and I would agree with GG that, as a society, it’s time to let go of Frum.
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 9 November 2020 22:47 (three years ago) link
Cosign
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Monday, 9 November 2020 23:16 (three years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EnDMFYmXIAUvxLr?format=jpg&name=900x900
― anvil, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 08:26 (three years ago) link
The CIA, the FBI, workplace managers, editors, the guy at the shop that makes me leave when they close up for the day, the Nazis, traffic lights and the people who make them, mom.
― anvil, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 08:29 (three years ago) link
Glemm's on fire (and running into the flammable curtains setting his entire apartment ablaze)
Hey Glenn,Good to hear from you. I’ve got a few questions.https://t.co/ehaIKfRntZ— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) November 16, 2020
― Change Display Name: (stevie), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 14:12 (three years ago) link
Those are all stories I broke in the last year.Should I have not reported those?Should I not have worked the phones for months, then slaughtered my mental health writing these stories?I don’t know. Maybe I should’ve just shut up.But that kind of feels like… censorship.— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) November 16, 2020
not defending glenn but iirc someone calling you a "dweeb" on twitter =/= censorship
― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 14:19 (three years ago) link
Glenn accused them of censorship first? Do you think Collins was "censor[ing]... the voices that are most threatening to them"?
― Change Display Name: (stevie), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 15:55 (three years ago) link
I mean that's clearly why Collins described it as "censorship" - did you not read the Glenn tweet he quoted?
― Change Display Name: (stevie), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 15:56 (three years ago) link
I did, I still thought his use of "censorship" there was a bit silly
― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 16:10 (three years ago) link
I agree that two wrongs don't make a right
― DJP, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 16:13 (three years ago) link
Unless you turn left by mistake twice instead of turning right twice.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 17:30 (three years ago) link
Are you driving in Boston, because in most cases you would only have turned 180 degrees
― DJP, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 18:43 (three years ago) link
love to imagine things
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EofZzElWEAEc8aT?format=jpg&name=small
― mookieproof, Saturday, 5 December 2020 19:46 (three years ago) link
he figured out bernie is a politician. better late than never
― Left, Saturday, 5 December 2020 20:05 (three years ago) link
does glenn want bernie to say uh yeah rudy giuliani is right. the dominion voting machines or whatever https://t.co/AmqbZosQ1q— raandy (@randygdub) December 5, 2020
― flopson, Saturday, 5 December 2020 20:53 (three years ago) link
“Deep State,” ffs Glenn.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 5 December 2020 21:11 (three years ago) link
stable genius glenn greenwald
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Saturday, 5 December 2020 21:20 (three years ago) link
Bernie, you let Glenn down
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Saturday, 5 December 2020 22:54 (three years ago) link
blogger on blogger crime
Shitty, mediocre, conventional-wisdom-spouting blogger who has never done a day of journalism or reporting in his life thinks it's weird and deserving of derision to want to see evidence before believing inflammatory US Govt claims.Why? See the description above. https://t.co/e8fGxhjDb9— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) December 17, 2020
― mookieproof, Thursday, 17 December 2020 15:11 (three years ago) link
Thought this was going to be Glenn re-tweeting James O'Keefe.
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Thursday, 17 December 2020 15:13 (three years ago) link
Nah people on here probably want to pretend that didn’t happen.
― “Big” Don Abernathy, Friday, 18 December 2020 08:55 (three years ago) link
why do you want to pretend that didn't happen?
― huge rant (sic), Friday, 18 December 2020 09:00 (three years ago) link
Huh? No Glenn is right wing to such an in your face extent currently that people might have to accept that he was always like that. If you look through this long thread you see examples of people being in denial about that.
― “Big” Don Abernathy, Friday, 18 December 2020 09:15 (three years ago) link
yeah hes been retweeting okeefe for years
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Friday, 18 December 2020 13:21 (three years ago) link
glad gabbneb has returned to be really awful at posting on ILX, 2020 is now complete
― Change Display Name: (stevie), Friday, 18 December 2020 18:31 (three years ago) link
― Yes Virginia, there really is a (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 18 December 2020 19:30 (three years ago) link
gg got very enamored with okeefes bravery in questioning the russia hoax, iirc at one point even praising him for his "commitment to evidence", which LOL ok glenn
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Friday, 18 December 2020 19:38 (three years ago) link
the left is portrayed as eager to cancel anyone for the slightest misstep but it actually has such low standards for its heroes. leftists will embrace any micro-celebrity who vaguely seems share some of their enemies, regardless of why, or how awful their other positions are
― Left, Friday, 18 December 2020 19:46 (three years ago) link
like your average berniebro or chomskyite is embarrassed by this guy now but did he ever demonstrate any kind of structural or materialist analysis of anything back when they were hailing him as some kind of anti-imperialist hero? where was the leftism, ever?
