The concept of "redistribution" falsely implies that the existence of property is prior to the existence of the state.Well OK then. Good to know.
The concept of "redistribution" falsely implies that the existence of property is prior to the existence of the state.Well OK then. Good to know.
And I'm sure never a thought of the hypocrisy entered his head about the deal - then or now.
ReplyDeleteBecause people just don't get it.
He has the same weirdo-think in regards to the Cyprus issue. It's OKAY to shave off the top of people who have more than 100K. They're all money laundering, dirty Russians. Eeew. Oligarchs! Make them pay!
It's just too darn bad that in order to make it seem like it is not confiscatory those under 100K have to lose some Euro, too. Too bad, but c'est la vie. Yes, yes, people get screwed. But it is really Germany's fault, after all.
GotS, I made a comment on the hypocrisy at the Daily Caller.
DeleteActually, this juice boxer is no hypocrite - he got his house from "the State"... not US Gov, but the "Forwardist movement", which is the institutional party of US Gov (and to which a large number of nominal Republicans belong).
I'm sure the house comes with strings attached. At the same time, it's a signifier - other lesser lights are informed by the visible manifestation of status and will know their place when dealing with him. They will know which lines of discourse are rewarded.
Ivory Towers all OVER the place, really. It's like the Dune Cogents have come to life in American politics.
ReplyDeleteBut it matters not what a person DOES, only what a person SAYS. And paramount in that is that they must say the right thing.
I haven't seen a peep out of him about his personal house issue, although I did see him link his own book yet again on his twitter as "Some thoughts on how to make urban real estate more affordable."
I should be used to the shamelessness at this point, but it still gets me.
*Cogitor, not Cogent. Sheesh, the typing fingers are ridiculous today.
DeleteThat one sent me to the Dune Wiki; I haven't read all the Dune stuff...
Delete...I get what you're saying, but for me Yglesias is simply a peculiar kind of apparatchik.
One whose job it is to tell the truth about what the Forwardists are thinking.
Obama can't come out and say the Constitution doesn't matter... but Ezra Klein can.
Obama can't come out and say property is subordinate to the state... but Matt Yglesias can.
Etc.
[And by "Obama" I mean all the Forwardists, of whom Obama is simply the most prominent of the .gov branch of Forwardism.]
Hmmmmm.
DeleteI guess. I do see what you are saying. And his position doesn't make things easier for those of us who are jumping around on the sidelines, pointing and saying, "BUT HE SAID IT RIGHT THERE! Are you people deaf? Daft?" It should, since the truth is front and center, but it is no less frustrating since those who need to listen refuse to. Yglesias can boil a frog like no one's business.
Sometimes I wonder if deep thinkers like Yglesias are so mired in their own hubris that they're unable to recognize stark-nekkid hypocrisy. Or, perhaps, they're genuinely mentally ill.
ReplyDelete"Forwardism" framed as a mental illness? I like it.
Yglesias ... a self serving putz who doesn't grasp the fundamental differences, vis a vis "property," between John Locke and Quanna Parker. I don't think lil' Matty would have enjoyed living in Comancheria.
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