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NH doesn't like Greenwald. I only posted this because HN also does not like BigTech so it at least had a chance to get seen by some people who are interested.

by noxer 5y ago

b9be520d93286 5y ago
The cognitive dissonance is staggering
dang 5y ago
The community is divided on that, as it is on every other divisive topic. You can't expect HN to differ significantly from the population at large—the community is too large for that.
galaxyLogic 5y ago
Greenwald may be right but he seems rather angry in this article, which diminishes his credibility a bit. He sounds angry at the media who doesn't agree with him, so they must be in cahoots with CIA and the big tech. Does that sound a bit like a "conspiracy theory"? It sounds that way to me, of course he may be right. And curiously it seems he laments the fact that this information was not covered more widely before the election, which could have helped Trump win so it seems he laments the fact that Trump didn't win, because he is angry at Biden and the mainstream media. Every act of opinion writing is political, what you write about and what you don't write about. Do you criticize Biden or do you criticize Putin? Either way you (try to) move the public needle to one direction or other. OK, so I read an interview of Greenwald at https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/now-we-re-talking/en/glenn-greenwald/ https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/now-we-re-talking/en/gle... and, now I think I know where he goes wrong, at least in my view. He seems to blame "USA" a lot for its past misbehaviors. What's wrong with this view, in my view, is that there is no single "USA". There is the US government. But the current government is totally different from the government of last 4 years. There are two political parties one of which doesn't seem to like democracy much at all. Doesn't seem to care about people dying of Covid because of vaccine misinformation. Whereas in the case of Russia there really is singular entity "Russia" meaning its current government because that government seems to be in power permanently. That is not the case with USA. US government this year is totally different from last year. Why? Because there are two political parties. Greenwald doesn't seem to see this difference, he thinks (or wants us to think) that Russia and USA are a pair of evil twins.

NH doesn't like Greenwald. I only posted this because HN also does not like BigTech so it at least had a chance to get seen by some people who are interested.

by noxer 5y ago

NH doesn't like Greenwald. I only posted this because HN also does not like BigTech so it at least had a chance to get seen by some people who are interested.

b9be520d93286 5y ago

The cognitive dissonance is staggering

dang 5y ago

The community is divided on that, as it is on every other divisive topic. You can't expect HN to differ significantly from the population at large—the community is too large for that.

galaxyLogic 5y ago

Greenwald may be right but he seems rather angry in this article, which diminishes his credibility a bit. He sounds angry at the media who doesn't agree with him, so they must be in cahoots with CIA and the big tech. Does that sound a bit like a "conspiracy theory"? It sounds that way to me, of course he may be right. And curiously it seems he laments the fact that this information was not covered more widely before the election, which could have helped Trump win so it seems he laments the fact that Trump didn't win, because he is angry at Biden and the mainstream media. Every act of opinion writing is political, what you write about and what you don't write about. Do you criticize Biden or do you criticize Putin? Either way you (try to) move the public needle to one direction or other. OK, so I read an interview of Greenwald at https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/now-we-re-talking/en/glenn-greenwald/ https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/now-we-re-talking/en/gle... and, now I think I know where he goes wrong, at least in my view. He seems to blame "USA" a lot for its past misbehaviors. What's wrong with this view, in my view, is that there is no single "USA". There is the US government. But the current government is totally different from the government of last 4 years. There are two political parties one of which doesn't seem to like democracy much at all. Doesn't seem to care about people dying of Covid because of vaccine misinformation. Whereas in the case of Russia there really is singular entity "Russia" meaning its current government because that government seems to be in power permanently. That is not the case with USA. US government this year is totally different from last year. Why? Because there are two political parties. Greenwald doesn't seem to see this difference, he thinks (or wants us to think) that Russia and USA are a pair of evil twins.