"There wasn't a major power supplying the Afghans, they just had the will to fight" is the spiciest take especially in relation to Ukraine and his promotion of weapons shipments there
Y'all know you don't have to watch YouTubers at all right, like stop taking these weirdos seriously they do not matter
The difference between YouTube and podcasts is there is no algorithm that uses billions of dollars of weaponized human psychology to put hooks in your ape brain.
That is not trivial. Notice we don't have ten posts a day where self-identified leftists argue that what a podcaster said matters.
Is it? Seems like a lot of words to say, "Mao was right". Western Marxists approach Marxism from a place of moral imperative, not material conditions because our material conditions, while not great compared to the 1%, are vastly superior to those of people in the global south. I don't think it has much, if anything, to do with Christianity. Also, accusations of "centrally planned capitalism" against China are coming as much from Chinese youth as they are from western Marxists.
I don’t understand how this is your assessment of what Beau’s saying. Is it incorrect to say that occupations are more drawn-out operations? If not, then the idea that Ukraine should have just done nothing is inaccurate. He’s trying to argue that Russian occupation would have been worse for the people of these countries.
!! comrades !! like seriously, what did you think this fed thought?? anti-youtube aktion
“There wasn’t a major power supplying the Afghans, they just had the will to fight” is the spiciest take especially in relation to Ukraine and his promotion of weapons shipments there
This isn't even like an illicit or secret history, Hillary literally pointed to Afghanistan as the model for Ukraine.
damn color me surprised that a guy from the south, more militaristic than usual in america, can have culturally ingrained bad takes
though hes probably not cia. the guy has felony convictions for getting fraudulent visas for illegal immigrants so they could get paid more reasonable wages
also really not a fan of this guys videos, the meandering is lost on me
also really not a fan of this guys videos, the meandering is lost on me
I just hate anything that tries to be self-serious but is primarily riffing. Love stuff like citations needed, American prestige, and RWN because they're very content or history focused, they're self-serious but they take the content seriously. Love stuff like chapo, pod damn America and stuff because they're riffing, but they're really comedy first. Trying to be taken very seriously but just sort of making it up on the spot is just not particularly enjoyable. It's both less entertaining and less informative than either format, and at that point why bother.
Two flavors: release constantly and take on the headiest most important issues of our or any time/release 2 videos a year about video games from their childhood
also really not a fan of this guys videos, the meandering is lost on me
I also hate the way he does titles. It's impossible to fucking quote the guy even if you know exactly what topic he was talking about at the time he said the thing you want to quote.
ive legit never watched a video from this guy and came out at the end thinking "this guy knows what he's talking about"
can someone explain to me how this guy has so many subscribers? its it that he looks and sounds like an epic tier 1 operator?
he has some good/okay vids I guess that try to deprogram chuds but as usual it ends in democrat fuckery, his past is very sus (he was a military contractor), the classic democrat arc which i think is why he is popular
lmao its so funny to call yourself "of the fifth column" and just channel energy back into the establishment. so cool
He's AOC with a beard. Not really challenging the status quo much but people sure think they are.
I don’t think AOC is modeling her community networks after stay-behind operations. Nor is she creating behind-the-scenes content on how to organize. Or promoting union leaders
His whole shtick is to appear chud-friendly on an aesthetic and vocabulary level, while telling people to do an anarcho-communism. I'd assume a lot of his subscribers are chuds who fell for it. Never been a fan of his, but I respect what he's doing if it's working.
That said, I've never been a fan of his, so maybe he has a bunch of dogshit takes, I dunno. This one sure is. (Then again, every person has dogshit takes, and hexbear needs to get over thinking that random e-celebs are going to be any different.)
can someone explain to me how this guy has so many subscribers? its it that he looks and sounds like an epic tier 1 operator?
yes.
Isn't there a whole Tom Hanks propoganda piece about the CIA arming the wholesome Taliban freedom fighters?
Yeah Wilson's war, plus the admission of it predating the soviet coup :amerikkka:
The Mujahideen, but the Taliban grew out of the Mujahideen. I see the distinction because the US directly backed the Mujahideen while the US decidedly did not back the Taliban. Their intervention was responsible for the Taliban existing, but direct support is not the same as blowback
More accurate is to point to us supporting Bin Laden himself, less so the Taliban though we did do that after they came to power
The wests guy Hekmatyar was an enemy of the Taliban from the start, they have very different roots(Hekmatyars Hezb-i islami came from western funding and pashtu refugees in pakistan, the Taliban came from mullahs in the south around Herat), but are both Mujaheedin.
"an occupation is far worse"
Wat the fak? Far worse than what? Cities literally being rubble like Syria? Are you fucking thinking at all?
Beau is just a fountain of shit lately.
I was defending him earlier in this thread but his latest video said the most likely next move for Russia is ethnic cleansing via forced relocation. Like goddamn, dude
If that's the case then yeah he's fucking lost it. Ethnic cleansing of fucking what? Slavs? Ukraine and Russian are the same fucking ethnicity. Greeks? There's a lot of Greeks in Mariupol. What is he going to cleanse exactly?
Fucking stupid.
He said the most likely outcome was for Russia to occupy some amount of land in the east and bus off everyone who isn’t an ethnic Russian or is critical of that occupation
Lol nah.
