Favorite Rejects 2021-10-13

California YIMBY @cayimby

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Isn’t this what every chain does with its private label brands? I never understand this line of criticism.

Brad Heath @bradheath

Internal Amazon documents examined by @Reuters – including emails, strategy papers and business plans – show the company ran a systematic campaign of creating knockoffs and manipulating search results to boost its own product lines in India. https://t.co/Brc98p6IHo https://t.co/KlMJW5Kq5K

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

My top 5 sci-fi novels: A Deepness in the Sky Oryx and Crake Mirror Dance Hyperion 1984

Adam J Calhoun @neuroecology

forget Meyers-Briggs, the real personality type is your favorite sci-fi novel https://t.co/1DQyWOXcQE

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

Longer list:

noahpinion.substack.comMy sci-fi novel recommendationsYou asked, and so you shall receive!

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

A good indication of the total lack of intellectual rigor in this movement is that we just shift here from a debate about police funding levels to a basically unrelated question about incarceration levels.

Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec

@mattyglesias First, the "pet cause" here is the greatest mass human caging bureaucracy in world history. Second, the analogy applies to any other movement that wasn't successful/popular in the first 12 months, like women's suffrage, same sex marriage, climate change, etc...

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

If you want less incarceration, make prison sentences shorter. It’s still good to have police.

Liam Bright @lastpositivist

Great essay, fascinating and well written. Locke was a bastard but that doesn’t mean we can just let scholarly standards slip when working out what he actually said! Not a good moment for Kendi.

Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics @readliberties

Read @earlymodjustice's essay "Race and Enlightenment: The Story of a Slander" now on Now Showing https://t.co/AttL830dzZ https://t.co/zyZjlMdW8Y

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

Wheeeeee

Josh Kraushaar @HotlineJosh

CNN poll, among just Dem and Dem leaners: Who’s doing more to help the Dem party? Progressives trying for ambitious policies: 49% Moderates trying to contain government and spending: 51%

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

Never punch down. Instead, redefine the hierarchy so you're at the bottom. Then you're always punching up!

Wally Nowinski @Nowooski

People like the roar of a V8 because they associate the sound with speed and power, but once you’ve driven a nice electric car, “the roar of a V8” sounds as impressive as the beep bop boop of a dial up modem.

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

This is pure status quo bias, of course. But at the same time, being forced to rely on a gimmicky loophole to avoid a debt default could be almost as confidence-reducing as an actual default, because it would conclusively show how unable we are to govern ourselves.

Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart

EXCLUSIVE: How Americans feel about minting the coin. The activists clearly have a lot of work to do. Even among the people who have heard about the coin, there's not overwhelming support for it. https://t.co/yenecdjmbZ https://t.co/gRStnkuJLY

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur

🤔 Trump just threatened to have Republican voters stay home in 2022 and 2024 unless the party is able to "solve" (by which he seems to mean overturn) the result of the last presidential election, which he lost.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

The Pope's Swiss Guards have a vaccine mandate.

Defense One @DefenseOne

BREAKING: Catholic Troops Can Refuse COVID Vaccine, Archbishop Declares | @ECBHowe https://t.co/EYGM0XeUl3 https://t.co/68VFv82GT3

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

This is absolutely wild. Though many of the BBB bill's provisions are popular on their own, overall most Americans don't think the bill will make them better off. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Genuinely outrageous that the NYT let an Englishman review One Billion Americans — of course he doesn’t want us to achieve enduring greatness!

Graeme Wood @gcaw

These assignments are made from a place of great cowardice. Book about England? Find some Englishman to review it, because you’re not sure an American or Guatemalan can do the job. Book about Asians? You could assign a black reviewer, or a white one. But why take the chance?

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Katie Couric tried to “protect” RBG by covering up the fact that she held the same anti-Kaepernick views as the majority of the public.

cbssports.comPOLL: Majority of Americans disagree with Colin Kaepernick’s protestMost Americans don’t see eye-to-eye with Kaepernick on his stance to kneel during the anthem

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Young people were more favorable to the Vietnam War

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

My followers get mad at me for retweeting anti-woke folks, but stuff like the disaster of the SF school board is just hard to ignore. This is real governance failure, and screeching at anyone who mentions it is no longer a viable option.

Wesley Yang @wesyang

The SF school board ends a wild year of woke frenzy so badly in the red (deficit of more than $100 million) that the state of California is likely to have to seize control https://t.co/EEJB9g3Nr6 https://t.co/oF8iUsQSUg

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

Ezra Klein picked up on this a while ago. At some point, liberals have to move from the "raising their fists and fighting The Man" stage to the "actually running stuff" stage, and in California -- especially in the Bay Area -- it's not going well.

nytimes.comOpinion | California Is Making Liberals SquirmIf progressivism can’t work there, why should the country believe it can work anywhere else?