Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

A lot of dumb people were confidently predicting that this would somehow never happen because he made political contributions. https://t.co/jT5mZPPGa8 — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

@olgakhazan Never love my kid more than when he wants to race go-karts or less than when he wants to tell me about Minecraft. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jbarro I mean they are both definitely less entertaining than Top Gun: Maverick — part of the point is that critical acclaim used to give “difficult” films more of a box office lift (Schindler’s List is not very fun) even if it couldn’t propel them to mega-blockbuster status. — PolitiTweet.org

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Take the YIMBY pill — PolitiTweet.org

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Gotta persuade the Republican NRC commissioners that putting out a good rule for small modular reactors will own the libs while simultaneously convincing the Dems that it will own Elon Musk. — PolitiTweet.org

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I am interested in PRC-directed censorship of Twitter because @ShellenbergerMD, @mtaibbi, and @bariweiss have ably documented that control over this platform can be abused and misused in non-transparent ways and @elonmusk clearly feels he can’t tell Xi no. It seems bad! — PolitiTweet.org

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Great point from @bariweiss about why the PRC regime’s ability to silence @elonmusk is so troubling — what happens when they use the same leverage that’s already directed at him personally on the platform more broadly? https://t.co/MWfqrNP9PB — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @johnsemley3000: new jeanne dielman meme just dropped https://t.co/UydmefGjkM — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @glassmanamanda: To advance America’s strategic objectives around the world and rebuild our domestic industries will require that we urg… — PolitiTweet.org

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@bariweiss Has anything been done to alter or reduce that power, or is it just wielded now by Elon Musk and his collaborators? — PolitiTweet.org

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Like are we really that nostalgic for John From Cincinnati? https://t.co/f7vkxI3oPN — PolitiTweet.org

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Marking Entourage this low is the real woke mind virus https://t.co/Y6LOIzRevV — PolitiTweet.org

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Monster Hunter concert https://t.co/KvMOlDPR4D — PolitiTweet.org

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@petersuderman @MuseZack So many people with bad sound at home though… — PolitiTweet.org

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@MuseZack The good news is today’s TVs really are way better — home viewing doesn’t mean pan-and-scan or other disasters. But I do think most people are missing the undistracted nature of a theater where you actually need to look and listen at what’s happening instead of your phone. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MuseZack I think people have a somewhat narrow view of what constitutes a “big screen experience” that makes it basically impossible to market things that don’t have an action hook. — PolitiTweet.org

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If you accept the convention that this is currently the year 2022 you are implicitly endorsing the divinity of Jesus Christ and all of Christian theology but I refuse to let that mind virus dictate language to me. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JustinTLogan: Big "if," but still: "If [Kishida] succeeds, Japan in five years likely would have the world’s third-largest defense bud… — PolitiTweet.org

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@jbarro @Wertwhile Delaware Chancery Court saved the world from Woke Mind Virus — PolitiTweet.org

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That’s also obviously going to get you a narrow count of nepotism — I never worked at the same place as my mom or dad but did work briefly at a company my grandfather founded and where two of my uncles worked. — PolitiTweet.org

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29 percent of Americans work for their parent’s employer at least once before turning thirty — PolitiTweet.org

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Yes! It should be possible to have even very heated disagreements without smearing everyone you dislike. — PolitiTweet.org

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This sucks … studios will adapt by doing more prestige TV and direct-to-streaming movies but the economics won't support the same level of expense and ambition. — PolitiTweet.org

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But even if you really really really really hate liberals — no matter how much you hate masks or singular they/them pronouns or whatever else — it's a problem to have "the global town square" run by a man who prioritizes Xi Jinping's good will and conservatives should admit it. — PolitiTweet.org

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All of which is just to say that criticizing the Chinese government is a thing that I, like many people, do from time to time. @elonmusk never does it because doing so would threaten his business interests. It's totally clear and understandable. https://t.co/MWfqrNP9PB — PolitiTweet.org

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Here's a post pushing back against anti-anti-China warnings of "a new Cold War." https://t.co/YBDLp6yAQS — PolitiTweet.org

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Here's a post about how while anti-Asian racism is bad, it is also bad to construe all efforts to criticize the PRC government as manifestations of racism. https://t.co/qA4NexdYYP — PolitiTweet.org

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Here's a post about why Trump was right to try to ban TikTok and the US government should make a more vigorous effort to implement that idea. https://t.co/qfHHozaqFX — PolitiTweet.org

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But in addition to my book, you could read my newsletter available at https://t.co/L7tFxvpD9T where I comment on this and other issues and (unlike twitter) do not delete my posts. — PolitiTweet.org

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If you think I've never criticized China except to opportunistically criticize @elonmusk then I'd really recommend you buy and read my book. Musk himself, a legendary pro-natalist, would probably like it too if he were allowed to criticize the PRC. — PolitiTweet.org