Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
A lot of folks claim to believe the right way to assess a controversy is to completely ignore the specifics of the controversy and instead do a comprehensive moral assessment of all the actors on both sides and line up with the good guys.
This seems obviously wrong to me.
10:40 AM · Apr 24, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
This then leads to the conclusion that it is really important to ascertain who is acting in “bad faith” which again strikes me as wrong — on lots of issues I learn informative things from lobbyists who are acting in total bad faith.
10:44 AM · Apr 24, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
During the Export-Import Bank reauthorization controversy, it was very interesting to hear from the Delta lobbyists (anti-ExIm) and the Boeing lobbyists (pro-ExIm) because they had a ton of facts at hand.
But they’re lobbyists, of course bad faith — on both sides.
10:46 AM · Apr 24, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Still, I formed a view — the case against the Export-Import Bank was sort of abstracting persuasive but scrapping it would have been short-term economically harmful given the conditions of the time so I side with Boeing.
Under today’s different conditions, I’d be with Delta.
10:47 AM · Apr 24, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
The French welfare state is genuinely huge so if people want to mostly argue about other stuff who am I to tell them they're wrong.
But we are not so fortunate in the United States and still really need a politics that centers such matters.
1:08 PM · Apr 24, 2022
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Jazz Shaw@JazzShaw
Climate activist dies after setting himself on fire outside of Supreme Court building on Earth Day.
nypost.com/2022/04/23/wyn…
11:20 AM · Apr 24, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Or one inspired by @owasow — what if Martin Luther King wasn't assassinated, we didn't have the riots that followed the assassination, and Hubert Humphrey won the 1968 election?
That also seems better to me.
omarwasow.com/APSR_protests3…
3:05 PM · Apr 24, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
I just want everyone to know that I am consistent in my pro-pandering views — I don’t like to see courageous left-wing stands or courageous centrist ones.
Electoral politics is too important for principled leadership. https://t.co/gusUR9exvn
Ben Ritz 🇺🇦 SAVE STANDARD TIME @BudgetBen
He won by 16 points and the French pension system needs reforms of some kind to make it sustainable. Sometimes leaders have to do more than pander! https://t.co/uwa9VjRN0J
8:02 PM · Apr 24, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Not trying to be too flip here but has anyone investigated the possibility that teens would be happier if they partied more?
nytimes.com/2022/04/23/hea…
10:44 PM · Apr 24, 2022
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Dan Federman@TheFederman
My e-bike is my primary mode of transit because it’s fast, predictable, cheap, invigorating, joyous, and it reduces my carbon footprint.
If we can just make it safe, we’d get SO MANY people out of their cars.
2:53 AM · Apr 25, 2022
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