i mean i was just being reductive by grouping them that way to make analogy to 2016, there are unpopular 'economic' talking points and popular 'social' issues ones. but the popularist idea is that you talk about the popular ones and not the unpopular ones
― flopson, Sunday, 10 October 2021 19:19 (two years ago) link
oh to be clear flopson I wasn't attacking you; it's the way these choads think.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 10 October 2021 19:21 (two years ago) link
no worries, just wanted to clarify the pt i was making didn't really hinge on the distinction. because you can dis-aggregate issues and messages beyond that (admittedly dubious) binary
― flopson, Sunday, 10 October 2021 19:30 (two years ago) link
the thing this guys needs to understand is the reason dems dont do popular economic things is because they dont want to
― lag∞n, Sunday, 10 October 2021 21:58 (two years ago) link
Is this being presented as an either/or? Because couldn't you easily have both? pic.twitter.com/pnByQX0FVx— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) October 10, 2021
― lag∞n, Sunday, 10 October 2021 21:59 (two years ago) link
wow @ that shor tweet
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 10 October 2021 22:16 (two years ago) link
Better dead than red
― St. Twel'mo, or the Cuneiform Cyclopedist of Chattanooga (President Keyes), Monday, 11 October 2021 03:15 (two years ago) link
more like david whore (for us imperialism)
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Monday, 11 October 2021 14:37 (two years ago) link
So people are still doing the parentheses, huh
― St. Twel'mo, or the Cuneiform Cyclopedist of Chattanooga (President Keyes), Monday, 11 October 2021 14:42 (two years ago) link
― lag∞n, Sunday, October 10, 2021 5:58 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
i would like to add and they dont care about winning
― lag∞n, Monday, 11 October 2021 14:45 (two years ago) link
right so the evidence here is that the polls showed people were content and didn't want much to change throughout the period between 1979 and 2021 https://t.co/lr1nAQPez0— 'Weird Alex' Pareene (@pareene) October 12, 2021
― certified juice therapist (harbl), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 13:51 (two years ago) link
73 to 90 percent of people answered the phone and told a stranger that things were going ok
― certified juice therapist (harbl), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 13:52 (two years ago) link
"How's it going?"
"Uh, okay."
"Thanks for your input!"
― St. Twel'mo, or the Cuneiform Cyclopedist of Chattanooga (President Keyes), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 14:22 (two years ago) link
love to use a poll about peoples personal lives to make some sort of... point?
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 14:22 (two years ago) link
https://content.gallup.com/origin/gallupinc/GallupSpaces/Production/Cms/POLL/2yo3s2hrses7xszxbbjsla.png
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 14:23 (two years ago) link
if Matthew Yglesias called to ask me a question for a poll I'd hang up and call the NSA.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 14:26 (two years ago) link
i know there are ppl here who like him but over and over he shows himself to be incompetent and i don't get it. i mean there are reliable statistics available that indicate whether things are or are not going well for people, that would not require them to respond to a survey. many people who are not doing well in a material sense might also say they don't want things to change, and there are interesting things to be said about this phenomenon but nah, people are just "contented" and "change averse." it's their nature as americans, couldn't be that it's a very common way of handling immiseration.
― certified juice therapist (harbl), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 15:17 (two years ago) link
he is so lazy ive read a couple of his substacks and i really just couldnt believe what i was seeing, good work if you can get it i guess
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 15:19 (two years ago) link
one billion americans, though. who else is thinking that big
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 15:25 (two years ago) link
me, check this out: two billion americans
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 15:27 (two years ago) link
spitting at the sight of this
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FClY0nsXMAcZufL?format=jpg&name=large
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 00:17 (two years ago) link
what?— Sir Loin of Beef (@SotoAlfred) October 25, 2021
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 00:18 (two years ago) link
Waiting for a politician to have a Soulja Boy moment
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 02:13 (two years ago) link
in these challenging times for our nation im calling upon president biden to step up and superman that hoe
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 02:32 (two years ago) link
lol
― mens rea activist (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 03:26 (two years ago) link
My theory is that white folks try to tattletale to the media employers of black folks (like Matty Yce tried it on me last week) on the theory that the white people in charge honestly don't know what the Negroes are running around saying.— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) October 29, 2021
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Saturday, 30 October 2021 17:19 (two years ago) link
tried to figure out what happened but matty has his tweets on auto delete
― lag∞n, Saturday, 30 October 2021 17:24 (two years ago) link
i tried https://polititweet.org/figure?account=15446531 but don't want to spend time on it, you might
― certified juice therapist (harbl), Saturday, 30 October 2021 17:50 (two years ago) link
I think Matty was upset about some of these replies though his own tweets are gone now:
I know hurting white feelings is a big no-no on your feed, but I have literally no time for the white use of the word "riot" especially as it was used in the context of the Floyd protests. The violent/nonviolent distinction whites use to drive a wedge here is tiresome.— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) October 21, 2021
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Saturday, 30 October 2021 17:50 (two years ago) link
i think it was this column https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democrats-election-shor/
― certified juice therapist (harbl), Saturday, 30 October 2021 17:58 (two years ago) link
https://polititweet.org/tweet?account=15446531&tweet=1451257638990323712https://polititweet.org/tweet?account=15446531&tweet=1451301248938938374https://polititweet.org/tweet?account=15446531&tweet=1451313842697428998
too bad polititweet doesnt preserve images and threads but third one is where matt tags the employer i guess
― lag∞n, Saturday, 30 October 2021 18:06 (two years ago) link
I saw that Elie Mystal tweet and thought he was talking about someone named Matty Weiss
― jaymc, Saturday, 30 October 2021 23:09 (two years ago) link
Have to admit, Matty's gotten better at the throwaway joke:
In addition to turnout, the big question in Virginia is which candidate do the voters vote for.— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) November 2, 2021
Is this what the kids call a shitpost?
