Check off the keywords one by one because he hits them all. Hunter Biden, Russian disinformation, hallmark of tyranny, Russiagate, the list goes on. You can't just play bingo, you play blackout instead.
Check off the keywords one by one because he hits them all. Hunter Biden, Russian disinformation, hallmark of tyranny, Russiagate, the list goes on. You can't just play bingo, you play blackout instead.
What exactly made Greenwald go rogue? I thought he was a good voice on “ Intercepted podcast”. He was the most left liberal or the least left leftie on in the left podcast ecosystem. I like he as well just being a more journalist-y podcast rather than a cultural podcast like so many leftie podcasts tend to be. I could use that podcast as sort of digital newspaper to get a more structured understanding of some happenings in the world. It was like a small step above an NPR podcast, but Greenwald was talking about some real shit. It was good addition to a “Democracy at Work” type podcast.
Then he went to the dark-side, what happened? Did the 2016 election and the American media machine do too much psychic damage to him? I feel like there is some missing information in my online lore codex because I am not social platforms.
Did He get Internet poisoned? He is of the generation that I believe doesn’t have the same amount of natural digital toxic resistance. Was he a true believer in “Democratic norms” and/or the meritocracy? He seemed like a smart dude and then out of nowhere I see him on Fox News. What happened?
He loves the spotlight and folks like Tucker Carlson and Glenn Beck gave him a platform. He keeps punching left and he keeps getting treats.
On a longer timeline, Glenn has more often been a libertarian type, and his beef with government in the last decade has mostly stemmed from NSA and DHS overreach into the private lives of US citizens, or corrupt schemes to silence political rivals like in Brazil. Greenwald has never really been leftist in the explicit, economical sense, and his left leanings in recent years were borne out of his libertarian free speech absolutist attitudes. That means that as soon as right-wingers like Tucker start crying about being silenced by leftist extremists for "just having views" about trans people or what-have-you, Glenn is very vulnerable to sympathy to those people's "free speech", and he lets that completely override any other moral or ethical considerations.
To him, if a proposed plan of action for the "justice" of a marginalized group may jeopardize their opponents' right to "free speech", including "speech" from the bully pulpit of national media or corporate power that is otherwise morally reprehensible, Glenn's ideology (schniff) demands that he reject that course of action with no further consideration. This, of course, leads him to being a useful idiot stooge for Tucker and Thiel types in our political ecosystem.
I have absolutely no proof but I bet he's getting Thiel money on the downlow. Yeah he's got libertarian brainworms, but his grievances seem too superficial and too focused on the enemies of the right wing culture war to be explained by free speech absolutism alone. I don't think he's an idiot. I think he's a stooge.
It is also no coincidence he's popping off about deplatforming, ranting about Soros and the Democrats, and plugging Rumble and Parlor in the immediate wake of the #DropKiwifarms campaign.
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Now Glenn's plugging his social media properties.
Seriously, Soros. Baha. If there's anything that marks anyone as a conspiracy theory nutbag, it's mentioning George Soros. "Da Jooz are using their mind control lasers on us!" LOL
He's a very combative and at times contrarian person, and he's got lawyer-brain. He wants to argue and can at times feel set upon or endangered by fictive factions. all of these things combined mean that he is very at risk for twitter addiction. The idea that someone on the internet might be talking about him on twitter keeps him agitated, and once he got to the point where one vaguely defined faction started critiquing him, and another started praising him, and he's bound to switch into a right wing configuration. He's got a different valency now, like an energized molecule, and it's one that provides more attention and funding. stronger men have fallen to these temptations.
his twink BF ought to swat that phone out of his hands and get him to volunteer at an animal shelter, but this will not come to pass. Now he is fallen, and we ought to pray for his soul.