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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
New York City is an unusually well-policed place, but in the aggregate Italy spends more on police as a share of GDP than the United States. https://t.co/Zs7N95KajF https://t.co/E4COO5jgeh — PolitiTweet.org
Marco Chitti @ChittiMarco
I just discovered that the NYPD budget is $10.9 bn for a 8.5 million city. So I went to see how it compares and th… https://t.co/5K30bw6mgB
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
(a) The Enlightenment is good, actually. (b) The effort to create a pan-antiliberal is riven with contradictions as this critique could be leveled against Benedict XVI and all kinds of other Catholic figures. — PolitiTweet.org
Yoram Hazony @yhazony
Locke never had children. Neither did Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, or Kant. Rousseau had children but gave them all… https://t.co/rWTaqM9aC8
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
@lymanstoneky Absolutely, it just shows that the specific policy mix in New York City (very strict gun laws, lots of cops enforcing the gun laws) works well. Every city should be so lucky. — PolitiTweet.org
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
@Jimmcnary @lkmcgann No. — PolitiTweet.org
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
@OsitaNwanevu Gotta do a Virgin Kant vs Chad Adam Smith meme. — PolitiTweet.org
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
@mikekofoed @jenniferdoleac @bradfowd1 But has state spending on higher education actually declined, or has it just declined *as a share of revenue* because aggregate spending has risen? — PolitiTweet.org
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
@OsitaNwanevu This is how it should be! The enlightenment was and always has been a left project and the point of the right is to cancel it in favor of religious obscurantism and inherited privilege. — PolitiTweet.org
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
I've never looked into the illusory truth effect literature in any detail but I've heard it summarized enough times that I believe it's true. — PolitiTweet.org
Ethan Mollick @emollick
Paper showing it works after just five repetitions for obviously false statements (“George Washington was born in C… https://t.co/nMIjeE1OEY
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
On some level this is Bernie's strength — the point of politics is to get lots of people to support you even if they don't fully align with you. But there's a remarkable level of dissonance in this particular dynamic. — PolitiTweet.org
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
The contrast between Bernie Sanders' politics and the trajectory of the stars of Bernie Twitter is really something. https://t.co/y49SS4O0nk — PolitiTweet.org
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
@Ed_Realist @MattZeitlin DCPS absolutely did not kill it. https://t.co/dqk95HZJTQ — PolitiTweet.org
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
Love to see new fixed investment hard at work to alleviate society’s supply side problems — only wish it were taller. https://t.co/Ss5fyEqLAj — PolitiTweet.org
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
If Biden does as well as Lula in 2024 he’ll very likely lose the Electoral College as Republicans pick up 3-6 senate seats. https://t.co/tSYODPNmfu — PolitiTweet.org
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
RT @joshtpm: Anti-Semitic pro-Laxalt account was run by a guy on Laxalt's payroll. — PolitiTweet.org
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
I’ve been on here forever — I know that @TheStalwart genuinely is Joe Wiesenthal from Bloomberg and host of the Odd Lots podcast. But it’s confusing to new users that you can’t tell who’s real and who’s fake. That’s the problem to solve, ideally without killing pseudonymity. — PolitiTweet.org
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
Charging power users for features that most people don’t need or want makes perfect sense. But verification isn’t a power user feature, it’s a terrible implementation of what’s supposed to be a feature for the everyday user. It should help newbies figure out what’s going on. — PolitiTweet.org
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
But Twitter never made this work and the partial rollout instead turned it into this weird fake class system which in turn has been manipulated by idiots who are trying to drive other people’s resentments. And now the idea that you should pay for the privilege. — PolitiTweet.org
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
It’s confusing not to know if some account labeled @DavidSacks is David Sacks the prominent VC and GOP fundraiser or some other guy named David Sacks or just someone pulling a prank. That’s a service to the audience, not to the verified person as such. — PolitiTweet.org
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
No matter how obscure you are there should be a way to convey to the world — if you want to — that this is your real name and your real professional affiliation etc. Because that is a service to the people who are reading the tweets. — PolitiTweet.org
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
Verification should be — and was supposed to be — a system for helping people know that an account that purports to be someone is in fact that person. They started verification by rolling out to the biggest accounts. But it should have gone universal. — PolitiTweet.org
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
Pseudonymous writing has a long and distinguished history. There are also lots of genuinely funny parody or joke accounts. But there’s also an obvious problem — people like to know who they are reading and don’t like to be deceived by fakers. — PolitiTweet.org
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
A thread on charging for verification — a bad idea that would make a bad system worse. Start with what verification is supposed to be. What is the job to be done? Twitter, unlike Facebook, doesn’t require the use of real names. That has real advantages. — PolitiTweet.org
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
@Neoavatara I’m going to pull rank and say that I have privileged access to subjective information about my own ideas. Gonna mute this now and deal with the need to need to go block a bunch of unpleasant people brought onto my timeline by your dunk but c’est la vie. — PolitiTweet.org
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
Raimondo has the right enemies 😎 https://t.co/iBIdnuWQan — PolitiTweet.org
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
@Neoavatara Sincerely asking you to purge your mind of your false beliefs about what you think I am saying. Relax. Stretch. Calm yourself. Resist the urge to dunk. Breathe. Open your eyes and read again the words on the page — not the words you think are there. — PolitiTweet.org
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
@Neoavatara I would encourage you to take a deep breath. Pause. Close your eyes. Breath again. Cleanse your mind of preconceptions. Then re-read the exact specific words that I wrote — all of the words that I wrote but no extra words that I didn’t write. And consider what they say. — PolitiTweet.org
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
I know it goes against the temper of our times, but the idea that international diplomacy should be conducted in public on Twitter with full real-time transparency doesn’t make any sense. — PolitiTweet.org
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
Twitter Discourse seems primarily focused on debating a hypothetical reality in which the US is providing a total blank check to Ukraine. Reality is public statements have been super-supportive (as they should be) with tensions kept backstage (as they should be). — PolitiTweet.org
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
@balajis To be fair, AG Sulzberger was born in 1981 and was not heavily involved in USSR coverage in the 1930s. — PolitiTweet.org
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
Heavy digital media use is associated with depression and loneliness among teens in all kinds of families, though an obvious question about the directing of causation here. https://t.co/pA8roRzxys https://t.co/NxUT0YetLD — PolitiTweet.org
