A Couple Opinions

 

• Some of the cancel culture warriors on social media are accusing the world of canceling Glenn Greenwald and Matt Tiabbi (as well as Bari Weiss et al). I think this is incorrect (aside from he fact that cancel culture is not a thing). If other perople are like me, they've simply decided that those folks have nothing to say that interests them anymore. There is this thing among some in the the media that they are entitled to your follow-ship. If not, they're being canceled. Grievance culture.

• There is a fair amount of revisionist history going around Twitter to the tune of: almost every reasonable person "knew" that Iraq had WMDs so stop criticizing the Max Boot crowd about all of that. In fact, many millions of Americans and probably most people in the rest of the world believed just the opposite. There was no evidence that there were WMDs and the inspectors responsible for determining this said exactly that. To take this one step further, there are many routes a person could draw to how we got to this place in history where 40% or more of America believes that Republican fairy tales are the real truth. But one reasonable route is that it started here, where the WMD fairy tale lie was put out there by an entire administration, and then even after it was obvious that it was bullshit, Fox News and the Repubs made up instances that proved that they were really there. (Every piece of scrap metal someone found was turned into a WMD.) I think some people still believe Saddam had them, because they know it in their bones, just like they know the election was stolen. This started with Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell, etc with the help of Fox News. Sound familiar?