defend the indefensible: glenn fucking greenwald

At this point getting dog piled by GG and his followers is something like a badge of honor

Is it me or is this turd getting much worse much faster?

Weren't we only gonna bump this thread when he croaks?

damn

glenn greenwald, i don’t have $10,000 right now but if i get it i want to send it back to you from a donation you once did. i can’t deal with this anymore. im terrified of you and everything you do. you’re greedy, unprincipled, and im embarrassed for ever considering you a friend

— Chelsea E. Manning (@xychelsea) September 2, 2021

His response (which I won't reproduce here) is super fucking choice, too.

Never thought I would unironically RT @xychelsea but there you are. You go girl, on this matter anyway

— Louise Mensch, M.A. (@LouiseMensch) September 2, 2021

i mean yes but ok louise

kinda shocked Louise is not siding with Glenn at this pt

I find that when I click on a weird Twitter response to a political post to look at the person's feed (why do I do this? Some kind of mild self-harm instinct I guess) I surprisingly often find it's an anti-religion, anti-"critical race theory", anti-woke, Greenwald-loving account. This is a constellation of views I don't think I really understand, but it's out there.

the cheese has absolutely slid off of his cracker:

This was a pivotal moment in the pandemic's history:

For 4 months, the message was clear and unrelenting: everyone must stay home. Those who leave - even to go to a deserted beach - are reckless sociopaths.

It flipped overnight to endorse a mass protest movement liberals liked: https://t.co/SJUIz0dbOw

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) December 28, 2021

wtf

Ah yes, the important Grim Reapah on the beach story everyone remembers

“we lost faith in covid messaging bc of blm protests”…. hella brainworms

he's always been like this, guys

See: defend the indefensible: glenn fucking greenwald

otm

“This is what the Nazis did.” pic.twitter.com/DeeYT5qkqE

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) January 25, 2022

He’s doing a bit to make fun of people who got mad at Trump for vilifying the press.

apologies for sharing this clever satire from Glenn. I’m unfortunately blocked and can’t keep up with rapier wit.

he's not capable of 'doing bits'

this is the type of thing GG would say in earnest, if you've read his Twitter in the last 6 months. if that's sarcasm, well...then he's not good at it.

also lol at him thinking calling a reporter a "son of a bitch" is the same as calling them the "enemy of the people" , revoking press passes for reporters he didn't like, accusing Acosta of beating his intern, etc.

god I hate this prick and hope he drops dead of a stroke

yeah it's just really dumb sarcasm.

i did see that he's recently dropped his support of Lula in favor of an alternative candidate who's polling in single digits and will by most people's estimations act as a spoiler to help Bolsonaro, so that's pretty cool.

he tries to do bits all the time and i agree that this is one of them (he's extremely bad at them bcz he's a terrible writer at all times in all modes)

re his shifting political allegiance in brazil (and his husband's, since that's who's switching parties here) i actually think he's eversoslightly correct (i complained abt it way upthread) that US english speakers especially only ever really pay attention to the detail of brazilian politics to own him and make very little attempt whatever to keep themselves informed in a serious way (caveat: memes abt bolsonaro getting covid for the 409857203957th time are never not funny)

yeah it's just really dumb sarcasm.

i did see that he's recently dropped his support of Lula in favor of an alternative candidate who's polling in single digits and will by most people's estimations act as a spoiler to help Bolsonaro, so that's pretty cool.

good question! i believe he helped found a brazilian edition of the intercept tho i imagine there's been a parting of the ways since lol

he's broken at least one big brazilian story as i understand it. i gather his (tweeted) portuguese isn't terrible tho i'd definitely be interested in knowing how well he handles being edited in portuguese, give how badly he handles being edited in english. p hard to find anyone commenting objectively tho…

i "believe" i "understand" i "gather" -- i mean, i would like better access to better information on this!

Ah yes

🤯 pic.twitter.com/Iceprnn6cH

— andy™ (@andylevy) February 25, 2022

Ukraine never became part of NATO but Greenwald and those who think like him believe that just talking about that made Putin's war inevitable and sorta justified. Crazy. I think even if there had been no NATO talk, Putin still would have wanted Ukraine

Here's the view on Russia/Ukraine of former long-time President of Bolivia Evo Morales: pic.twitter.com/1fuH2Zqd4Z

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) February 25, 2022

I for one am glad someone is willing to stand up to the Newsmax/Bernie/CIA consensus

Seems like almost everyone in his general orbit has been owning up to mistakes, poor judgment, (understandable) over-skepticism of US intelligence, but he seems genuinely incapable of admitting that he’s ever been wrong.

yeah even Michael Tracey somehow had an apologetic tweet

pic.twitter.com/o1uYqoEhb6

— ℮oin Higgins (@EoinHiggins_) March 14, 2022

I feel like reading this would actually kill brain cells.

Incredible new magazine just dropped https://t.co/TmbSAiMbkZ pic.twitter.com/JaSZR2w2oM

— Zack Beauchamp (@zackbeauchamp) March 22, 2022

most of the articles on the site would register as parody to me if i didn't know they were extremely not parodic

The one by the dude who wants more paintings he can jack off to was pretty funny.

Good Lord - Peter Hitchens, Nina Power and Paul Embery together at last.

Sam Kriss!

The one by the dude who wants more paintings he can jack off to was pretty funny.

― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, March 22, 2022 10:02 AM (seven minutes ago)

I almost injured my face grimacing at that one.

Was Power always like this and I just didn't realize it? Or did she jump into the deep end after I stopped paying attention (late 00s)?

No, she wasn’t. It’s a relatively recent thing. Hard turn towards conservatism when she took up with DC Miller.

What if there was a place where you could debate ideas others don't want you to know about? What if everything that has been settled could be shaken up? What if we could rethink age of consent laws? compactmag.com

xp
Ah ok thanks. I started her piece on "patriarchy" and couldn't believe I used to read someone so wilfully dense (also repugnant)

bets on when glenn quits in a huff?

"contributing editor" is the "influenced by" of magazine self-branding: the role will make absolutely no demands on his time or mind

Roles & Responsibilities: The Contributing Editor shall contribute nothing to the content of the magazine but will be expected to pissily defend it at length to randoms on twitter.

thats what i said lol

bets on when glenn quits in a huff?

― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Tuesday, March 22, 2022 10:29 AM (twenty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

When the site takes down an article for being Pro-something horrible

lol

is the title of the mag intentional or?? Compact Magazine is the German neo-fascist rag that routinely publishes Martin Sellner, the Austrian neo-Nazi whose Nazi shit is so extreme he got exiled from the UK and banned from entering the United States pic.twitter.com/QDk1WleJBy

— Elizabeth Bruenig (@ebruenig) March 22, 2022

.@ggreenwald is retweeting white supremacist cartoonist stonetoss pic.twitter.com/9N6wfyNvcp

— hannah gais (@hannahgais) March 24, 2022

New friends!