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The "viking guy" who has been talked about probably moreso than any other single rioter is and was active on Parler.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210106213432/https://parler.co...

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-breaking/...

So this claim is trivially falsifiable with even the most minimal journalistic effort.




He's not listed as part of the 13 people charged by the DoJ. It's possible that he was arrested later. But Glenn didn't lie here.

So the parler exec probably looked at this list, checked to see if any one of these people used his platform, and found none did. Then he told Glenn. However, more people have since been charged.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/thirteen-charged-federal-cour...


The entire point was silly to begin with. Why start doing victory laps over the first 13 people? What's so special about them? Nothing.


I think they are some of the more notable characters. That's why they were the first to be identified and then arrested.


Or - Glenn's just trying to be a contrarian again, which has been his shtick for a while now.

This post from 2 weeks ago aged like a corpse.

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-threat-of-authoritarian...


Glenn is absolutely right here. If anything, the article needs an update because of all the authoritarian shit (new patriot act, sending rioters to gitmo, etc) proposed over the last week.


You accused Greenwald of moving the goal posts. You have not demonstrated that.

Edit: congratulations drally you win


"I" did not.




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