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sean10mm posted:Should be easy to quote them doing that if this is what they actually said, and not a strawman. I also hate him for being the absolute media scold he thinks he's owning on the internet.
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Slanderer posted:You can't just saying "it's disinformation" because you think the conclusions are weak Which is why it's a good thing I don't just say that, and this take is bad. I generally think his arguments would be less weak if he hadn't become so ardently fixated on disinformation, but I would also find them less insufferable, so it would more or less help the entirety of my appraisal of him. quote:You could simply block him on twitter, if you like defending US wars and the erosion of free speech this much. Turning someone's disapproval of Greenwald on account of his obvious transphobia, bigotry, and playing to right wing reactionaries into 'i guess you like defending US wars and the erosion of free speech' or .. well, generally whatever this play is intended to play out as, is awful. And I think even talk about Greenwald should have a floor.
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# ? Mar 24, 2021 20:44 |
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Why is the erosion of free speech always about the right to defend phrenology again and never about why someone like Richard Wolff would never appear on Fox or MSNBC?
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Beelzebufo posted:Why is the erosion of free speech always about the right to defend phrenology again and never about why someone like Richard Wolff would never appear on Fox or MSNBC? because when most people talk about free speech they're talking about their personal ability to say whatever they want - not yours. at least glenn is more consistent than most on arguing for entirely unrestricted speech (including defending his critiques from twitter bans), so his issue is being hopelessly naive about how speech, even fringe speech, translates to actions in 2021.
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Aruan posted:because when most people talk about free speech they're talking about their personal ability to say whatever they want - not yours. at least glenn is more consistent than most on arguing for entirely unrestricted speech (including defending his critiques from twitter bans), so his issue is being hopelessly naive about how speech, even fringe speech, translates to actions in 2021. Right, but Glenn hasn't really gone out of his way to say, boost the voices of the indigenous groups Bolsonaro is currently massacring in the Amazon, either. The defence of "Free Speech", framed purely in terms of already famous people being cancelled or blacklisted, is absurdly reductive and works to reinforce the barriers to entry of ideas outside of the overton window. Glenn is at best a useful idiot for people like Tucker, who already absolutely do advocate for denying groups like BLM or BSD the right to free speech, or he is in active collusion with them to frame free speech discussions in such a way as to make the only relevant problem cancelling of media figures. Now, this isn't the reason I dislike Glenn. This thread has covered why Glenn's output is reprehensible and why he is a bad person. But claiming he's at least a voice for "free speech" really only works if your definition of free speech exists purely within twitter and primetime news. E: I doubt the people currently passing laws making it legal to run over protestors in Mississippi are feeling particularly called out by Glenn Beelzebufo fucked around with this message at 20:59 on Mar 24, 2021 |
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Aruan posted:because when most people talk about free speech they're talking about their personal ability to say whatever they want - not yours. at least glenn is more consistent than most on arguing for entirely unrestricted speech (including defending his critiques from twitter bans), so his issue is being hopelessly naive about how speech, even fringe speech, translates to actions in 2021. Yeah, Greenwald's take on free speech is mostly in line with "marketplace of ideas" folk who sincerely end up arguing in favor of unbound access to exposure to publication or social exposure by private platforms, in line with the more naive takes by owners of places like reddit, twitter, or even wikipedia that led to shadow infestations of .. well, all that stuff we remember from before they rolled back from the "we don't want to be arbiters of acceptable speech" standpoint. He's only going to be reductively in favor of free speech, to the benefit of people who don't really favor free speech, they're just being successfully constrained from public exposure for being awful and are trying to shift that culture war back in their favor.
