Sharks Eat Bear posted:

I'm admittedly not a youtube or podcast guy so I don't know anything about the ppl who made this video, but I thought it was an interesting analysis of Greenwald's allure to the left, despite him very much not being a leftist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ-lxwBTXUw

e: lol at seeing the thumbnail after i posted it


I think this is a pretty broad way of defining nazi, and I have a hard time understanding how this definition wouldn't lead you to calling all liberals nazis/fascists. Which is an argument that some ppl on this site will make, but I suspect that it's not what you're intending. Completely agree that Glenn is not some bastion of leftist ideals, that was literally my point.


Yeah but the person I was responding to was using "no one has any idea who this person is" as the metric for fringiness, and I strongly suspect that ppl on PBS Newshour or NPR aren't going to have much name recognition with the general public either. GG is a Pulitzer winning journalist that has been associated with major mainstream outlets, so I think it's fair to say he's a prominent figure in the media even if that doesn't mean he's a household name.

And ultimately it's kind of beside the point I was trying to make -- you're not getting a ton of criticism of neoliberalism on NPR or PBS. And I'm saying this as someone that listened to NPR daily and loved it, in pre-Covid times. If you're looking for neoliberal criticism, you don't have to go too far into the fringes to find GG, and I guess what I'm saying is, I don't think there are a lot of leftists with the same type of prominence, hence GG's popularity*.

*in addition to his shitposting energy, which i find simultaneously off-putting and entertaining

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Only meant to do it once, to be tongue in cheek about using a term that i think has kind of ~jumped the shark~. Hope that clears it the gently caress up!