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Kyle Rittenhouse, Project Veritas, and Inability to Think in Terms of Principles
- stareatgoats 5y agoA sorely needed lesson in core democratic principles: they are applicable to everyone, including our opponents. Every failure to reaffirm this, big or small, is a slip towards tyranny.
- BitwiseFool 5y agoSadly - and cynically - I don't see how our society can return to principle when expediency seems to be so much more effective. What Glenn Greenwald is describing is underhanded and insidious.... but it works. And despite calling it out so clearly the majority of the people consuming the news will not be exposed to what Glenn is saying and will probably never realize the manipulation being delivered to them. Turns out, cheap shots are actually really good in a fight where there is no referee.
- freshpots 5y agoSays the scumbag who outed Reality Winner.
- smoldesu 5y agoFunny how they always complain about discomfort when the shoe's on the other foot.
- stareatgoats 5y agoexcept - that's not really what happened though [0]. So maybe now we can all agree that those core democratic principles that Greeenwald mentions are paramount? [0] "It was Intercept editors who pressured the story’s reporters to quickly send those documents for authentication to the government" https://greenwald.substack.com/p/my-resignation-from-the-intercept https://greenwald.substack.com/p/my-resignation-from-the-int...
- Zuider 5y agoIt is likely that Reality Winner was not acting from the most ethical motives. Investigators found a diary at her house which contained plans to burn down the White House and to run off and join the Taliban.