EZRA KLEIN v MATT YGLESIAS

“Talk Shit Get Hit” was the original slogan of the IWW.

this fuckin' guy

I mean at this point it’s hard to say — my hypothesis is that progressives spending days freaking out about Musk has pushed him further to the right.

Does that seem crazy to you?

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) April 27, 2022

my hypothesis is that Musk does what Musk thinks is good for Musk and whatever politics might be reflected in his public statements have nothing to do with Musk having political convictions.

I think the people catastrophizing about contraception or interracial marriage being next after Roe sincerely believe it. But I'm sorry, I cannot take this seriously.

— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) May 5, 2022

The net effect of overturning Griswold is that contraception will continue to be legal in all 50 states. In a few states, it might become harder to get certain IUDs and the morning after pill, but even that is dubious.

— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) May 5, 2022

i mean sure i think they will do it but

and this idiot is still beloved by rightist intelligensia:

Planned Parenthood was founded not simply as an organization for limiting the size of families in general but more particularly to reduce the reproduction of the black population in the United States, as Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger herself noted.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) May 4, 2022

And the Dems were once the party of segregation!!!!

The rhetorical move McArdle is doing here is to verbally suggest that the "catastrophe" is merely speculative and has to do with birth control or Loving v. Texas, rather than the actually imminent catastrophe re Roe that she would rather not talk about.

(Also she carefully skips over the most frequent "what's next????" question, which is Obergefell. I wonder why?)

lord knows I hate Sowell, but that isn't his personal twitter; it's an account that tweets out quotes from his books (which I suppose could be him actually). That one is from 2006. I'm sure context doesn't make it any more compelling a fact, but still

it is very sad to think there is a guy out there who is a big enough thomas sowell fan to create such a project

men will literally set up a thomas sowell quotes account instead of going to therapy amirite

yes and lol

oh, I'm sure the effects of any of these things being overturned will never filter up to these columnists. Remember Welfare Reform? They said it would be a catastrophe, and then we did it and never heard a peep about it from any of our friends.

Finding out King Buzzo is a Sowellhead was a tough one. Next up, Keith Morris singing the praises of Ben Shapiro.

she will not stop

Yes, I think there's a lot to work out, but in practice, I'm skeptical that a lot of prosecutors are going to want to probe into a grieving woman's miscarriage; the optics are horrific.

— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) May 5, 2022

ma'am do you know what prosecutors are

Oh, Ms McCurdle, are you familiar with the concept of selective law enforcement, especially used as a tool for intimidating poor people and people of color? If not, let me suggest you start living in the country where you currently reside, instead of the fairyland inside your head.

overzealous prosecutors? in MY uterus?!?

He’s so good at this, the perfect post to drive engagement by people explaining how you’re wrong.

I know you go more viral with indignant takes accusing Dems of being top to bottom political failures, but in the real world what’s so striking about losing Roe is that in almost ever other policy area the status quo has either moved left or stayed steady over the last 25 years.

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) May 5, 2022

I know the Right really thinks we live in communist Russia now bc they have to see a biracial family on car insurance commercials now, but I’m starting to think a lot of commentariat libs believe these things are a practical stand-in for actual leftward movement. I literally can’t think of one thing outside of Oberfell where the broadly defined “Left” can point to a single noteworthy victory in my lifetime.

I know you go more viral with indignant takes accusing Dems of being top to bottom political failures, but in the real world what’s so striking about losing Roe is that in almost ever other policy area the status quo has either moved left or stayed steady over the last 25 years.

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) May 5, 2022

lol xpost

Reminds me of the twitter conservative who had to point to the show "Dear White People" when asked about what radical legislation the Congressional Dems are pushing

"almost ever(y) other policy area"

welfare? public ownership of utilities? antitrust law? labor organizing? show me the fucking money matt

Matty's on a roll these days

ugh, missing out on so much trash spyware, heartbreaking

You know GDPR for creating those annoying cookie warning pop-overs but it seems to have also genuinely knee-capped European app development.https://t.co/79GUy5mvot pic.twitter.com/wcp2aPQNUo

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) May 9, 2022

lol retweet edition:

Jesus pic.twitter.com/3tomCtgL6H

— ℮oin Higgins (@EoinHiggins_) May 9, 2022

wont someone think of the apps

For all its very real problems, one shouldn’t lose sight of the fact that the contemporary United States of America is one of the best places to live in all of human history and there’s a reason tons of people of all kinds from all around the world clamor to move here.

