The same trends of repression, censorship and ideological homogeneity plaguing the national press generally have engulfed the media outlet I co-founded, culminating in censorship of my own articles.
When he does reporting and actually thinks about stuff he is incredibly good. When he does his rage-contrarian tweets or articles, he can be a bit of a hit and miss and accept claims that lack evidence and/or are just asserted by some people.
You can clearly see that his worst content is written when responding to shitlibs who call him a traitor or Russian spy. I get it, it sucks. Especially when the government in Brazil wants to put him in jail as well.
I don't know if he's a socialist and don't really care to be frank. He does at least move in socialist circles. He's uncompromisingly anti-imperialist from a left direction and apparently fearless of authority in his reporting. Since these are vanishingly rare qualities in mainstream media, I'm happy to forgive his occasional shit take.
He keeps burrowing further into the "cancel culture" track. There's a right wing podcast I monitor because a buddy of mine loves it, and I'm real nervous about him going full chud (called "the fifth column", it's basically two "80s guys" finance/media types who LOVE their own farts), and Taibbi is scheduled to be their guest.
To give you an example of the problems with their podcast, EVERY episode (of the 6 I've checked in on) contain anywhere between 5-20 minutes of complaining about the 1619 Project.
hey I want to tell you guys my aunt made cookies for me and they tasted okay but I didn't want to tell her that they weren't all that great so I just silently munched on them in front of her while she expected acknowledgment
When Bernie got torpedoed and the George Floyd/BLM protests started, tons of "anti-woke left" folks brains melted. Taibbi, Chapo, Greenwald, even Brooks to an extent, nobody could shut the fuck up about White Fragility and Cancel Culture like a bunch of old men yelling at clouds. Not to say Robin Deangelo isn't a grifter or the performatively ultrawoke PC lib-left isn't grating as fuck, but it's fascinating to see the mask slowly get pulled back on the anti-woke-left-to-fash pipeline. As utterly fucking idiotic my center left lib friends are, there really is something to that bullshit horseshoe theory, if one of the tips of the shoe is the antiwoke left. It's a honeypot for budding leftists who still can't unravel and unpack their white supremacy/ableist/transphobia shit.
The whole content-o-sphere for dirtbag leftists started really narrowing into an echo chamber - shit started feeling like a fucking op after Bernie lost and they were supposed to turn their attention to black people.
There's an absolutely fucking long way between bitching about cancel culture and embracing fascism. Those are not the same thing. I'm not saying it's impossible for somebody already inhabited by brainworms or whose ideology is non-existent to go that way, but for most that's a stretch.
An actual real-life example of left-to-fash is somebody like Christopher Hitchens. A hero of the liberal left, turned far-right warmonger. I see a lot of similarities between early Hitchens an Greenwald, but I'm not buying that being "anti-woke" or being critical of looting is evidence of a similar turn to the right.
I probably shouldn't call it a pipeline. I don't mean going from a card carrying leftist to putting on a Nazi uniform. I should say it's a beartrap. A honeypot. An apathy death ray. A swarm of cackling, terminally online, irony-poisoned leftists who want healthcare but don't actually do shit and end up being as fash-enabling as the libs, enthralled to inaction and complaining as sport. And then you throw in the perjoratives and slurs they use and the fake-tankie talk just to feel edgy. The anti woke part.
I agree, I also wonder if people like Hitchens and Greenwald are outliers (in the sense that for Greenwald at least, he more or less seems to march to the beat of his own drum). Though I suppose that Greenwald has consistently held weird politics while Hitchens showed that left-to-fash progression over time.
Libertarian iirc, sometimes overly contrarian, but does some good reporting/pushback on imperialism, offers decent critiques of the Dems. Not a socialist though, but in the grand scheme of things his work is good
greenwald is a fearless journalist and a hero for the things he's done in speaking truth to power to the US global hedgemony but also he's a huge whiny baby
Personally, I like Glenn. He just reminds me of like the best player on your little league team who consistently goes 4 for 4 and then one game he strikes out and blames everyone else in the ball park because he missed a pitch, cries, and goes home because he wasn't allowed to hit a double. I still want the dude on my team, we all do. Although I think Naomi Klein is a better player, I would never say it to Glenn. Growing up a jock has fucked up my metaphor game.
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When he does reporting and actually thinks about stuff he is incredibly good. When he does his rage-contrarian tweets or articles, he can be a bit of a hit and miss and accept claims that lack evidence and/or are just asserted by some people.
You can clearly see that his worst content is written when responding to shitlibs who call him a traitor or Russian spy. I get it, it sucks. Especially when the government in Brazil wants to put him in jail as well.
He dies on the strangest hills.
He's kind of a left-libertarian, with an emphasis on the libertarian. Somewhat good, but prone to galaxy-brain, and still not a socialist.
