this is just so embarrassing. I mean, "my takes are just obviously true" so I'm going to spend my time making fake accounts to validate my "obviously true" thinking.
Not for nothing, the thing I most associate with Yglesias is his take on the invasion of Iraq (pro, thought it would pressure others in the Middle East toward peace, anyone who disagreed was “unserious”). It’s conspicuously missing from his list…
@parkermolloy.com’s accounting here is basically a list of every pundit you should never take seriously ever again, or at least should take with an entire shaker of salt (note how many of them are still around, still spewing bullshit)
Take particular note of Jeffrey Goldberg’s justification for taking out Saddam: “Richard Holbrooke scolded me for making the suggestion that genocide was reason enough for the international community to act against Saddam.”
So, for JG, genocide = international community should intervene. Noted!
For me it was his assertions during the 2020 elxn that climate change was a solved problem, Trump wasn't particularly outside the GOP mainstream and would peacefully concede, and anyone who was concerned about anything was just bored and wanted to pretend they lived in significant times.
For me it’s his immediate response to Uvalde; trolling about how great America is. Just utterly, 1000% shameless, smugly soulless creep—engagement uber alles
Here is a guy who is fully committed to being gross for clicks, whose only real skill is being able to type fast about anything, like if chatGPT were housed inside a sweaty potato, and yet there are people insisting we’re faulty for not Paying Attention to him
Yglesias couldn't open a can of beer or soda without instructions. He's just a dipshit blogger and his "ideas" should be ridiculed and dismissed outright.
Also, supply and demand does not apply to housing when housing is used as an investment mechanism by Wall Street and things like STRPs interfere with the "demand" side of the equation.
I wonder if the world is a lot less evil and a lot more sad than it seems. The insecurities are damaging. Hilarious, but rooted in pain. Fear.
Stupid cowards should do themselves a favor and quit hiding from the truth. But it's hard to see from where they are. I lived backwards for 20 years or so.
Does he not have any real people agreeing with him 🤔 Is he a Poor™️ who can't afford a troll farm for support 🧐 Is he that big a narcissist that he wants specific positive comments 😐
I think I learned this fact in college and sadly don’t have a citation for you. I suspect it’s pretty easy to google although my attempt for ~30 seconds just now didn’t turn up a story about it
There was in reality no Zhuge Liang. He was a sock puppet account created by Liu Bei to pretend humility, love of scholarship, and association with a Wise Master like Zhang Jue...
Hello, fellow females! As an attractive woman, I am used to being treated like a sex doll - I even use it to my advantage if I need to, tee hee! I also can deploy waterworks on command, like all women! They just gush out like ink from a squid when we’re having our emotions.
I haven't seen it before, and there was a time I would show all the deranged thoughts this piece of shit would spew into the void to a coworker that was part of his cult.
Not to mention "obviously true things" like "cops prevent crimes" is so laughably wrong I hope he has someone give him a brain mri to check for bleeding or something
OMFG. 😂 I thought it was funny when Stefan Molyneux did this on one of his own YouTube videos, but he’s the kind of low-grade idiot I’d expect it from. To see Matt do the same thing, except pretending to troll himself instead of pretending to be one of his huge fans, is a whole different level!
WHO AMONG US... couldn't get a friend to come by and say something nice about us on demand? which is still eyerolly but the fuck, Matty, you have no friends? No one loves you even a little?
Huh, as a gay Latino man and definit... hey Siri, text Marco. Yeah buddy, wanna go out drinking later? Do you think we can ditch the ball and chain? We'll go somewhere sexy. Let me know. What? Voice dictation? Nah. I only used approved stuff now, LOLZ 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸💣🔥💣💣🇺🇸💣🔥
sincerely cannot think of a less provocative, less trolly thinker than Yglesias whose whole thing is mostly just to insist that pineapple does belong on pizza
Yeah… he will forever be the “sweatshops are good” guy to me. That and the time he said the U.S. economy would be fine if the minimum wage went up to $150/hr overnight.
I’ve enjoyed some Ezra Klein- don’t always agree but he seems thoughtful. I’ve always thought Yglesias wasn’t too good. So what does that say about Ezra and starting vox with Matt?