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# ? Mar 24, 2021 21:07 |
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Slanderer posted:You could simply block him on twitter, if you like defending US wars and the erosion of free speech this much. Personally I think it's good to have a single voice on the biggest cable network occasionally doing this things, since no one else is (or at least not when their party is in power). It is incredibly unhealthy to have this kind of weird parasocial relationship with a blogger where you actively hate someone you follow by your own choice Glenn supported the Iraq war. From the preface of his 2006 book titled "How Would a Patriot Act?": quote:During the lead-up to the invasion, I was concerned that the hell-bent focus on invading Iraq was being driven by agendas and strategic objectives that had nothing to do with terrorism or the 9/11 attacks. The overt rationale for the invasion was exceedingly weak, particularly given that it would lead to an open-ended, incalculably costly, and intensely risky preemptive war. Around the same time, it was revealed that an invasion of Iraq and the removal of Saddam Hussein had been high on the agenda of various senior administration officials long before September 11. Despite these doubts, concerns, and grounds for ambivalence, I had not abandoned my trust in the Bush administration. Between the president’s performance in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the swift removal of the Taliban in Afghanistan, and the fact that I wanted the president to succeed, because my loyalty is to my country and he was the leader of my country, I still gave the administration the benefit of the doubt. I believed then that the president was entitled to have his national security judgment deferred to, and to the extent that I was able to develop a definitive view, I accepted his judgment that American security really would be enhanced by the invasion of this sovereign country. Not only that, he later attacked others for supporting it: quote:But Thomas Friedman wants you to know that Iraqis were so very fortunate to have an occupying military force -- America -- that "everyone on the ground" in Iraq "trusted" to "manage the transition." And Syrians should hope and pray they are so lucky. ...and then had the audacity to deny that that he himself had supported it: quote:When the Iraq War was debated and then commenced, I was not a writer. I was not a journalist. I was not politically engaged or active. I never played any role in political debates or controversies. Unlike the countless beloved Democrats who actually did support the war - including Obama's Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton - I had no platform or role in politics of any kind. The dude is not just a incredibly annoying moron with deplorable opinions, but also a shameless liar.
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Thorn Wishes Talon posted:Glenn supported the Iraq war. From the preface of his 2006 book titled "How Would a Patriot Act?": Glenn comes off a lot better than our president tbh (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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# ? Mar 25, 2021 08:12 |
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tom kite posted:Glenn comes off a lot better than our president tbh Lol I just remembered biden also denied supporting the iraq war
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# ? Mar 25, 2021 08:13 |
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tom kite posted:Lol I just remembered biden also denied supporting the iraq war There's a thing with a lot of older and stupid politicians that they haven't really internalised that the internet is a thing. That literally everything they do and say that's captured on camera is available to the entire world at a moment's notice. They still think they can lie freely about what they do and don't support and what they have and haven't said and done, and by the time the fact-checkers catch them out no one will care.
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# ? Mar 25, 2021 08:24 |
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tom kite posted:Glenn comes off a lot better than our president tbh We have reached peak D&D. "The open fascist comes off better than the Democratic President."
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# ? Mar 25, 2021 09:28 |
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So to be clear, it's fair game in D&D to signal boost anybody who's an overt transphobe bigot in goddamn 2021 as long as it lets me score a sweet on my posting enemies? Because that sure seems to be the takeaway from all this.
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# ? Mar 25, 2021 12:12 |
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I once got Glenn Greenwald to tell me on Twitter that it didn't matter that he went on Tucker Carlson because he didn't make money off the appearances. I didn't have the heart to tell him that made things even worse. I mean, there's the TERFism, the signal-boosting of white supremacy, the shitfit he threw at the Intercept over the Hunter Biden non-story...there is no reason to die on Glenn Greenwald Hill anymore. It is very clear that he hates what he perceives as "liberalism" more than honest-to-God fascism, as is evidenced by all his actions over the last decade or so. There are other foreign policy journalists that do real good work and get drowned out by this turd because he's the loudest voice in the room. Fritz Coldcockin fucked around with this message at 13:06 on Mar 25, 2021 |
