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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

"politics is hard and boring" --max weber, probably

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

he got antiwoke pilled

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.