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• Friday, December 5, 2008 07:18 AM

  Che Pasa

  There is no way for Adnoto or anyone else to adequately answer questions like "what would you do specifically? What would you recommend others do specifically?" Any response offered will not have enough specificity to satisfy the questioner. As we've already seen. It's a gambit. A game. Not meant to be either productive or seious. It's meant solely to quash the notion of

  an uprising -- that is to say, an uprising from the left.

  This is absurd. It would be easy in the extreme for provide some definitional clarity to his endless calls for whatever he's calling for: through his actions.

  I've repeatedly offered to link to, publicize, write about whatever it is that he's doing that he thinks is better than writing, engaging in argument, voting and all the other things for which he has such contempt.

  From what I can see, the only thing he ever does is come here and say how coming here is so worthless because it drains away attention from all the things that should be done that (a) he won't ever describe and, more importantly, (b) he himself never does.

  One could say the same for you, too, though you're much more passive-aggressive about your condemnation of these activities, relying on all sorts of implications and hidden digs ("the centrist bloggers who are reformed Republicans" -- never a name, never evidence, just slimy innuendo buried in your sermons about The Inadequacy of all Things Others Do Here).

  I'll extend the same offer to you that I have to adnoto: anytime you're organizing something or working on something that is much better than what is done here, feel free to use this space to promote it.

  —GlennGreenwald Read GlennGreenwald's other letters
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