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Thorn Wishes Talon posted:Glenn supported the Iraq war. From the preface of his 2006 book titled "How Would a Patriot Act?": Holy poo poo you're patheic. Even the daily kos--the daily loving kos lmao-- that you quoted his book from, is itself presenting it as part of the full quote from him that is literally a direct response to libs mad about him critizing Obama trying to take his own writing about his political awakening out of context as a gotcha. You literally quoted him quoting himself to explain how libs use it as a gotcha, and tried to use it as a gotcha. Again, from the page you yourself quoted from: quote:[Claim] I supported the Iraq War and/or George Bush
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# ? Mar 25, 2021 13:42 |
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I didn't have to write any of that overwrought nonsense or quote Abraham Lincoln and I still knew the Iraq and Afghanistan wars were bullshit back in the day. Guess I'm ten times the journalist Glenn Fuckwald is. This is the Jordan Peterson fanboy defense of "oh you think he said something plainly and obviously dumb", but if you read his entire book or watch this 4 hour YouTube series you'll find that he actually never said that and also you're wrong for ever doubting him. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST) lynch_69 fucked around with this message at 14:35 on Mar 25, 2021 |
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Funny how Glenn can use "I gave the President the benefit of the doubt" as an excuse and his defenders will allow it, and yet none of the Senators who used it are given the same courtesy. He loves to pretend that he's the smartest person in the room, and yet he fell for the big lie just like a lot of other people and tried to pretend he didn't because he "wasn't political". You don't get to say this and bill yourself as some sort of crusader against government overreach in the foreign policy arena, hope that helps. Fritz Coldcockin fucked around with this message at 14:31 on Mar 25, 2021 |
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Fritz Coldcockin posted:Funny how Glenn can use "I gave the President the benefit of the doubt" as an excuse and his defenders will allow it, and yet none of the Senators who used it are given the same courtesy. He loves to pretend that he's the smartest person in the room, and yet he fell for the big lie just like a lot of other people and tried to pretend he didn't because he "wasn't political". Personally, I think elected representatives, who are paid a tremendous amount of money and have access to military intelligence and a swarm of staffers, should be held to a higher standard than the average citizen who only passively consumes the news from corporate media. While a "my bad" might suffice for an uninformed voter who privately assumed the media was being honest with them, I kinda think that materially supporting a war that caused a million deaths, even after they couldn't hide behind the WMD fig leaf, is a far worse crime. Especially since those same senators knew very well that Iraq was just the springboard for invading Iran, and still demanding that it has to "pay" to this very loving day lol. But you know, maybe that's a controversial position
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Slanderer posted:Personally, I think elected representatives, who are paid a tremendous amount of money and have access to military intelligence and a swarm of staffers, should be held to a higher standard than the average citizen who only passively consumes the news from corporate media. so glenn is only as informed as the average citizen, good to know. we can safely ignore him completely then
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# ? Mar 25, 2021 15:12 |
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SpiritOfLenin posted:so glenn is only as informed as the average citizen, good to know. we can safely ignore him completely then He was in 2004, as he freely admits. What's your excuse for believing Rachel Maddow in 2021? (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Slanderer posted:He was in 2004, as he freely admits. What's your excuse for believing Rachel Maddow in 2021? what the gently caress are you going on about?
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Slanderer posted:He was in 2004, as he freely admits. What's your excuse for believing Rachel Maddow in 2021? Who the gently caress cares about Rachel Maddow, other than the fact that she isn’t an anti-trans bigot?
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SpiritOfLenin posted:what the gently caress are you going on about? It’s a common brain disease with Glennwald fanboys. Anyone who disagrees with them or their idol is automatically a centrist austerity loving neoliberal shill. Their perceived enemies are all around them.
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Solkanar512 posted:Who the gently caress cares about Rachel Maddow, other than the fact that she isn’t an anti-trans bigot? I am going to guess this is going to lead to something MSNBC supports the Democratic Party, therefore you are the rube, unlike Glenn Greenwald defender of truth.
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure "safely ignored" is exactly how this forum reacts to Maddow, or most any mainstream commentator to be honest. I only ever hear about her from angry right-wing relatives.
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lynch_69 posted:It’s a common brain disease with Glennwald fanboys. Anyone who disagrees with them or their idol is automatically a centrist austerity loving neoliberal shill. Their perceived enemies are all around them. i had to check if i missed some mention of Maddow on this page but, no, he just randomly accused me of believing Maddow about... I don't even know what. just confusing.
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Slanderer posted:He was in 2004, as he freely admits. What's your excuse for believing Rachel Maddow in 2021? We don't give a flying gently caress about Rachel Maddow; why is she at all germane to a conversation about a man who espouses TERFism, signal-boosts white supremacy, and cheers fascism as long as the boot isn't on his neck?