I think you're right! I took a shot at Yglesias for referring to himself in the third person like Trump, but I think you put your finger right on it. Mendacious Matt blew his own cover! hahahahaha
The irony of claiming you're just a guy spouting truth while intending to lie about who you are...or maybe the guy is just really in love with himself.
Great stuff. I love how he listed the "obviously true thing" of "police help prevent crimes" when every study shows that is not true. And even police forces themselves admit: this is not what their job is
Wait, do we really have a Matt Y shame label like the Jesse Signal one? If so, where might someone be able to add it to their collection of subbed moderation lists?
Yes Matt Yglesias is a dipshit but your second point is incorrect. David Weisburd, Larry Sherman and Jerry Ratcliffe have built careers on an alleged correlation between police presence and crime prevention
There are studies that show specific police initiatives can deter crimes - that is, temporarily increasing the presence of cops in a certain area has yielded less crime.
As an aggregate, abstract concept, however, yes, there's no indications that policing deters crime trends overall.
Yeah sure, a cop can deter some types of crime in their immediate vicinity. But the studies I read also found that it merely shifted criminal activity elsewhere. Temporarily. For a net zero impact.
Not to belittle your argument, but the average taxpayer does not give a damn about what a study says, they care about what they perceive, which is a crime generally doesn’t get committed when a cop is present.
It's important to note that meta analyses typically don't find such an effect - though, the temporary nature of decreasing crime with these initiatives shows it doesn't really do much in aggregate.
“All great thinkers have had sock puppets. Socrates, Thomas Aquinas, Newton, Einstein. They all posted praise from multiple accounts. Gutenberg invented the printing press for Luther to do anonymous trolls.” - Niels Bohr.
I might be missing the joke but Newton actually did this!
NEWTON: I never even heard of this dumb loser Leibniz
NEWTON: You tell 'em, Newton! He's a big dumb plagiarizer and he smells! We're an independent committee of disinterested scholars and we wrote a whole report about it!
Anybody with data or experience want to talk about why this is a thing? We have seen this with multiple big accounts now.
He's clearly a big enough account we would assume he would get engagement naturally. Do early posts seed engagement and/or steer the reactions in a particular direction?
I gotta be honest, I'm not certain this is a failed sockpupoet because I would not put it past Yggy to think this is a normal way for someone to talk about themselves
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He must feel a bit insecure.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-opinions-of-matt-yglesias-should-be-ignored
So, for JG, genocide = international community should intervene. Noted!
Which is why I've been terrified of the GOP for a couple decades.
hup boy 😬
Stupid cowards should do themselves a favor and quit hiding from the truth. But it's hard to see from where they are. I lived backwards for 20 years or so.
can't even imagine inviting extra complications like this into your writing life like it's chaotic enough trying to corral my own thoughts
That column savaged everything Borges wrote.
Later, when found out, he said something like “no one was criticizing me correctly so I decided to do it myself”
I’m not sure which one of those was “the critic”
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1. Apple
2. Orange
3. Giraffe
4. Flashlight
5. Poop
like everyone for sure signed off on it
"police help prevent crime" right after "popular people are popular" made it so I died
Don’t judge me. Ijs🤷🏼♀️
and take responsibility after being exposed in this way?
“Dogs it Matter” is?
(Very impressive)
We can have sock puppet accounts?
Shit! Now I want one!
Dude is journalism Elon Musk?
/sarcasm 😂
Sent from David Brooks' iPhone
- Sent from Pete Hegseths iPhone
To the point I'm fairly convinced he does it on purpose.
I’m guessing.
As an aggregate, abstract concept, however, yes, there's no indications that policing deters crime trends overall.
It's important to note that meta analyses typically don't find such an effect - though, the temporary nature of decreasing crime with these initiatives shows it doesn't really do much in aggregate.
NEWTON: I never even heard of this dumb loser Leibniz
NEWTON: You tell 'em, Newton! He's a big dumb plagiarizer and he smells! We're an independent committee of disinterested scholars and we wrote a whole report about it!
His whole attitude was "Soc didn't believe in writing, so who you gonna believe? That guy, or me who writes things down?"
He's clearly a big enough account we would assume he would get engagement naturally. Do early posts seed engagement and/or steer the reactions in a particular direction?
This is so perfect.
https://slate.com/business/2013/04/international-factory-safety.html