Matthew Yglesias

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RT @kdrum: Gödel explained https://t.co/05JVkS8wkm https://t.co/NvMEPLAOw0 — PolitiTweet.org

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@SamAdlerBell Anyone reading this to say that teen bullying behavior is brand new is clearly wrong, but I think it's insightful to see that classic bullying dynamics have been repurposed with a social justice gloss in a way that is fairly different. — PolitiTweet.org

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She's a ten but she thinks before building stuff we need more input from the community and to respect the existing character of the neighborhood. — PolitiTweet.org

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@RyanDEnos I agree! But I think the method used there to try to distinguish between anti-Black sentiment and ideological concepts of group ascription in general is really promising and I'd love to see some more runs at it. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @StrongTowns: If you don't want tent cities in your downtown, then legalize housing options like single-room occupancies again. https://… — PolitiTweet.org

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This is very cool ... would love to see this project nationally — PolitiTweet.org

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And as a procedural matter it seems fair enough to object to other people making up names for your project. But then it would be useful for the proponents to come up with a name for themselves so we could stop going around in annoying circles. — PolitiTweet.org

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Because a name would so clearly be convenient, lots of people have tried to make up names — that's @wesyang's Successor Ideology or many people talk about "wokeness" or whatever, but all of those names tend to generate strident objections. — PolitiTweet.org

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That's inconvenient, because it would be easier to discuss the movement for a left-of-liberalism approach to racial justice issues if we had a name for it, much as we have the word "socialism" for left-of-liberal economics. — PolitiTweet.org

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This 2021 report from the Roosevelt Institute called explicitly for an ideological program that would be distinct from — and hostile to — the "racial liberalism" of Barack Obama but didn't propose a name for the new ideology it wants instead. https://t.co/pb02bxkRC2 https://t.co/o3mCn9NQW8 — PolitiTweet.org

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@robertwiblin otoh if we agglomerated all the world's parkland into a single giant park, that would probably be better for nature preservation — PolitiTweet.org

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@RyanDEnos There's a good working paper co-authored by Ryan Enos that speaks to this! — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @zackbeauchamp: What happened to the Moss family was not a one-off. Threats against ordinary public servants, especially workers, spiked… — PolitiTweet.org

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@BradWilcoxIFS @CAKitchener Not sure this particular story is that's going to bring liberals to your side 😂 But it's a good point about benefit-design — PolitiTweet.org

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@EricLevitz It's called accountability — PolitiTweet.org

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@xenocryptsite This is the key thing even many people in the industry don’t understand … if the episode doesn’t seem boring to an attentive listener, you’ve missed the mark! — PolitiTweet.org

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https://t.co/vAPL0ABLHI — PolitiTweet.org

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Big if true — PolitiTweet.org

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@Noahpinion To be fair they were claiming this about ancient people — everyone agrees there was blue 200 years ago https://t.co/Pg4N04XEef — PolitiTweet.org

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@MarcGoldwein @jasonfurman @IrvingSwisher People would hate it but the right policy is a permanent increase in the gas tax paired with temporary production subsidies. — PolitiTweet.org

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@pbump The Republican pollsters were wrong, too! It’s a difficult methodological problem. — PolitiTweet.org

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It seems like a lot of pollster saw the big 2020 error and just figured “fuck it, I won’t change anything.” — PolitiTweet.org

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They should have done that — PolitiTweet.org

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Just don’t let your kids watch the original! https://t.co/0X2BO2LFPz — PolitiTweet.org

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Counterpoint: This guy tells me it’s *only* gay representation that’s objectionable. https://t.co/8MsonXw8GK — PolitiTweet.org

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“Give your summer blockbuster charismatic movie stars, amazing effects, a couple of good jokes, a couple of good thrills, and people with a lot of different political views will have fun and go see it” seems like time-honored advice that happens to be hard to execute. — PolitiTweet.org

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Imagine a world in which the visual effects are bad instead of fantastic and as a result the movie is a critical and commercial failure instead of a big success. Wouldn’t there be a lot of stuff about how Top Gun went woke with its diversity and lady pilots and unnamed enemy? — PolitiTweet.org

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I think the people who find Top Gun to be refreshingly non-woke are misleading themselves about how annoyingly woke they would have found the movie if it wasn’t as good or as commercially successful. https://t.co/ohE99jOZfu — PolitiTweet.org

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@BenjySarlin Yes he saw early on with Jeff Sessions that support based on sincere ideological alignment doesn’t do the right kind of work, because his own attachment to the ideology is not sincere. — PolitiTweet.org

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@binarybits I agree! Though it would be funny to imagine the contemporary right actually praising American higher education as the successful model they want to copy. — PolitiTweet.org