Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@invisib77306381 Why would Putin be sending checks to CNN? I mean it's true that they need it, but I doubt he's ending them. I hope you have evidence for that before publicly suggesting it again. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@KenWBlair Totally https://t.co/1DwI8ARcJR — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@stevenpoole I think the comparison has to do with quite a lot more than follower counts. I'd say it extends to, you know, every single last relevant metric. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@KenWBlair Ask the NYT, which routinely publishes articles about them. It might have to do with the fact that journalists may consider it relevant what's happening at the world's largest and once-most-powerful media corporations, even if liberals don't want to hear it. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@baseballjones18 He'd likely bring in higher ratings than the hordes of war criminals, neocons, and ex security state on CNN's payroll, who they routinely platform to deliver the news, treating them with great respect: people guilty of real crimes, with large amounts of blood on their hands. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

For years, CNN's finances were insulated by its reliance on cable distribution fees, which poured in even if nobody watched (CNN at airports). Now things are so bleak financially that they just barred employees from spending more than $50/person on birthday and retirement parties https://t.co/CkFxFMEdTV — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

😬 https://t.co/5zccDT2abP — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

If you're one of the people who enjoy reading about the multi-pronged, comprehensive failures of CNN on all levels -- beginning but by no means ending with their rapidly vanishing audience in the post-Trump era -- then this NYT article is for you: https://t.co/fXAV2QA0qX — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@stevenpoole Perhaps if I can improve my use of words, I can one day rise to the towering heights achieved by Steven Poole (whoever or whatever that might be), and achieve a readership as large and loyal as the one he has built. Fingers crossed!🫰 — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@de79dc Biden didn't "cave" on anything. He's simply carrying out what has been a staple of US foreign policy since the end of WW2 at least: actively supporting the most tyrannical and repressive regimes if they serve US interests, all while preaching about how they spread democracy. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@Darryl_Bolden_ I personally think it is immoral, but since I also know that advocating that will produce no positive results at this moment, I try to focus instead on arguments (the industrialized evils of factory farms) which I think can move people's views. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@stevenpoole I should treat with greater civility people who call me a "pro-Russian stooge" and who initiate discourse by mangling my name to use an adolescent clichéd insult. Given how high-minded and substantive your first tweet was, you really deserved much more respect and consideration. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@de79dc You're just a braindead Democratic partisan angry that I'm pointing out how much support Biden (like Obama) gives to one of the planet's most brutal and savage regimes, so you invent a vapid excuse -- that pointing out a key US policy is "nihilism" -- in order to hide your shame. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@mbldefense Weapons sales of this type (as you know) require all kinds of officials approvals because of the geopolitical implications, and the USG provides it. Also, the Snowden docs show how much intel tech and raw intel NSA gives to the Saudi Interior Ministry: https://t.co/yvM8Ez7XH5 — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

It continues to be so hilarious how angry people get that some golfers are playing in a league funded by Saudi money, when the US and the UK Governments continue to lavish the Saudi regime with arms, surveillance tech and intel that ensures they remain in power. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@stevenpoole Believing that you speak for "everyone" is a severe mental illness that you should probably have treated. Believing the US, UK and Europe constitute the entire world is not an illness so much as a form of extreme jingoistic ignorance for which, sadly, no treatment is available. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@AdrianRSGarcia @davidmirandario Talvez ele possa abrir uma loja de chocolates com Jair Bolsonaro, que terá muito tempo livre. Ouvi dizer que isso pode ser muito, muito lucrativo. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@FrogtownHell I wasn't suggesting he was at a factory farm, just observing how huge numbers of people express horror and disgust at something like slaughtering a cute animal for food, when the entire industrialized system they patronize is based on that, as long as they don't have to see it. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

In the scheme of the horrendous cruelty, systemic torture, and unnatural and unhealthy conditions in which factory farms keep billions of sentient animals - a perversion of family farming - the moment when a goat (or pig/chicken/cow) finally moves to slaughter is the most humane. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

It's always fascinating how rage and disgust is provoked when the public gets even a tiny glimpse into the hideous, grim realities of the factory farm system that feeds them. That's why the industry spends billions to hide it, including with "ag-gag" laws to criminalize exposure. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@CaliforniaFirst @HealthUntoDeath https://t.co/3JvBUg36qW — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@maltabca I'm genuinely grateful for people who do that! — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Relatedly: many politicians merit contempt but - for all sorts of fascinating cultural, psychological and social reasons - there are few people who validly provoke visceral contempt like Sir Kier Starmer, for reasons @HealthUntoDeath captures well here: https://t.co/LdqDZ2AqUJ — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Just bizarre to see @margarethodge, of all people, whining that anti-Semitism accusations are being cynically weaponized against Sir Keir Starmer since there are very people who cynically weaponized anti-Semitism accusations for cheap political ends more than Hodge from 2015-19: — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@maltabca It's just a factual observation about the fundamental overlap between the establishment wings of the two parties, not an argument about whether it's good or bad in any particular instance. They're funded by the same industries and interests, so they largely adopt the same views. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

The premise of political reporting at most corporate outlets is the only issues worth covering are those where the 2 parties disagree. This creates the radical illusion that they're constantly fighting. The vast majority of policies are ones where they agree, but are ignored. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

The overarching DC media narrative -- the two parties are constantly at each other's throats and can't agree on anything -- is and has long been their biggest fraud. On *most* key issues -- especially foreign policy -- the establishment wings of each is in lockstep agreement: — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

RT @davidmirandario: Algumas curiosidades sobre mim 😎. Tem mais alguma coisa que vcs gostariam de saber, galera? https://t.co/HUft91KsTH — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Recall that all 79 NO votes in the Congress on Biden's $40b war package "for Ukraine" came from Republicans: every last NO vote. As international leftist leaders (Lula, Mélenchon, Corbyn, AMLO, etc.) oppose it, every single Democrat (from Bernie and AOC to the rest) voted YES. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Highlighting the radical difference between the international left and whatever passes for the US "left" (just a branding flank of the Dem Party), Jeremy Corbyn urges the West to stop arming Ukraine, arguing it's just prolonging the war with no benefits: https://t.co/j5HVoyYWRu — PolitiTweet.org