• emizeko [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    what in the everliving fuck happened to Glenn Greenwald that he is now equating Democracy Now! with the NYT op-ed page

    • activated [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      He's literally out of touch with reality now. Example recent tweet of his:

      First Nicki Minaj, then NBA dissidents, now Dave Chappelle: there's been a recent string of high-profile Black public figures thoughtfully and forcefully questioning or rejecting elite liberal pieties, and it's fascinating to watch liberal elite discourse-managers navigate this.

      Link

      He has post left Twitter brainrot now (and yes I know he was never left, but he landed in the general post left camp)

      • Speaker [e/em/eir]
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        3 years ago

        In what universe is this post left? I'm not seeing any critique of traditional leftist analysis or organizing, just standard right wing panic.

        • activated [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          standard right wing panic

          post left

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    • inshallah2 [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      I think he's 1/3 grifter, 1/3 troll, 1/3 nuts. The fractions might be wrong but it does seem to me he's those three things.

    • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Didn't Democracy Now buy in to the Uyghur "genocide" thing though?

      Not that that's what Greenwald is complaining about here, but still.

    • NaturalsNotInIt [any]
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      3 years ago

      He's a rich expat with a much younger spouse, obviously he's gonna pivot to Libertarianism.

  • Lester_Peterson [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Of all the things the NYT has done that he could get mad about; Glenn is outraged over their "crime" of firing an editor who platformed a U.S Senator urging for the Army to be deployed against protesters, under the leadership of a Commander and Chief who explicitly called for such protesters to be shot.

  • SolidaritySplodarity [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Glenn acting solely in bad faith in all of these interactions gives me a weird kind of sustenance. Schadenfreude?

  • Barabas [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Yanks, you can look forward to anything under the sun that some chud doesnt like being considered wokeism or wokery and libs scrambling to agree as to not be implicated in the dire crime of wokery. I bring these dire tidings as someone who is sadly familiar with the UK media, the same media that recently came out with the frankly awe-inspiring position that money isn't a social construct.

  • Rojo27 [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Glenn pretty much defending someones' right to say they're going to exterminate people for using their right to protest a corrupt system. Go on :freeze-peach: warrior.

    • FreakingSpy [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Always good to remember: Glenn defended a leader of a nazi group in court, pro-bono, in the name of "free speech"

      That nazi later ordered the assassination of a judge, and one of his followers went on a shooting spree targetting jews.