People are getting bused from Mariupol (willingly) because it's a fucking mess. People can stay but very few people choose to because there's a better option waiting for them and transportation is being offered straight to it. Nothing sinister about that and there's definitely no ethnic component, non-russians in the area have been treated like shit by Ukraine too they hate them, the Greek diaspora which represents like 20% of the population in the area in and around Mariupol had entire villages erased and were constantly harassed.
I think he was saying it was a future policy, but regardless it feels a lot like manufacturing another “genocide” as a pretext for further western aggression
The western "left" has actually arrived at "Operation Cyclone didn't happen", ok. :fidel-bat: :lmayo:
I keep seeing people ITT assuming Beau was talking about the Soviet-Afghan War and I don’t believe that’s accurate
I unsubsrcibed after this shit. Starting at about 6:00 there's some major whitewashing of American imperialism and crimes against humanity and I was just done. There's being a radlib "anarchist" , and there's stuff that really makes me wonder how close he is with his "former" spook friends.
Edit: it's actually at 3:00. At 6 he talks about China, which is also a heaping pile of lib garbage.
Haha damn he's got a child's view of the world if he actually believes that shit. Also you can see him hesitate and almost stutter as he's trying to make some more shit up. Well that's a YouTuber for you. Embarrassing!
I think he’s finally noticed the amount of revolutionary leftists who follow him and sees us as reveling too much in the concept of violent revolution. There’s definitely been a few videos where the libs assumed he was talking about Republicans but some people asked if he was talking about leftists. No clear response on that, so I think he knew what he was doing.
I had a chat with him a while back when Palestine was in the news and basically what he told me was that he tries really hard not to trigger cognitive dissonance in his audience which includes a whole lot of people across the political spectrum. That more radical people will call him out or dismiss him on certain things and that he doesn't care because most of what he's doing isn't talking to them. He's trying to resuscitate basic critical thinking that is all but dead in American politics.
Do I agree with that tactic? IDK it's worth a shot I guess.
Do I think he could go a lot harder given his cred with libs and maybe even some chuds? Yes.
I think leftists here tend to forget that the point of a pipeline is to funnel people slowly. We are at our various places along the pipeline, with our different perspectives now that we've gotten here. So of course we will notice when someone closer to the entrance has a bad or milquetoast take.
It's easy to forget that the average American has about 17 inches of anticommunist social programming protecting their brains. You have to ease folks in slowly.
I think we also forget that these videos are not entertainment, and aren't for us anymore. So it's perfectly fine to outgrow someone like Beau, and I bet he'd be happy that we did.
And it's our job to push further. Follow his twitter if you are on the hell site. I try to chime in where I can but his audience is mostly confused libs and confused chuds.
I don't argue (usually) I just try to post some supplementary material that sometimes conflicts with their worldview but mostly just trying to sprinkle some more breadcrumbs on the path.
so what's this guy's deal? is he like a military strategist? i think i heard he trained some troops or cops or something? he talks like he's an authority on the subject but the conclusions he comes to feels like he just says whatever he FEELS sounds right. so is he an expert in any sense or just some dude talking about what he thinks he feels makes the most sense?
Vague illusions to being some kind of "private military" contractor at some point in his past. He does some kinda journalism stuff so maybe he's got enough contacts that he chats with on the regular about these kinds of things.
I find myself sitting at about 50/50 between thinking of him as any other "lefty with an unfortunately (para)military history" and "something else".
Ah, it must be "Beau Bad"-week now, next week he'll be good again
Upside-down patch is evil Beau.
EDIT: Oh shit oh fuck it's right-side-up
The full quote is, “There wasn’t a major power supply the Afghans with high-tech equipment. They just had the will to fight. And because of that, it kept going and going and going.”
This is accurate in context.
There’s no comparison between the equipment being given to Ukraine by the west and the equipment given to the Mujahideen.You can say he’s talking about the Taliban and that China or Russia supporting the Taliban, but you would be directly citing US intelligence to do so.This is accurate, but I do actually believe that Beau was talking about the US occupation. It’s the war that his audience would be most familiar with (largely American and skews younger) and it’s also the time period where the US was decidedly not giving aid to the Taliban or any of their precedents
I don't know since the russian occupation parallel seems like a possibility too, anyways no one knew what ISI was doing from 2001 onwards but i'd argue it's definitely possible that some shit was sent to Afghanistan after the actual invasion itself (and the mass murder of pows let's not forget that part)
They were definitely hyped up as high-tech weapons in the western press back then. I remember reading articles as a kid how the wholesome mujahedeen fought off soviet gunships thanks to the advanced targeting system. No idea how true that was, given that such articles are practically written by the IMC's PR department and always show everything as the next Wunderwaffe, but it was common knowledge in the West that post-invasion, the USA was arming the jihadists in Afghanistan with SAMs.
Stingers are not high tech since when? they were barely starting production when they gave truckloads to the """"freedom fighters""" of Afghanistan
Yeah that’s been pointed out. That’s why I crossed that bit out. I was trying to say that, after the US stopped funding the Mujahideen, their access to modern weaponry would have stopped, which wouldn’t make them comparable to modern “military aid”. But then I realized everyone was just assuming he was talking about the Soviet-Afghan War in the first place, so it wasn’t relevant.
