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Ugh. He's just a genuinely loathsome person. Could be doing anything and he spends his days scooping up the yucky from the outhouse, rubbing it on himself, and running up to people screaming "love me!"

An idea: if we don't want government loaning people money for education, we should cut out the middle man and publicly fund it. 🤷🏼‍♂️

The guy funding this legislation

Jesus Christ I’m sick of that guy. Utterly worthless and without redeeming qualities, a bundle of neurotic fear of social sanction and smug self-satisfaction.

"Cosmetology" basically saved the lives of many thousands of Vietnamese refugees.

Look at Matts PFP, does that look like a man that knows or cares about the price of a haircut?

True

I mean, we certainly don't need any more social workers and teaching aids, and art is something you can always work on as a side gig, amiright.

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He majored in philosophy

Maybe what we should do instead is make it illegal to loan shark 18-year-olds.

He’s one I stopped paying attention to ages ago

He also opposed training for barbers on some bullshit libertarian grounds, iirc. He’s such a font of bad takes, the one time in 1000 when I agree with him is always shocking

Schrödinger’s pundit. You don’t know what he actually believes until you subscribe to his substack. Or you know the secret 3rd level: he doesn’t believe anything

makes money by doing both

I should all get into the habit of including the date stamps when we screenshot posts.

But yes, Matty is a troll. He's a rich, privileged Jewish man trolling the Gentiles, and he is promoted by even richer jackasses. A mediocre H. L. Mencken for a neoliberal age.

Here's a better idea: imvest in education for all Americans who want one—like we used to do, before conservatives realized critical thinking would be devastating to their political prospects

wtf? cosmetology is one of the most lucrative degrees/certificates you can get depending on your skill set why are we pooh poohing vocational school, which has the highest ROI right now?

absolute prick behavior. wtf.

"Make-up artist says Cosmetology degree is worthless."

*erects motte* *retreats to bailey*

Bald, beard man have man view. Man view strong. Man view okay because Obama man and Obama share man view. Man view say play clarinet bad investment. But if want to play clarinet, man view say okay now, just not hair cut person, who probably liberal and maybe even not white.

He pretends to be an economist and he has never taken a class on economics.

I'm happy to say I blocked him well over a year ago.

He’s a fighter, not a lover

I don't understand how someone so tedious could be successful at that job

Matt's take is correct. Here is an exhaustively researched report on abuses in the cosmetology industry. www.newamerica.org/insights/cut...

His career as a pundit should have ended the second he uncritically endorsed the race science work of an adjudicated defender of pedophilia

Being a social media provocateur is many people’s business now. Not show how that’s supposed to ‘save Western Civilization’ 🤣

As a charter & continuing subscriber to Yglesias's Substack, I find his trolly social-media posts maddening: His essays are really smart & provocative & well researched, but those occasional posts make everyone here dismiss him, and it's not unjustified!

Dopamine is a powerful drug.

Everybody's gotta make a living, I guess

He’s running the same play Andrew Sullivan did in his blogging days: say horrific shit to the mostly liberal audience who pays your bills, they all go “Hey man, love you but maybe rethink that one,” next day he says different horrific shit

I will never understand how he was still able to get meetings with influential Dems after that. They hadn't even moved those poor kids out of the school when he said that

i think i specifically said “the fuck is wrong with you?”

He’s the 21st century’s David Brooks

I mean absolutely no disrespect to you when I say that Matty Glesias has NEVER been worth responding to.

This is the substack business model

It’s sad. “One Billion Americans” was a good book, but I guess it didn’t do well enough and his strategy changed.

bing-bong!

He's a troll in the classic internet forum sense, and I don't know why more people don't see that.

Always has been

I was there one year ago. Just block him.

dam,,, nobody wants to learn about the universe anymore

I wonder if this is accurate for 2026

Always been curious where Vetrinary Assistant's end up? Seems like more and more that job is requiring some post secondary education, and from what I know seems to pay horribly due to so many wanting to do it.

I guess I'm generalizing from my friends who were hair stylists in LA, all of whom made more nominal $$s in a year back in the 90s than I ever have.

So maybe Frenchy really was right all along. youtu.be/FUMAcjz0kiE?...

