Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

A pre-requisite for understanding how US politics functions, and for being able to do or say anything meaningful, is recognizing big liberal media corporations and their employees wield less influence, are despised outside their cliques, and merit contempt and/or indifference: — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Last July, I wrote about how - as usual - the only places where it was acceptable to question the FBI and its relationship to the groups behind 1/6 were right-wing media. In liberal circles, uncritical reverence for the US Security State is required: https://t.co/wuHhoj67I9 — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

These are the vital questions that authoritarian media liberals mocked and tried to prohibit from the start. *Of course* FBI deeply infiltrated the key groups involved in 1/6. Anyone reporting on War on Terror abuses know this is a key FBI tactic. https://t.co/OuLsMnypBo — PolitiTweet.org

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Anyway - other than weeks/months after 9/11 - I have never see US society so submerged in group think, less tolerant of dissent as now. The propaganda system upheld by the union of US Security State, academics, and large media corporations is why. Watch that Chomsky lecture. — PolitiTweet.org

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(I objected strongly to Chomsky's statement about the unvaccinated. But nobody can survive reducing people to what you see as their worst moment. And it's not that hard to empathize why a 93-year-old forced into 2 years of full isolation would be extra sensitive to COVID risks). — PolitiTweet.org

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If you have an hour, please watch that. If you're not a leftist, you won't agree with every example. And I realize many are angry with Chomsky for his COVID views (more on that in the next tweet). But few if any have been as insightful in precisely describing propaganda systems. — PolitiTweet.org

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For understanding how propaganda works in the US - the absolutely vital role played by US academics at elite schools and especially the largest media corporations - I can't recommend highly enough this 1989 Noam Chomsky lecture at the Univ. of Wisconsin: https://t.co/NAWJnbjGV2 — PolitiTweet.org

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Within less than two decades, they got the US liberal-left to go from (accurately) viewing the US Security State as the primary source of disinformation and lies to viewing them as the supreme arbiters of truth and falsity, the ones who tell us Truth while we nod in agreement. — PolitiTweet.org

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One reason (of many) that it's so sinister to hire huge numbers of former US Security State operatives as TV stars and "news analysts" -- as NBC and CNN compulsively do -- is it trains their liberal audience to see Security State operatives as trusted allies, not trained liars. — PolitiTweet.org

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Liberals now have all sorts of memes and clichés they've been trained to recite that mock the notion of "just asking questions." That's what it means to build an authoritarian culture: FBI, DOJ and CIA leaders are to be honored and believed, not questioned or doubted. — PolitiTweet.org

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These are absolutely reasonable question to ask the FBI Director -- not just reasonable but necessary. But within liberal political culture, any questioning of authorities is castigated as "deranged conspiracy theories." Only blind and uncritical acceptance is deemed honorable. — PolitiTweet.org

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@vanessahauf @RottenInDenmark Mas para você concluir isso, deve ter lido os estudos ou pelo menos o artigo do NYT descrevendo os danos. E cita pais e filhos que dizem que se arrependem de ter feito isso, que não sabiam. E esse é o ponto: esses estudos devem ser divulgados para que as pessoas sejam informadas. https://t.co/LZjl0JIzNi — PolitiTweet.org

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@vanessahauf @RottenInDenmark Absolutamente inacreditável que você esteja me atacando por discutir um artigo do New York Times que você nem leu, sobre novos estudos médicos sobre os quais você não sabe nada. Como você pode fazer isso de boa fé? — PolitiTweet.org

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@armanneto @vanessahauf Vc não tem esse poder. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@vanessahauf Você leu o artigo do New York Times? Acredita que os repórteres deveriam esconder os novos estudos médicos sobre os danos a longo prazo dos bloqueadores da puberdade para que os pais não saibam sobre esses riscos e perigos antes de entregá-los aos filhos? Vc odeia a ciência? Sim. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@vanessahauf Você leu o artigo do New York Times? Acredita que os repórteres deveriam esconder os novos estudos médicos sobre os danos a longo prazo dos bloqueadores da puberdade para que os pais não saibam sobre esses riscos e perigos antes de entregá-los aos filhos? Vcodeia a ciência? Sim. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Run_GRP It's not an obligatory "but." I don't do those. I believe adults should have the absolute right to get whatever medical treatments or surgeries they conclude will enhance their self-actualization, and it's really nobody's business how they choose to do that. — PolitiTweet.org

