Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@AllezLesBoulez @OsitaNwanevu Bernie has repeatedly said that by "socialism," he does not mean the authoritarianism of the Soviet Union - which he rejects - but rather the democratic socialism of Scandinavian countries. You can read that right here and pretty much everywhere else: https://t.co/Fi1sKUJuAP — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@thiccontologist @luxepunk @OsitaNwanevu I've never been paid a penny by Fox or by any of the other cable networks on which I've regularly appeared over the years. So it doesn't seem your point is a very good one. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@luxepunk @thiccontologist @OsitaNwanevu https://t.co/YJT92Kt1N6 — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@OsitaNwanevu The Soviet Union was one brand of leftist politics, a strain that virtually every modern-day mainstream left-wing leader (including your beloved Bernie and AOC) repudiate precisely because of its excess authoritarianism. Generally, that left is opposed to thinks like NATO & IMF. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@thiccontologist @luxepunk @OsitaNwanevu When you're describing vast compounds, you're thinking of the Clintons, Obamas, Pelosis, Bidens, and all the other Good oligarchical multi-millionaire Democrats to whom you pledge your lifelong loyalty. We have security in our home only because of this: https://t.co/fMswTMx3di https://t.co/CZdeSnUpqO — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@LiberalDem101 @OsitaNwanevu As your name suggests, you're just a Democrat -- a loyal, banal servant to the dreary neoliberals Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer -- and you see everyone who isn't that as "unprincipled" because you can't process politics except through a primitive prism of the US Dems v. US GOP. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@3rd_Way_Stinks @OsitaNwanevu The tweet to which your Democratic Party friend is replying is one where I was defending Mélencon and Corbyn. Only a stunted, provincial American Democrat who thinks "leftism" means "VOTE DEM" would think this is "defending the far right." https://t.co/wm9CghaTo6 — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@luxepunk @OsitaNwanevu US cable news doesn't exist in Brazil and I never watch it unless I'm on it or it appears in my timeline. Removing yourself from the total joke that is the US "left" (just a loyal branding arm of the DNC) and seeing real leftism as it exists elsewhere is incredibly clarifying. https://t.co/Z324ydGEbb — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@OsitaNwanevu Put another way, that you think Bernie and AOC and their VOTE BLUE ALWAYS loyalty is "real leftism," while Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Jeremy Corbyn are just "libertarians," is why the US "left" barely exists as a viable force and has nothing in common with international leftism. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@OsitaNwanevu That you think opposition to Western imperialism and NATO, contempt for globalist institutions of free trade and authoritarianism such as the EU and the IMF, are nothing more than "libertarianism" -- not leftism -- is why the US "left" is a joke. Just vote Dem and cheer NATO.✊ — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

RT @ravipalat: "Indeed, what angered the permanent ruling class in Washington was not Trump's policy of embracing the ruling Saudi monarchs… — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@MattBruenig @xavkoenig @ebruenig @HeerJeet Neither Mélenchon nor Corbyn were opposed to the vaccine itself. They were opposed to the policy that workers should lose their jobs in the middle of a pandemic, or otherwise be denied free movement, for failing to comply. Corbyn was upholding the opposition of UK's largest union https://t.co/bcU7Pc9dZM — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@ursa_turbo No, my brain just works extremely fast and always has. 🤷‍♂️ — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@tiger_snake10 @jeremycorbyn There's no "burgeoning American left." It's a faction that follows and takes direction from Bernie and AOC, whose main/sole purpose is to keep people like you herded within and captive to the neoliberal, authoritarian Dem Party, all while you feel radical cool staying in line. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@BadTakeEnjoyer That you don't know who Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Jeremy Corbyn are, and don't understand how they're leftists, is the point. You have a stunted US view where your "leftist" icons are Bernie and AOC whose main function is to keep people like you captive to the neoliberal Dem Party. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@BadTakeEnjoyer That's literally what just happened. You're a self-proclaimed "socialist" who claims I have undergone some malignant change because you saw me praise some of the core views of real leftists like Mélenchon and Corbyn. They're anti-authoritarian leftists, which you can't comprehend — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@BadTakeEnjoyer You're a self-proclaimed "socialist" who gets angry when you see praise for Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Jeremy Corbyn. This is what Bernie/AOC have wrought: convinced a generation that "socialist" means marching lockstep with the Dem Party and staying loyal to its authoritarian dogma. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@DrJMoneyPHD Yes, but he also refused to endorse Macron. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@anarchohindu All the things I just listed -- opposition to globalistic neoliberalism, NATO imperialism, free trade, and centralized global institutions -- as well as standard, hard-core left-wing protections for workers. https://t.co/FKtvVMN0wq — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Mélenchon also regards Assange and Snowden as heroes and vowed French asylum and "state honors" for them. And recall: @JeremyCorbyn joined with Mélenchon in opposing vaccine mandates/passports as a violation of individual and workers' rights. The US "left" is a different beast. https://t.co/zOmhL8TFwx — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Mélenchon is a real leftist who (thus) bears very little resemblance to the mainstream Bernie/AOC/DNC "left" in the US. He vehemently opposed vaccine mandates/passports; despises Big Tech censorship; opposes NATO's role in Ukraine and NATO itself; hates the EU/globalism, etc. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Melanchon is a real leftist who (therefore) bears very little resemblance to the mainstream Bernie/AOC/DNC "left" in the US. He vehemently opposed vaccine mandates/passports; despises Big Tech censorship; opposes NATO's role in Ukraine and even NATO itself; hates the EU, etc. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Yes, Phil Mickleson or whoever is playing in a golf tournament financed by Saudis, but Joe Biden -- you know, the US President, not a golfer -- is doing *this* with the Saudis, as is the UK Govt: a lot more than playing golf for them. There'd be no Saudi regime without the US/UK: https://t.co/M8CaYVU9XO — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

I continue to find it completely baffling how people are so outraged that a bunch of golfers are participating in a tour funded by Saudi money when *it's their own governments that prop up the Saudi regime with weapons, intel and cash.* The latter seems a bit more significant. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@AnterosHyperion She illegally seized power after a clear coup -- one which a court found that she and her party helped orchestrate -- and then oversaw a massacre of peaceful protesters. I don't know if 10 years is the right term but I reported on this from the start: https://t.co/vQNguL2xqs — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

A theory worth interrogating and exploring: https://t.co/8M60DwT3Y0 — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Official Washington is a sleazy swamp, but its think tanks are where its most rotted sewage is stored. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@zimsmz 👍 — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@zimsmz I did repeatedly. I'm sure you'll admit that you're wrong now that you see this. If this isn't enough, tell me how many more you need. https://t.co/FVADlFDlN8 — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@SirNaziSlayer Yes. See below. But the difference is Trump didn't pretend to believe that the US should sever ties with tyrannies. Biden, during the campaign, vowed to do so, only to immediately abandon that pledge and embrace the Saudis. https://t.co/mjgY0keBBT https://t.co/q9bfKxCEQe — PolitiTweet.org