MSNBC Host Joy Reid Wrote Numerous Anti-Gay Articles on Her Old Blog

[JHan]

113. agreed.

I think it's understandable though.

My major beef with Glenn and others who think like him is that they don't move the conversation forward because his aim is to have a certain amount of power himself - Crusaders are inherently narcissistic - they want to be power brokers. Assange is the same. What they will never do is encourage introspection.

Glenn's obsession with deep state narratives is his way of bringing focus to himself and his anti-statist views. Rarely is the question asked by him, how America pays for the privileges she enjoys - everything is boiled down to a state department or a certain secretary of state or administration. And this dovetails nicely with the cognitive dissonance many Americans suffer from, where there's little reflection over the benefits accrued from being a super power and how this is reflected in energy prices, access to affordable goods and services. Americans consume more than any other group of people on the planet, there are reasons for that made possible by realities I think most are uncomfortable confronting.

As for Snowden, he's no different to Greenwald. I'll always remember his smug comment that he'll have the CIA running around like a headless chicken for a while or words to that effect. Why he's viewed as a hero boggles my mind: He compromised intelligence, his revelations were nothing new - any American who didn't know that interception of telecommunications has been a thing for deacdes has been living under a rock since birth. This has been the case for decades, going far back to the civil rights movement , and sometimes a warrant wasn't even necessary.

Worse yet, in Snowden's case, what he revealed related to eavesdropping of foreign agents or activities connected to foreign countries. As if a government should not engage in such security measures , which is crazy. There was so much outrage, I've yet to see anything that matched it - not even corporations cataloging information on our interests/likes and or dislikes generated as much stupid outrage.

Just another reminder: don't take anything at face value. It's the world we live in now.

Truth. I've often said on this site that nuance is lost , that complexity is lost.

but I now realise that's not the problem. The problem now is that Facts count for nothing. All we've got are memes in this post truth world, and it's all about whether your meme penetrates the noise and dominates.