tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post1408957241242510504..comments2024-03-17T17:09:51.505-05:00Comments on driftglass: Whenever There Is Some Headline-Grabbing Barbarity...driftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-23712586890627463412015-02-08T09:42:28.850-06:002015-02-08T09:42:28.850-06:00@IBW: It would make no difference to me because I...@IBW: It would make no difference to me because I have royally had my fill of that whole game. And as far as I'm concerned, where a line needs to be drawn, it gets drawn for everybody.Mister Robotohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08724938709642010624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-18481417918077074012015-02-08T07:56:10.692-06:002015-02-08T07:56:10.692-06:00If everything else were the same, but the presiden...If everything else were the same, but the president was a Reptilian instead of a Dinocrat, I wonder how many of GG's detractors here would be singing his praises? Ivory Bill Woodpeckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01318699512583970467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-43744979999990535502015-02-08T06:28:52.412-06:002015-02-08T06:28:52.412-06:00And besides, countering that criticizing the preac...And besides, countering that criticizing the preaching of a pet cause on account of this atrocity is also preaching, isn't a whole lot more than an "I'm-rubber-you're-glue" rhetorical trick that doesn't really hold any water.Mister Robotohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08724938709642010624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-81058183932852330852015-02-08T00:20:50.482-06:002015-02-08T00:20:50.482-06:00And the Cultists still don't get it. EQUIVOCAT...And the Cultists still don't get it. EQUIVOCATION IS NOT A VALID ARGUMENT. END OF DICUSSION.Chan Kobunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14002224390133771585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-32791171482434439222015-02-07T18:08:48.543-06:002015-02-07T18:08:48.543-06:00You have too preached, Roboto. And here I go again...You have too preached, Roboto. And here I go again. If you read what Greenwald wrote, he does contrast their political spectacle and our cover-ups. By their nature, cover-ups require difficult research to uncover. Mainly that is what Greenwald does in his piece -- provide you with documentation on where and how the U.S. chooses to burn people. We can disagree, but I think this is an entirely fair exercise. If not now, when? Maybe we can all agree that burning people alive is barbarism, no matter who does it or why they say they do it.Owlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05673972843663237282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-5822098746021901872015-02-07T12:09:02.314-06:002015-02-07T12:09:02.314-06:00Is Greenwald wrong? Is our burning up people less ...Is Greenwald wrong? Is our burning up people less evil than their burning up people? Who has burned up more people? Them or us?tony in san diegohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17610599999844228511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-10950419424501435792015-02-07T11:34:37.586-06:002015-02-07T11:34:37.586-06:00Greenwald's defenders are missing the point. ...Greenwald's defenders are missing the point. There's a time and a place for preaching and advocacy of one's pet causes, <b>and this <i>ain't</i> one of them!</b> I can think of some doomer-sermons I might preach inspired by the ghastly immolation of a young man in the prime of his life for the sake of vile political spectacle, but I didn't and I won't because I have some places where I draw the fucking line. Knowing where to do so isn't exactly rocket science, after all.Mister Robotohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08724938709642010624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-11277651073529106372015-02-06T23:00:20.402-06:002015-02-06T23:00:20.402-06:00And, as usual, the Glennie Pie Junior Defense Brig...And, as usual, the Glennie Pie Junior Defense Brigade is out in force to make sure we all know the REEEEEAL reason why you're posting this. Not because GG is a hack who sees every tragedy as a chance to further his teenage-level agenda; no, it's because OMG U OBSESSIVE HAET STOOGE DRONEGLASS!!1<br /><br />The Cargo Cult of Saint Glennie Pie continues uneducated.Chan Kobunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14002224390133771585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-27262625443580300542015-02-06T18:05:02.992-06:002015-02-06T18:05:02.992-06:00What you have here, Driftglass, is not a comment a...What you have here, Driftglass, is not a comment about horror and moral outrage towards perpetrators of the crime of burning helpless people alive. Oh no, what you have here is yet another excuse to grind your axe on Glenn Greenwald while displaying your indignation that others fail to grind the same axe. Greenwald at least has the moral rectitude to recognize the real shame of how ISIL behaves. I don't see where you are moved to display the same shame over the kinds of human burnings conducted by our own military and it's allies. Greenwald's richly-documented piece is about that long-used tactic which we living here in Central Command rapidly are losing the kind of public outrage once prevalent during the napalm era of Vietnam. I'm old enough to have protested those outrages in the streets. Therefore I hear and agree deeply with every word in Greenwald's excellent exposition. This is why your reaction, putting Greenwald into a frame of some sort of proof of trolling in the manner of, what??, Westboro Baptist????, well, frankly you've managed to turn my stomach today. Expect a letter from me to the podcast as well, where you issued similarly. Note: I am a supporter of your podcast. And I'll continue to be. I still appreciate many of your flares. Too bad this one is so ugly.Owlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05673972843663237282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-67059130512076454922015-02-06T08:22:13.021-06:002015-02-06T08:22:13.021-06:00Yep. Thank you Droneglass & Co for your courag...Yep. Thank you Droneglass & Co for your courage in sticking up for the REAL underdog. Stand tall!<br /><br />USA! USA! USA!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14585724033790292974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-40570267524153855752015-02-05T19:06:04.858-06:002015-02-05T19:06:04.858-06:00"...America's premier, globe-trotting, in...<i>"...America's premier, globe-trotting, indignance-chasing attorney (who, somehow, is still not being held incommunicado in some lightless super-max prison cell)..."</i><br /><br />Yeah -- funny thing, that. Why, it's almost as though Glenn had just been spewing a bunch of hyperbolic, self-aggrandizing bullshit. But, of course, it would be blasphemy to even <i>think</i> such a thing... after all, a courageous, noble, heroic investigative journalist and Man of the People like Saint Glenn of Rio would <b><i>never</i></b> behave in such a patently dishonest fashion purely for the sake of increasing his own personal fame and wealth... right?Frank Stonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11717740988326817494noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-10144029649770641082015-02-05T09:19:50.556-06:002015-02-05T09:19:50.556-06:00The Greenwald Method:
1: The West is bad.
2: Anyon...The Greenwald Method:<br />1: The West is bad.<br />2: Anyone who harms The West is good.<br />3: Anyone who disagrees is a stooge of The West and is therefore bad.<br /><br />Time was, you used to be able to call people on that shit and make them publicly answerable for it. Of course, Glennie Pie is hiding out in his ivory tower in Rio, surrounded by the world's worst slums which he gives no fucks about because He Is White Male and Rich So He Is Better Than Them, so we can't even put him in front of a fucking camera and make him answer for a viewpoint that is one stop short of "She shouldn't have worn slutty clothes".Chan Kobunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14002224390133771585noreply@blogger.com