― Left, Friday, 18 December 2020 19:53 (three years ago) link
GG was always a semi-libertarian dude with a few pet issues that initially put him in opposition to the Bush admin. I don’t think he ever cared about the Left as much as he cared about telecom immunity or whatnot
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Sunday, 20 December 2020 23:31 (three years ago) link
I don’t think he’s anything resembling an economic libertarian. he’s just too much of a narcissist to realize that the alliances he forms with libertarians in pursuit of inflating his ego on his pet issues can lead to net harm
― k3vin k., Sunday, 20 December 2020 23:35 (three years ago) link
I would be interested to see if anybody could actually assemble a coherent ideology from a bulleted list of positions gg has held. As pointed out, he can’t even stick to libertarianism
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Monday, 21 December 2020 00:01 (three years ago) link
Self-mythologizing contrarianism?
― pomenitul, Monday, 21 December 2020 00:02 (three years ago) link
Feels wrong to keep bagging on this guy w/o Morbs around tbqh
― is right unfortunately (silby), Monday, 21 December 2020 00:04 (three years ago) link
trying to do the same for any average person might also be pretty difficult, I’m probably a good (or bad) example too based on my admixture of strong views on foreign policy and national security plus progressive domestic / social democratic whatever, but I’m not nearly egotistical enough to pretend to be a pundit
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Monday, 21 December 2020 00:05 (three years ago) link
he wears flip-flops and the house stinks of unwashed dogs
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 December 2020 00:18 (three years ago) link
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Sunday, December 20, 2020 7:05 PM (thirty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
don’t forget humble!!
― k3vin k., Monday, 21 December 2020 00:39 (three years ago) link
is that supposed to be a zing at me? pot kettle buddy
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Monday, 21 December 2020 00:44 (three years ago) link
aw tom I’m just joshin
― k3vin k., Monday, 21 December 2020 00:50 (three years ago) link
Lightly punch me in the shoulder and grab me another beer
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Monday, 21 December 2020 00:53 (three years ago) link
i don't remember many people ever "hailing him as some kind of anti-imperialist hero," greenwald has always been a fairly divisive person. but he was an interesting and useful writer for a long time, and there are plenty of people who are worth reading who don't "demonstrate any kind of structural or materialist analysis."
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 21 December 2020 03:02 (three years ago) link
shitloads of people have treated this asshole as a hero for over a decade
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Monday, 21 December 2020 03:05 (three years ago) link
he was an interesting and useful writer for a long time couple of years in Bush's first term
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 21 December 2020 03:30 (three years ago) link
i think one's view of greenwald in the obama years largely depends on whether you think snowden did a noble thing or not.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 21 December 2020 05:24 (three years ago) link
I view Snowden’s results as pretty “neutral good” and Snowden the person as “a huge dick who had no business being in the job” and GG’s role in all of it as “a cipher who took a lot of credit for winning the source lottery”his later treatment of Reality Winner proves he has no idea what he’s actually doing or whether he stands for anything
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Monday, 21 December 2020 05:33 (three years ago) link
and that’s my very muted ilx version of these opinions of course, god forbid I say how I actually feel about anything to do with natsec on this forum
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Monday, 21 December 2020 05:35 (three years ago) link
― Left, Friday, December 18, 2020 2:46 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink
i don’t think gg ever ran afoul of pc idpol left did he? that’s the cancellous faction
― flopson, Monday, 21 December 2020 05:49 (three years ago) link
dude he’s been taking paid appearances on tucker carlson for years are you joking
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Monday, 21 December 2020 05:51 (three years ago) link
he goes on carlson to trash democrats though, which the left doesn’t care about, not to like, bash trans ppl or criticize defund the police. his foreign policy focus keeps him mostly out of hot water, unlike say Lee Fang who constantly steps on rakes
― flopson, Monday, 21 December 2020 06:20 (three years ago) link
the act of being on tucker carlson is an endorsement of white supremacy
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Monday, 21 December 2020 06:36 (three years ago) link