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Slanderer posted:Personally, I think elected representatives, who are paid a tremendous amount of money and have access to military intelligence and a swarm of staffers, should be held to a higher standard than the average citizen who only passively consumes the news from corporate media. While a "my bad" might suffice for an uninformed voter who privately assumed the media was being honest with them, I kinda think that materially supporting a war that caused a million deaths, even after they couldn't hide behind the WMD fig leaf, is a far worse crime. Especially since those same senators knew very well that Iraq was just the springboard for invading Iran, and still demanding that it has to "pay" to this very loving day lol. As an aside.... the military intelligence that the Democratic Senators and their staffers received before the Iraq vote was cooked by Douglas Feith and other Cheney cronies before it was given to them. Your assumption that they all voted for it because they wanted a springboard for invading Iran is just more of the same broken brain “I hate Democrats more than actual fascists and trust Breitbart more than the Washington Post” bullshit that infects D&D so badly. ( and before this gets twisted, I’m not saying that anyone should have supported the Iraq invasion. It was a hosed up decision all around. All I’m saying is that the Democrats who did support did so for essentially the same reasons that Saint Glenn Greenwood did and Glenn is shown to be an enormous loving hypocrite one again. But the broke brain crowd just can’t stop defending him, because he hates some of the same people they do)
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SpiritOfLenin posted:what the gently caress are you going on about? This thread has been one heck of a honeypot.
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Sodomy Hussein posted:This thread has been one heck of a honeypot. Attracting brokebrains in D&D isn't exactly a feat.
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Slanderer posted:Why does him having principles about free speech make you so mad? Having principles about free speech is good, but when "freedom of speech" is understood primarily as a set of cultural principles rather than a legal right, it tends to end up too self-contradictory to really be called a set of principles. (That's not to say that censorship by private actors is never a problem, or that there aren't times and places for uninhibited debate, but editors at a news organization doing their jobs is not inherently a grievous wrong, as Glenn seems to think, and as I assume The Intercept has had editors ever since Glenn co-founded it, his outrage is hypocritical.)
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Attracting brokebrains in D&D isn't exactly a feat. hey, i represent that remark.
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Fritz Coldcockin posted:We don't give a flying gently caress about Rachel Maddow; Literally the only time I see Maddow mentioned is by A) Smoothbrained chuds who think that everyone to the left of open fascism worships her and watches her show religiously B) Smoothbrained contrarians on this board who thinks that USPol worships her and watches her show religiously. nobody gives the slightest poo poo about Maddow but bringing her up usually is a great shibboleth for someone who is arguing against a strawman of their own construction.
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Jaxyon posted:Literally the only time I see Maddow mentioned is by hey to be fair there was that one time when she claimed she had trump's tax records and everyone made fun of her
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Jaxyon posted:Literally the only time I see Maddow mentioned is by yeah, i dont know anyone but one of my moms liberal friends(who voted for bernie in the primaries) she is mostly a liberal/leftish boomer thing i guess. my parents news is nbc news with lester holt.
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# ? Mar 25, 2021 18:19 |
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https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1375079174440955912 https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1375080283918188551 what a little loving parasite. yeah the old terf rear end in a top hat who invades a queer womens space and shames many of them on his little blog and then pretends to be trans as a lark and the site that lets him do it is the real loving victims. clearly glenn boy detective has found the solution. Dapper_Swindler fucked around with this message at 18:47 on Mar 25, 2021 |
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Dapper_Swindler posted:https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1375079174440955912 Tyranny is when workers strike
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Once you start Glinnering on Twitter there's rarely any way back.
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Jaxyon posted:Literally the only time I see Maddow mentioned is by I'm honestly trying to remember the last time I saw someone in USPol mention Maddow. I think the dingus up-thread is the first time I've seen a post with her name in it since before the election.
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Sanguinia posted:I'm honestly trying to remember the last time I saw someone in USPol mention Maddow. I think the dingus up-thread is the first time I've seen a post with her name in it since before the election. the only post mentioning maddow since jan 26th was a single post on on feb 26th (there's now a thread-specific search) and it was generically referencing her as someone that arguments could devolve into being about so yeah, not really a thing
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