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
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.
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?
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.
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
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.
Yes
Also his takes on Ukraine immediately fell in lockstep with the state dept.
It's pretty :sus-soviet:
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?
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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.
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Now I'm confused. You were the one who originally brought it up lol
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