i know i'll just get irony-poisoned meme replies but i honestly want to know.

  • LoudMuffin [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    No, but Robert Evans and likely everyone connected to him are probably literal state assets

      • Wildgrapes [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        He works for bellingcat a "open source intelligence agency" that is pretty opish.

        I personally doubt he's literally on CIA payroll but that's largely irrelevant if his bosses bosses are and he parrots such propaganda frequently.

      • Nounverb [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        He's admitted personally to working with federal intelligence services and his org takes money from the govt ala Operation Mockingbird. What else is there to say? The guy might personally see himself as an anarchist, but he's like every other dipshitted media guy getting blood money wired to them: full of shit and literally not working class.

    • amber2 [she/her,they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Lmao I got bad vibes from his podcast (it could happen here) because he mentioned some weird stuff against assad/china and for the hong kong protesters, as well as being kinda annoying

      Good to know my Fedometer is working

      • CommCat [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        wasn't he the one that was saying "wait wait, it's more complicated" during the Bolvian coup? With US history of coups South of its border, and a popular Leftist government that is hostile to US/Capitalist interest, if you call youself a leftist and you don't smell the obvious stench of a CIA op, than yeah your Fedometer should be off the scale. Espcially when you know he works for Bellingcat which receives funding from the NED/CIA, yeah its annoying to see everyone as a Fed when you're a babyleftist, but if you know how much shit the CIA funded during the coldwar, you should be suspicious.

        • LoudMuffin [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Yes

          Also his takes on Ukraine immediately fell in lockstep with the state dept.

          It's pretty :sus-soviet:

      • politicsenjoyer [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        Is there weird stuff against Assad other than his family being full of genocidal maniacs and the only actual syrians who support them being the Damascus bourgeoisie?

          • politicsenjoyer [she/her]
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            3 years ago

            I don't/didn't support US intervention over there, but the idea that someone like Assad using chemical weapons on people when his father flattened an entire city to quell unrest is not as unlikely as white bro conspiracy theory enjoyers will have you believe. Nor was it necessary to manufacture consent for US operations over there (the average American gave about 1/100th of the shit back then about Syria that they do about Ukraine, but US dropped bombs anyway). Even with something like Libya, there was very little actual lying and public consensus needed. US politicians just did whatever they wanted to do. Ukraine is different, as we've been manufacturing consent against Russia in overdrive since 2015/2016 and this mass "solidarity" with Ukraine we're seeing is the outcome of that.