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On the subject of Glenn Greenwald’s sex tapes (which, by the way, he shared widely of his own free will), you can see people battle the very natural ick his behavior causes them because it conflicts with the neoliberal dogma.

But shouldn’t he be free to do whatever he chooses?

Consenting adults, so it must be good.

How would you feel if your sex life…

There’s terror in the thought that we could pass moral judgment because everything is supposed to be equal to everything else. Life is not a continuum but a collection of discrete segments that have no impact on each other. Every one of these segments is a trip to a supermarket filled with choices that are all equal in value and have no impact on anything else. There’s no sin, no evil worse than assigning a value and a consequence to the choices. They are godlike in their infallibility. You make choices so you can make more choices.

15 responses to “Godlike Choices”

  1. Demotrash Avatar
    Demotrash

    I’m not willing to watch a Glenn Greenwald sex tape, even if it was of sex in the missionary position for the purpose of procreation. What exactly was it?

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    1. Clarissa Avatar
      Clarissa

      Apparently, he has a humiliation fetish. I haven’t seen it either but I strongly suspect the release of the video is part of the paraphilia.

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        Anonymous

        There was no “release.” He retweeted it “by mistake” and he’s framing it as some kind of attack to silence him or something. It is absolutely part of his fetish.

        Stringer bell

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          Clarissa

          Exactly. Completely engineered. And it’s both funny and sad to watch the paragons of morality jump to his defense like trained seals.

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            Anonymous

            i thought third world sex tourism was one issue that both sides of the isle could find common ground on but apparently not.

            Stringer bell

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            1. Clarissa Avatar
              Clarissa

              Two minutes of looking into this guy’s trajectory uncovers such shady stuff that one would think respectable people wouldn’t want to get caught defending it.

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    Demotrash

    None of this affects my opinions about his “journalism” (low before, low now.) But this man is raising two adopted children. How can anyone condone this behavior in light of that? When you adopt or father children, it’s time to give up the hookers and blow lifestyle. If that lifestyle is deeply important to you, don’t drag innocent children into a life where you retweet videos of yourself engaging in disgusting fetishes with a prostitute.

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    mitchellporter

    What’s all this stuff about Greenwald secretly wanting the videos released, or whatever?

    He clearly says in his statement, the videos were published without his knowledge and consent. This is, if not technically “kompromat”, something similar, right?

    It means that some political actor had penetrated his computer systems, gathered data on his sex life, and released it to smear him in time for his latest appearance on Tucker Carlson.

    Is that aspect of no interest?

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      Clarissa

      The videos originally appeared on some no-name account that nobody would have noticed. Then Greenwald reposted it. That’s when it was shared widely.

      The videos depict his humiliation fetish. And what’s more humiliating than the result of Greenwald’s reposting of the videos?

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        mitchellporter

        “Then Greenwald reposted it. That’s when it was shared widely.”

        Twitter’s resident AI (Grok) says it doesn’t know this to be true. I’ll discuss the implications if I get some evidence that this is so, but first I’d like some evidence…

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          Clarissa

          I’ve seen screenshots of the re-post but didn’t save them. They are all over Twitter, I’m sure you’ll find if you look around.

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            mitchellporter

            I found enough evidence to say tentatively that it was in fact retweeted from his account.

            The theory that makes the most sense to me, is simply that his account was hacked by the same people who leaked the video.

            Tied for a very distant second place, the theory that it was a plot to promote his appearance on Tucker Carlson, and the theory that he was trying to neutralize an extortion attempt by the escort agency (“you can’t threaten to leak the tape, I’ll link to it myself”).

            The “theory” that he deliberately retweeted it just for a thrill makes little sense given how serious he is about his politics.

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              Clarissa

              There’s no politics stronger than a fetish. Plus, what did he lose in all this? The lovers of Hamas and Russia are still as devoted to him as ever.

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              1. Demotrash Avatar
                Demotrash

                Someone who thinks this is likely is someone who’s (thankfully) unfamiliar with men with these fetishes. Many of whom must be very envious of Greenwald rn

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              2. Demotrash Avatar
                Demotrash

                *unlikely

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