― o. nate, Wednesday, 3 November 2021 01:06 (two years ago) link
Revolting little cockroach
She would never do it, but easy opportunity here for Kamala Harris to say the SF DAs office was better when she was running it and become more popular.https://t.co/fjkW8MAYBA— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) November 9, 2021
I have no idea — maybe the way she ran the office was terrible and all of his changes have been for the better. But my guess is that *she* doesn’t think it was terrible, and it would improve her public image to make a public case for her way.— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) November 10, 2021
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 10 November 2021 07:13 (two years ago) link
the Real America expert has logged on
One thing I think you see here is that writers who live in New York City tend to underestimate the life of material abundance enjoyed by the typical person who living outside a high-cost metro and working in a more normal industry. https://t.co/ca1fd8zZgn— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) November 12, 2021
― mookieproof, Friday, 12 November 2021 20:07 (two years ago) link
The central funny/infuriating thing about this bit of would-be reverse snobbery is Yglesias was raised on velvet cushions inside a vitrine in New York City and Hamilton hails from Shithole, Fla. https://t.co/5jKsWs7d86— Tom Scocca (@tomscocca) November 12, 2021
― lag∞n, Friday, 12 November 2021 20:08 (two years ago) link
The rough draft lyrics of “Walk On The Wild Side” needed some work.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 12 November 2021 21:51 (two years ago) link
I'm a fan of @mattyglesias' creativity on twitter.— Ronald Klain (@WHCOS) December 3, 2021
― jaymc, Friday, 3 December 2021 00:49 (two years ago) link
fireable offense
― lag∞n, Friday, 3 December 2021 01:31 (two years ago) link
it's like watching a kid make a sculpture out of dog poop
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Friday, 3 December 2021 15:26 (two years ago) link
I don’t think the American left is going to get far until it can acknowledge that average living standards in this country are actually very high, and that’s the appropriate context in which to think about specific problems. https://t.co/Ma7JhPZD81— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) December 6, 2021
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 6 December 2021 05:23 (two years ago) link
This stupid motherfucker.
1 admit living standards are high2 ???3 profit
― lag∞n, Monday, 6 December 2021 13:05 (two years ago) link
never think about specific problems like such as "this post doesn't even say the thing i'm responding to and my substack subscribers don't care"
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Monday, 6 December 2021 13:15 (two years ago) link
you know, in roman times they didn’t even have iphones
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 6 December 2021 13:21 (two years ago) link
this pareene essay from a few years ago is more or less a nice rebuttal to that way of thinking
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/consolation-prizes-pareene
― k3vin k., Monday, 6 December 2021 13:27 (two years ago) link
This is the key thing with him, at least as far as his Twitter presence goes - it’s hard to say he’s wrong, per se, as he’s too glib and vague for it to be clear what he’s actually arguing or what he would do differently.
You could spin out a wonk take that exaggeration of the US’ problems makes them seem more intractable than they might actually be, or that it makes middle-income voters who are doing ok think you’re alarmist, or encourages the tendency to pull up drawbridges…but he’s too lazy to do anything other than point to a graph and say ‘ah, seems like you might be incorrect’.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Monday, 6 December 2021 13:39 (two years ago) link
in lieu of a better thread
I just assumed that American teachers discovered they like working at home and burnout was a device to allow them to do so.— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) December 8, 2021
― mookieproof, Thursday, 9 December 2021 19:52 (two years ago) link
You try teaching a bunch of first graders over zoom, Ms. McArdle. Remember, if any of them fail to learn the curriculum, it's YOUR FAULT.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 9 December 2021 19:54 (two years ago) link
really the worst xp
― mookieproof, Thursday, 9 December 2021 19:55 (two years ago) link