Glenn Greenwald achieves his final form

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Maybe he just doesn't want authoritarian government from the left or right?

That might be more believable if he didn't spend the first two years of the Trump Presidency shilling for Putin and hasn't defended Erdogan.

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There's a huge difference between "Russian interference did not tip the election to Trump" and "There was zero Russian interference in the 2016 election at all and Putin and Trump are totally blameless and hey look at the redacted hack job summary of the Mueller Report Bill Barr released, this proves it, haha checkmate liberals." Greenwald has argued the latter.

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The thing about Greenwald that I find so irksome and the notion that he's "left" is he doesn't even really criticize the Democratic Party from the left. If he did that'd be one thing although I usually find such people insufferable too (not because I think the Democratic Party is sacrosanct and should never be criticized but because people who get a following doing so usually tend to be very obnoxious as well as intellectually dishonest in their attacks, see Kyle Kulinski and Jimmy Dore), but rather he basically attacks it from the right and then pretends it's from the left. Like insisting he doesn't support Trump...but then when the Democrats go all out on impeaching Trump saying that's still bad, saying that any investigations into Trump's activities is bad and then when Bill Barr releases some hack job summary of a report against Trump then he starts shilling for Barr's credibility and is all giddy that he was "right", while at the same time pretending this is really some crusade against neoliberalism and a supposedly center-right Democratic Party. He also has immense double standards, like he was constantly bashing Obama over drones, but when Trump took office and used drones just as much...crickets. If he was screaming about how Biden isn't trying to implement Medicare for All by executive order and hating on AOC and Ilhan Omar for not trying to "force the vote" on it then he'd still be annoying and ignorant but at least consistent, his philosophy seems to be more than Trump's Administration is the only Administration in US history that should not be criticized or that if you do so then you're clearly just a neocon because some random former Bush official who joined the Lincoln Project also criticized Trump....it's a whole mess of logical fallacies and absolutely inane conclusion.

The truly amusing thing is that if you replace "Trump" with "Bush" and change a few other things to make it context-specific, a lot of the things he says or things you hear from people like Tulsi Gabbard like her justification for voting "Present" on impeachment and it sounds almost exactly like something you'd hear from Joe Lieberman or various centrist wonks who were criticizing the Democrats for being "too hard" on Bush...the inability to see the irony isn't surprising but quite frustrating.

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Here's a Moderate Hero compromise proposal:

Twitter bans Bolsonaro and also bans Greenwald's account for balance.

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Anybody who's a civil libertarian should appreciate what Greenwald does. That the left does not anymore is an indication of who they've become, not him.

Why should civil libertarians appreciate going on Tucker Carlson or campaigning against Trump's impeachments?

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I've noticed his post-Russian invasion tweets have more of a nervous and desperate sort of feel to them. Like he's sweating like a dog instead of taking glee in owning the libs.

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https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1509570834628759556

Also all the NY Times and other media outlets are doing is reporting that the FBI and Congressional Ethics Committee are investigating him...which is fact. Does Glenn think such investigations shouldn't be public knowledge? I thought this guy was for transparency?

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Also BURN

https://twitter.com/What46HasDone/status/1508904911504875531

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https://twitter.com/MenshevikM/status/1514285295625252865

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https://twitter.com/UrbanAchievr/status/1551925249666596866?t=OcKfdNLmGmYmddHE31...

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https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1601300134520053760?t=JkWHNgFNZkehJuemfC5X...

Rumble.

The funny thing is he's obviously doing this out of spite because absolutely nothing he describes there would be banned or demonetized by YouTube. His anti-YouTube deal started when they began cracking down on election deniers and anti-vaxxers.