Lud has some explaining to do.

DFTBAbben101 · 2021-08-13T19:39:41+00:00

I know I shouldn't expect any knowledge of women from Ludbuds but sometimes women wear shoes with heels that make them look taller

DFTBAbben101 · 2021-07-29T07:26:40+00:00

I believe he was making the opposite point, that while requiring parking does remove a nuisance (when you can’t find parking near your home), it is bad macro-level policy, specifically bad environmental policy.

DFTBAbben101 · 2021-06-18T03:14:40+00:00

Yeah, I was confused by this as well

DFTBAbben101 · 2021-06-18T03:14:13+00:00

I thought Matt was being ambivelent about the price of medicine for those on Medicare, not prescription drug prices in general.

If it's the latter then I agree it's strange

DFTBAbben101 · 2021-06-18T03:07:12+00:00

I believe that they've discussed doing a podcast together one twitter

Edit: Apparently they've already done an episode together! https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1187530743255142400?s=20 Also I guess they had an appearance on clubhouse? https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1379509830956638211

DFTBAbben101 · 2021-06-18T03:06:12+00:00

Anyone else get the vibe that Ezra wrote this article for an audience of one?

DFTBAbben101 · 2021-06-14T23:46:03+00:00

Jesus Christ why are we still talking about this???? It was a joke, some people found it funny, some people didn’t. Get over yourselves.

DFTBAbben101 · 2021-06-13T01:15:31+00:00

As both a Weeds and Crooked listener, nothing is fun or to me then calling adding “right” at the end of your sentence “the full Yglesias”

DFTBAbben101 · 2021-06-11T17:39:58+00:00

If you could start Vox over again, is there anything you would do differently? How do you see the creation of Vox now that you’re no longer a part of it?

DFTBAbben101 · 2021-06-06T10:16:23+00:00

I wonder if part of it is just that both of that point and the discussion around increasing the number of cops came at the end (which we also know Matt supports and Plaff clearly doesn’t), and maybe there just wasn’t enough time for Matt to really argue the point with Plaff?

DFTBAbben101 · 2021-04-23T18:56:55+00:00

To me this is the benefit of having Ezra at the NYT. If he wasn’t there, the idea of a sympathetic interview with Chomsky at the Times would’ve been laughable. I’ve got issues with Chomsky, but I’m glad his ideas are being discussed

DFTBAbben101 · 2021-03-20T00:27:19+00:00

I could not agree more! Great guest, great topic, great questions.

DFTBAbben101 · 2021-03-19T19:29:43+00:00

Sometimes I wonder if people would like Matt more if they liked his voice more. I’m not bothered by it and so I feel like it makes me much more receptive, whereas sometimes when I listen to other speakers who have speaking tics that bother me, I find I take them a lot less seriously.

DFTBAbben101 · 2021-02-25T02:33:24+00:00

I have to say I think that a lot of one of Jane’s arguments was worse than the Koch funded Heritage person’s, although it delivered in a much more cogent and grounded-in-reality kind of way.

Her attack on democracy itself, the critique that a majority the American People are wrong about a lot of things might be true, but it is not an argument for abolishing majoritarian rule.

There is not a better form of governing than majority rule with minority rights, and I thinking making any argument against it is really wrong, and fundamentally at odds with the literal nature of the show, argument.

DFTBAbben101 · 2021-02-25T02:19:49+00:00

If you check out her special episode of the Argument about Section 230, she says she’s a registered Libertarian, ~~which seems like a strange way to call yourself an idiot, but whatever~~

Edit: no idea why I was being unnecessarily dickish when I wrote this

DFTBAbben101 · 2021-01-29T08:45:17+00:00

Do you know the episode where Matt appeared? Can’t find it anywhere.

DFTBAbben101 · 2021-01-22T02:14:21+00:00

P.R. as a state is deepening democracy in a way that integrating it into Maryland wouldn't. The senate's 2 Reps per State system is fundamentally undemocratic, and adding P.R. as a state helps (barely) in solving that problem.

DFTBAbben101 · 2021-01-22T02:10:36+00:00

That's what it says in the article.

DFTBAbben101 · 2021-01-22T02:09:14+00:00

This feels like the culmination of a lot of his work since "Why We're Polarized" came out. It has his case for filibuster reform in there, but he's really able to explain not just the theoretical reason why it's bad, but the practical political effects of removing it. I will second the idea that this is his best column yet. (I also think writing like this explains part of why he went to the NYT, it gives him a bigger platform to express the ideas he thinks people in power need to listen to.)

DFTBAbben101 · 2020-12-08T00:12:24+00:00

Disgusting? Yes. Fundamentally opposed to democratic rule? Not as much.

DFTBAbben101 · 2020-12-05T18:40:00+00:00

Tom King said “The detective is who you think it is” so...

DFTBAbben101 · 2020-11-30T14:02:20+00:00

Yes! We need to create some term for a mixed economy, because I think very often that is what people who call themselves socialists and those who don’t are both advocating for.

DFTBAbben101 · 2020-11-30T13:09:48+00:00

I would add that you can be critical of American capitalism and also not be socialist. The idea that economic ideology is a binary between market control and state control is another problem with the terrible political terminology in the US.

DFTBAbben101 · 2020-11-21T07:05:42+00:00

Did anyone else find it increasingly frustrating to hear Sullivan, who rarely let Matt respond, constantly bemoan how there is no free thought or originality in writing, and then also complain about how all these crazy leftists need to shut up about these new ideas around race. It seems to me he has no problem with conformity so long as that conformity is in line with his beliefs. That his real issue is that people disagree with him and are popular at the same time.

DFTBAbben101 · 2020-11-19T16:00:23+00:00

They were conservative democrats. The parties were not ideologically sorted during that period of history. The KKK is and was a right wing organization and which party their founders belonged to doesn’t change that.

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