defend the indefensible: glenn fucking greenwald

Greenwald is flipping out on ppl who called him out on that shit tweet.

Partially by simultaneously throwing H3rz0g under the bus, then by admitting he used her as a shield against criticism.

Fuck this shit bag.

These are major social and cultural changes that are extremely new. I’ve lived as a gay man in LGBT communities way too long to give the slightest shit about bad faith accusations from anonyomous morons like you seeking to prevent any discussion or exploration of these trends.

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) February 24, 2021

(some of the clapbacks he got were great though)

I liked how he ignored that there are also more people who identify as trans than as lesbian in the "Traditionalist" (pre-Boomer) generation.

Maybe we can get a fact-check from one of our intrepid and totally non-partisan fact-checkers such as @ddale8, @GlennKesslerWP or @PolitiFact about this glaring, blatant lie Jen Psaki (so refreshingly) told to justify why Biden refuses to even sanction Mohammed bin Salman? pic.twitter.com/0FazuLMHh5

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 2, 2021

I published a fact check on this false claim yesterday. Good tweet, though https://t.co/siEHpfPd4c

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 2, 2021

greenwald school of journalism: never write that someone "falsely claimed" when you can say they "claimed -- falsely --"

he's like a Sideshow Bob forever in search of the next rake to tread on

greenwald school of journalism: never write that someone "falsely claimed" when you can say they "claimed -- falsely --"

― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Tuesday, March 2, 2021 1:12 PM (twenty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Haha. There's definitely a sneering tone to the latter: "Falsely, I might add!"

Christ, what an asshole.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EvpC684XAAU9FxZ.jpg

lmao

he's right, they're national socialists

Socialism is anything you want it to be, man.

Is that a real quote?

he so smart

Is that a real quote?

I'm not interested in this asshole enough to make shit up about him.

https://dailycaller.com/2021/03/03/glenn-greenwald-interview-tucker-carlson-socialism-christian-datoc-omeed-malik-populism/

imagine Glenn interviewing Sully Erna

"are you doing the best that you can?"
"fucking go away."

“...and I’m the King of Spain!”

I just heard Glenn talking to Virgil Texas and BJG about how Andrea Mitchell being condescending on twitter about Ted Cruz thinking he was quoting William Faulkner when he was actually quoting Shakespeare is the problem with American liberalism.

Is Ted Cruz a socialist.

A subscriber to "free speech" absolutist @ggreenwald's Substack just got canceled after leaving sort of a boring snarky comment at the bottom of Greenwald's latest post. 😂#RIPJimF pic.twitter.com/OdcXd559vP

— Nick Martin (@nickmartin) March 5, 2021

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v32/n13/jenny-turner/who-are-they

Good piece from 2010 on this anti-liberalism tendency stretching back into the late 80s.

I do think this is the relatively early stages of a newer incarnation though. Other than an organic crank core previous incarnations haven't had that much success within the wider 'left'. Spiked has outsized presence in the UK due to outside funding, and credulous amplification by the likes of the BBC rather than any genuine presence.

But this seems to me the earlyish stages of something more likely to gain a wider foothold, (previously?) respected figures on board. Populism for populisms sake, where populism is shouting and not understanding things.

The Nazbol Vortex is here, the Strasserite Arc. Tucker hates corporations too! Based!.

Hungry4Ass's first response that Greenwald is cooler than Mordy hasn't held up that well imo

Mordy is way cooler

this guy!

Imagine being the kind of person who, when a woman has the courage to open up about the abuse and misogyny she's endured just for doing her job, seizes the chance to publicly dunk on her for
*checks notes*
*double-checks notes*
*triple-checks notes*
not being julian assange pic.twitter.com/hBIO9j8O7W

— Will Oremus (@WillOremus) March 9, 2021

32 minutes apart. Absolutely breathtaking. pic.twitter.com/X19jajcQEa

— August J. Pollak (@AugustJPollak) March 9, 2021

But you see I was Joking!

It's literally impossible to satirize woke idiocy in a way that its practitioners will know you're doing it, because in their world, the most outlandish and idiotic uses of wokeism are cheered, so no matter how glaring you make the mockery, they still won't see it. https://t.co/nhXQG67cZZ

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 9, 2021

“staying offline and having my work impeded”

the joke-maker has logged on

he did some real good work today covering the crucial NatSec story of bidens dog biting someone. glad he found the courage to stay online, online, always online

wtf is this journalismgate horseshit

i feel like greenwald's twitter is always like one step removed from a lot of transphobic convos lately too, it's pretty incredible

There’s no way he hasn’t already ridden for J3ss3 S1ng@l

been stumping for him for years now

Today in "can someone just napalm his compound already?":

Greenwald and Katie Herzog lament that trans people have surpassed sis white gay men and lesbians on the "ladder of oppression." Glenn claims, "The minute you declare yourself nonbinary or trans, you catapult up the ladder of oppression that absolutely confers concrete benefits." pic.twitter.com/YOfiDhjEpL

— Matthew Dimitri 🐍🧪 (@themattdimitri) March 21, 2021

can I suggest we stop bumping this thread until a) Greenwald actually does something newsworthy/unexpected, or b) Greenwald dies?

cosign

I guess since he really has no defenders here anymore, we can drop the subject...

He had a tweet the other day that I actually liked— I was surprised, too!— but of course his motivations behind posting it were sus as hell.

you don't catapult up a ladder

i hit play, heard "declare yourself nonbinary or trans," closed tab

did think of michael scott declaring bankruptcy though

gl*nn gr**nwald and j*ck posobi*c are directing insane harassment to a literal INTERN (!!!) at USA Today

what kind of grown adult speaks this way to random young women doing their job.. it’s sickening. love this cute industry where harassment is supposedly par for the course. pic.twitter.com/aVsPosKmJ3

— Rachel E. Greenspan (@rach_greenspan) March 29, 2021

Our guy joins a great internet tradition

pic.twitter.com/SJCGltZbvR

— Maia 🏳️‍⚧️ (@EGirlMonetarism) April 12, 2021

glorified redditor

Out there fighting the good fight, defending Matt Gaetz and trying to nitpick about age of consent laws that are not applicable in the state of FL.

Due Process, Adult Sexual Morality and the Case of Rep. Matt Gaetzhttps://t.co/lhzST08RKr

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 11, 2021

can I suggest we stop bumping this thread until a) Greenwald actually does something newsworthy/unexpected, or b) Greenwald dies?

OTM

sorry to bump this thread before greenwald dies, i did not particularly want to end up reading one of his newsletters and then gazing at the conspiracy theorists in the comments section in horror but that's what happened this morning. him and taibbi and their apparent best bros jesse singal and andrew sullivan are like this susbtack thinktank now and are consistently rewarded and prioritized by their platform and i would feel a pleasant degree of schadenfreude at all of them collectively showing their asses especially about anything remotely touching trans issues if it weren't accompanied by a profound sense of dread and rage that they've made money and courted an audience over it. just had to get that out

Sullivan in particular has become liberated from any semblance of common sense and general courtesy; he's gleeful about his awfulness.