I don't know if he's a socialist and don't really care to be frank. He does at least move in socialist circles. He's uncompromisingly anti-imperialist from a left direction and apparently fearless of authority in his reporting. Since these are vanishingly rare qualities in mainstream media, I'm happy to forgive his occasional shit take.
Also, anybody who hates the Democrats as much as he does is OK by me.
Tucker Carlson, welcome to the resistance.
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He's an extremely mixed bag, who will wind up following a Taibbi path to right wing relevance.
If Biden wins, Greenwald is gonna have like a weekly segment on Tucker Carlson.
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He keeps burrowing further into the "cancel culture" track. There's a right wing podcast I monitor because a buddy of mine loves it, and I'm real nervous about him going full chud (called "the fifth column", it's basically two "80s guys" finance/media types who LOVE their own farts), and Taibbi is scheduled to be their guest.
To give you an example of the problems with their podcast, EVERY episode (of the 6 I've checked in on) contain anywhere between 5-20 minutes of complaining about the 1619 Project.
broke: matt taibbi
woke: mark ames
Russiagate really broke Taibbi's brain and made him into a quasi-conservative.
He was also good on Chapo, people just lost their minds because he had the extremely accurate that police abolition is a terrible, unpopular idea.
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Pot, kettle
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You didn't say the episode was bad (it was). You said Taibbi's appearance was bad.
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hey I want to tell you guys my aunt made cookies for me and they tasted okay but I didn't want to tell her that they weren't all that great so I just silently munched on them in front of her while she expected acknowledgment
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chocolate chip but fairly dry
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its okay I sunk into my chamber
fuck off lmaooooo
Anarchists get the Gulag hoss
I'm with you on everything except Taibbi being quasi-conservative.
When Bernie got torpedoed and the George Floyd/BLM protests started, tons of "anti-woke left" folks brains melted. Taibbi, Chapo, Greenwald, even Brooks to an extent, nobody could shut the fuck up about White Fragility and Cancel Culture like a bunch of old men yelling at clouds. Not to say Robin Deangelo isn't a grifter or the performatively ultrawoke PC lib-left isn't grating as fuck, but it's fascinating to see the mask slowly get pulled back on the anti-woke-left-to-fash pipeline. As utterly fucking idiotic my center left lib friends are, there really is something to that bullshit horseshoe theory, if one of the tips of the shoe is the antiwoke left. It's a honeypot for budding leftists who still can't unravel and unpack their white supremacy/ableist/transphobia shit.
The whole content-o-sphere for dirtbag leftists started really narrowing into an echo chamber - shit started feeling like a fucking op after Bernie lost and they were supposed to turn their attention to black people.
There's an absolutely fucking long way between bitching about cancel culture and embracing fascism. Those are not the same thing. I'm not saying it's impossible for somebody already inhabited by brainworms or whose ideology is non-existent to go that way, but for most that's a stretch.
An actual real-life example of left-to-fash is somebody like Christopher Hitchens. A hero of the liberal left, turned far-right warmonger. I see a lot of similarities between early Hitchens an Greenwald, but I'm not buying that being "anti-woke" or being critical of looting is evidence of a similar turn to the right.
I probably shouldn't call it a pipeline. I don't mean going from a card carrying leftist to putting on a Nazi uniform. I should say it's a beartrap. A honeypot. An apathy death ray. A swarm of cackling, terminally online, irony-poisoned leftists who want healthcare but don't actually do shit and end up being as fash-enabling as the libs, enthralled to inaction and complaining as sport. And then you throw in the perjoratives and slurs they use and the fake-tankie talk just to feel edgy. The anti woke part.
There are chuds that hang out in those spaces.
I agree, I also wonder if people like Hitchens and Greenwald are outliers (in the sense that for Greenwald at least, he more or less seems to march to the beat of his own drum). Though I suppose that Greenwald has consistently held weird politics while Hitchens showed that left-to-fash progression over time.
Libertarian iirc, sometimes overly contrarian, but does some good reporting/pushback on imperialism, offers decent critiques of the Dems. Not a socialist though, but in the grand scheme of things his work is good
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combined. I'm in absolute awe at how Online he is.
He did the Snowden revelations thing and is now single handedly trying to drown the NSA in data.
Most convincing theory I've heard so far.
Genuinely nuanced guy in an age of narcissistic reductionism.
He is a contrarian so sometimes he’ll defend some seriously dumb shit.
greenwald is a fearless journalist and a hero for the things he's done in speaking truth to power to the US global hedgemony but also he's a huge whiny baby
but make no mistake: him being a huge whiny baby is partially the reason why he was such an effective journalist
Personally, I like Glenn. He just reminds me of like the best player on your little league team who consistently goes 4 for 4 and then one game he strikes out and blames everyone else in the ball park because he missed a pitch, cries, and goes home because he wasn't allowed to hit a double. I still want the dude on my team, we all do. Although I think Naomi Klein is a better player, I would never say it to Glenn. Growing up a jock has fucked up my metaphor game.
Good reporting