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Tell the right you are looking for Islamic terrorists. Tell the left you are looking for white supremacists.

Like shooting fish in a barrel; total surveillance state achieved.

The actual left is generally against that sort of thing, and even significant factions on the right don't want the kind of government control, what you should be concerned about are liberal centrist people.

You're right[0], though you won't get much recognition on HN.

[0] https://t.co/9UuceYD2Xj?amp=1

I hate to break it to you, but Greenwald is just another "I was a teenage leftist" Republican getting ready for his book tour. He's been pandering to Trump supporters for a few years now...

He's a terrible example to cite if you want to support the actual left.

"People's Front of Judea"

I mean, he has started spreading TERF propaganda on Twitter (because those particular brainworms always infect the new converts, for whatever reason). That and the Trump thing aren't minor ideological differences - they're fundamental, irreconcilable conflicts. There's no future for them.

I think what you mean by "actual" left is probably more accurately described as libertarian left as apposed to authoritarian left. Both are real.

Probably more like "actual left" in contrast to the milquetoast kind that passes for the left wing of mainstream US politics, which are center-right by global standards.

"left" and "right" are nearly devoid of meaning once you go beyond "the bickering between two most popular teams in a country"

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