• CrimsonSage [any]
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    2 years ago

    Like I get Glenwalds politics have always been shit on a fundamental level, but did he have a COVID stroke or something to make him this specifically stupid?

    • TrashGoblin [he/him, they/them]
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      2 years ago

      My read, which could easily be wrong, is that after Russiagate, liberals turned on him, and only right-wing media outlets would give him a platform (and therefore a job). Since then, he's been basically love-bombed by the trumpist right for years.

      • MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Yeah. He was always a libertarian, albiet a somewhat left one, with no real theory which is always asking for trouble. I've met a few people over the years that met him even before the Snowdon stuff and they pretty much all said or implied that he was a great journalist but also a total narcissist. So that does seem to track.