What?

yggy has a decades long obsession about cosmetologist licensing for some reason

The only person capable of having a productive conversation with Matt is Brian Beutler

Exactly

He clearly gets off from being told he sucks more than a vacuum and that's he's dumber than calcified shit. I feel like being told he's boring would get under his skin

Professional Rage baiter and Internet Influencer are new occupations that replace real-life work like teachers, firemen, nurses, etc. All you need is a computer, a microphone, and people who lack common sense and the ability to reason outside of their personal bubble.

I remember when tax rates were based on "how much tax revenue do we need in order to pay for the things that we think are important", not "taxes are theft, we should eliminate them".

Teaching assistants like paraprofessionals who make it possible for disabled children to attend school? What an absolute ass.

Maybe they should look at why post secondary education in America is class level capped

It’s mostly SHUT UP!!! About your PRECIOUS degrees!

Between this and cutting state university support to the bone it seems various levels of gov’t are purposely eliminating the option of an education where people get a grounding in critical thinking. I have a good paying IT job. My degree is in political science. 😛

he has a degree in philosophy!

You don't need a college degree to be a teacher in AZ, thanks to former Gov. Doug Ducey.

Is he trying to look like Andrew Sullivan?

Doin' the troll 2-step

Is he mad because he doesn't need a hairstylist?

It's not worth fighting with him about, but it seems like cosmetologists might have a gulf between reported income and actual income (in what is obviously a tips-based business), the kind of thing that might interest him. But that assumes good faith on his part, which is its own mistake.

So this explains the crisis in cosmetology

Flings sexism all over the place. "Don't worry it's just dumb jobs that mostly dumb girls do."

Matt should know that in many states, cosmetology education is required for a license (in California, you must complete 1,000 hours of training at a Board-approved school, 1,200 hours in Florida). daytonacollege.edu/blog/how-to-...

It's like he knows what he's doing

Who would ever want to see what trolls and bots post on Musk's Nazi Twitter?

Possibly the most thoroughly stewed brain on twitter.

no fair, this is *my* strategy

As someone who learned to code, I can say this is bad. Fuckin DOGE, man

"Predatory loans" is putting it mildly; some of the schools were engaged in out-and-out student loan fraud.

It'd mostly punish for-profit schools giving out dubious loans, but the worry I'd have aside from that is the 4 year window makes some degrees at accessible, not-selective schools not viable if they are in fields primarily designed to lead to more school.

guy who spent the 2000s and 2010s telling everyone of the wonders of the service economy for low income workers: stop getting certs that allow entry into the service economy

My major is completely unrelated to my work and I imagine this is the case for a lot of folks.

... it's way worse than these posts suggest. These are load-bearing jobs for society. (Unfortunately I do not know the source of this, i got it from discord)

Simone Giertz is an actual genius

Yglesias is a common ivy league alum L Fwiw im so glad we all stopped conflating those nepotistic daycare centers with intellect

Im sorry did he just call my 35 year career shitty? I don't think i need to consume this much rage before breakfast

Textbook, “I know which majors are worth the investment” behavior. I’m in finance working alongside art history, English, psychology, and many other humanities’ majors who can pay off their loans and more. (And who, btw, are EXCELLENT at their jobs!!)

Matty still mad he's not a college prof like dad. nepo-failson (i.e., couldn't hack it in dad's profession but still benefitted from it).

Dalton? Rich little douche.

Another member of the Epstein class

Also: Effin’ Dalton! Tuition over $70K/year!

Dumb fascist has dumb fascist opinions.

I used to like Yglesias.

I'm being harassed by the federal government because they decided my student loan repayment plan is illegal now. I have a liberal arts degree. I went to a state school, not a private college. I am gainfully employed in my field.

My daughter studied with Greg Miller at University of Maryland. Early years were very painful on the ears, but she was eventually good enough to attend a performing arts high school and get a music scholarship to Maryland. Saved me a ton of money.👍

Said another way, I turned that collegiate experience into a successful career in the food industry. Who would have predicted?

He's just rage baiting, and enjoying it. I blocked him long ago.

In civilized countries, there are no student loans because higher education is free.

I wonder when's the last time Yglesias' had his hair trimmed.