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The only person this could POSSIBLY describe is hasan, and regardless of whether one thinks he panders to the young left, he's probably the most popular political streamer in the world, so how unrepresentative can that audience be? And compared to what?

Matty G is proof there’s at least one person dumber and less self-aware than he is… whoever pays him. It’s like a right wing psyop.

The man has no integrity. He’s bought. He stands for nothing real.

He can make $20 if he can find the internet leftist that's holding the mutual aid.

plenty of clout in it, maybe - but if there's a way to pay the bills with clout i haven't heard about it yet

Shocked when I, a communist environmentalist, am not having my YouTube channel showered in oil and tech oligarch money.

In fact, when someone finds a small niche where they manage to do so, it's treated like the end of the world

I got into an argument here with a former republican who was mad that people like Sam Seder weren't spreading the wealth. Meanwhile literally every right wing project he'd worked on was funded by some billionaire. Like every right winger all the way back to Rush Limbaugh.

And this is why I stopped listening to Pod Save America

Weird how few leftist progrssives get permanent gigs as opinion columnists in major corporate publications.

legitimately believe that matty is the kind of person dumb enough to convince himself to believe his own lies

I find it odd when commentators who previously couldn't shut up about the immense power of incentives and the power of bad groups to create bad incentives suddenly hold that THEIR incentives are immaterial.

kinda ironic considering that yglesias’ entire livelihood is telling older, out-of-touch, never-leave-the-district centrists what they want to hear

I don’t think he’s ever said anything that wasn’t snotty enough to have plausible deniability as a “joke” if he needed it to be

Show us the WhatsApp group where you all roast him repeatedly

I’ve read just a little bit about the ENORMOUS amount of money the far right spends on influencers, especially young women. There is no equivalent on the left. (And should there be? It’s very icky to think of how much political content is just marketing, but maybe that’s the game we have to play.)

Many of the more awful people in podbro confirmation bias complex like BrieBrie do seem to be doing pretty well out of it.

Big claim from a guy who has Crystal Shrek Money

if there was significant money to be made pandering to us wouldn’t he be doing that

I bet you posted this while on the 5-4 company helicopter.

The powerful group of pro-socialist billionaires

The Macedonians figured this out when doing junk news sites. They got way more ad click-thru with right-wing sites. If that's not proof, the DNC has mortgaged their headquarters.

I read the episode title and unsubscribed. Will the Dems ever get tired of losing elections?

this is literally a tucker carlson talking point, like somehow its eddington and soros is spending billions on antifa

The right knows no tool other than to accuse those of what they are themselves guilty of

One might even argue he made a conscious decision to move rightward following the money.

I'm always confused when people act like there's more money to be made opposing capitalism rather than supporting it, as if the beneficiaries of the system haven't vampire-sucked away most of the wealth and amassed comparatively virtually infinite resources for their propaganda campaigns.

Hey, if you’ve got a better explanation for why Amnesty International supports trans people, JK Rowling would like to hear it

I think he's so cooked he thinks that's what Pod Save America is doing.

They're in the same office as the trans lobby

*taps the “education has separated from class” sign for the hundredth time* Yeah young educated lefties, notoriously a group with tons of disposable income

Jokes on us, the "strong financial incentive" throughout the media he's talking about is: don't you fucking do it, you will become homeless and blacklisted.

I feel like you're being really dismissive of the nine AMERICAN dollars I give your podcasts EVERY MONTH.

The fact that there's a pretty distinct lack of *good* lefty media options proves this.

bring back tar and feathering.

One of the biggest problem of "the left" as a whole is that there is very little money on this side of the political divide.

"What they want to hear" is a euphemism for "I get paid to convince people this is the preferred option"

Curious - he sounds exactly like a bog standard wingnut about this. I wonder why? Anyone on the left giving him the time of day is deeply misguided, at best.

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If there was significant money to be made pandering to the left Matty would be doing it.

I'm a socialist because of the money $ocialis$sm

It’s part of a chronic problem! Nobody has any money! The ad people even know that.

Both Ezra and Matt went to shit after vox success. In the beginning they were cool and hammering policy and digging into awesome topics. Now… garbage.

if there were hed be doing it

I want my left wing checks I’ve been doing this for free for a decade now

Yeah. I could see an argument about audience capture happening once you've already built a substantial lefty audience, but that's a risk of any established audience and may even be less true of many lefty audiences.

i mean i agree but also you don't have to be "connected in lefty media" to rub two braincells together and surmise there's no billionaires juicing lefty media. there's small donor microcelebrities and not really anything higher on the hierarchy

he means Hasan and nobody else.

I pander to the left with my posting and it makes me no money. but I get other things* out of it >:) *it also destroys my mental and physical health.

We all saw the Shrek crystal. Clearly there are dozens, if not hundreds of dollars to be made.

There would be several Bari's Weiss of the left if yglesias were right about this

Pretty ironic considering Matty Y's entire career is built on pandering to monied interests who pay him handsomely to tell rich centrists that their niche belief system held by almost no one is actually very good and popular

one thing i’d be interested in hearing from, e.g., Ashley St. Clair, is whether she was surprised by how much less money there is on the left once she got there