defend the indefensible: glenn fucking greenwald

Left, you've been busy the last 24 hours here.

fwiw i don't oppose the continued existence of spy agencies but i think it's good that the public now knows about the US government's mass surveillance programs and bad that the government tried to conceal them.

The last time I heard anyone give a shit about Brand, they were roasting him for his shock that “working class men” used the word apricot.

no but his persecution by PC harpies was a major galvanising event for the current iteration of anti-idpol leftism

― Left, Monday, December 21, 2020 8:56 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

buddy you've got the worst case of twitter brain i've ever seen

what I was alluding to was the k-punk essay which continues to be influential on the UK/US pop left. several british leftists I've interacted with have blamed critics of it (like me) for the author's death. so I'm bitter

xp this is a glenn greenwald thread

im not saying it’s good that gg went on tucker carlson or he shouldn’t have been cancelled for it, just that he didn’t get cancelled by the left for it

one of my primary issues with him is that gg is a big free speech supporter which necessarily involves being friends with and promoting the work of jesse singal

― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, December 21, 2020 7:56 AM (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

that gg isn’t cancelled by the left the way singal is proves my point tho

he didn't run afoul of the unpc anti-idpol left which was/is eager to shout down (i.e. cancel) anyone who calls out their fav celebrities on their bullshit (never forget russell brand)

― Left, Monday, December 21, 2020 8:50 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

nah this is just finger-pointing and judging from your ilx posts you’re just too knee-deep in left factionalism to see it (“the pc idpol left cancels people” “no the anti-pc un-idpol left cancel people!”) both groups constantly *try* to cancel ppl; it’s essentially the only political power they have. id argue pc cancellation is somewhat more effective; only like 0.1% of people are marxists but the vast majority of people don’t want to be perceived as bigots. calling someone a neoliberal doesn’t really stick the way racist, transphobic etc does

tucker is...semi cancelled? "out at his own outlet" merits at least that imo

so tucker carlsons show getting cancelled by fox cancels gg on the left by transitivity?

tucker was cancelled by libs and the center pulling his ad revenue, no? as has been clear for years now the left no longer has a monopoly on cancelling

lol sorry I meant to say gg was semi cancelled, funny how my brain confuzzles the two

unlike most people who get cancelled, gg personally told each and every person who said anything mean about him on twitter to fuck off

oh right lol i’d forgotten he got fired by intercept. although interestingly that was over him pushing hunter biden stuff, also he had likely orchestrated jumping ship to substack prior to it

GG = the Giuliani of the Jacobin fringe

lmao i had actually forgotten that that had all happened over the hunter biden story, and also i had completely forgotten the hunter biden story. what a hill of sand to die on

Brad, Brad.

You don't get it. You haven't a clue. This shows how the American media has made you supine.

Update 4:14pm: Glenn Greenwald confirmed as alive - despite Brad knowingly false-reporting that he died on a hill of sand!

guys here's a bad and inappropriate glenn greenwald joke

what did glenn greenwald change his name to after he bottomed without cleaning out first?

glenn brownwald

ew

calling someone a neoliberal doesn’t really stick the way racist, transphobic etc does

yeah that must be why major left orgs & media aren't full of racist & transphobes & predators with significant social capital who use accusations of neoliberalism to shut down nobodies who attempt to draw attention to those things

this non debate goes round in circles but if I'm in a bubble so are you because this is exactly the fisherite bs I was talking about

this is relevant to gg in that the radlib idpol wreckers were right about him years ago as all but the most unreconstructed assangeites now acknowledge and they are right about other things which the left establishment would still rather sweep under the rug

leftists: why are they so bad and hated

glenn greenwald: "when hating the libs goes wrong"

the spiked phenomenon. many such cases

spiked adds the element of trotskyism into the mix. never trust a trot

(I actually have family friends who are prominent trots and nice people but this is a general rule which I think is best followed)

I'm not ctrl-fing has someone made the inevitable "GG Allin had better politics" joke? Does Glenn like to drink and fuck as well as fight?

this non debate goes round in circles but if I'm in a bubble so are you because this is exactly the fisherite bs I was talking about

im not really in a bubble with regards to this stuff tbh (also im prejudiced against british ppl and ive never knowingly read anything by mark fisher) im just addicted to rubbernecking leftist drama on twitter. it’s more prurient sociological observation than partisanship

Why do you hate us so much? We are cancelling Xmas, doing Brexit and creating new covid strains. I don't get it..

i'm british and i hate british people more than anything in the world

prurient sociological observation sounds more interesting than partisanship but regardless this discourse didn't start on twitter and as boring as it sounds is formed by and informs the actual relations that constitute the left, labour movement, counterculture, or whatever. basically culture war is class war

when someone shows you who they are etc

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErkutSAVEAUSbKJ?format=png

also doing 2 hours with Megyn Kelly.

no one can say they weren't warned

Glenngreenwald Glenn Beck

Company you keep and keep and keep and keep and pays and keep and keep and keep im in brazil now and keep and keep and keep and keep

From Greenwald to Beck: Glenns on Crack-
Down

Two NYT editors lost their jobs in the Summer because they published an op-ed by a US Senator advocating a measure roughly 50% of Americans supported: deploy troops to quell unrest.

Now, Washington, DC is fully militarized with troops and everyone seems perfectly happy about it. https://t.co/6SYSmA3Y2H

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 19, 2021

Does anyone take this dude seriously anymore

Greenwald's right. What could have happened in the last two weeks to deserve an occupational force?

Nobody's happy about it, Glenn! Just trying to stay alive.

you should see the shit his minions are writing in reply.

pretty obvious that his readers are largely libertarian and or right-wingers atm

like does 25,000 National Guard on the National Mall make me happy?

fuck no, it makes me sad as hell. but then we have that image of cops walking insurrectionists out the door and taking selfies and....now u know why

I'm so glad that I only interact with Twitter through this website.

White supremacist supporter becomes authoritarian, film at 11.

Now this is some impressive galaxy brain. Who knew impeachment was all about an evil Dem plot to stick it to to Glenn and his pals?

It's been obvious from the start that a big reason why Dems & their GOP allies (Liz Cheney & friends) impeached Trump and threatened to do more was as a way to keep him in line for the last week, including not pardoning those they want eternally punished (Assange, Snowden, etc.): https://t.co/RrGXpj4bWG

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 19, 2021

When u are only as smart as a nail, everyone will hammer you, glennyboy

trump used to regularly riff on having snowden hanged for treason, LOL that glenn's derangement requires him to imagine trump actually secretly wanted to pardon him the whole time

it's been obvious from the start

The local Republicans I follow on Twitter have all taken to quoting Greenwald a lot and calling him things like “one of the bravest reporters in the world.”

maybe he's Q

The local Republicans I follow on Twitter have all taken to quoting Greenwald a lot and calling him things like “one of the bravest reporters in the world.”

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, January 20, 2021

one out of three's not bad i guess?