I don’t know if their opinions have changed, but I never did like Trueanon’s uncritical support of Greenwald just because he was oppositional to liberals and lib media. They’ve got a tendency to uncritically swallow whatever right wing propagandists say that make libs look bad, like that time they heard that Bannon totally had a laptop that proved Hunter Biden was a child pornographer, except Bannon conveniently never went public about it. There’s just hearsay.
Not to make this post about TA, it’s just my only exposure to Greenwald is seeing him get dunked on Twitter and also their show. It’s a shame because their interview with him was actually pretty interesting, talking about how the Steele dossier was fake news that would’ve gotten laughed out of any serious newsroom before Trump, but with Trump the media had a cash-cow. Obviously I know he was the reporter for the Snowden stuff, but that was before I was politically engaged, so I was surprised to learn that he’s a libertarian and at best a useful idiot to the left (and, at worst, a pretty harmful dude as the OP shows).
Chelsea Manning was also before my time. I’ve picked up the gist of her story, though, over the years, but haven’t done a deep dive. Uncritical support to her.
I think TA mostly just gives him too much leeway due to the Snowden leaks and the Lava Jato investigation coverage. I don't think it's fully motivated by him being confrontational with liberals.
dude had enough combat training to fight in the syrian civil war for the YPG. I’m not saying he’s sus, but it’s not like it would becompletely shocking
the YPG had/has an internationalist brigade, there were quite a few leftists from around North America, Europe, and Turkey who joined the YPG, as well as some non-leftist ex-US Army types who joined the YPG so they could fight ISIS.
The YPG is also just a militia, not a professional military, I don't think military experience was a requirement to join.
I don't understand why American leftists are so obsessed with linking people to the feds or whatever. Like what the hell is it that you guys have going on right now that's so important that the feds are working non stop to quash it via planting people in semi-obscure podcasts and forums to have semi-bad takes every now and then lol
I can definitely see how that makes people feel like what they're doing is more important than it is. Sure they are probably slightly influencing some things, but not this terminally online nonsense. Look at how weak and fucked the radical left is, they don't have to do that much unless it actually becomes something. Spreading suspicion and doubt around people by saying you suspect them for being feds or CIA or whatever doesn't protect anyone from anything, it just perpetuates division and makes external observers think you're a bunch of weirdos. Even less trust is not something you remotely need right now. There's so many posts cropping up on left internet every now and then of people being like "I'm considering joining an organization and x org has a chapter close to me but I'm afraid they might be feds". It's so stupid, it's like people are doing their job for them. The reason there is nothing united about the left is the left itself (including this stupid self policing) and material conditions, not the feds.
I don’t know if their opinions have changed, but I never did like Trueanon’s uncritical support of Greenwald just because he was oppositional to liberals and lib media. They’ve got a tendency to uncritically swallow whatever right wing propagandists say that make libs look bad, like that time they heard that Bannon totally had a laptop that proved Hunter Biden was a child pornographer, except Bannon conveniently never went public about it. There’s just hearsay.
Not to make this post about TA, it’s just my only exposure to Greenwald is seeing him get dunked on Twitter and also their show. It’s a shame because their interview with him was actually pretty interesting, talking about how the Steele dossier was fake news that would’ve gotten laughed out of any serious newsroom before Trump, but with Trump the media had a cash-cow. Obviously I know he was the reporter for the Snowden stuff, but that was before I was politically engaged, so I was surprised to learn that he’s a libertarian and at best a useful idiot to the left (and, at worst, a pretty harmful dude as the OP shows).
Chelsea Manning was also before my time. I’ve picked up the gist of her story, though, over the years, but haven’t done a deep dive. Uncritical support to her.
I think TA mostly just gives him too much leeway due to the Snowden leaks and the Lava Jato investigation coverage. I don't think it's fully motivated by him being confrontational with liberals.
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dude had enough combat training to fight in the syrian civil war for the YPG. I’m not saying he’s sus, but it’s not like it would becompletely shocking
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He had the alt-media notoriety from his tweets during his tour of duty. He was an early Chapo guest.
SMDH kids these days don't remember pisspiggrandad
Lol
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I mean they train people to fight there, so I could imagine he learned to fight out there.
the YPG had/has an internationalist brigade, there were quite a few leftists from around North America, Europe, and Turkey who joined the YPG, as well as some non-leftist ex-US Army types who joined the YPG so they could fight ISIS.
The YPG is also just a militia, not a professional military, I don't think military experience was a requirement to join.
I don't understand why American leftists are so obsessed with linking people to the feds or whatever. Like what the hell is it that you guys have going on right now that's so important that the feds are working non stop to quash it via planting people in semi-obscure podcasts and forums to have semi-bad takes every now and then lol
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I can definitely see how that makes people feel like what they're doing is more important than it is. Sure they are probably slightly influencing some things, but not this terminally online nonsense. Look at how weak and fucked the radical left is, they don't have to do that much unless it actually becomes something. Spreading suspicion and doubt around people by saying you suspect them for being feds or CIA or whatever doesn't protect anyone from anything, it just perpetuates division and makes external observers think you're a bunch of weirdos. Even less trust is not something you remotely need right now. There's so many posts cropping up on left internet every now and then of people being like "I'm considering joining an organization and x org has a chapter close to me but I'm afraid they might be feds". It's so stupid, it's like people are doing their job for them. The reason there is nothing united about the left is the left itself (including this stupid self policing) and material conditions, not the feds.
Citations Needed has had Greenwald on as a guest too but I don't think that means they uncritically support him.