EZRA KLEIN v MATT YGLESIAS

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

73 to 90 percent of people answered the phone and told a stranger that things were going ok

"How's it going?"

"Uh, okay."

"Thanks for your input!"

love to use a poll about peoples personal lives to make some sort of... point?

https://content.gallup.com/origin/gallupinc/GallupSpaces/Production/Cms/POLL/2yo3s2hrses7xszxbbjsla.png

if Matthew Yglesias called to ask me a question for a poll I'd hang up and call the NSA.

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.

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

one billion americans, though. who else is thinking that big

me, check this out: two billion americans

spitting at the sight of this

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FClY0nsXMAcZufL?format=jpg&name=large

what?

— Sir Loin of Beef (@SotoAlfred) October 25, 2021

Waiting for a politician to have a Soulja Boy moment

in these challenging times for our nation im calling upon president biden to step up and superman that hoe

lol

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

tried to figure out what happened but matty has his tweets on auto delete

i tried https://polititweet.org/figure?account=15446531 but don't want to spend time on it, you might

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

i think it was this column https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democrats-election-shor/

https://polititweet.org/tweet?account=15446531&tweet=1451257638990323712
https://polititweet.org/tweet?account=15446531&tweet=1451301248938938374
https://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

I saw that Elie Mystal tweet and thought he was talking about someone named Matty Weiss

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?

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

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

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

The rough draft lyrics of “Walk On The Wild Side” needed some work.

I'm a fan of @mattyglesias' creativity on twitter.

— Ronald Klain (@WHCOS) December 3, 2021

fireable offense

it's like watching a kid make a sculpture out of dog poop

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

This stupid motherfucker.

1 admit living standards are high
2 ???
3 profit

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"

you know, in roman times they didn’t even have iphones

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

1 admit living standards are high
2 ???
3 profit

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’.

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

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.

really the worst xp

she's so consistently a moron about everything

meggy mcglesias

I think pretty much everyone who has had the option of working from home has discovered that it has some pretty nice side benefits. Wouldn't be surprised if the same was true for teachers.

no. nate

the three teachers I know well couldn't stand it and said it was the worst year of their career

as a parent, having to endure the cacophony of 30 elementary kids on zoom was terrible even for a few minutes

I dont know maybe teachers are the one group of people in the world who don't like sleeping in and saving an hour or more of commute time every day.

says the man who has never discussed his hypothesis with a teacher

So if teachers hate ZOOM so much how does having more ZOOM help burnout?

it doesn't