Dude, who even knows.
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Matt Yglesias talking about guns and gun control again, reflecting that he is in fact a native New Yorker with personal experience of the city being better at the end than the start of the Giuliani era, attributing a lot of that to what Bloomberg distilled in “Stop & Frisk”: if people face a reasonable chance of being personally searched for guns when they leave the house, they will stop carrying guns in public
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I appreciate Matt Yglesias’ Letterboxd reviews because as the son of a produced feature screenwriter he brings fairly good insight on both the “what filmmakers are trying to do” and “how filmmaking affects the product” angles
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I like how not just do cocaine and “the geriatric spice, melange” both have recurring roles in Matt Yglesias’ oeuvre, they’re kind of the same one
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MattY is a snake with an excellent nose for which way the wind is blowing so seeing him piss on woke shit is great but seeing an over titled tool bien pensant like Stanley come out against it is just chef’s kiss.
Framed as “wait… have we been digging our own grave here?” but yeah, good stuff
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Honestly its good there are still people struggling against the culture turn, still trying to insist harder on the 2010s, they’re gonna be a source of cheap wins to elevate the next wave
Matt Yglesias, by contrast, who’s already made it, is baiting everyone annoying to tie together the positions of COVID cowering and “detractor of Matt Yglesias”, so when politicians with a clue about politics are forced to jettison the former constituency the latter is wiped from any relevance too
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Haters be like “all Matt Yglesias has going for him is a fine nose for shifts in the discourse that he’s always getting out in front of” in the course of drawing attention to how he’s recently shifted against them as part of building their own brands, and it’s like, did you really think this through?
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Not enough attention paid to the fact that the Passionate Leftist critique of Matt Yglesias (that he’s a cynical opportunist who moves into and out of scenes and positions as their popularity waxes and wanes) and the Professional Progressive one (that he needs to “read the room” better) are directly opposed
My take is as the third generation of a writing dynasty that came out of midcentury NYC Communism he does, in fact, have a good sense of how to usefully advance his positions and interests by tailoring his efforts to the shifting correlation of forces in the discursive realm. That the Passionate Leftists are onto something, he is reading the room, and the Professional Progressives have just noticed him moving away from their consensus on that basis.
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The Most Important Rule Of Surviving A Political Sex Scandal Is: Don’t Resign! – ThinkProgress →
Someone should bring up Matt Yglesias’ old “in a scandal, just make it clear you won’t resign and the party you’re lashed to will have to back you up” strategy
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Donald Trump and the Jews, explained - Vox →
When Vox formed I was like “well at least Klein is climbing the value ladder, fuck knows what Yglesias is up to”
But by not lashing himself to the brand and wielding his legacy he still gets to write explainers that are like “here’s how something now prominent ‘out of nowhere’ actually connects with many factors you might or should be aware of”
And not like “here’s how it proves your preconceptions were right all along”
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