While I understand that Elon is trying to give media whores a taste of their own medicine, the problem is that psychopaths, narcissists, etc., can never understand the larger perspective when this is done to them. Witness Taylor Lorenz, who looks, speaks and acts like a total deep state media prostitute. Such people cannot understand, no matter how much you try to show them.
The greater problem is that the elite world selects for these types of personalities with no empathy or conscience. We now have a world with psychopaths and narcissists in power. Personally, I have the right education to be in that world, but I self-selected to be out of it when I learned what it took to "play." My conscience would not allow me to be a part of misapplication of technology AND medical science.
There are fewer and fewer ways of income for those who do not conform to the bullying. The elites run things through bullying and the need to repeat and accept lies "for the common good." This is no way to run a world. Humanity needs to stop pretending it is still in grade school and stand up to the bullies and call their bluff...and stop playing their rigged "games. These games are destroying our world, nature and humanity.
I don't blame Musk for giving the censors a bit of their own medicine, but I do believe this is temporary and twitter will become a free speech platform he promised. It's as if someone punches you a few times and you want to end the conflict, but not before you get in a right-hook. OK, now we can be friends.
Oh no! Musk gored the mainstream media Ox!! The reaction was priceless. So funny to see these self-important buffoons abandon the "stop complaining it's a private company" position and scream like little bitches. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The problem is less what people say on mainstream and social media but rather that their audience is a citizenry taught to take what celebrities anointed as "authority" say more seriously than understanding logical fallacies in the language they use and lack of evidence for what they say. Two parties have promoted appeal to authority as the primary argument through which citizens should believe and act on these beliefs.
Thank you for calling it out. I had all but forgotten about Baby Jane. I was probably on the side of the security state during the bush Cheney era. What a dope. It has taken 79 years to realize I'm not half as smart as I thought I was.
Glenn, quick question: Considering the recent revelations regarding governmental interference with social media platforms, do you think Substack is similarly involved and do you believe Substack leadership is knowingly allowing government agents or representatives access to user information without informing users?
I keep expecting to see Dennis Kucinich's DIVISION OF LIGHT AND POWER quoted in these recent discussions in regard to the accumulation of corrupt power in certain circles such as the ones that are being examined today: The avalanche of fascist corruption engulfing both the US and the EU today. Kucinich wrote about the same thing happening in smaller scale in the 70's in Cleveland when he was mayor. Horrifying.
Thank you for that article. You are worth the $5/mo. I am sad that after 17 years on the job, I have to worry about trading two smart drinks per month for each awesome person I support: you, tulsi, Caitlin, Jimmy dore. I still get Aaron Matte and Joe Rogan free.
"...........Before Elon Musk bought Twitter, slurs against Black Americans showed up on the social media service an average of 1,282 times a day. After the billionaire became Twitter’s owner, they jumped to 3,876 times a day.
Slurs against gay men appeared on Twitter 2,506 times a day on average before Mr. Musk took over. Afterward, their use rose to 3,964 times a day.
And antisemitic posts referring to Jews or Judaism soared more than 61 percent in the two weeks after Mr. Musk acquired the site........."
This is how the left led by the New York Times - which represents little more than the long arm of the DNC - plans to brow beat not just Twitter, but any social media outlet into censorship. The same playbook of fearmongering is being played out with "voter rights" and accusing the right of supporting Jim Crow 2.0. MAGA is regularly labeled "far right" (for example, Lauren Boebert) which has been traditionally meant for Nazis, white nationalists and white supremacists. This is driven by identity politics and future elections. As long as the left can frighten and motivate the victim groups, this serves the left's goal in future elections.
This is a very powerful political strategy with race, ethnicity, sexual orientation etc. replacing class.
As much as I admire everything Glenn has done in recent years (Snowden, Brazil) I am somewhat baffled by the constant polemic tone that mimics so much of the overheated debate style of the corporate media he so despises. And a tv show certainly doesn’t help nuance. Makes it more difficult to listen to him, which is sad, because he has so much to say.
While I understand that Elon is trying to give media whores a taste of their own medicine, the problem is that psychopaths, narcissists, etc., can never understand the larger perspective when this is done to them. Witness Taylor Lorenz, who looks, speaks and acts like a total deep state media prostitute. Such people cannot understand, no matter how much you try to show them.
The greater problem is that the elite world selects for these types of personalities with no empathy or conscience. We now have a world with psychopaths and narcissists in power. Personally, I have the right education to be in that world, but I self-selected to be out of it when I learned what it took to "play." My conscience would not allow me to be a part of misapplication of technology AND medical science.
