Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@spencerinabox She voted no, then changed her vote to "present," then began crying. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Members of Congress have every right to question the strategic benefit and morality of the US sending billions in taxpayer funds to other countries: they have not just the right but the duty to question it. Israel is like any other foreign country and debating aid to it is valid. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

AOC wasn't saying the US should cut funding to Israel. She is saying the US bears responsibility for human rights abuses - such as the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh and attacks at her funeral - when committed by nations who receive massive US aid. Same applies to Saudis and Egypt. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

The vast majority of the GOP (and the entire Dem Party) supports Biden's war policies in Ukraine and have from the start. A few dozen Republicans in Congress have opposed it, but most of the GOP supports Biden's escalation in Ukraine. If anything, they favor even more: — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Yes, the cartoonish idiocy of Nina Jankowicz has made the controversy seem like a joke. Don't let it distract you from the fact that DHS and USG generally have numerous programs to define Truth and Falsity so as to weaponize their "disinformation" decrees to censor and punish. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@sassafrasj0nes I am duly embarrassed at failing to see the satire in the first tweet. Sorry! 🤮 — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@KostjaMarschke @barryeisler @TimothyS For two reasons: 1) I find highly objectionable and chilling the Western media's complete re-writing and revisionism about Azov: that sort of Ministry of Truth stuff is creepy, and 2) I do think they're significant and merit discussion, even if not dispositive to the war deabte. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@KostjaMarschke @barryeisler @TimothyS I agree Azov's influence is not political. It's military. I seriously doubt that anywhere close to a majority supports its ideology (though likely/understandably feel better about them now due to their role in the war). I've said that Azov doesn't mean the US should stay out. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

RT @redsteeze: Criticizing me is a threat to national security. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@sassafrasj0nes Please renounce your membership in the Azov Battalion and remove the photos of Adolf Hitler you have from your wall. If you want to hide your Nazism, perhaps be a little more subtle than claiming that a gay Jewish journalist is a traitor: it's like waving around a swastika. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@KostjaMarschke @barryeisler @TimothyS I contest the minimization of Azov's power and influence. Western press accounts constantly stressed how key they are to Ukrianian fighting. It's typical that the most extremist forces become dominant in war (eg Syria). At the very least, we should be honest about who they are. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

After seeing and hearing all of this from Nina Jankowicz, I would literally trust someone randomly chosen from the phone book (ask your parents what those are) to run this DHS Disinformation Board over her. She's a caricature of a partisan fanatic and authoritarian extremist. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

LOL. Of course. If you oppose Homeland Security's Disinformation Board or criticize the views and statements of this #Resistance cartoon chosen to run it, then it means you are harming US National Security. Back to the days of: any questioning of the USG makes you a traitor. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@KostjaMarschke @barryeisler @TimothyS Yes, I've repeatedly said that it's normal for people and countries at war to form alliances with anyone who will help them win the war. That's why the US, despite its burning and visceral hatred for the Soviet Union and Stalin, partnered and allied with them in WW2. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Over and over, all day, every day. But remember: it's Russians who use bots! https://t.co/YXUxHzvPPE — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@barryeisler @TimothyS One of its many charms. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@yan_JP Sim, políticos que querem ser presidente são obrigados a divulgar informações sobre suas finanças e outros assuntos que os cidadãos não são. Em toda democracia, tem muitos requisitos para pessoas que buscam um enorme poder político público que não se aplicam a cidadãos privados. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@crf_mayk Eles não são legalmente exigidos nos EUA, mas é impensável que um grande candidato presidencial se recuse a participar dos debates. Seria uma enorme perda política: os eleitores não tolerariam. É uma tradição que remonta a décadas. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Se você quer ser presidente da república, mas se recusa a participar de debates porque acha politicamente benéfico recusar, isso é um sinal de desprezo pelo público, que tem o direito de ouvir todos os candidatos que buscam o poder confrontarem os pontos de vista uns dos outros. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@barryeisler @TimothyS Yeah, I almost deleted the tweet right after I posted it because no good can come from having a discussion of this type on Twitter (and I've had it many times in better venues), but then my deleting that tweet would have become its own thing so I just left it. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@uleesees You mean polite language when criticizing Republicans like this? https://t.co/Jkp8PMDE6e — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Such reasoning is possible only for people capable of thinking within (ahem) non-binary and non-hysterical frameworks: — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@TimothyS @barryeisler Refusing to form alliances that could stop such evil policies is a sign of self-indulgence -- prioritizing moral preening over actually winning and achieving positive outcomes. You need majorities to stop these policies and you won't find them by confining yourself to the left. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@raleedy @RandPaul This "delay" -- so sorry not to throw $40b out the window immediately -- is precisely because official, bipartisan Washington, funded by Raytheon and Lockheed Martin, refuses to include Paul's oversight and accountability provisions in this massive war package. I wonder why? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Again, this extraordinary amount after only 10 weeks of war - more than the average *annual* US expenditure for its own war in Afghanistan, soon to surpass the entire Russian military budget *for the year* - will soon eclipse many key domestic programs to help Americans in need: https://t.co/z1tiojOyg4 — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Mitch McConnell and the establishment wing of the GOP are viciously attacking @RandPaul for the crime of wanting some minimal safeguards and oversight on this extraordinary amount of money the US has spent *after only 10 weeks of war*, sure to be much, much higher, and soon: — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@FullBarrelMedia No, those emails are genuine and were written by Clarence Thomas' wife, a private citizen. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Look at @ACLU's tepid, cautious, polite language when denouncing *Homeland Security's* claimed power to decree and monitor what it sees as "disinformation" (do you think it'd be worded the same under Trump?🤣), but even they're willing to sound the alarm: https://t.co/qZ7SWzVci7 — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@TomTomClub510 I can't comprehend how authoritarian someone has to be to think it's fine and good for the Department of Homeland Security to claim the power to decree and monitor what it considers "disinformation." Even @ACLU objected: https://t.co/qZ7SWzVci7 — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@TVietor08 @mrsorokaa And, again, most of the mainstream Western press accounts I cited in this thread -- stridently warning of the dangers of the core neo-Nazi ideology of Azov -- were from 2020 and 2021, not 2007. https://t.co/2TfDhujIxi — PolitiTweet.org