Greenwald's smug tone is totally wrong for this moment. He just shruggingly says "the corrupt deep state is at war with the new fascist president, just like them huh" *rolls eyes* as if that is 1.) normal and 2.) the most plausible answer to the multiple links between Trump and the Kremlin. It's as if those things couldn't possible be connected to Trump's Putinesque desire for a fractured Europe and an end to NATO.
Like, maybe too much is being made of coincidences -- maybe the CIA is framing Trump or something -- but wouldn't that also be a fucking weird thing to be happening?
― Treeship, Friday, 20 January 2017 20:52 (seven years ago) link
it is interesting that the settler colonial state is a scarier prospect to world peace than the country killing more ppl in syria than the entire history of the israeli/arab conflict and who most recently annexed a chunk of another actually existing country
― Mordy, Friday, 20 January 2017 20:52 (seven years ago) link
I feel like part of what motivated Greenwald is protecting the Wikileaks brand
― Treeship, Friday, 20 January 2017 20:54 (seven years ago) link
so scary the US moving the embassy to west jerusalem
you bet it is, genius, plus a Likud maniac blessing DT in D.C. yesterday as "king of the United States"
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 January 2017 20:57 (seven years ago) link
*moves bookmark*
― k3vin k., Friday, 20 January 2017 20:58 (seven years ago) link
yes why is it so scary exactly? why shouldn't the capital be in west jerusalem? bc not even west jerusalem should be a part of israel?
― Mordy, Friday, 20 January 2017 20:58 (seven years ago) link
shouldn't it be in*
― Mordy, Friday, 20 January 2017 20:59 (seven years ago) link
Greenwald spent most of the last month of the race between Clinton and Trump disseminating Russian hacks attacking Clinton. He's been extremely defensive ever since.
― Frederik B, Friday, 20 January 2017 21:01 (seven years ago) link
Glick told The Intercept that many in Israel didn’t feel like Obama was willing to consider their point of view. “Can you imagine the president of France saying, ‘Listen I don’t think it’s a good idea that Washington should be your capital. Maybe Orlando!'”
(The residents of Washington, D.C. may be without full voting rights but they are not militarily occupied or denied citizenship like the Palestinians in East Jerusalem.)
“Jerusalem is the capital of Israel whether you like it or you don’t,” he concluded.
https://theintercept.com/2017/01/19/israeli-lawmakers-celebrate-the-new-king-of-the-united-states-with-evangelicals/
http://www.btselem.org/topic/jerusalem
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 January 2017 21:04 (seven years ago) link
you didn't answer my question - the status of east jerusalem is a non-sequitar to the question of why the embassy shouldn't be in west jerusalem
― Mordy, Friday, 20 January 2017 21:06 (seven years ago) link
maybe give it a think - it might give you some insight into a conflict you've until now only followed through twitter one liners.
― Mordy, Friday, 20 January 2017 21:07 (seven years ago) link
*bookmarks thread*
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 20 January 2017 21:09 (seven years ago) link
guess what idgaf about
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 January 2017 21:13 (seven years ago) link
Judd Apatow!
― Οὖτις, Friday, 20 January 2017 21:15 (seven years ago) link
The respect of others? Whether anybody reads your idiotic one-note posts? Having any measurable impact on the world at all?
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 20 January 2017 21:39 (seven years ago) link
I was just gonna go with "anything"
― (The caption: “fine dining.”) (DJP), Friday, 20 January 2017 21:41 (seven years ago) link
great discussion guys
― k3vin k., Friday, 20 January 2017 21:41 (seven years ago) link
somehow worse than treeship's pantswetting revive
at least treeship didn't suggest the cia try to get rid of greenwald
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 20 January 2017 21:44 (seven years ago) link
who did
― Mordy, Friday, 20 January 2017 21:45 (seven years ago) link
Pinned TweetGlenn Greenwald @ggreenwald Feb 12"Russian agent" - noun - "One who criticizes Democratic Party leaders." Syn: "Useful idiot, Putin loyalist, Kremlin spy."59 replies 439 retweets 1,054 likes
guesses on how much longer this stays the pinned tweet?
― Mordy, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 05:04 (seven years ago) link
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 14:07 (seven years ago) link
Morbs?
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 16:41 (seven years ago) link
ah it's the Think Tank Triumvirate!
(j/k Tom is much smarter than you other two vertebrates)
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 February 2017 16:47 (seven years ago) link
I'm sure he flattered
― Mordy, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 16:58 (seven years ago) link
he's*
I admit I had to wiki it in my confusion, but... aren't we all vertebrates?
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 17:16 (seven years ago) link
ILX annual checkups on March 1
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 February 2017 17:30 (seven years ago) link
He meant invertebrates, Fred.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 17:34 (seven years ago) link
i didn't actually, telepath, i was giving you the BotD
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 February 2017 17:36 (seven years ago) link
At least Fred admits when he doesn't know what a word means.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 17:37 (seven years ago) link
I don't know what BotD means. I'm assuming the D stands for Dick, and not entirely comfortable with where this discussion is going.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 17:41 (seven years ago) link
he was calling you lower forms of life by referring to you by subphylum rather than species
― ornate orchestral arrangements (DJP), Tuesday, 14 February 2017 17:42 (seven years ago) link
reminder that this all started when fred decided to take an unprovoked potshot at morbs
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 14 February 2017 17:44 (seven years ago) link
xp is that a real thing? i've heard of ppl using invertebrate as an insult or even reprobate. i've never heard someone use vertebrate as an insult. occum's razor suggests that the brilliant film critic just a characteristically dumb mistake rather than he was using language in a novel and difficult to parse way. it's a bit sleep is where i'm a viking.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 17:46 (seven years ago) link
Mordy and Fred, together at last.
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Tuesday, 14 February 2017 17:49 (seven years ago) link
― k3vin k., 14. februar 2017 18:44 (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I assumed that was what El Tomboto was doing as well?
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 17:53 (seven years ago) link
is any potshot at morbs unprovoked at this point?
― iatee, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 17:54 (seven years ago) link
youre such a little prisonpunk, Mord
benefit of the Drumpf, FB
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 February 2017 17:56 (seven years ago) link
― ornate orchestral arrangements (DJP), 14. februar 2017 18:42 (fourteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
But... isn't subphylum a higher rank than species?
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 17:58 (seven years ago) link
yes, that insult definitely makes sense. i'm easily bullied by ppl into working for them. you have quite a way with words. i understand why you decided to make a career out of it. xp
― Mordy, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 17:59 (seven years ago) link
To be fair, the fact that Morbs seems not to have developed his insult-capacities that well speaks well of his reviewing skills. The whole name-calling thing is such hackery.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 18:04 (seven years ago) link
i quit film criticism 3 years ago btw, for the good of all
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 February 2017 18:42 (seven years ago) link
this fucking guyhttps://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/846334735169261569
― Mordy, Monday, 27 March 2017 13:18 (seven years ago) link
what do your studies show, dingaling?
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 March 2017 14:05 (seven years ago) link
wonder if you can figure out why this framing is lying w/ statistics
― Mordy, Monday, 27 March 2017 14:08 (seven years ago) link
that's nice
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 March 2017 14:10 (seven years ago) link
Morbs is kinda the scott adams of ilxor, here to explain why your inability to grok stats makes your assclowneyness predictable and boorring.
― wishy washy hippy variety hour (Hunt3r), Monday, 27 March 2017 14:15 (seven years ago) link
blow me
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 March 2017 14:16 (seven years ago) link
Monday's off to a good start!
― Not the real Tombot (El Tomboto), Monday, 27 March 2017 14:20 (seven years ago) link