david simon can suck it
― mimicking regular benevloent (sic) users' names (President Keyes), Friday, June 7, 2013 7:37 PM
OTM x10
― now is not the time for motorboating (dandydonweiner), Saturday, 8 June 2013 23:11 (ten years ago) link
considering the many year existence of the israel suck it thread, i think you guys can deal w/ the title of this thread
shit, I forgot that GG practiced apartheid and wholesale slaughter.
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 9 June 2013 06:49 (ten years ago) link
Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald 8mDear NYT: no matter how often you call us "British site," it won't stop being factually false. Rise up above those petty resentments.
emptywheel @emptywheel 5m@ggreenwald But you're still a loner. Admit it.
Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald 2m@emptywheel Will you be my friend, Marcy?
lol
― lag∞n, Sunday, 9 June 2013 19:14 (ten years ago) link
David Simon is the rich man's Buzz Bissinger.
― polyphonic, Sunday, 9 June 2013 19:16 (ten years ago) link
Calling the Guardian a "British news site" is hilariously petty coming from the NYT
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 9 June 2013 19:19 (ten years ago) link
http://twitter.com/edwardsnowden
― markers, Sunday, 9 June 2013 19:22 (ten years ago) link
"Yes, I could be rendered by the CIA. I could have people come after me. Or any of the third-party partners. They work closely with a number of other nations. Or they could pay off the Triads. Any of their agents or assets," he said.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/09/edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower-surveillance
― ... (Eazy), Sunday, 9 June 2013 20:37 (ten years ago) link
This guy hiding out in HK really underscores how fucked we are.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 9 June 2013 20:55 (ten years ago) link
True.
I wonder if he is still in HK though? The interview was taped three days ago, he might have moved?
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 9 June 2013 21:05 (ten years ago) link
He's in Hong Kong. He's living a Zevon song.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 9 June 2013 22:20 (ten years ago) link
send bloggers, guns and money
― mimicking regular benevloent (sic) users' names (President Keyes), Sunday, 9 June 2013 22:51 (ten years ago) link
so snowden peaced out
disappear or disappeared?
#teamedward
― steening in your HOOSless carriage (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 11 June 2013 19:27 (ten years ago) link
Hayes Brown @HayesBrown 5mRep. Peter King just blatantly called for @ggreenwald's arrest on Fox News. Amazing.
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 18:25 (ten years ago) link
Greenwald cohort seem to possess a belief that only the rich or privileged can be evil, and a weird almost autistic inability to recognize cultural or ideological (non-economic) fascism. OTOH, fuck Rep. Peter King.
― MV, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 20:50 (ten years ago) link
you're right, focusing on your area of expertise as a writer clearly means an 'autistic' lack of interest in anything else
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 20:51 (ten years ago) link
Weird almost autistic inability to read a sentence?
― MV, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 20:55 (ten years ago) link
Which Greenwald cohort? Snowden? Where does he (or whichever "cohort" you are talking about) express views as you suggest? Can you flesh out your varying types of fascism argument?
Maybe I missed something upthread.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 21:25 (ten years ago) link
Cohort is a plural, curmudgeon.
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 21:32 (ten years ago) link
Ah, it is. So who's in this group?
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 21:34 (ten years ago) link
What are you talking about MV? What other types of fascism?
― Treeship, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 21:37 (ten years ago) link
Sorry i see now curmudgeon's covered those questions
― Treeship, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 21:38 (ten years ago) link
Greenwald cohort seem to possess a belief that only the rich or privileged can be evil, and a weird almost autistic inability to recognize cultural or ideological (non-economic) fascism.
so sick of people calling Greenwald autistic.
― mimicking regular benevloent (sic) users' names (President Keyes), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 22:03 (ten years ago) link
Islamofascism, d00ds. Ever think about THAT, u aspie fux?
― MV
― a giant death ray seems a bit overkill (Viceroy), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 22:04 (ten years ago) link
i remember a while back a bunch of prominent liberal bloggers decided that greenwald was obviously a libertarian because he 'never wrote about labor issues.'
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 22:04 (ten years ago) link
i think there are certain writers who do write as if they are the only writer you read but idk if glenn greenwald is one. he's, yknow, a channel.
― the white queen and her caustic judgments (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 23:15 (ten years ago) link
i guess no good writer would write that way.
