he also retweets Jackson Hinkle lol
I regret to inform hexbear that Blumenthal has always had an extremely cringe writing style, he's just got terrible content now instead of focused anti-imperialist stuff.
All the Grayzone guys (even Norton) really can at times sound like the Pepe Silva bit from always Sunny.
lol it's true. And a decent percentage of the time their unhinged-sounding stuff (not the reactionary shit, just the "they're out to get us" stuff) is basically accurate, just presented in the least-convincing way possible.
Sometimes you're paranoid and they are out to get you. This has the unfortunate effect of reinforcing paranoia in other instances.
This is why my favorite style of leftist journalism is the style that stays pretty ideological. Save the interesting stuff for an actual book or a thesis, Marxist journalism should be "here's an action being taken by the capitalists, here's the worker movement that's countering, and here's the historical context of this situation". When you start diving off into gangstalking or personal vendetta, you lose the thread and the message of your article vaporizes itself.
I feel like there is a time for professional sounding journalism, especially when going up against these types of things. You don't do yourselves any favors if you sound unhinged. Even their older website gives me weird vibes in its design. Idk what it is.
Better than most "sleek" socialist websites that are mostly whitespace and some completely meaningless article about what "Dora the Explorer can teach us about recapturing the spirit of revolution"
Not just whitespace, but literally just black text on a white background! CSS and colors (except maybe red) are bourgeois, you see.
Every time I read this guy I feel like my brain is being squeezed into a smaller skull.
When your entire analysis of politics comes from reading tweets.
They were some of the most vocal anti-imperialists for a while. Well, at least vocal and with a general base of support (I never got into Dore, but I did enjoy some Grayzone stuff).
It's really annoying, because they have some good stuff like this interspersed with COVID denial and other crank shit. Even that article is apparently written by a dude who literally wrote a book on Chemtrails.
Anything written by communists in other countries. Party newspapers are always a good start. Especially if you're trying to read about international events.
Check party papers for their breakdown of the situation in the county and check big international outlets like Telesur or CGTN, for more broad news. Granma is a good source for Cuban news. For any nation with a communist party in power, they'll usually release statements that summarize their positions.
Max, please, just log off for a bit. I promise it'll be ok if you do:kitty-cri-screm:
i don't think we should disregard someone just because they're a bluecheck, but i mean, look at the tweets. have some self-awareness dude.
"the US left, such that it is, is not currently a viable threat to power, therefore we gotta get more fascist"
Blumenthal is a piece of shit, but watching the left cheer for the FBI (the freaking FBI!) when they raided Trump was something I thought I'd never see. It's like the chuds cheering for Che Guevara when he breaks in and nationalizes their machine parts shop.
That's what I'm saying. I'm not on Twitter, so I didn't see "the left" cheering for the FBI. I'm pretty sure even the left alt-media figures he comes in contact with reaffirmed an anti-FBI stance. I'm sure plenty of liberals cheered for the FBI, but they're liberals. I can yell at them to be other than what they are over the internet, or I could do something useful with my life.
No, you don't understand, it wasn't a twitter thing. It was (is) everywhere. The left that opposed the FBI raid on Trump is as mythical as Stoval'Kor.
I'm Samuel L. Jackson in this scene whenever I see Max Blumenthal online now
3th Tweet really fits this Post
:shrug-outta-hecks:
no i am serious.. you Anglods need to find another hobby then this "Er spricht mit den Schmuddelkindern !!! "
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGhJbr7DMmg
What is it in this tweet you object.. ?
You do realize that the real left in the US doesn't spend all day on Twitter, right? These tweets are just disinformation to make people believe that the US left is Bernie. AOC and Breadtube. The US left is anarchist transwomen organizing mutual aid food drives, folks out doing political education for union organizing and ex marines who've been fucked over by the DoD teaching people how to shoot a rifle. Some of the people on this site really need to touch grass.
the real left in America
lol. lmao even. As someone looking in from outside, what fucking left? Thomas does have a point that the socialist (not Soc dem chauvinist) left in the US makes up maybe 5% of the population, and has basically no organized base to speak of. There might be something to this theory that the feeling of powerlessness and frustration you all feel is being vented to the few things you can actually effect (marginal, also powerless, leftist outlets and figures in another “left faction”)
I see much more vitriol in these sectarian type threads than I do in discussions about Liberals.
The “left” keeps shrinking and shrinking, until it becomes a single atom of pure leftism
I just lurk the news thread and like Mr. Thomas’s posts and followed him here. Have fun
Whining about how people are "ritually abusing heretics" but the heresy in question is Nurgle worship.
