Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

@lastpositivist @cafreiman My real citation is office gossip, but I think a tell is this passage in Law of People's where he calls immigration a "problem" (🤔) that he doesn't discuss because in a just world there wouldn't be any immigration so there is no need for a treatment of just migration policy. https://t.co/1JsEutqUWC — PolitiTweet.org

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@lastpositivist @cafreiman I think Rawls also had a very pessimistic view of the impact of immigration on the receiving country and was very keen to avoid the conclusion that rich countries have an obligation to allow more migrants from poor countries. — PolitiTweet.org

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Can Russia reasonably expect to be as well-treated in a Chinese-dominated Sino-Russian alliance as resource-rich places like Canada, Norway, and Australia are in the democratic/western bloc? I would not take that bet. — PolitiTweet.org

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An underrated “realist” take on Russia-Ukraine is that it’s *Russia* that needs to take a more realistic assessment of where things stand and where its core interests lie and halt a disastrous course of action that’s at best going to make them an adjunct to China. — PolitiTweet.org

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Rick Scott: Okay but what if we just have it all sunset in five years? https://t.co/tLp9Llr2xh — PolitiTweet.org

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The Square Deal (TR), New Deal (FDR), and Fair Deal (Truman) were all intended as metaphors about playing cards not as metaphors about a social bargain. — PolitiTweet.org

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Given the Malthusian logic of premodern economies, outside of wintertime the living standards should be highest in the North because so many people die off during the cold years while Dorne exists at bare subsistence all the time. — PolitiTweet.org

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@nbeaudrot Yeah I can buy that. At any rate, it’s why I now ask professors privately if they think there’s a practical problem with their pedagogy. There’s always something dumb happening, but I do want to know if people feel they can do their jobs responsibly. — PolitiTweet.org

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@nbeaudrot My recollection of when I was in college was that almost nobody cared about politics. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mattyglesias: @Blooming_Burbs No but I also took a taxi and the driver told me he thinks this abortion stuff is bad for Republicans. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Blooming_Burbs No but I also took a taxi and the driver told me he thinks this abortion stuff is bad for Republicans. — PolitiTweet.org

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I asked a young college professor yesterday if he thinks there’s merit to these complaints about *cancel culture* negatively impacting universities and his answer started with “off the record—” — PolitiTweet.org

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@SpecialPuppy1 Well except he’s created this succession crisis… — PolitiTweet.org

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But with our modern sensibilities we naturally root for Rhaenyra against the sexist opposition to her — and good for us we’re so enlightened. It would land better, though, if we saw her taking an interest in governance and correcting her father’s flaws. — PolitiTweet.org

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Viserys is I think the most interesting part of the show, a portrayal of someone who’s a bad king without being an ~~evil villain~~ type like you’d normally see on TV — he’s just not making sharp, savvy decisions and he’s going to lead the kingdom to some bad outcomes. — PolitiTweet.org

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@evanmarckatz @bendreyfuss Your next book should be on how to attract a quality television network and get it to commit. — PolitiTweet.org

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I feel like structurally HOTD needs us to be rooting for Rhaenyra to become Queen, but the show also doesn’t give us any indication that she’d be good at it or that the stakes in this are important. So you’re left with what’s almost an artsy character study — but with dragons. — PolitiTweet.org

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@EverydayWarren However big the pretzels they eat in Germany are, I think it’s our obligation as Americans to start eating pretzels that are much larger. — PolitiTweet.org

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One of the greats — PolitiTweet.org

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@legiones_redde @asymmetricinfo What policy specifically do you think they should change? — PolitiTweet.org

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@jdcmedlock Yes though if you plan on subsisting on an all-maize diet it’s better to switch to pupusas so you don’t get pelagra. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Owen_Grif I’m no expert, but I like Mosaico over by Union Market and Chicken & Whiskey by my house. — PolitiTweet.org

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All this trolling of the libs is making me want some arepas and I’m glad to have a place to get some in the neighborhood. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Last1OfTheBest Well then I disagree with you — PolitiTweet.org

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What we should have is a system of well-organized legal immigration at high volumes, not chaotic arrivals and a lot of post hoc judicial determinations — the status quo is bad. — PolitiTweet.org

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I genuinely sympathize with the view that the asylum system has become unworkable and needs to be dramatically altered, but the notion that libs are only pro-immigration because we have no experience with living near immigrants and will run in terror from them is bizarre. — PolitiTweet.org

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@robinsonmeyer I mean isn’t this what venture capital is for? Unproven technologies? Solar & wind are good enough now that you finance projects with boring loans from boring banks. — PolitiTweet.org

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Big Tech cannot possibly compete with this level of cringe — PolitiTweet.org

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This is really banal but one reason Trump attracts a lot of hostile media coverage — sometimes even undeserved hostile media coverage — is that his team lies constantly in a way that erodes their credibility. Traditionally spokespeople have tried to avoid this dynamic. — PolitiTweet.org

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The murder rate is (probably) falling a bit in 2022 after the large rise in 2020 and a small rise 2021. https://t.co/NK4iQBLas4 — PolitiTweet.org