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Last Checked Sept. 28, 2022

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Mon Oct 04 19:01:11 +0000 2021

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

For example, I have controversial and extreme views on zoning and land use. I spend a lot of time trying to convince people that those views are correct. But I also try *not* to inject these ideas into high-profile partisan conflict, which I think would be unproductive. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Oct. 4, 2021 Hibernated

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

This is a stance I often see people take up, but honestly I don't think anyone truly means it. As a citizen you need to decide which candidates to support, which marches to join, which causes to urge politicians to prioritize, and the politics is relevant to all of that. — PolitiTweet.org

Liam Bright @lastpositivist

I don't like it when political intelligentsia render themselves unpaid political strategists for a party. We should… https://t.co/rS1PSsnjSN

Posted Oct. 4, 2021 Hibernated

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

@Nate_Cohn I don’t think it should either. What I do think is that young, city-dwelling, college educated staffers in progressives politics could usefully use “how would this sound to a 55 year-old working class white woman in Grand Rapids” as a quick gutcheck to correct biases. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Oct. 4, 2021 Hibernated

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