re: #9 Charles Johnson

This is a tough one for me, because while I despise Bolsonaro and his fascist tactics, I also despise Glenn Greenwald and wouldn’t piss on him if he was on fire.

The guy put out a completely false story about me, that I inspired one of the worst mass murderers in history, using lies he got from the far right shit-zombies who stalk me on the internet. So yeah, I do care about press freedom, and this is wrong, but Glenn Greenwald is pure garbage and as far as I’m concerned he can fuck off forever.

Yeah, I get that. But I keep hearing lines from American President/West Wing echoing in my head, about how democracy is hard, and that we have to support the rights of people who we despise. Which, I guess means that we have to resist the attempts to kill or imprison Greenwald for being a journalist, and exposing corruption & dirty dealing.

The part where he spreads hysteria, disinformation and gives political cover to shitlords though? Naw, not so much. He gets to suffer the consequences of that kind of behavior, winding up like Walter Winchell.

A once-powerful opinion leader, beloved of reactionary swine, ultimately discarded by those whose boots he so assiduously tongue-bathed, dying a painful death in poverty and shame.