Oh no Matt all those Dems who gobble up your shit are going to find you gauche now! You aren't going to get invited to things anymore! No more easy reservations!
It’d be easier to assume you’re not just a sloppy dishonest hack if your “list of dumb shit I’m known for” had included the very obvious “dumbfuck Iraq war boosterism.” Alas!
I think you are the only person invested in this, and the people who are saying that probably care a lot more about the awful and moronic shit you believe in and how dishonestly you obfuscated all of it in your dumbass, self-pitying, thread.
Truly, it's just a little funny if you tried to defend yourself from an alt. It's more funny to refer to yourself in the 3rd person in a thread where you describe 1 billion americans as "thinking China's large population matters" and your whole point is that everyone normal agrees with you.
Hey, I it's pretty cool how everyone focusing on whether or not you used a sock puppet account is keeping them from focusing on the part of your recent WWII article where you lightly embrace race essentialism and try to separate it from the kind of racism that gets people put in camps. You can't)
It's really nice to know that despite your completely unearned life of comfort and privilege, you're still perpetually miserable and furious over nonsense.
i don't think you are making this any better. it could just be forgotten if you step back for a week or so. i would. but i also wouldn't make a sock-puppet and crash out when i'm caught. so who knows.
whether or not you truly are the owner of a sock puppet account, this is the center left version of all of us making up the couch fucker thing but with Vance getting mad and posting through it instead of mostly ignoring us
you've neglected to use alt text so I will do it for you
ALT TEXT: some of the most insane cope you've ever seen. he's got some stick figure art off of 4chan and... i dont' even know, tbh. man's brain is cooked
The fact that you are so raging mad about something this trivial and actually customized your own weird meme cartoon after ranting about it all day, is actually funnier than you allegedly using a sock puppet account. Online cooked your brain.
Dude. You are wildly invested in this. He posted under himself, bolstering himself as if he was not himself.
"Find the account or be forever silent" is not a thing. This isn't the Caine Mutiny & the key to the strawberry freezer. It's dweeby fuck who clearly thought he swapped accounts.
I find the absolutely shit poor epistemics that are mainstream on this website to be interesting.
Will you admit that not having an alternate account to point to is a point against it at the least? That's only one element of the many reasons to believe it wasn't an attempt at a sock puppet post.
empirically speaking, you are a financially successful self-promoter and have utterly failed at helping achieve any of your supposed political goals. presumably, the latter is not really the point of your efforts.
you are solely invested in "slow boring" politics on an aesthetic, or really, self-branding level. while you've chosen a clever tagline for selling your newsletter, you don't live up to your indefatigable self-hype.
Wait, you're "known for saying that obviously true things are true" and the best argument that you can come up with is "you haven't identified my sock puppet yet, so this obvious sock puppet behavior isn't sock puppet behavior?"
That's the kind of bad logic that overconfident mediocre dudes love!
No, for the guy who either sock puppets for himself or archly refers to himself in third person to praise himself. Honestly it might have been less embarrassing to admit the former.
The timeline of replies to the 3rd-person post is fascinating. It was made 24 hrs ago, so there are a handful of normal replies also made 24 hrs ago from people who understood the post in context, then the screenshot went viral about 6 hours ago, and the rest are just insane from that point on.
Most normal people don't know who Matt Yglesias is. Like they've maybe read his stuff but don't know who he is or even bother to remember the name when they do. Kind of why he needs sockpuppets or to say complimentary things about himself in the 3rd person
I'd assume a lot of normal people would be like "who the fuck is this 'Yglesias' dude? Did he do something notable?" And then move on with their life because they aren't chronically online.
I can certainly imagine someone thinking that referring to yourself in the third person is sock puppeting, I mean, depending what kind of drugs they’re on.
Hey so you’re labeled as transphobic so I know you’re dumb, but let me break it done for you: Matt referred to himself in the third person while giving himself compliments like a sycophant would.
really tempted to remake this meme but going the other way and the mental gymnastics are like 'matt yglesias isn't a dumbass' and 'he's a really smart and provocative thinker'. 'he wouldn't care what bluesky thinks'.
i just wanna say referring to yourself in the third person out of nowhere is much weirder than having a sockpuppet, a stupid but common thing, so idk what kinda defense this is man. but again, go with God or whatever
So you can't identify a sock puppet account in the 25 years of online shit he's been posting, but you don't like his writing? You people are dumb as maga
Why yes, Matt, I do believe you would spend this much time on the internet editing a meme, as we've already established you're already on here making sock puppets
"Thread" lol - it was two posts before the weird one.
