The Worst Tweets Of 2022! At least for this account anyway! This thread compiles the worst posts made by our "left-wing" favorites for the year! Starting with my favorite, Matt Taibbi saying that being banned from social media is worse than unjust laws being passed.
Michael Tracey talking about Black people in the south; Glenn Greenwald vouching for Alex Jones's apology; David Sirota explaining "shitliberalism"; Jimmy Dore claiming to have gotten Long COVID from the vaccine.
Matt Bruenig mocking Bill Russell a day after his death; Glenn Greenwald retweeting white supremacist cartoon Stonetoss; Aaron Maté calling Zelensky the "BlueAnon Shaman"; Nick Mullen's bleeding ears.
Elizabeth Bruenig complaining about ASU sophomores stealing your man; Matt Christman calling Zelensky a loser; Ryan Grim saying that the left pushed Joe Rogan to the right; Briahna Joy Gray praising Trump for letting her become a "job creator".
Ben Dreyfuss paying a drug addict to play The Most Dangerous Game with a paintball gun; Glenn Greenwald promoting fraud George Santos; Will Menaker lauging about the Paul Pelosi attack; Hasan Piker saying that Russia won't invade Ukraine and it's "the hill I will die on".
Ben Norton calling a rival social media network "fascist" for banning CODEPINK; Nick Mullen's racist joke; Lee Fang sucking up to Musk; Sana Saeed comparing funding Ukraine to American mass shootings.
Max Blumenthal saying that Kanye does not "threaten American Jews"; Jimmy Dore pushing Paul Pelosi attack homophobic conspiracy theories; Edward Snowden promoting Bitcoin; Mike Recine being jealous of Pete Davidson.
Ben Dreyfuss sharing his personal life relating to the Madison Cawthorn scandal; Glenn Greenwald vouching for Tucker Carlson's apology about "his past"; Matt Taibbi puzzled by the hatred for Musk; Matt Bruenig mocking David Hogg hours after the Buffalo shooting.
David Sirota equating Obama and Trump because of their "worship"; Matt Taibbi comparing people throwing soup on a painting's glass protection to a dystopia; Michael Tracey comparing the Crimean bridge offensive to 9/11; Edward Snowden puzzled by the opposition to libertarians.
Max Blumenthal claiming that IRS agents are being hired solely to take your money and send it to Ukraine; Michael Tracey "deleted some Holocaust tweets"; Lee Fang on Black identity extremism; Aaron Maté promoting Tucker because of Syrian gas attack denialism.
Attempts at political humor that end up even less funny than Babylon Bee from Max Blumenthal, Shoe On Head, Aaron Maté, Matt Christman.
Jimmy Dore worried that he'll be attacked by hecklers because of Will Smith; Glenn Greenwald claiming LibsOfTikTok is the *victim* of threats; Dave Weigel's sexist joke retweet; Michael Tracey flies to Poland to takes pictures from outside a U.S. military base.
Matt Bruenig mocking Pelé; Michael Tracey mocking a hate crime written in chalk; Nick Mullen supporting the trucker protest; Lee Fang mocking addiction treatment and harm reduction.
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Matt Taibbi is asked by Sabby Sabs about his view on Israel and Gaza, and Taibbi repeatedly declines to give an answer, saying he doesn't like to comment on this because it's "complicated" and "I don't know anything about it".
The next post has the other half of the clip.
Taibbi says "My job is to get stuff right, and not get stuff wrong" after being asked by Sabby Sabs again to say anything about Gaza, and admits it looks like he's "ducking" the question. He keeps saying he doesn't want to talk about the subject.
The obvious reason why he won't say anything is because he knows his audience now is mostly Trump supporters who won't like even a tiny criticism of Israel, but he wants to retain the tiny sliver of remaining left-wing supporters too. Having his cake and eating it too.
Every time Norman Finkelstein trends, usually for debating some moron (this time it's Destiny), he trends and people post clips of him dominating the debate.
People forget Finkelstein is racist and transphobic, and how he supports Russia invading Ukraine.
This is a thread compiling all of the bad takes from people (many on the left) downplaying the Jan. 6 insurrection that was part of Trump's plan to overturn the election.
Aaron Maté of The Grayzone calls the insurrection a "very sloppy riot" and a "sloppy three-hour riot".
Glenn Greenwald rises to the defense of Elon Musk and Twitter/X against the ADL highlighting Musk's promotion of white nationalist accounts.
Related post, feels like it's been a while since one of the Chapo guys said something shitty, but Felix decides to "both sides" the ADL correctly highlighting and criticizing Elon Musk promoting white nationalists.
Covered some of this rhetoric yesterday, Michael Tracey was upset that the ADL wants social media to ban Holocaust denial.
Cornel West has switched from running for the People's Party nomination to running for the Green Party nomination for President.
Oh God I hope he doesn't pick Russell Brand as his running mate.
His chances of winning the election before was 0%, but now that he's running on the Green Party, his chances of winning now are 0%.
Cornel West had been talking with people like Chris Hedges and Sabby Sabs the last few days, and they openly hate the current Green Party presumptive nominee Howie Hawkins because he's pro-Ukraine. I can't help but wonder if they pushed West to run just to get Hawkins out.
A lot of people are mad at Krystal Ball for *checks notes* challenging Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on his decades of anti-vax bullshit. Jimmy Dore and Nick Cruse in particular are angry.
Of all the things to hate Krystal Ball for...
Nick Cruse and the rest of RBN did an entire episode complaining about Krystal and Kyle's wedding, as if Marianne Williamson's affiliation with them will boost her Presidential chances. Their preview image didn't even include Shoe, the worst person there.
From what I recall, Aaron Maté hasn't been critical of Krystal Ball, but Jimmy has plenty of times before. We'll see if Aaron responds to any of Jimmy's conspiratorial criticism of Krystal.