Glenn Greenwald achieves his final form

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Who exactly is happy about the militarization of DC? It's obviously a necessary evil and it's sad that things even got to this point. Greenwald is no friend of the left.

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

Oh yes, the famously liberal, pro-journalist Putin regime which Greenwald has relentlessly defended is not an example of authoritarian government AT ALL.

Not using Putin as a scapegoat doesn't mean that you defend him.

There's a difference between not using Putin as a scapegoat and defending Putin at every turn because you wanna own the American establishment.

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Does Greenwald realize there's more to life than foreign policy?

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So basically he supports the right in America but the left in Brazil?

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Good review of the positive impact Greenwald's journalism has had in Brazil and the importance of his work in freeing Lula. The haters will, of course, ignore this to focus on his nasty tweets.

https://twitter.com/jacobinmag/status/1379456363865247747

A contrarian 🌹 Twitter political magazine writing a Glenn fluff piece isn’t the good counterpoint you think it is

I want to highlight the utter vapidity of this response and what it says about the remarkable provincialism of some Democrat Party hacks on this forum. Glenn Greenwald played an instrumental role in exposing Sergio Moro as a hack and fraud, reducing the political persecution of the left in Brazil. He has built a crack team of investigative journalists in Brazil who have exposed corruption in Bolsonaro's inner circles. He's generally enriched public discourse there by having access to a lot of politicians and doing well-done, in-depth interviews with them.

Considering that Bolsonaro is intent on raping and pillaging the "lungs of the earth", turning over land to strip miners, soybean farmers and ranchers, you'd think that maybe, just maybe, this would be deemed to be more important than smut and lies on Glenn Greenwald's twitter profile?

If he cares so much about the environment why does he do everything in his power to boost the GOP and disparage Biden and the Dems? The last GOP president was the worst for the green movement in decades. As has been pointed out he is pro left wing in Brazil but pro right wing in America. He's not consistent and operates on grudges, not principles.

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Good review of the positive impact Greenwald's journalism has had in Brazil and the importance of his work in freeing Lula. The haters will, of course, ignore this to focus on his nasty tweets.

https://twitter.com/jacobinmag/status/1379456363865247747

A contrarian 🌹 Twitter political magazine writing a Glenn fluff piece isn’t the good counterpoint you think it is

I want to highlight the utter vapidity of this response and what it says about the remarkable provincialism of some Democrat Party hacks on this forum. Glenn Greenwald played an instrumental role in exposing Sergio Moro as a hack and fraud, reducing the political persecution of the left in Brazil. He has built a crack team of investigative journalists in Brazil who have exposed corruption in Bolsonaro's inner circles. He's generally enriched public discourse there by having access to a lot of politicians and doing well-done, in-depth interviews with them.

Considering that Bolsonaro is intent on raping and pillaging the "lungs of the earth", turning over land to strip miners, soybean farmers and ranchers, you'd think that maybe, just maybe, this would be deemed to be more important than smut and lies on Glenn Greenwald's twitter profile?

If he cares so much about the environment why does he do everything in his power to boost the GOP and disparage Biden and the Dems? The last GOP president was the worst for the green movement in decades. As has been pointed out he is pro left wing in Brazil but pro right wing in America. He's not consistent and operates on grudges, not principles.

Provincial American brain strikes again, as another poster glides over the actual content of a post about Brazil to pivot back to American political issues. As a reminder, not everything is about you and I do not feel obligated in the slightest to pay deference to your desire to ignore the welfare of over 200 million people who live in a country where democracy is imperiled! I care far more about this than I do about tweets that hurt the feelings of bugmen journalists.

An irony here is that I despise Glenn Greenwald as a person. I'm only defending him because I find his critics to be insufferably narrowminded and daft in their reasons for going after him, similar to people who target Taibbi or Angela Nagel or whomever else. He pushes some annoying vendettas, seems thin-skinned but, against Bolsonaro and the corrupt mafiosos who rule Brazil, he has proven to be a powerful adversary who has achieved real results. Am I supposed to pretend that the power of Paul Krugman's Opinion Editorial Page is better than this because it makes me feel warmer and fuzzier inside than real investigative journalism or something?

I don't care about the journalist who supposedly felt threatened, and I appreciate very much what Greenwald has done in Brazil. But this forum is called US General Discussion. My problem is his extreme ideological inconsistency.  Or maybe Lula and Josh Hawley actually have a lot in common.