Greenwald is doing what all journalists and commentators SHOULD be doing. He pulls together facts and asks the one critical question, the question that explains the facts, the question that nobody else has asked.
Glenn is performing proper journalism and proper science. Gather facts, form a testable question that hasn’t been asked before, try to answer it.
He looks at the latest round of elite firings and asks:
Is this the George Floyd moment for the right-wing side of the elite? Is this their chance to get in on the censorship and canceling that has previously been reserved for the left-wing side of the elite? Or is it just billionaires doing what billionaires do?
The former is definitely happening. All the “conservatives” who have been complaining about censorship from the other side are now gleefully censoring the same speech by the same people that they were defending yesterday.
It’s not hypocrisy as such; it’s just an illustration of the BASIC FACT that “free speech” is a pure myth. It never happens and can’t happen. Secrecy and censorship are the purpose of language, the purpose of academies, the purpose of corporations.
If you start with the false assumption of “rights” and “freedom” you’ll always misinterpret reality, you’ll always be surprised by normal events.
Both sides of the elite want us to misinterpret, want us to be shocked.
In terms of permanence and reality, Glenn’s second choice is the only truth, the Grand Unifying Theory Of Everything. Monsters do what they want. Monsters don’t care if their fake “right-wing” puppets feel victorious this time or their fake “left-wing” puppets feel victorious this time. Larry Fink and Bill Ackman are always victorious. Nothing else matters in the whole universe.
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Not coincidentally, Glenn also brings out a fact that ties together a previous puzzle. In Feb 2020 I was reading the Tesla shorters, and noticed they were FEROCIOUSLY favoring total lockdowns. I didn’t understand the bet value of lockdowns at the time. Later the same Tesla shorters joined the anti-vax crowd in order to short Pfizer. Glenn mentions that Bill Ackman was LEADING the little army of shorters in early 2020. Ackman pushed publicly for a long total shutdown, and then profited massively when the stock market crashed IN RESPONSE TO HIS PUSH. Unspeakably immeasurably evil. Literally destroying the world to make a profit on a bet.
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