I don't understand the hate you get at all. I think it's silly when people go after Nate Silver but at least I get it; he can be obnoxious. But you? I'm starting to think people just really hate solid, well-supported takes that challenge their beliefs. Crazy, right?
Well, smugly being wrong is quite infuriating whether it's Silver or Yglesias. The difference is that you see him as having solid takes that align with your opinions, while others (like me) see a lack of support in his claims and the framing of his inevitable centrism annoying.
Whatever definition you're using for "well-supported" applies to most takes out there, probably many you agree with. It would be more accurate, I think, to just say they just don't align with your worldview. Which is fine. But why block in response to that feeling?
Most takes on social media aren't going to be well-supported, yes - but I find Yglesias fits into that category of particularly smug / incurious status quo defenders where it just ends up a waste of time to read + infuriating, which is why I muted/blocked him on Twitter ages ago.
I guess I would just challenge you on what makes an idea coherent or not. To me, a 2016-era Bernie Sanders social democrat who decided after Trump + Biden years that incrementalism is better and that changing the world requires building a shitload of stuff, Matt's ideas are perfectly coherent. 🤷♂️
Truth is, most of the people on this list are predictable and boring, blocking or muting them actually frees up valuable time for better, more interesting perspectives.
This happened at Mastodon too. There's an effort by certain interest groups to police the entire platform and they are as illiberal as their enemies. Unlike Masto, Bluesky has real moderation and blocking, so everyone can build their silos as they choose.
It does and consists mostly of those. (But there are also things like conservative-followers blocklist, and a Matt-follower blocklist that isn't used yet.)
I muted/blocked a bunch of these when I arrived and it was done manually. Very simple reason: I was tired of the outrage wars BS and daily hot takes and viral political nonsense of X. Some of these people on the list are worse offenders than others.
One reason I follow you is I'm confident you get the most unhinged hate mail of anyone on this site, and I find this highly amusing. You should post some samples for us!
What can I say? Some people just can't handle the intellectual challenge posed by people who think they're smart retweeting confidently incorrect and insufferable takes! Cowards.
Fascinating that the trans realists are the most blocked. People here really don’t want to hear that stuff. It’s not feminists, or conservatives, or race-warriors, or pro-lifers, or Jews qua Jews, getting mass blocked. It’s moderate gender realists that can NOT be abided.
Also, and this is very, very funny, the Corinthians, a Brazilian soccer team from São Paulo state. It is supposed to be the team of the povão (working class people)
I do not quite understand this. Best I can tell you are a 90's era Clinton Democrat center right. There is no rage baiting or other things that overly trigger the left.
She is a trans women abandoning the progressives.
She just made interview loudly announcing the stupid bullshit that "The left moved too much to the left and now I'm in the right", the story that every grifter, like Dave Rubin, have started to receive money from conservatives / Russia.
Dave Rubin appeal to conservatives is that he was from the left, the left had overreach, so he turned conservative. He received conservative's and Russian's money.
My point was that Wu is doing exactly the same thing, and eventually, she will accept conservative's/Russian's money.
The mass block isn't because she is not progressive, she has long criticized other transgender people that "are not like her" and blame them for the regression of trans-rights.
And is clear that conservatives ALWAYS hated ALL transgender people, they just regrouped and attacked when they were ready.
Most of these people are very block worthy but multiple instances of Brazilian Taylor Swift fan accounts is pretty funny. I'm sure there's a very dramatic reason for that.
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But i do admire your skill in winding people up. If this was the 90s i would sign up for your Learning Annex class
This happened at Mastodon too. There's an effort by certain interest groups to police the entire platform and they are as illiberal as their enemies. Unlike Masto, Bluesky has real moderation and blocking, so everyone can build their silos as they choose.
*who will be, by an almost mathematical certainty, less extreme lefty.
I'm under the impression that they're terrible, but they've been too far removed for me to be bothered by them.
Also, and this is very, very funny, the Corinthians, a Brazilian soccer team from São Paulo state. It is supposed to be the team of the povão (working class people)
I was following her in Twitter and just now start following her here.
She just made interview loudly announcing the stupid bullshit that "The left moved too much to the left and now I'm in the right", the story that every grifter, like Dave Rubin, have started to receive money from conservatives / Russia.
Not being progressive is not ground for mass blocks.
My point was that Wu is doing exactly the same thing, and eventually, she will accept conservative's/Russian's money.
And is clear that conservatives ALWAYS hated ALL transgender people, they just regrouped and attacked when they were ready.