There are fewer and fewer ways of income for those who do not conform to the bullying. The elites run things through bullying and the need to repeat and accept lies "for the common good." This is no way to run a world. Humanity needs to stop pretending it is still in grade school and stand up to the bullies and call their bluff...and stop playing their rigged "games. These games are destroying our world, nature and humanity.
I don't blame Musk for giving the censors a bit of their own medicine, but I do believe this is temporary and twitter will become a free speech platform he promised. It's as if someone punches you a few times and you want to end the conflict, but not before you get in a right-hook. OK, now we can be friends.
Oh no! Musk gored the mainstream media Ox!! The reaction was priceless. So funny to see these self-important buffoons abandon the "stop complaining it's a private company" position and scream like little bitches. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The problem is less what people say on mainstream and social media but rather that their audience is a citizenry taught to take what celebrities anointed as "authority" say more seriously than understanding logical fallacies in the language they use and lack of evidence for what they say. Two parties have promoted appeal to authority as the primary argument through which citizens should believe and act on these beliefs.
And they do.
Musk and Gabbard are really both warnings to the 'lemmings' on the left -- cross us and we will destroy you.
The press lamenting about 'no free speech' WHILE THE TWITTER FILES ARE EXPOSING HOW THEY CURTAIL FREE SPEECH was the chef's kiss of hypocrisy.
I was a trad Republican when the Gary Webb broke the story on crack cocaine and the CIA.
I didn’t like it and was angry about the lib media etc & then the NYT &. WaPo attacked Webb and the story which confused me greatly.
It was a significant step on my journey to the palms of Morpheus
Thank you for calling it out. I had all but forgotten about Baby Jane. I was probably on the side of the security state during the bush Cheney era. What a dope. It has taken 79 years to realize I'm not half as smart as I thought I was.
Glenn, quick question: Considering the recent revelations regarding governmental interference with social media platforms, do you think Substack is similarly involved and do you believe Substack leadership is knowingly allowing government agents or representatives access to user information without informing users?
Remember the ending of 3 Days of the Condor?
I keep expecting to see Dennis Kucinich's DIVISION OF LIGHT AND POWER quoted in these recent discussions in regard to the accumulation of corrupt power in certain circles such as the ones that are being examined today: The avalanche of fascist corruption engulfing both the US and the EU today. Kucinich wrote about the same thing happening in smaller scale in the 70's in Cleveland when he was mayor. Horrifying.
We clearly have no friends or allies left.
They all despise us.
The possible endings are narrowing.
Once again, thank you for the transcript!
Remember when Trump was barred from blocking people on Twitter?
Compare and contrast that with what we now know about Twitter.
Thank you for that article. You are worth the $5/mo. I am sad that after 17 years on the job, I have to worry about trading two smart drinks per month for each awesome person I support: you, tulsi, Caitlin, Jimmy dore. I still get Aaron Matte and Joe Rogan free.
Mr. Greenwald
After Elon Musk took over Twitter, the New York Times published a fear mongering article indicating an "unprecedented" rise in hate speech on Twitter (Hate Speech’s Rise on Twitter Is Unprecedented, Researchers Find https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/02/technology/twitter-hate-speech.html?smid=tw-share ).
"...........Before Elon Musk bought Twitter, slurs against Black Americans showed up on the social media service an average of 1,282 times a day. After the billionaire became Twitter’s owner, they jumped to 3,876 times a day.
Slurs against gay men appeared on Twitter 2,506 times a day on average before Mr. Musk took over. Afterward, their use rose to 3,964 times a day.
And antisemitic posts referring to Jews or Judaism soared more than 61 percent in the two weeks after Mr. Musk acquired the site........."
This is how the left led by the New York Times - which represents little more than the long arm of the DNC - plans to brow beat not just Twitter, but any social media outlet into censorship. The same playbook of fearmongering is being played out with "voter rights" and accusing the right of supporting Jim Crow 2.0. MAGA is regularly labeled "far right" (for example, Lauren Boebert) which has been traditionally meant for Nazis, white nationalists and white supremacists. This is driven by identity politics and future elections. As long as the left can frighten and motivate the victim groups, this serves the left's goal in future elections.
This is a very powerful political strategy with race, ethnicity, sexual orientation etc. replacing class.
As much as I admire everything Glenn has done in recent years (Snowden, Brazil) I am somewhat baffled by the constant polemic tone that mimics so much of the overheated debate style of the corporate media he so despises. And a tv show certainly doesn’t help nuance. Makes it more difficult to listen to him, which is sad, because he has so much to say.