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p.s. one of the most

artappraiser — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 19:51:57 +0000

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p.s. one of the most interesting trivia bits in the article is that he basically proudly lays claim to the invention of the "deep state" meme.

After having some hours to

artappraiser — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 19:50:01 +0000

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After having some hours to let thoughts sink in overall what I am most amazed about is that he has such a large loyal and fervent fan base that fights on social media for his honor, even though the persona is screechy, obnoxious, preachy, humorless, loud-and-proud gay. Brand Outrage in Dear Leader form sells, looking back now it seems all along he is a precursor warning sign of Trumpism. So many try so hard to dissect Trump fans, sturm and drang about white working class whatever. It could be just something more like at the start of the blogosphere age, a lot of people start looking for a dear leader to put everything in an ideological package for them so they know where to focus their "mad as hell not going to take it anymore" outrage? Even if it is idiosyncratic and not a rational ideology. And they become loyal followers. No coincidence that Greenwald felt after a while that the Wikileaks paradigm was not a good fit because it didn't "curate"? He is an authoritarian libertarian!

No need to read if call it

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 17:03:00 +0000

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No need to read if call it "an obsession" - fuck them, get real, it happened and it's happening - huge impactful historical news, not hallucination nor fanaticism.

Socialism for Dummies - like

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 12:25:51 +0000

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Socialism for Dummies - like real, bizarroland dummies. Was going to post it on its own, but seems to fit in here, including George Will's takedown of Libertarians (an on-again/off-again Greenwald romance), and a number of other vaunted niches of strange thought.

Greenwald's biggest problem is simply he thinks he's smarter than everyone else, and he's only marginally superior. The other contrivances - Russian/et al is more complex.

The take home message on

rmrd0000 — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 12:25:25 +0000

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The take home message on Greenwald’s skepticism about Russian intervention in the 2016 election (in a discussion with the author)

He added that, even if Putin himself had ordered the hacking, “and worked with WikiLeaks and Michael Cohen and Jared Kushner to distribute the e-mails,” then this was still just “standard shit.”

Here's my choice of excerpts:

artappraiser — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 08:31:39 +0000

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Here's my choice of excerpts:

Greenwald has experienced his own share of criticism, but is not known for showing kindness to critics. Michael Hayden, the former director of the C.I.A. and the N.S.A., has written that debating him was like looking “the devil in the eye.” Leading American progressives—speaking off the record, and apologizing for what they describe as cowardice—call Greenwald a bully and a troll. One told me that “he makes everything war.” The spouse of one of Greenwald’s friends visualizes him as the angry emoji. On Twitter, he has little use for agree-to-disagree courtesies, or humor: he presses on. More than one tweet has started with “No, you idiot.” He’ll tweet “Go fuck yourself” to a user with twenty or so followers. A few years ago, Greenwald had a Twitter disagreement with Imani Gandy, a legal journalist, who tweets as @AngryBlackLady; another Twitter user, in support of Greenwald, proposed to Gandy that “Obama could rape a nun live on NBC and you’d say we weren’t seeing what we were seeing.” Greenwald replied, “No—she’d say it was justified & noble—that he only did it to teach us about the evils of rape.”

Matthew Yglesias put an

artappraiser — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 08:28:36 +0000

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Matthew Yglesias put an excerpt on Twitter which concerns Greenwald's & Yglesias' use of Twitter:

I’m guessing there are a lot of normie print subscribers who will find this confusing. https://t.co/tpwSwhHKdc pic.twitter.com/6x475WnFYv
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) August 27, 2018