Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi, Aaron Mate are a few honest leftist journalists still left. Unfortunately, all of them now get called russian agents.....
Matt is good too, same caveat about his views but I’m glad he’s on substack now because fuck Rolling Stone! Aaron Mate sounds familiar, I’ll have to keep an eye out for his stuff.
I've got posts on reddit going back nearly a year where I constantly brought up these three journalists as the few remaining with integrity. I think the best description might be contrarian, which is generally how I tend to be and why I find myself aligning with them. It's nice to see some beacons of sanity.
Before Trump they were generally well respected among most liberals as well.
Then Trump came along and suddenly, like Trump, Assange, and even Snowden, they're grifters and/or Russian agents.
Leftism is a mental disorder and TDS can be terminal. It's crazy how far these people will go to avoid and mask the truth because they simply don't want it to be true.
Aaron Mate shows up on Jimmy Dore a lot. Jimmy hates Trump and you won’t agree with much of what he says, but he absolutely despises what the media has been doing for 4 years. Hearing him denounce media lies is great to hear. Since he’s not “one of us”.
Yup! I think the problem with Jimmy is that he's sitting in his own echo chamber in CA and doesn't realize there's people outside that shithole who like Trump. I hate how whenever democrats do evil shit, Jimmy compares them to right wing and Trump. Like bitch, Trump and his constituents are exact opposite.
Jimmy's still completely tribal - he's just realised his tribe's leadership is composed of evil liars.
That doesn't preclude him still identifying with the tribe at large, and believing their propaganda about the other side. He just no longer believes their lies about themselves.
He's a classic case of being purple-pilled. No real understanding of the world outside the Hollywood bubble, other than a guilty, vaguely anthropological understanding of the working class.
I don’t really have an issue with people who just believe in the faux “merits” of socialism, as Jimmy does. I may disagree vehemently with him, but you can have a productive, honest debate with someone like that. Today’s left are not honest actors, they are radicalized violent marxists, hellbent in pushing an ideological fascist plague on society. The sad thing is most of these people can’t even articulate or defend their positions, and prefer censorship and violence to conversation and debate.
Jimmy and Stef at least want to and is willing to share dialogue with Trump supporters. He has also at least publicly stated that Biden is much worse than our president. Not really a win, but I'll at least take it I guess.
I watch Jimmy too. Who will he support now that he was betrayed by Bernie who is clearly controlled opposition? I'm guessing Tulsi.
The irony of progressives is they hate Trump less than liberals even though progressive candidates would try for real change and Biden would just work for the highest bidder and corporations trying to crush small business and seniors.
This was always Trump vs. the massive, massive egos of liberals. The greater the ego the greater the need to bash Trump to show their "enlightenment." Biden is everything they say they hate about Trump: boastful, thin skinned, inarticulate (much more so than Trump), divisive etc. and they can't see it because this is 100% about feelings not facts.
Taibbi’s eXile was one of the best newspapers ever printed in Russia. Other Moscow journos were hating it, one American journo girl even threatened a gangland hit on the authors.
most of the worst villains in the eXile's hall of shame are Americans, and it is a theme throughout the book that once Americans are in any way freed from the usual constraints on their behavior, they are the most corrupt, scaly lizard-beasts one can find anywhere. Even an ordinary suburbanite, once she lands in Russia, winds up threatening gangland hits on the authors [...].
And it could happen here, if we ever cease to keep an eye on each other, on our elected officials,and on our press. For, as Taibbi notes with dismay, ... today's "reporters," at least in the western press in Moscow, have become "a bunch of corrupt, cheerleading patsies," largely because there is no longer any competition between papers, magazines, networks, what have you, and thus there's no one paying attention to the accuracy, fairness, or relevance of what is coming out of those Moscow bureaus - and thus no reason for western journalists in Moscow to work very hard at all.
Greenwald said this sensorship of anything critical of the deep state and democrats should scare everyone, however, the Democrats are undeniably in control of the corrupt establishment and it's being empowered by ignorant anti-Trump ideologues... useful idiots bc orange man bad
Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi, Aaron Mate are a few honest leftist journalists still left. Unfortunately, all of them now get called russian agents.....
Matt is good too, same caveat about his views but I’m glad he’s on substack now because fuck Rolling Stone! Aaron Mate sounds familiar, I’ll have to keep an eye out for his stuff.