And as soon as I see an explanation that makes that weird one make sense, taken as coming from yourself, we can start talking about which is the more "straightforward" explanation.
Sure, we all love to casually refer to ourselves in the third person like Dr Doom seconds before using his molecular decombrinator to blow up an orphanage. Very cool and normal and not at all freakshow behaviour, sir.
It’s incredible to see such a loser behave this way. I’m fully willing to assume that anyone who takes your opinion seriously is at least as big a loser as you are. Maybe if we get to 1 billion Americans three hundred million other losers might listen to you !
I sincerely cannot think of a less provocative, less trolly thinker than Yglesias whose whole thing is mostly just to insist that obviously true things are in fact true.
I find it so fun that you've never learned the lesson of "when you find yourself in a hole, stop digging".
I don't know if you had a sock puppet malfunction or you're so insufferable that you'd refer to yourself in the third person on purpose. Either is something to be ashamed of.
I am fully convinced that was on purpose. However, my colleges of the radical left aren't. Please keep posting your making an amazing argument. Your going to get through to them.
Isn't your whole deal politically is that the idea of you being a complete dipshit is more important than the material reality of the situation? Matty Y being a moron serves a greater good, thus must be true.
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Really just puckering up to lick that boot in advance, huh
IT'S ALL SLIPPING AWAY MATT, ALL OF IT
But you really don’t. You’re living proof that you can’t buy happiness.
Remember to update your Handel by the way
If I had a secret alt I would not call it David Quinn at oideachas media now would I
-Matthew Yglesias (but in a fake mustache and glasses over the existing mustache and glasses)
ALT TEXT: some of the most insane cope you've ever seen. he's got some stick figure art off of 4chan and... i dont' even know, tbh. man's brain is cooked
You have to admit it's far more likely he referred to himself in the 3rd person.
(Or did Matt Venmo you 10 bucks?)
"Find the account or be forever silent" is not a thing. This isn't the Caine Mutiny & the key to the strawberry freezer. It's dweeby fuck who clearly thought he swapped accounts.
Will you admit that not having an alternate account to point to is a point against it at the least? That's only one element of the many reasons to believe it wasn't an attempt at a sock puppet post.
This is absolutely not more likely lol
Me to my wife after I accidentally text her "hey babe come over, my wife isn't home":
Who is the alleged woman who you "caught" me cheating with? There isn't one.
2. How ego won't allow him to admit how pathetic he is
3. He thinks it drives traffic to his blog
I don’t know seems like a pretty simple chain of events to me.
That's the kind of bad logic that overconfident mediocre dudes love!
But his flailing is way more embarrassing
https://bsky.app/profile/seattletone.com/post/3lmpuuqhyjs2x
And by he I mean very likely you >_<
don’t stop here!
goofy meltdown
And as soon as I see an explanation that makes that weird one make sense, taken as coming from yourself, we can start talking about which is the more "straightforward" explanation.
...
(Cause a weird self-referential but unironic post being intentional ain't it!)
Gonna be cut by WB for a tax write-off the way he some Loney Tunes shit
THIS is somehow, although it defies Euclidian geometry and should not be possible, EVEN MORE PATHETIC than the initial sock-puppetry.
Who do you think you're convincing, or winning over? Just take the L.
It’s clear what you were doing.
Cumtown Liberalism
a few more skeets and he’ll have me convinced
https://bsky.app/profile/hendi35.bsky.social/post/3lmsyoagg5k2h
Now how about a post about land value tax?
The most efficient and fair form of taxation and with no deadweight loss. Solves the housing crisis by incentivising supply.
You’ll have people calling it a “garden tax” and somehow taking offence as an attack on private property.
I don't know if you had a sock puppet malfunction or you're so insufferable that you'd refer to yourself in the third person on purpose. Either is something to be ashamed of.
This is even more pathetic than sock-puppeting your own social feeds.