They're left in the sense that they support leftist policies actually being implemented. Dore is "left" in the sense that he claims to be tribally part of the left. From a political standpoint, he's aligned with the right.
If they actually supported those policies, they would pass them while they are in power. They support those policies ONLY when on the campaign trail then they don't pass them once elected.
Jimmy is a leftist because he doesn't let them off the hook for it.
Greenwald barely even discusses domestic policy, and his positions on domestic policy issues are irrelevant to what he does (which is spam GOP and international rightist propaganda non-stop).
Are you pro-war, pro-coup, or pro-murder? I think I finally get where you're going with this point. Do you equate opposing US intervention or fabricated propaganda campaigns with defending rightist governments???
You know, it is possible to both hate the taliban for their right-wing ideology without thinking that we need to be there forever, right?
But they don't actually do that. You're confusing support for freedom of speech for "pushing social media corporations to censor views." Where do you ever see Greenwald criticize efforts to shut down social media companies because the right doesn't like them, which is an actual attack on freedom of speech? Never. In fact, he enthusiastically supports such efforts, which is bizarre if you think he's actually a principled libertarian but makes perfect sense if you realize he's a GOP hack.
Wait a second....Are you arguing that a
corporate right to censor at the behest of the state overrides the first amendment
individual protection of freedom of speech?? Nobody is advocating for social media companies to be shut down. They are arguing not to be censored on those platforms. Outside of Amazon, Google, and Apple who colluded to shut down Parlor, I haven't seen any large push to shut down the major platforms. While I STRONGLY disagree with many of the views that were professed on Parlor, they had a right to not be censored.
You know about 80% of the censorship that takes place in China is done by private companies, rigbt?
Social media companies did not start censoring until they kept getting called before congress and threatened. It is censorship by private companies at the behest of the state. It's state censorship by proxy; an immoral and unconstitutional work-around to the 1st Amendment.
So why would a "libertarian" defend oppressive regimes and attempts to silence criticism of Republicans in America?
Maybe he agreed with that government in that instance, for example, disagreeing with the assassination of Soleimani or finding that sending Uighurs to reeducation camps isn't as bad as setting the whole middle east on fire and killing over a million people.
As far as trying to defend a republican from criticism, maybe he agreed with the republican in that instance.
As a leftist, I have the freedom to acknowledge when both republicans and democrats do something right, like Bernie and Rand Paul trying to stop the wars. I can also acknowledge when either does wrong, like lindsay graham and Nancy Pelosi both supporting "enhanced interrogation techniques"
But I'm not sure what you're specifically referring to here. You're going to have to be more specific on these two extremely vague examples for me to comment intelligently.
I realize that you occasionally say "fuck" various Republicans, but then 100% of your posts are GOP propaganda. And when you lump in people who are not corrupt with corrupt people, you normalize and thus defend corruption. Actually thinking requires more thought than your hackery, but it's also more rewarding.
Everyone I listed there has been corrupted. The two-party system itself has been corrupted.
As far as attacking the Democrats over the republicans.....the republicans didn't lie to me all campaign season to try to get my vote. They didn't pretend they had moved to the left and then back out once elected. The republicans policy ideas are mostly terrible, but they didn't shake my hand and then slap me in the face.
Of course. It's impossible for anyone to sincerely disagree with you because you're omniscient and everyone knows it.
Serious question. Do you believe its possible to criticize the Democratic party from the left?? Or do you believe that since there is no current viable alternative to the left of the Democratic party, that we should all just lesser-of-two-evils ourselves into oblivian while we see the Democratic party keep following the Republicans farther and farther right?
The democratic party today is like the republican party of the 1980s. How far are you willing to follow them on this journey right?
And yet you say it's partisan to oppose dictators gassing people and lying. Explain that one.
Let's just agree to disagree on this on. I told you that I don't believe the attack happened at all. That's not defending gassing people, its defending a party that I feel has been falsely accused. OF COURSE its wrong to gas people; I don't believe that took place. Let's drop this one, its getting redundant; the MSM retractions are already starting. Let's revisit it in 6 months.