All 3 had been calling out the Russiagate nonsense from the beginning.
I've got posts on reddit going back nearly a year where I constantly brought up these three journalists as the few remaining with integrity. I think the best description might be contrarian, which is generally how I tend to be and why I find myself aligning with them. It's nice to see some beacons of sanity.
Before Trump they were generally well respected among most liberals as well.
Then Trump came along and suddenly, like Trump, Assange, and even Snowden, they're grifters and/or Russian agents.
Leftism is a mental disorder and TDS can be terminal. It's crazy how far these people will go to avoid and mask the truth because they simply don't want it to be true.
Frightening to me.
You have to wonder how they operate on a day-to-day basis.
Aaron Mate shows up on Jimmy Dore a lot. Jimmy hates Trump and you won’t agree with much of what he says, but he absolutely despises what the media has been doing for 4 years. Hearing him denounce media lies is great to hear. Since he’s not “one of us”.
Yup! I think the problem with Jimmy is that he's sitting in his own echo chamber in CA and doesn't realize there's people outside that shithole who like Trump. I hate how whenever democrats do evil shit, Jimmy compares them to right wing and Trump. Like bitch, Trump and his constituents are exact opposite.
Agreed.
Jimmy's still completely tribal - he's just realised his tribe's leadership is composed of evil liars.
That doesn't preclude him still identifying with the tribe at large, and believing their propaganda about the other side. He just no longer believes their lies about themselves.
He's a classic case of being purple-pilled. No real understanding of the world outside the Hollywood bubble, other than a guilty, vaguely anthropological understanding of the working class.
I don’t really have an issue with people who just believe in the faux “merits” of socialism, as Jimmy does. I may disagree vehemently with him, but you can have a productive, honest debate with someone like that. Today’s left are not honest actors, they are radicalized violent marxists, hellbent in pushing an ideological fascist plague on society. The sad thing is most of these people can’t even articulate or defend their positions, and prefer censorship and violence to conversation and debate.
Jimmy hates those scumbags too.
Jimmy and Stef at least want to and is willing to share dialogue with Trump supporters. He has also at least publicly stated that Biden is much worse than our president. Not really a win, but I'll at least take it I guess.
I watch Jimmy too. Who will he support now that he was betrayed by Bernie who is clearly controlled opposition? I'm guessing Tulsi.
The irony of progressives is they hate Trump less than liberals even though progressive candidates would try for real change and Biden would just work for the highest bidder and corporations trying to crush small business and seniors.
This was always Trump vs. the massive, massive egos of liberals. The greater the ego the greater the need to bash Trump to show their "enlightenment." Biden is everything they say they hate about Trump: boastful, thin skinned, inarticulate (much more so than Trump), divisive etc. and they can't see it because this is 100% about feelings not facts.
That's the nastiest thing I have ever heard of. So much for my midnight snack.
Were you going to have horse semen pie as a midnight snack?
I prefer all american apple. You don't have to share.
Taibbi’s eXile was one of the best newspapers ever printed in Russia. Other Moscow journos were hating it, one American journo girl even threatened a gangland hit on the authors.
https://www.amazon.com/Exile-Sex-Drugs-Libel-Russia/dp/0802136524 See review by K.M.Sherrod (currently the 1st one):
most of the worst villains in the eXile's hall of shame are Americans, and it is a theme throughout the book that once Americans are in any way freed from the usual constraints on their behavior, they are the most corrupt, scaly lizard-beasts one can find anywhere. Even an ordinary suburbanite, once she lands in Russia, winds up threatening gangland hits on the authors [...].
And it could happen here, if we ever cease to keep an eye on each other, on our elected officials,and on our press. For, as Taibbi notes with dismay, ... today's "reporters," at least in the western press in Moscow, have become "a bunch of corrupt, cheerleading patsies," largely because there is no longer any competition between papers, magazines, networks, what have you, and thus there's no one paying attention to the accuracy, fairness, or relevance of what is coming out of those Moscow bureaus - and thus no reason for western journalists in Moscow to work very hard at all.
Greenwald said this sensorship of anything critical of the deep state and democrats should scare everyone, however, the Democrats are undeniably in control of the corrupt establishment and it's being empowered by ignorant anti-Trump ideologues... useful idiots bc orange man bad
Those are the kind of people that should be moderating debates.
Sort of above it all.
Wrong.
But above it all.
Add Michael Tracey to the list too.