• knife [any]
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    3 years ago

    What did Robert Evans do? I recently listened to the early episodes of "It Could Happen Here", and liked them fine, but decided to not take his opinion that seriously after he talked about maidan and Hong Kong protests like they were a good thing.

    I just assumed it was the american leftist tendency to go "wow cool" anytime people light something on fire though (no offence). Is he :fedposting: ?

      • MemesAreTheory [he/him, any]
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        3 years ago

        :funny-clown-hammer: I will not be sectarian today, I will not be sectarian today, I will not be sectarian today...

    • D61 [any]
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      3 years ago

      At some point, he worked for Bellingcat, an open source intelligence company, that we can just automatically assume is filled and funded by FBI and CIA. Whether he is an ongoing "op" or not... :shrug-outta-hecks:

        • D61 [any]
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          3 years ago

          That... I don't know.

          Just from listening to BtB, he tends to speak of it in the past tense (which doesn't mean a thing).

            • D61 [any]
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              3 years ago

              I've only heard a few of the "weekly" versions of that one, for the most part I do agree with you.

    • cawsby [he/him]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      He is a lib who used to work IT security.

      ~50% chance he worked for the feds or as a contractor for them at some point.

    • The_Walkening [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      He worked for a nonprofit that's funded by the National Endowment for Democracy (a CIA front org) and he has screamingly bad takes on anything outside US domestic stuff, and even then he's probably not the best source of analysis.

      I don't think he's a fed directly, but he's also a self-professed leftist media figure employed by iHeartRadio, which is fucking suspect in itself. People love to rely on the fed thing while also totally ignoring the fact that media works in the CIA's interests because their interests are the same. Of course they'd hire a media figure that appeals to a consumer demographic who fundamentally doesn't threaten power.

    • sourquincelog [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      He posted a lot of good street footage of 2020 protests, got his hand broken by chuds in Portland, got gassed by the cops a bunch