Well damn he got out of Ukraine fast. Good job wandering around like one two asshole, really in depth war reporting there.
Have fun going back to covering weird conventions, it's what you're good at.
yes definitely expected him to pivot solely to war reporting, reasonable thing to think about the guy who blew up covering parties, concerts, conventions, and sometimes domestic protests
Why’d he bother dabbling in war reporting if he was just going to half ass it? Stick to covering fucking cons dude, a fucking war isn’t a con but he reported on it like it was one.
Okay. Still curious if he puts out any other Ukraine coverage cuz that first video was just him wandering around what looked like a safe zone for foreign journalists.
Sorry, did I miss something? Did he post cringe? I haven't seen the vids in a while.
He went to Ukraine and interviewed some of the people that had evacuated towns near the Russian border.
That doesn't sound bad, is there any reason for animosity or am I misreading the message I first replied to?
He cuts to clips of older Russians being interviewed where they all spout bizarre ass takes about how the war is fake, reinforcing the idea that the Russian people are all brainwashed Putin Stans. He literally comes across a Azov recruitment poster in the street and asks some British journo ponce he’s milling around with about it who immediately pulls the “Azov is like 10 guys and Zelensky is Jewish” bit. The rest of it was mostly fine, he was interviewing refugees. I imagine because of the location he was in that was going to be one sided, I doubt many ethnic Russians are there and even if they were they probably aren’t fans of Putin if they fled West.
I mostly like Andrew but I do think him going to Ukraine was kind of fucking dumb. If you’re going to cover a war zone you can’t half ass it, you either go full war corespondent and go places where you can get shelled or stay home and keep covering crystal healing conventions. Kinda going there but only to some safe zone that seems almost set up for US indie media hacks to bumble around in is just letting his guides set the fucking narrative just makes you seem like a tool, might as well have saved the jet fare and bought Brace some energy drinks and gas up the RV.
Yeah, seeing that and the other things you pointed out, the vid probably does more harm than good.
Some people considered it a fairly one sided video where he was only interviewing people with a poor view of Russia, but I mean, the guys not a war correspondent.
he did also let jake hanrahan claim "well actually russia's nazi problem is worse, even though they're not the country with an openly fascist army regiment"
I was about to add that, it's been a while since it came out and I was a little fuzzy on it, that part was pretty cringe. Weren't they standing next to an Azov recruitment poster?
They were, then Andrew played some clips of random Russia civilians defending Putin as a 'both sides.'
Right I see. I mean he never puts his own views into the videos, just lets the people say what they want, so even if he isn't NATO-brained it would be hard to get a balanced view across unless you went to Donbass to interview victims of Ukrainian violence, but that would be too dangerous obviously. I don't see the problem as long as he wasn't platforming some Azov scum.
He did do an interview with Jake Hanrahan who was definitely downplaying Azov's reach, kinda feel like he just wanted to talk to someone that he assumed had a better understanding of the situation than he did.
Yeah I watched the whole video now. Absolutely downplayed the Azov but at least he interviewed some anarchist comrades, the first guy said something kinda cringe about how it's fine to fight alongside Nazis in a dire situation but I understand it's easy for me to say that halfway across the globe with all my comfort. I think he's genuinely well-intentioned but probably should've been careful with the messaging in that video.
some anarchist comrades
Who were collecting body armor for the Ukrainian military, and openly said they would ally with Nazis against Putin,
I just assume they can't resist the urge to bust out some funky flows for the camera.
There's about a 100% chance Democritus is a mod for r/athesim, dude has been waiting his entire life for the chance to debate a Christian in front of a camera.
