My reading of the post (which is contestable) is that he chose the people as a sort of joke about “here is a controversial or absurdly in-group person I like on this issue”. I can’t prove that reading is correct, but I don’t really see another that makes sense of the post. Some of the people are just too boring choices-Yglesias, for the joke to just be that the list is absurd.
My reading of the post (which is contestable) is that he chose the people as a sort of joke about “here is a controversial or absurdly in-group person I like on this issue”. I can’t prove that reading is correct, but I don’t really see another that makes sense of the post. Some of the people are just too boring choices-Yglesias, for the joke to just be that the list is absurd.