― the white queen and her caustic judgments (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 23:16 (ten years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2013/jun/14/glenn-greenwald-reader-profile-interactive#615
what the hell
― they are either militarists (ugh) or kangaroos (?) (DJP), Friday, 14 June 2013 20:51 (ten years ago) link
sad libs
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 14 June 2013 20:52 (ten years ago) link
in 10 years the front page of the nyt will be nothing but crowdsourced mad libs
― iatee, Friday, 14 June 2013 20:54 (ten years ago) link
Glenn Greenwald, a dominant hero for the Guardian, whose writing has been described as erotic, revealed orgasmic new information regarding the NSA and its surveillance programs last week.
- A humble student from Michigan
― Mordy , Friday, 14 June 2013 20:55 (ten years ago) link
this is the saddest media thing I've ever seen, and last week I saw this: a thread for local TV news insanity
― they are either militarists (ugh) or kangaroos (?) (DJP), Friday, 14 June 2013 20:55 (ten years ago) link
we have a thread for the guardian. load all messages for ten years of increasing disillusionment.
― caek, Sunday, 16 June 2013 09:16 (ten years ago) link
I think he is a bad writer but I agree with most of the points he makes.
― Michigan seems like a dream to me now (Treeship), Tuesday, May 21, 2013 12:41 PMBookmark Flag Post Permalink
otm
― *rad hug eomticon* (Control Z), Sunday, 16 June 2013 17:07 (ten years ago) link
^^He went from lawyer to blogger to journalist without ever really having an editor.
― mimicking regular benevloent (sic) users' names (President Keyes), Sunday, 16 June 2013 19:45 (ten years ago) link
^^^ tagline of Greenwald biopic
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 16 June 2013 22:03 (ten years ago) link
GG is a fine writer imo, i'd take his dogged earnestness over a dozen jaded quipsters like alex pareene any day
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 17 June 2013 01:51 (ten years ago) link
i.f. stone was not a great stylist either, yknow
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 17 June 2013 01:52 (ten years ago) link
As a lover of both, not a good comparison.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 17 June 2013 01:57 (ten years ago) link
pareene could stand to ditch the bloggy voice (this goes for almost everyone who blogs) but he's always a good read
― look at my watch/I'm in the club and everyone's looking at me/fuck th (k3vin k.), Monday, 17 June 2013 06:18 (ten years ago) link
actually i really like pareene, he's not the best example, just the first one that popped to mind.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 17 June 2013 07:19 (ten years ago) link
How much do you want to bet that before the summer is out we'll be saying stuff like "Wow, you'd think Greenwald would've known to not take his car down a canyon at night. SMH I guess he really liked to live on the edge."
― Cunga, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 22:06 (ten years ago) link
hmmmmmm nope
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 22:07 (ten years ago) link
Richard Clarke, the former chief counter-terrorism adviser on the National Security Council, believes that Hasting’s death may have been the result of a cyberattack on his car.
http://www.ibtimes.com/michael-hastings-car-hacking-theory-latest-attempt-explain-suspicious-death-richard-clarke-says#
― steening in your HOOSless carriage (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 26 June 2013 00:28 (ten years ago) link
do you guys even think Obama knows who michael hastings is
― iatee, Wednesday, 26 June 2013 00:31 (ten years ago) link
Sure. He reads Andrew Sullivan.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 June 2013 00:32 (ten years ago) link
oh no buzzfeed is turning against me I guess I have to kill some people
― iatee, Wednesday, 26 June 2013 00:34 (ten years ago) link
maybe the white house should start an animated gif department to counter buzzfeed's gaining influence, also then they won't have to kill so many journalists
when the us govt wants to get rid of a journalist it doesnt kill him it tries to leverage access w/ other papers and influential ppl to discredit him and prevent him from getting a job. and maybe he kills himself later or something, but it doesnt matter.
when it wants to kill a us citizen it connects him with terrorism and sends a drone in
it doesnt... hack... his car. i mean the sort of willful disregard of the actually weirdly open and transparent workings of power here, which hastings himself had mentioned in the past!
like, if someone said, the MOB took him out, i might buy that?
without even knowing hastings it seems p clear that the poor guy was strung out and paranoid in the final weeks of his life, not hard to end up crashing your car at 4am in a state of mind like that
i suppose you could arrange a kind of aaron swartz style path of causation. but the fbi wasnt investigating him.
― max, Wednesday, 26 June 2013 00:57 (ten years ago) link
max is only saying this so he doesn't get killed
― iatee, Wednesday, 26 June 2013 01:00 (ten years ago) link
max u better check the firewall on yr kick scooter
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 26 June 2013 01:03 (ten years ago) link