I sincerely don’t understand why people like him so much. He’s an obnoxious troll. But I must admit that he’s great at doing PR for himself. He tries and usually fails to be elliptical but the vagueness is good enough for trolling. Nate Silver does similar shit and he’s much better at it. Silver’s got it down cold.
Yglesias starts by intentionally stirring shit up. Then he pretends to be surprised (or shocked) by people’s “wrong” opinions of his take. He plugs his substack as a way to say “See - I’m with you!” In this case “I want people to have abortion rights!” And he might do another tweet to buttress his “I’m just a slow, boring substacker… But if somebody misunderstood me - although I’m sorry-not-sorry - it’s purely their fault. Their impatience and their misdirected anger was stirred up by my haters and the Twitter mob.”
The “the GOP position is unpopular and I’m pro abortion rights” stuff is typical Yglesias. I’m certain he’ll do some follow up trolling. “I’m pro abortion rights which is not the same as being pro reproductive rights. I believe that’s the appropriate position. People vilify the GOP’s position. It’s unpopular position but it has merit if you consider it enough. My substack explains…” He always does that crap.
The conservative position on abortion is unpopular but the other thing Republicans need to accept is that the weirdly timed election gimmick now plays into the hands of Democrats’ highly educated neurotic base.
Welcome people who’ve arrived at this tweet via haters mischaracterizing its meaning! If you’d like to know my views on abortion rights — I am strongly for them.
[link to his substack]
If you are interested in correlations between political ideologies and Big Five personality attributes (including neuroticism) then this is a good overview.
If you want my opinion on whether it was wise to give this personality attribute that particular name, I’m inclined to say it wasn’t. But unfortunately the field of personality psychology did not ask for my permission and that’s what they went with.
I sincerely don’t understand why people like him so much. He’s an obnoxious troll. But I must admit that he’s great at doing PR for himself. He tries and usually fails to be elliptical but the vagueness is good enough for trolling. Nate Silver does similar shit and he’s much better at it. Silver’s got it down cold.
Yglesias starts by intentionally stirring shit up. Then he pretends to be surprised (or shocked) by people’s “wrong” opinions of his take. He plugs his substack as a way to say “See - I’m with you!” In this case “I want people to have abortion rights!” And he might do another tweet to buttress his “I’m just a slow, boring substacker… But if somebody misunderstood me - although I’m sorry-not-sorry - it’s purely their fault. Their impatience and their misdirected anger was stirred up by my haters and the Twitter mob.”
The “the GOP position is unpopular and I’m pro abortion rights” stuff is typical Yglesias. I’m certain he’ll do some follow up trolling. “I’m pro abortion rights which is not the same as being pro reproductive rights. I believe that’s the appropriate position. People vilify the GOP’s position. It’s unpopular position but it has merit if you consider it enough. My substack explains…” He always does that crap.