As someone who has been beating the "Glenn is a huge piece of shit & an awful person" drum for years now, it's kind of vindicating to see him turning his fire (with the same disingenuous RW talking points) at all of the ppl like Walker who used to be in his Leftist Defense Force.
People (wrongly) thought he was progressive b/c he spent all of his time attacking Dems & boosted some candidates that supported 'left' goals. But he only did so to b/c they too had being 'anti-Dem' as their guiding light. You think Glenn gave a fuck about M4A or the GND? Hah.
This is literally NRA talking points when faced with serious concern from people wanting to regulate guns. "Whatttt about cars?" is just lazy whataboutism that isn't even clever if you think about it for more than a second. But that's what he is. He's not even good at *that*.
He doesn't even know what he's arguing. All he knows is that the libs are for this one thing (caring about the potential for a bunch of kids to get seriously sick), so he has to be against it. And in the most dramatic of fashions.
Oh and one last thing. I am not mad. Please do not print that I'm mad. I'm actually laughing.
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People ask, 'how could voters believe Dems have positions that they don't actually believe?' Well it's because the GOP bombarded them with lies about Dems and there's just not a great answer for such weaponized shamelessness. Truth just does not work.
The GOP (and its wealthy financial backers) have basically weaponized disinformation/lies to a completely unprecedent degree. And with the rise of technology are able to pump it out completely unchallenged (especially since social media outlets have completely given up).
So the NYT politics guys did a Reddit AMA several days ago. This was the top upvoted post. And then the extremely predictable (point proving) response.
And the predictably smug/condescending follow-up
Needless to say, they were heavily down-voted and deluged with (acurate) negative comments like these
#factcheck: Hamas is not keeping the hostages to rape them, they are just raping the hostages they are keeping for unrelated other reasons.
What....is even going on anymore?
I just don't understand why certain people feel the need to downplay Hamas' awfulness. It's not that hard to say that Hamas is an evil terrorist group, while also believing that innocent people do not deserve to die because of it.
Again, contra the lame "oh so you blindly trust the US govt" line from the above uhh journalists, the actual things to weigh:
Side 1- Israeli govt, US govt, every open-source analyst on this site & most importantly, the fact that the hospital was not destroyed
Side 2- Hamas' word
So yeah, I guess it's a real he-said, she-said if you just ignore everything but the competing government claims & also only pretend that the USG/Israel's 'lies' matter and not the fact that the initial claims by Hamas of the hospital being destroyed & 500-1000 dead, were a lie.
A lot of people I respect really, really showed their asses. And if they want to be able to maintain any sort of 'high ground' when it comes to journalistic integrity, really should at least make a basic statement that they got out over their skis.
And of course a lot of people who I don't really respect, but I don't expect them to ever admit they were wrong. Because that's just not what people do #onhere.
I'm not slightly 'gloating'. This entire site & almost all of the media falsely/uncritically ran with a characterization that relied solely on Hamas' word and created a major international incident. Sorry, if you don't think that deserves to be called out.