first, before I say anything, I have a conspiracy theory. glenn is straight up saying stupid/controversial/provocative shit because he's scared for his life in brazil. the ruling class in brazil has the means of assassinating journalists and not being held accountable. he's been associated with a couple of local journalists who've been assasinated. I straight up think the guy is drawing this attention to himself because he knows the more relevant you are in America the less likely you are to be murdered.
second, I'm not seeing him conclude in the way you think he is. In a recent interview of his, he sounded extremely cynical about american politics (which is the only correct view) but also proclaimed his support for the lgbt and blm struggle.
Greenwald is a lib, but he's also a journalist with integrity and has a far more internationalist view than you're average Bernie supporter. those latter two things should matter more to us than his opinions because 99% of americans have opinions way more trash than his.
I straight up think the guy is drawing this attention to himself because he knows the more relevant you are in America the less likely you are to be murdered.
Its' a common strategy for the wealthy to increase their public profile to make themselves less assassinateable. Like buying a football team or a newspaper or something. It's quite logical for Greewald to be possibly doing something similar imo.
Yeah, well aware of the history. Doesn't change the fact that he's much safer with a large international profile than without and that it's a common strategy. What other ways would be more effective, genuinely?
first, before I say anything, I have a conspiracy theory. glenn is straight up saying stupid/controversial/provocative shit because he's scared for his life in brazil. the ruling class in brazil has the means of assassinating journalists and not being held accountable. he's been associated with a couple of local journalists who've been assasinated. I straight up think the guy is drawing this attention to himself because he knows the more relevant you are in America the less likely you are to be murdered.
second, I'm not seeing him conclude in the way you think he is. In a recent interview of his, he sounded extremely cynical about american politics (which is the only correct view) but also proclaimed his support for the lgbt and blm struggle.
Greenwald is a lib, but he's also a journalist with integrity and has a far more internationalist view than you're average Bernie supporter. those latter two things should matter more to us than his opinions because 99% of americans have opinions way more trash than his.
This is exceedingly unlikely.
Its' a common strategy for the wealthy to increase their public profile to make themselves less assassinateable. Like buying a football team or a newspaper or something. It's quite logical for Greewald to be possibly doing something similar imo.
He said things like that before Brazil, just not as much
There is a million other ways to do that which would probably be more effective too.
Yeah, well aware of the history. Doesn't change the fact that he's much safer with a large international profile than without and that it's a common strategy. What other ways would be more effective, genuinely?
I mean there are other ways to be intentionally controversial and talked about... Ones that won't alienate a big part of your audience...
hmm Greenwald has been less worried than his peers about alienating whatever could be defined as his audience imo