Ah yes, why would Greenwald ever have reason to criticize Trump, the constant warrior for civil libertarians as president? It's not like that's the guy who presided over the prosecution of Julian Assange. Trump clearly represented the liberal Greenwald view of limited government in civil libertarians matters.

Greenwald was anti-anti-Trump because of what I described earlier... he viscerally hates Democrats, the supposed establishment, the media, and he'll provide cover for anyone those people and institutions criticize. The man couldn't even acknowledge the reality of Russian interference in the 2016 election until years after it happened. He's a joke.

He's gone on to associate himself with Alex Jones. These people always become what you expect them to, and right-wingers sympathetic to Trump, like yourself, are still stuck in denial mode, claiming they are allies.

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So why does the OP (who has been carrying the water for said incompetent bungler for the past 6+ years) post specific snippets of the thread from #MattyDickPics that try to tie Democratic government intervention with the NY Post story, when it not only was a Republican administration in office at the time, but also came at a point in time where Twitter's existing policies that put a wall between the Twitter comms people and their public policy people specifically to keep enforcement decisions independent from their PR and Gov't Relations teams?

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IceMage is decidedly in favor of the corrupt establishment. People like Taibbi, Greenwald, Snowden and Assange expose the regime and make them look bad and therefore should be opposed.
Rand Paul, Trump and libertarians fall into a similar category of opposition and also receive his ire.

When Chris Christie was championing authoritarianism and privacy violations, BrainFreeze was a walking billboard of support, but when Christie sided with Trump that was the breaking point.
Its perfectly consistent behavior from the perspective of extreme loyalty to the worst people in government and the fiction that the government is good.

You lack integrity and intelligence.

Irony.

Greenwald's enemy has always been the security state, and he was celebrated by Democrats across the establishment for just as long as he focused on Republicans. The minute he focuses against a Democratic-aligned narrative, he's out, and he's understandably very bitter about it.

Drone Strikes Are Legit

Shaq can sleep easy knowing the bad guys are vaporized by usa drone missiles

I am in favor of the establishment, if what you mean by that is the established, sustainable political order maintained in the US and abroad which enables prosperity and freedom for a significant segment of the world population. I'm against people like Gabbard and Greenwald who seek to upend that order, which would give way to tyrants asserting themselves more into domestic and international politics. The kindergarten view of politics, especially at the international level, should be rejected completely. And based on the recent voting patterns of US citizens lately, your view of the world has been rejected.



Well, to start, I think it's weird that Greenwald is somehow a laudable figure for you, as you were not one of the people back in the day opposing the "security state", which I think is a silly euphemism on it's face. I think such a radical change in your views merits an explanation, because Bogie was always more establishment neo-con than I ever was.

But also, no serious observer of American governance can claim that only Democrats were the "offenders" against Greenwald's ideology. It's simply absurd to claim Trump was the anti-war, civil libertarian hero. But Greenwald didn't feel the need to criticize him, because as I hinted at, he hates Democrats, the MSM, and the "establishment" far more than he cares about enforcing some ideological viewpoint.

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Amazon Web Services shut Parler down right when it was starting to boom

So why isn't the free market manifesting alternatives to Amazon Web Services?