Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

RT @MattGlassman312: This article was fun to read and ponder, probably because it confirms every stereotype I have of Switzerland, but also… — PolitiTweet.org

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Notably people say they have the most confidence in local news outlets even as in practice they migrate to the national coverage that they say they distrust. https://t.co/Gf78tuWmPa — PolitiTweet.org

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The people who think “the media” has been shamefully soft on rightwing violence and the people who think “the media” has been shamefully soft on Hunter Biden have both gotten their information on these subjects from media outlets, they’re not directly observing the noumenon. — PolitiTweet.org

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Yes it does. Thanks to the internet the media landscape has become much more competitive so everyone is constantly consuming the message “‘the media’ is bad, pay attention to my media outlet instead.” — PolitiTweet.org

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I think people apply very naive frames to these “trust in media” questions. The key point IMO is that each individual media outlet has very strong incentives to portray “the media” as untrustworthy and to highlight bad work from competitors. https://t.co/bDny0nSjzp — PolitiTweet.org

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@rortybomb @nick_bunker Job numbers, jobs report. — PolitiTweet.org

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Things are just better in Switzerland! https://t.co/oiPPvNSdBS — PolitiTweet.org

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Guy who’s so suspicious of cozy relationships between western intelligence services and the mainstream media that he mainlines Russian propaganda to get the real truth. — PolitiTweet.org

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@lionel_trolling How does the bar/caffe fit into this? — PolitiTweet.org

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Cactus https://t.co/pT7hkChWUv — PolitiTweet.org

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@robchappell365 Thank you for your service — PolitiTweet.org

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I changed my AC filters last week — this is what dads were put on this earth to do. — PolitiTweet.org

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The plan to defeat Trump by attacking the FBI on his behalf to help him secure impunity for crimes marches on. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ModeledBehavior We need to raise interest rates to make a weak labor market so people are just glad to have a steady job. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @WesleyLowery: the extent to which Denzel Washington has devoted this season of his public life to advancing August Wilson's legacy is t… — PolitiTweet.org

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@DeanBaker13 From where I sit all anyone every talks about is how much they hate the media ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ — PolitiTweet.org

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@DeanBaker13 But that’s what I’m saying — the people who pay for custodial services genuinely care whether or not t… https://t.co/XRbYszc8QR — PolitiTweet.org

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Conservatives were trying to claim Switzerland as their great free market success story, but they have most of the main features of a European welfare state that American progressives praise and conservatives hate (it sounds nice). https://t.co/oiPPvNSdBS https://t.co/ChfTurPVq0 — PolitiTweet.org

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They have these unique political institutions that seem to work really well. But are they actually good institutions or do they just work well because the voters and politicians are sensible? https://t.co/oiPPvNSdBS https://t.co/022pucEYVo — PolitiTweet.org

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Swiss prosperity is also very longstanding — dating to the 1870s — so it can’t really be explained by any peculiarities of recent history. It was richer than all is neighbors way before the Cold War. https://t.co/oiPPvNSdBS https://t.co/Bb4vST8TI3 — PolitiTweet.org

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A lot of Swiss success seems to come down to things just being really well-run. They have one of the most-used train networks in the world, but their trains aren’t particularly advanced technology the network is just very reliable and well-organized. https://t.co/oiPPvNSdBS https://t.co/UvKnlVPPuL — PolitiTweet.org

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So for starters, Switzerland is doing really well — a lot richer than other European countries (sanity checked with the big houses) with sustainable energy. Racist Twitter was telling me this is because they don’t have immigrants but they have tons. https://t.co/oiPPvNSdBS https://t.co/qsnBGlfX4L — PolitiTweet.org

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People don’t like to write about things that don’t have pat, obvious explanations but I think Switzerland’s overall success is a bit mysterious and tells us something about the difficulty of specifying exactly what makes institutions work well. https://t.co/oiPPvNSdBS — PolitiTweet.org

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My theory of why the LHC project works well is that it’s in Switzerland and for slightly mysterious reasons everything works well in Switzerland. — PolitiTweet.org

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Russia having a hard time making further advances in Donbass because so many soldiers are dying. https://t.co/UF9evdtJRe — PolitiTweet.org

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EU rather than US focus to this story but the issue is largely the same — at current margins the economics of wind are favorable but permitting slows growth markedly. https://t.co/O2R1mJPSs5 https://t.co/IjnV4C4m6u — PolitiTweet.org

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Everyone goes on and on about why does The Media run bad articles sometimes, but when you think about the objective incentive structure it's a minor miracle that accurate articles ever run on any subject — and yet it happens all the time. — PolitiTweet.org

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@aaronsibarium @michaelbd @kdrum Right neither do I. — PolitiTweet.org

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We need to defund wingnut welfare sinecures and get guys like Walker out waiting tables. — PolitiTweet.org

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@michaelbd @kdrum That caused women to become more liberal while men stayed the same? — PolitiTweet.org