to speed up the game, I feel like soccer would be more exciting if the pitch were somewhat smaller so there were more shots.

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) July 29, 2023

dont get me wrong i have some soccer rule change ideas but theyre for making the sport better not more popular

that's the most blatant troll for engagement i've seen recently

i guess it's made him rich but he also kinda seems to get off on being called an idiot

I still think about this quote from that WaPo profile of him a few months ago:

"I find it relaxing to work. I put things out. People yell at me. I will write again the next day."

Goals are worth two points if you do it off some cool shit like a bicycle kick.

“You’re a smart guy with interesting things to say but” pic.twitter.com/CcOhlUQzPc

— Jonathan M. Katz theracket.news (@KatzOnEarth) August 6, 2023

lmao at "re-radicalized"

how radical to turn it on and off like a light switch

When a Nazi calls you pure evil it doesn’t sting as much.

since musk turned off the free api matt doesnt auto delete his tweets anymore lol

So did Matty say this after Hananana’s racist and anti semitic group texts were discovered?

no but his official work is also explicitly racist (and it was pseudonymous articles not texts)

Nah, he doesn't give a shit

But what is the error in judgment? Was I running around vouching for Hanania’s good character? Assuring people he’s not racist? He’s clearly quite racist! But I also think he’s written some good pieces and it’s important to read conservatives.

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) August 6, 2023

The key thing here is that Yglesias thinks of the revanchist & racist right as part of his universe of discourse, people who are wrong on some stuff but worth engaging with. By contrast, for him left & left-liberals beyond the pale. pic.twitter.com/sjUAC4Yw1E

— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) August 6, 2023

funny lil baby trick mattys trying to pull there conflating reading the right for educational purposes with thinking theyre good and interesting and complimenting them

cnn should tell matty and a few others that they’re rebooting the crossfire tv show, and then put the soundstage at the bottom of the ocean with no actual broadcast

one thing the huffpost article showed is how much substack has become fulcrum for this shit including the ceo going on podcasts with this guy and others like him, worth reading if youre wondering what the deal is with this racist man https://www.huffpost.com/entry/richard-hanania-white-supremacist-pseudonym-richard-hoste_n_64c93928e4b021e2f295e817