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Episode 430 Promo - The Claims Adjuster, Rough Justice, & Why Matt Yglesias Is Confidently Wrong About Everything (w/ Nathan J. Robinson)

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🗓️ 9 December 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Current Affairs editor-in-chief and co-author with Noam Chomsky of new book The Myth of American Idealism Nathan J. Robinson returns to Bad Faith to discuss his latest takedown piece -- this time of Slow Boring centrist writer Matthew Yglesias. But first, Nathan addresses taking heat for his take on health insurance CEO Brian Thompson's assassination, & Brie makes Nathan do unpaid labor as her therapist.

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Produced by Armand Aviram.

Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).

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walk us through his take on some of these climate issues. He has a big thing on why Kamala Harris

0:07.0

was right to embrace fracking, why it's good for the American economy. He says it's weird to care

0:13.0

about. He doesn't deny the climate change is real, but he says that it's weird to care about

0:17.9

climate change because the harms are inflicted mostly on foreigners and mostly

0:21.4

in the future. One of the things that is that he consistently displays is this difficulty in

0:28.0

understanding how people might have empathy. That's why I think why you might have written,

0:33.3

is he a sociopath? Because when he talks about the Palestinian movement, he's like,

0:38.0

I understand why Rashida Thalib would care about Palestinians, but why would anyone else?

0:42.2

Well, I don't know. Maybe there's this thing called caring about other people. And so, yeah,

0:47.7

this idea, wow, it's real weird to care about like foreigners in the future. You're like,

0:52.0

oh, you mean other people? the people who are not you?

0:55.9

He was actually protested by climate change protesters because of his support of the fossil fuel

1:00.6

industry, and he found it just bizarre and hilarious that anyone would protest him.

1:05.5

You know, when the Biden administration argued in court, you know, there was no constitutional

1:08.8

right to a stable climate system.

1:10.9

There was this effort to say, well, because people are trying to use whatever tool they can

1:14.5

to fight climate change. So, okay, well, what if we made a legal argument that we have a constitutional

1:18.2

right to a stable climate system? And of course, the Biden administration opposed this.

1:22.3

Iglesias said that that showed that Biden was moderate and sensible and that leftists were psychos. He called them

1:28.6

psychos. And he says, as well, I have a quote where he's dismissing like a poem about the genocide

1:33.5

saying, like, it shows that leftism and mentally mental illness are interchangeable categories

1:37.9

or the boundary between them is porous. On climate, though, it kind of exemplifies one of the things

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