defend the indefensible: glenn fucking greenwald

uh

Not positive Glenn Greenwald and Dan Savage are different people actually

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/08/what-actual-resistance-looks-like

(To me, however, he has always been unfailingly kind and generous, and has repeatedly used his platform to promote our little left-wing magazine.)

does not disqualify the merit of his documentation nor the sincerity of his opinion obv.

the essay speaks for itself I think

clearly everyone should be disqualified from ever writing about anyone who has said nice things about them

i meant what i wrote, but rethinkin this, now that trump pointedly compliments those with whom he has korrupt as fuck “relationships,” all compliments are suspect in my world.

tho my unpopularity affords me great license, ‘tis true.

Veja o momento em que @augustosnunes agride @ggreenwald ao vivo na @JovemPanNews. É um absurdo esse descontrole por parte de Nunes, que usou os filhos do Glenn para atacá-lo por causa de matérias da Vaza Jato pic.twitter.com/aJjODSxaZA

— George Marques (@GeorgMarques) November 7, 2019

for context, the old guy is a bolsanaro lackey journalist who recently (jokingly, I think) suggested that since glenn spends all day on twitter and his husband is always away, who is taking care of their children and should a child welfare court get involved. today they appeared on (I guess) a right-wing radio show and glenn confronted him about it, he repeated what he said, glenn called him a coward about 7 times, and then that happened

would not be surprised if glenn gets killed down there.. and I say that as a critique of brazil, not glenn

yeah, he's fighting the good fight against some of the worst people in the world

um there's a way to do that and like _every_ _fucking_ _thing_ _he_ _does_, it's not convincing. well, i've heard the dogs must fall for it tbh.

what a grotesque post lol

xp. you're a shithead

i do appreciate you james, wherever you are

gay jewish man and his POC husband, who had a good friend - a trans POC politician - murdered by right-wing activists, is physically attacked by a fascist journalist who had targeted his family.

"this isn't convincing"

fair enough. i was not aware of part two of that statement. (tucker carlson is targeting his allies every day).

I think Greenwood is doing important things in his current work, has made a rough path for himself due to his life circumstances, and deserves some credit for calling out the right parties in the past

He’s also kind of an obstinate, opportunistic shithead and has harmed innocent people along the way. He can be both things.

some of u r gonna die with GG hate on your last breath

will never have hate for GG's boyfriend, he is hot!

(husband)

some of u r gonna die with GG hate on your last breath

Would give solid odds that your last word will be "Hillary" so...

i sincerely hope he doesn’t get killed

^^^ Oh yeah, 100%. I mean, the dude's a piece of shit and an idiot who I believe has done more harm than good, but I am firmly anti-people being murdered by a fascist government.

trying out "unperson"

how has he done more harm than good? because of russiagate skepticism?

made america's killing machine less efficient

Inadvertently helping the Russians in getting Trump elected was a pretty big mistake imo. And kinda hard to make up for. But his Brazilian reporting (which of course is done with others) is very good and could do it.

you can't "make up for" something by doing something completely different, because people don't have scorecards and there's no afterlife, but "the russians" were such a vanished drop-in-the-bucket factor in what we have done to ourselves i can't imagine how infinitesimally responsible someone who only helped them was

p sure i personally deserve a greater share of blame for what happened just by being a citizen (as does greenwald)

GG has voiced plenty of opinions that i disagree with but i can think of no scenario, literally none, in which any of those opinions had a noticeable effect on the outcome of the 2016 election

Ok, but by that standard his new reporting isn't that important anyway, because Bolsanaro is mostly being defeated by his own idiocy. It's a pretty pathetic excuse that Greenwald helping Russians elect Trump probably didn't turn the election. It was a stupid thing to do anyway, and pretty obviously stupid at the moment.

And the only reason they did it was that they thought Clinton was sure to be elected anyway. Publishing a private persons emails which had been hacked by Russian intelligence was straightforwardly indefensible from a leftist website concerned with privacy. But, y'know, he was probably going to be chief of staff?

both the inputs and outputs of our social lives are so highly mediated that alleging (let alone proving) any actor's level of causation is a not always a best eval. you can fall back to "reasonable duty of care" sort of shit. who wants that. people want to ~know~ who did what.

(then suddenly youre gavrilo princip and this car pulls around the corner with an assload of hillary's emails and that shit needs to be distributed.)

just retweeting the controversy

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ELi3ravX0AcBAmB.jpg

christ

He is so fucking pathetic

And mega butthurt

"i assume mollie didn't make it up."

safe assumption about a federalist writer and fox news contributor

He’s so far past the point of absurdity it pains me that ppl I respect still take him seriously

Do they?

how many columns do you think glenn has written in his career where he's hysterically castigated a writer for "commenting on" a reported story that turned out not to be true? 100? 300?

ppl's inability to just admit they fucked up is an epidemic

why would you expect (one of the biggest right wing hacks out there) to just make things up?

Greenwarg will have a crisis of faith and go on CNN about how he trusted his sources and how he was had by bad actors

I hope his head falls off #tmbg

Won't happen

Gronn Greenwarg

I know his head won't fall off. Geez.

So you admit that you SHAMELESSLY and RECKLESSLY posted a SPURIOUS hope for an event that you KNEW had NO POSSIBILITY of ever happening, and arrogantly expected it to go totally UNCHALLENGED, probably due to your vast and unreported connections to FBI, CIA, NSA, NSC, and their media stooges!

Haha