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Careful, Greenwald has gone a bit off the rails recently.

>Careful, Greenwald has gone a bit off the rails recently.

In its present form this is just poisoning the well. Surely you can discuss your issues with the article or, at the very least, substantiate your claim.

Careful about what specifically? You say that Greenwald has gone off the rails. But would you have written this comment if this article of Greenwald criticized conservative media outlets instead of liberal ones?

Attack the meat of his writing linked, not the person.

Why not read the post and cite the parts you find off-the-rails, then?

Terrence Tao, respected mathematician, doesn't take the time to read most people who send him their work, and in fact has an explicit policy about how he will ignore such requests.

And I doubt it's fair to say that mathematical error or amateurism makes you "off the rails". Yet Terrence Tao won't give such people the time of day.

What role does Credibility play in conversation?

Did you just compare yourself with Terry Tao? Or are you comparing Glenn Greenwald—a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and one who helped Snowden tell his story—with crackpots who send Tao their papers?

A math amateur is not a crackpot. Being a non-professional means you have credibility issues, not mental issues. After all, a math amateur who is rejected by Tao doesn't necessarily think the math world is in conspiracy. I also would not presume that a math amateur would go on Tucker Carlson's show to talk about the deep state infiltrating the CIA and thwarting Donald Trump.

https://youtu.be/l8pkCZBjgrk?t=252

In line with the downvotes I decided to read the article. Total conspiracy theory screed.

If you value your time, skip it.

Why do you say that?

Because every Greenwald story is the same story:

'THE SKY IS FALLING! THE ELITES ARE LYING! THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA ARE IN BED WITH THE ELITES! ONLY I GLENN GREENWALD AM TRUSTWORTHY! BUT THEY ARE TRYING TO DEPLATFORM ME! SHARE LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT! BWARARARAHWHHWGAG!"

Meanwhile what's his deal? He accuses The Intercept of skullduggery because they dared edit him. Substack is most likely secretly subsidizing him to write there. I see him publish on Conrad "Trump pardoned me after I wrote a nice book about him" Black's NationalPost that the American press is in bed with Biden.

Granted, I am biased: at this point, 2021, populism enrages me like nothing else. Being on the internet feels like I'm trapped in some plonker's smoky dorm room.

In this article, we also have Greenwald recalling the Hunter Biden laptop story with The Intercept and Fox News and Tucker Carlson.

That story ended up to be a shit-show, with Fox News essentially killing the story by dropping it off the table.

Nope, I've watched a few recent interviews with Greenwald, and everything he said matches non-MSM media sources (NTD Media, other interviews.)

Don't believe a single word on cnn.com for starters.

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