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I think Matty should come to Minneapolis and say that to our faces if he feels so certain in his convictions.

Don’t take a stand and hope people will vote for you. That’s already the establishment Dem strategy

The fact that people still platform Yglesis is mind-boggling. When are we going to learn to just switch them off?

matty poopy hands

Branding himself as a contrarian doesn’t make Yglesias look any less stupid.

The notion that you can earnestly tell a protest movement that they're "not politically helpful" and expect to be taken seriously is both bonkers AND a depressing illustration of how anemic American protest movements really are.

omg 💀⚰️🪦🧟‍♂️

A+

This is why dems lose.

Mid recognizes Mid, I’m afraid

Imagine how embarrassing it would be to be seen working really hard to solve problems. The party might never recover.

Yglesias has always been a centrist dipshit and he is always been a person who loves to be wishy washy in the extreme He and other pundits like him are the reason Dems messaging has been so pathetic Their strategy and positions are why the past ten years have been wasted in, don't go too extreme

that guy has never worked on a single campaign. I don’t think he’s ever even had a real job. The fact that anybody listens to this bullshit artist is baffling. The only thing he believes in is his career.

Yglesias is and always has been a fraud

Iglesias thinks politics is top down exertion of state power and anything that isn’t aimed at maximum top down exertion of state power is useless politics. It’s anti-democratic, stupid, false, and abhorrent.

only the brave are willing to speak truth to power and say “hold on a sec that might make some of my enemies upset”

The title "Slow Boring" is Matty is telling us he's a dullard.

this is both hilarious and giving me the feels. one of the people who organized me early on sent me and @jenancona.bsky.social that passage and said it was right up there in the single biggest things to know about this democracy business.

Also very curious to know if he interpreted slow boring as slow drilling or slow and uninteresting

too...er, boring

My theory is that he misread it as "slow, boring" and thought it was Weber's description of the perfect Substack/podcast hosting style.

I don't know what happened to Yglesias to transform him into this craven dishrag. Is it because he overestimated voter intelligence and decency in 2016?

Also what is this but not self censorship, a thing that I had to hear a lot about when it was conservative professors mad they couldn’t blame black people in class

why no, i don't have any evidence that this will help, but it fits my priors

How unfortunate that democratic voters are the only faction with free will and every one else gets to have natural reactions to changing conditions

Be realistic, demand the impossible, as the wall graffiti in Paris, May '68 said?

what is popularism if not crumbling when you imagine the world to be stupid or base

He'd be upset if he could read

I don't think its necessary to adopt the normative view attached to a term you are copying for your own project.

generous of you to even consider the possibility that yggy has read or cares about the original context. this is a guy who was explicitly told by his philosophy professor not to go into philosophy. in some nontrivial way christine korsgaard is to blame for the world having to deal with him

This is why I'm so pissy about data-obsessed twits who insist the public cannot be swayed on issues. If you SAY it is a problem they will move towards you! Trump did this constantly, the only reason liberals won't is cause of ideology and interest groups!

Not seeing a lot of “passion” in MattY’s arguments, either

That hero? Matt Yglesias

Him naming his blog after that phrase is pure double speak.

The people are yearning for leaders who believe in and will fight for nothing.

These people believe in nothing and he’s the nihilist in chief I think

Have a half baked metaphor between Matt and early baseball sabermetricians who ignored defense because it was harder to measure. Figuring out what affects winning the next election is easier than what changes public opinion over time, so maximize the former and pretend the latter doesn't exist.

Actually better to just assume you'll lose and prepare a totally immaculate concession speech Actually better to just take a lethal dose of sleeping pills while you're young and healthy so you look nice at your funeral

That sounds exactly like Chuck Schumer and the phony from Brooklyn who had secret meetings with Jared Kushner, doesn't it?

Cowardly centrist in the dictionary etc. Just a waste of words and air. Ignore any and everything this guy ever says and the fact that he gets paid for these stupid and oblivious bon mots shows how worthless punditry is.

This is what stupid is if we was to do this and keep silent they would go and run us over! Because he has no bottom line! There’s no way in hell we stop don’t ever be silent! You’ll be helping them if you are! That’s what they want you to do shut up and do what they want you to!

With a name like Yglesias you might expect him to have more empathy for the people being ripped from their families to be tossed into gulags.

I used to like Y even with that irritating voice, but no longer

Minnesota, get organized! go.bsky.app/67ZH9Hk

Nope. Time for good manners is over.

I think in this case the drill has been going into his brain

As a society we need to respect contrarianism way less than we do

contractor here. when you find a hard board, you likely found a nail plate. please do not continue to drill

yglesias chose the name because he is slow and boring.

It's just the stupidest theory of change. People look to their leaders to know what's important. If nobody raises a fuss about jack-booted thugs terrorizing people in the streets then they assume it's not important.

Or change the bit to one that's up to the job. Or both.

Just wait for the board to spin itself around the drill bit

The threshold for a valid protest with these people is set just before citizens need to organize a guerilla force to bomb train tracks and throw molotov cocktails off highway bridges...

he slipped on the drill and accidentally trepanned himself

Probably started out with the sensible idea that it's not a bad idea to emphasise your strengths; thought himself very smart; was rewarded financially by being contentious; painted himself into this corner.

I think this is a bit unfair and his point is more subtle. If winning is the not thing that matters that there is a good chance Matt is correct because it displaced news that was even worse for Trump. It is a fair theory of change.

Safer to take the side of the board for now, and maybe in 2028 drill some during the primary

And then when it comes time for people to elect a Hole Driller for the next two years, you expect them to be impressed with you.

It ain’t crazy, but it’s wrong, cowardly, and anti-democratic.

I hope this is sarcasm

I feel like folks are overlooking the most likely explanation which is yglesias is a dishonest grifter.