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I have no tolerance for people who treat trans identity abusively or tell adults they can't live their lives how they want. But all of these issues -- most particularly the ones affecting kids -- are very new and complex. You have every right to question and debate them. https://t.co/QAbFXXTQxP — PolitiTweet.org

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You might recall prominent Dem trans activist @cmclymer -- who had a long history as a male feminist of harassing and abusing women, which is now gone to history -- praised Iran for being so progressive on trans treatments when it's actually used as a means of erasing gay people: https://t.co/gWXGIPhc50 — PolitiTweet.org

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And, for those raising the issue of "conversion therapy": using (often pressured) sex-reassignment treatments and surgeries is how homosexuality is erased in Iran. "Oh, that boy likes dolls and other boys? Just make him a girl: problem solved": https://t.co/YJDEvAa2F5 — PolitiTweet.org

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Trans adults deserve the absolute right to decide how they will live, and to be treated with respect and live with dignity and full equal rights. But somehow, we've accepted only bigots question if these brand new medical treatments are safe for kids: https://t.co/fOSdoH8zJb — PolitiTweet.org

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And, as always, so much of this is based on ratifying long-discarded, toxic gender stereotypes. Look at this paragraph. We finally accepted the idea that it's OK for boys to play with dolls and girls to have short hair and play sports. Now: boys like that are told they're girls: https://t.co/zrsXVfiwtB — PolitiTweet.org

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Society constantly debates what kids can and can't do. We leave some things to parents but not everything (you can't let your kids drink alcohol, see X rated films, or drive, etc.). The idea that society can't debate if these treatments are safe and moral for kids is grotesque. — PolitiTweet.org

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The problem is there's a vast, sprawling and well-funded gay and lesbian activist bureaucracy that won after Obergefell. But these bureaucracies can't win, since that means they disappear. So they always push to the place where there's resistance: ie medical treatment for kids. — PolitiTweet.org

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If the trans movement has remained focus on where the gay movement always was focused - the right of *adults* to live their lives with full autonomy and to be respected in their identity - there would have been little controversy. The "live and let live" ethos prevails in the US. — PolitiTweet.org

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That liberals have been able to basically force people to swallow new, very radical gender realities with no data is a testament to their hegemony in media, politics, Hollywood, etc. But it's immoral to ban debate over science, especially for kids' health. Read the NYT article. — PolitiTweet.org

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One of the most dishonest debate-closing tactics has been to imply those who write a lot about trans issues (that does not include me) are creepily obsessed with what adults do to their bodies. It's just a lie: most of the debate is about what society is doing to *young kids.* — PolitiTweet.org

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Credit to the NYT for writing this unflinching look at how puberty blockers have been handed out to kids as young as 8 with almost no data on their safety, yet now studies are finding - surprise! - they cause all kinds of harms, including to bone density: https://t.co/fOSdoH97yJ — PolitiTweet.org

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@profsosa13 @davidmirandario Obrigado por perguntar. Estamos postando atualizações regulares, sendo a última há uma semana (https://t.co/oeaeJse2vQ); o UOL enviou um repórter para nos acompanhar por uma semana e publicou um perfil aqui (https://t.co/9KRhCT1mYs); e o hospital tem boletins oficiais regulares: — PolitiTweet.org

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If Republicans end up with a larger share of the popular vote than Democrats, yet don't take control of the Senate and House, will this be regarded as a grave anti-democratic outcome? It's not certain they will hold this popular vote lead, so treat it as a hypothetical for now: — PolitiTweet.org