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Yglesias twitter6/26/2023 ![]() ![]() When he was in the process of taking over Twitter and was engaged in a very public battle with the people managing Twitter back then, Elon Musk had positioned himself as a free speech absolutist, and often called Twitter the internet’s town square. The announcement coincided with Türkiye’s closely contested presidential election as reported by The Washington Post, which took place on May 14. This decision was made in response to legal requests received by the social media site, the account Tweeted. In a late Friday evening announcement, Twitter’s official Global Government Affairs account stated that the platform would be limiting access to certain content in Türkiye. I don’t care if I lose money': Elon Musk says will tweet what he wants Elon Musk still needs 'permission' from Tesla lawyer to tweet, rules US federal court Of course, it’s much more fun to mock Yglesias and Vox and deem that he must be wrong without considering the actual arguments in his piece or the implications of it.'Offer me money or power. That threatens to reignite the Eurozone crisis. That's what's happening in Greece, where the far-left party has surged in the polls. In France, for instance, an improving economy would redirect the spotlight to the uglier sides of the National Front’s platform-the exact outcome liberals and conservatives should both want.īut that isn't happening because European leaders are still demanding those structural reforms without addressing the underlying problems with the Eurozone. Without such fixes, the National Front and other extreme parties will only gain more influence. The best way to reduce their popularity is to strengthen the economy. Le Pen and other far-right leaders have taken advantage of that political unrest to expand their parties’ popularity. Instead, the ECB and European Commission have demanded strict “structural reforms”-spending cuts and tax increases-that have done little to fix the underlying issues in the economy and more to fuel political unrest. ![]() nations to recover from the Great Recession. All of this has made it significantly harder for Greece, Italy, France and other E.U. It was been slow to cut short-term interest rates and even foolishly raised them in 2011 when oil prices rose. Due to Germany’s unfounded fears of inflation, the European Central Bank (ECB) has been hesitant to use unconventional monetary policy tools, like the Federal Reserve did with its large-scale asset purchases. ![]() That has hurt the individual economies of all of the Eurozone countries. “They rightly say that the inability of Eurozone member states to conduct independent monetary policy ‘condemns the people to austerity plans that do nothing but exacerbate the crisis,’” Yglesias writes. holds that the Eurozone's monetary union is an economic disaster and their solution is to break the whole thing apart. The National Front’s critique of the E.U. That’s a mistake-and it indirectly makes the party stronger.Ĭonservatives mocking Yglesias and ignoring his economic argument are making a similar mistake. Instead, the implicit argument is that Yglesias shouldn’t even take the National Front’s platform seriously. You’ll notice that none of these tweets (or the many others you can find by searching Twitter) actually argue that Yglesias is wrong or that the National Front’s critique is incorrect. I'd hard to stay mad at Yglesias, he's like a brain-damaged kitten - so helpless, so slow, so innocent. It took only a few minutes for Twitter to erupt in outrage:Īmericans! Please do not treat the fascism in Europe as an intellectual curiosity to play devil's advocate with. At Vox Monday, Matt Yglesias penned a piece after reading the party platform of France’s far-right party, the National Front, and discovering that its critique of the European Union is correct.
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