Third tweet is literally Blumenthal himself. Is it a shock that the son of Hillary's intelligence handler, who was fully on board with the Libya debacle but pivoted once shit didn't go as planned, is out here playing these little mind games about "the left"?
These guys are fucking spooks and leftists somehow keep falling for it. Grayzone is a fucking limited hangout if there ever was one
hey mrtryfe , in all seriousness , you really should consult people before gooing all in with the Biographic Cancelling ..
^ See thats my Point , the Inability to divide Messanger and message , as well as the Inablity to think in "Process" ,...
it is actually insane , because it Denies literally the Concept of "Time"
Max Blumental might have BECOME a Anti Imperialist Journalist BECAUSE HE WAS A CLITNON STAFFER BEFORE ???
You know A Human Beeing that Grows and Learns , and is Wrong "BEFORE" , But Not "WRONG ETERNALLY "
You know Time , the Concept of Time and Change ...
A flower transforms into a Fruit , this is her literall Purpose of Existance.. to transform out of her one state of exitance to the next Stage ..
There is no fucking message because what Blumenthal is selling here is absolutely nothing new as it relates to the left in the US, and instead an attempt to launder the reputation of a fascist right wing movement. Mar-a-lago was either an FBI cleanup operation to save some asses, or just the US deep state duking it out a la Yankees v Cowboys circa 70-80s. It means nothing for the left because the left is going to be targeted, blood drawn if necessary, regardless of what happens to the Cheeto in Chief. Why is Bluementhal so bent on defending downright fascists like Tulsi Gabbard and reactionaries like Dore? If you understand that, then you understand the opportunism of the Grayzone crowd, and then the history of the Grayzone crowd makes sense, and then it should make sense to you that Max Blumenthal has in fact not changed one bit
Tulsi spoke out about the US funding ISIS to fight Assad and was basically banished from US media. Dore just has misinformed takes about things that are kinda radlib.
I don't see anything wrong with calling out the CIA controlled "left".
Banished from the media = hosting Tucker Carlson's show on Fox News, Carlson himself being a noted CIA applicant who was in Nicaragua during Iran-Contra. Or do you think the CIA only has their men in black on one side of the political spectrum?
Dan Bongino was calling the Ukraine war a mistake on his radio show today, should I start waxing poetic about him? What exactly do you think political opportunism is?
How is it political opportunism? She doesn't have a future in politics anymore. So going on Fox News is an inherent bad thing? What if no one else is willing to give her air time? I see no evidence of full grift ALA Yeonmi Park.
Or do you think the CIA only has their men in black on one side of the political spectrum?
I doubt the CIA likes being called out for funding terrorism.
If she is a right wing grifter like you're claiming she would have prominent roles on right wing media, not just being interviewed because she said stuff that makes liberals look bad.
How is it political opportunism? She doesn’t have a future in politics anymore.
Yet somehow she keeps landing all these gigs like speaking at CPAC after being pretty vocal about her support for shit like what Desantis is doing down in FL to the queer community
I doubt the CIA likes being called out for funding terrorism.
Really makes you wonder why she endorsed Biden then
If she is a right wing grifter like you’re claiming she would have prominent roles on right wing media, not just being interviewed because she said stuff that makes liberals look bad.
Not being a grifter is when you switch positions when it is politically and financially expedient for you, like voting for Biden and then endorsing Desantis's policies against queer people in FL, and end up being a speaker at CPAC 22.
Tulsi stans on Hexbear in 2022, lol
its the dunk tank
its easy to critique the US left and be correct. "therefore defend tulsi" is where he accidentally sits on his own dick and cums in his ass, impregnating himself with himself.
I used to like Jimmy Dore during the 2016 election when he was the more vocal Bernie supporter. Then he got increasingly weird and unhinged with his takes.
How shall we win them back?
I’m thinking scolding lectures and telling them how bad they are being. Sure to work
Punching down is always popular, as long as it's against people we consider to be in the Outgroup. The secret is that the rules against cruelty only apply to our Ingroup! If they're not one of us it's OK!
One of the highlights of my political life was watching the video in 2020 when Jimmy Dore realized that Bernie was a fraud and that the whole thing had been a lie to get leftists onto the Democrat plantation. I laughed and laughed and laughed. Jimmy, he turned over your donations once to the DNC, why were you surprised to see him do it a second time? After they cheated him out of the nomination both times? Oh, Jimmy.
