Matthew Yglesias
@mattyglesias15h
People throw the same dozen or so bad tweets back in my face all the time, which I think given the total quantity of stuff I’ve written amounts to a very high batting average. slowboring.com/p/ive-been-ri…

I’ve been right about some things

Is Matt Yglesias always wrong? An investigation

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Oct 21, 2026 · 6:50 PM UTC

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Do you realize you’ve been found out? You realize that, right? It’s not limited to a few people now, my man.
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Matthew Yglesias
@mattyglesias15h
oh no, I've been "found out"? whatever will I do?
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Quite frankly, history will show your largely meaningless impact was a prime example of the outgoing neoliberal establishment's denial of reality and clinging on to the spectres of the past in the face of a better future.
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lmfao incredible article name, really sums up your career.
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A Twitch streamer didn’t crack when his past statements are used against him, why would you?
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Well when you’re your own umpire and you’re doing this poorly it really says something about you
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Progressives say that you in turn tweet the same dozen or so hysterical tweets about them with cherrypicked selective citations. Yogi Berra says to thee: "Keep tweeting Matt, 'tis nobler for thee to suffer Slings and arrows of outrage As thee taketh arms against progressives."
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currentaffairs.org/news/the-…

Matt Yglesias Is Confidently Wrong About Everything

The Biden administration’s favorite centrist pundit produces smug pseudo-analysis that cannot be considered serious thought. He ought to be permanently disregarded.

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This seems narcissistic af
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Have you considered hosting an entire podcast dedicated to victory lapping your correct takes ala @benthompson on sharptech?
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do you understand how pathetic this makes you look
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Meanwhile @hasanthehun gets attacked for 8 months from multiple mainstream outlet for a quote he said 8 years ago for which he immediately apologised. Matty boy is not built for the online world.
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There would be far more if you didn't mass-delete your tweets, Matt
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pathetic title. you shouldve called it "the one true egg"
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All of your tweets are bad tweets, and so is your writing. Absolute contrarian slop.
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when you're wrong about things like, say, the iraq war, thats not the same moral weight as, say, making an edgy tweet about some banal news of the day.
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You’re not built for this world, sir.
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if the article is titled “been right about some things” it kinda implies you’ve been wrong about a lot of things
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You're not known outside of Twitter. And you've been wrong about a helluva lot more things than you've been right about.
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Wow if only there was another guy people have been in near constant cynical hysterics about that you could also apply this logic to
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matty your favorite senator joe manchin is campaigning with susan collins in maine lol
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hes still shook from being clipped ONE TIME lol
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Not sure about this claim but either way rightness is not the same axis as honesty, people are much more critical of your dishonesty than your inaccuracy
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My favorite tweet from Matthew Ygelsias is when his conservative side couldn't help but retweet Homeland Security's call to "End the invasion". He still hasn't explained why he did so.
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Your batting average is worse than Stephen Hawking’s
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Now you’ve experienced 1% of what hasan goes through, a guy who’s spoken off the cuff live for 21,000 hours
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this comes across as insecure, and unaware that you are known for being the guy who is wrong about mostly everything and thinking that you are a reliable evaluator of yourself is just another thing you are wrong about
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Yeah you've been wrong about most things tho. Best thing would be for you to shut the fuck up and go away you piece of shit
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Strategically speaking this might be a good one not to paywall
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You seem like someone with a lot of shame that learns lessons well.
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New Rule: Any writer who feels the need to write this style of article is required to retire from the craft immediately. Deeply pathetic behavior.
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It's less about a couple of bad tweets in isolation. Those bad tweets are the evidence of a failure to really comprehend where voters are. The bad tweets show your worldview is incongruous with the moment.
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I'm sure not a batting average of 0.000 is considered high these days.
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It has more to do with the fact that your work is mostly unreadable garbage, that it to say it is both very poorly written and does not contain any information worth reading
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After all, broken clocks are right twice a day.
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