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It's a shame how much Assange and Greenwald have fallen.

by kristopolous 6y ago

cutler 6y ago
Care to elaborate?
- DJBunnies 6y ago
  Don't feed the trolls.
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  - kristopolous 6y ago
    I'm not trolling, see my response to the op. I thought the stuff I put in there was common knowledge. Sorry if it wasn't
- kristopolous 6y ago
  Assange was pedaling weird assertions in the far right Seth Rich conspiracies making completely baseless claims that have since proven absolutely false, it was him just fabricating stuff. It harmed both the Rich family and fueled the online conspiracy machines. He's followed it up with satanist cabal and earpiece nonsense. He's done rhetorical acrobatics to stand his ground instead of owning his own bs. Go to the "conspiracies" section on their wikipedia page https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks That happened right before the 2016 election. Greenwald has gone from groundbreaking reporting to political theater and shock jock punditry, palling around with bullshit merchants like Tucker Carlson. He quit the intercept which refused to publish him making clearly incorrect claims about major candidates shortly before the 2020 election https://theintercept.com/2020/10/29/glenn-greenwald-resigns-the-intercept/ https://theintercept.com/2020/10/29/glenn-greenwald-resigns-... . Essentially a repeat of 2016 was primed but the rest of the intercept told him to screw off. They've both gone from the gold standard to completely unreliable political ops. It's almost like the con artists in the red pilling bullshit machines targeted both of them, it's pretty bad.
snicksnak 6y ago
Assange is in prison, possibly for life for the crime of making US war crimes public. Greenwald has 24/7 protection because his recent reporting exposed the corruption in Balsonaro's administration and lead to Lula being freed from prison. All the journalists who advocate censorship of things they don't like and engage in smear campaigns have never broken or reported on anything meaningful and probably never will. Many of them probably think that Assange deserves to be extradited and charged, even though that is a direct attack on their profession.
- kristopolous 6y ago
  Assange more recently "reported" wild far right conspiracy theories about Seth Rich, satanic cabals, secret ear pieces and other things of that nature. Greenwald More Recently has been on shows of hard right people like Tucker Carlson and quit The Intercept because they refused to publish conspiracy theories about Joe Biden right before the 2020 election. Here's the actual hit piece the intercept wouldn't publish https://greenwald.substack.com/p/article-on-joe-and-hunter-biden-censored https://greenwald.substack.com/p/article-on-joe-and-hunter-b... it was an attempted October surprise the paper wouldn't sign on to Here he basically says January 6 was a bunch of peaceful protestors misrepresented as violent, really https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-false-and-exaggerated-claims https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-false-and-exaggerated-c... And here he is suggesting vote counting misconducts https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-us-inability-to-count-votes-is https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-us-inability-to-count-v... And here he says you know who the "actual fascist" are? Facebook and Joe Biden https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-threat-of-authoritarianism-in https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-threat-of-authoritarian... Splendid, just great, sounds like my uncle. Dude's totally pilled. The takeaway is effectively "don't trust the mainstream media, Trump is amazing" every time. The conspiracy land world has a main door via Trump. But there's side doors that can hook people in as well. Through leftism (via strasserism the first time it came around), natural medicine, holistic spirituality, gamer culture, theres a bunch of fascist pipelines out there to hook people. Look into their Recent records. They shouldn't be facing state repression of course and should be free to do this. But it's also just political hackery
  - 6y ago

It's a shame how much Assange and Greenwald have fallen.

cutler 6y ago

Care to elaborate?

DJBunnies 6y ago
Don't feed the trolls.
- deleted 6y ago
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- kristopolous 6y ago
  I'm not trolling, see my response to the op. I thought the stuff I put in there was common knowledge. Sorry if it wasn't
kristopolous 6y ago
Assange was pedaling weird assertions in the far right Seth Rich conspiracies making completely baseless claims that have since proven absolutely false, it was him just fabricating stuff. It harmed both the Rich family and fueled the online conspiracy machines. He's followed it up with satanist cabal and earpiece nonsense. He's done rhetorical acrobatics to stand his ground instead of owning his own bs. Go to the "conspiracies" section on their wikipedia page https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks That happened right before the 2016 election. Greenwald has gone from groundbreaking reporting to political theater and shock jock punditry, palling around with bullshit merchants like Tucker Carlson. He quit the intercept which refused to publish him making clearly incorrect claims about major candidates shortly before the 2020 election https://theintercept.com/2020/10/29/glenn-greenwald-resigns-the-intercept/ https://theintercept.com/2020/10/29/glenn-greenwald-resigns-... . Essentially a repeat of 2016 was primed but the rest of the intercept told him to screw off. They've both gone from the gold standard to completely unreliable political ops. It's almost like the con artists in the red pilling bullshit machines targeted both of them, it's pretty bad.

snicksnak 6y ago

Assange is in prison, possibly for life for the crime of making US war crimes public. Greenwald has 24/7 protection because his recent reporting exposed the corruption in Balsonaro's administration and lead to Lula being freed from prison. All the journalists who advocate censorship of things they don't like and engage in smear campaigns have never broken or reported on anything meaningful and probably never will. Many of them probably think that Assange deserves to be extradited and charged, even though that is a direct attack on their profession.

kristopolous 6y ago
Assange more recently "reported" wild far right conspiracy theories about Seth Rich, satanic cabals, secret ear pieces and other things of that nature. Greenwald More Recently has been on shows of hard right people like Tucker Carlson and quit The Intercept because they refused to publish conspiracy theories about Joe Biden right before the 2020 election. Here's the actual hit piece the intercept wouldn't publish https://greenwald.substack.com/p/article-on-joe-and-hunter-biden-censored https://greenwald.substack.com/p/article-on-joe-and-hunter-b... it was an attempted October surprise the paper wouldn't sign on to Here he basically says January 6 was a bunch of peaceful protestors misrepresented as violent, really https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-false-and-exaggerated-claims https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-false-and-exaggerated-c... And here he is suggesting vote counting misconducts https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-us-inability-to-count-votes-is https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-us-inability-to-count-v... And here he says you know who the "actual fascist" are? Facebook and Joe Biden https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-threat-of-authoritarianism-in https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-threat-of-authoritarian... Splendid, just great, sounds like my uncle. Dude's totally pilled. The takeaway is effectively "don't trust the mainstream media, Trump is amazing" every time. The conspiracy land world has a main door via Trump. But there's side doors that can hook people in as well. Through leftism (via strasserism the first time it came around), natural medicine, holistic spirituality, gamer culture, theres a bunch of fascist pipelines out there to hook people. Look into their Recent records. They shouldn't be facing state repression of course and should be free to do this. But it's also just political hackery
- 6y ago