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) May 24, 2022

the clamor is a rifle report

Those people just want to come here to get away from the poverty, war, and corruption imposed on them by colonialism and capitalist exploitation and to get some small crumbs of benefit from the wealth that was stolen from them.

that tweet = whatever the opposite of evergreen is. always timely to those who offer it, always eyeroll and rage inducing to the rest of us

I’m always reminded of a review Max Read wrote about Richard Seymour’s _The Twittering Machine_, about how social media creates these omnipresent idiots who just exist to spout off idiotic takes and can never be corrected, because being accurate isn’t their job:

On Twitter, the usual pundits and pedants sprang up demanding explanations for every slogan and justifications for every action. In these concern trolls and reply guys, Seymour’s chronophage was literalized. The social industry doesn’t just eat our time with endless stimulus and algorithmic scrolling; it eats our time by creating and promoting people who exist only to be explained to, people to whom the world has been created anew every morning, people for whom every settled sociological, scientific, and political argument of modernity must be rehashed, rewritten, and re-accounted, this time with their participation.

These people, with their just-asking questions and vapid open letters, are dullards and bores, pettifoggers and casuists, cowards and dissemblers, time-wasters of the worst sort. But Seymour’s book suggests something worse about us, their Twitter and Facebook interlocutors: That we want to waste our time. That, however much we might complain, we find satisfaction in endless, circular argument. That we get some kind of fulfillment from tedious debates about “free speech” and “cancel culture.” That we seek oblivion in discourse. In the machine-flow atemporality of social media, this seems like no great crime. If time is an infinite resource, why not spend a few decades of it with a couple New York Times op-ed columnists, rebuilding all of Western thought from first principles?

Review is here https://www.bookforum.com/print/2703/a-psychoanalytic-reading-of-social-media-and-the-death-drive-24171

“A chronophage” seems a handy descriptor for some many people and platforms.

like the langoliers

Spent most of the day finally getting the garage organized.

Growing up in Manhattan, I never dreamed I’d be able to achieve this level of dad. pic.twitter.com/YWmIM4ew0c

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) July 31, 2022

That is the saddest pegboard I've ever seen.

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I never thought I'd feel sympathy for either of these fuckers, but this Atlantic piece by Klein's wife is fucking harrowing.

haha when we prevent this thing weve done absolutely nothing to prevent the haters are gonna be so mad

I guess some people are going to be disappointed when it turns out the world adopts enough policy to keep climate change to survivable levels without radically overthrowing capitalism or abandoning economic growth, but personally I think it's good.

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) August 8, 2022

Wouldn't it be even cooler if we did even less and it turned out to be almost survivable?

Matt just figures the democrats will be able to squeak just enough climate change policy and budget past the Republican death cult and their own clowns in the Senate that the US middle class won't die in great numbers, because, hey, how hard can it be? All it took this time was throwing some red meat to the hedge funds and billionaires and a 50-50 tie-breaking vote from the Vice President. No sweat. And maybe in another dozen years there'll be another bill to move the needle a bit. What more does anyone need?

From unperson's linked Atlantic article:

(My doctor) had a feeling about some pregnancies, she told me. Mine was one of them. Then she told me about two patients who had had severe pruritus (itching) during pregnancy. The first gave herself frostbite during a blizzard, ripping her clothes off and letting the snow numb her. The second threw herself out a window.

ok thanks

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— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) August 21, 2022

meanwhile, in real life, every university in the entire fucking universe keeps raising tuition constantly, every single year, far outpacing inflation, and they will keep doing it, and no one has any plan

Heh. In Florida we're forbidden to raise tuition!

Thanks, Rick 'n' Ron!

Well, as I understand it you're also forbidden to teach anything but The Passing of the Great Race and The Art of the Deal, so raising prices would be unjustifiable.

Heh. In Florida we're forbidden to raise tuition!

that seems like a difficult law to repeal, politically, and something tells me it will be a Democrat who does it

Now that Biden has delivered for his base on climate and student loans, I unironically think it would be smart to pivot to some bipartisan commissions.

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) August 26, 2022

Hell yeah Marty that would really seize upon the moment.