Al Qaeda really ruined hijacking airplanes for everyone.
I know the chat thinks he’s a lib, but I love some Robert Evans.
Yeah he's definitely become more radical. I noticed it starting with the John Brown episode and Behind the Police is one of the best takedowns of American policing I've ever heard.'
The black panthers and second american civil war (blair mountain/coal wars) episodes are also really good.
He's been an anarchist for a while, it just doesn't shine through always. You can kind of see it in his Rojava miniseries (the women's war), although as a word of caution, his prewritten prose style can be irritating at times and this is more scripted than BtB.
He's outspoken about not liking tankies (His words) and that comes across a little in this episode when talking about the Japanese Red Army, to some in the chat that makes him automatically a lib, though in early/mid 2019 he described himself as an Anarchist, and those views came across (To me) in some of 'It could Happen Here'
Yeah I heard those comments about tankies and didn’t like them either.
He been the best live stream field reporter during the Portland protests and has a podcast where he tears down scumbags and reports in wars from a leftist perspective. So overall I’m good with him and I can see where some may not like him.
I don't care about tankie comments, although I firmly disagree with his dismissal as modern day Stalinists being inherently denialists, especially given that Stalin was a theorist as well and you can take his work seriously without having to support all of his actions.
My main beef with him would be that in the past he's been very pro US intervention, for example he's taken the "Iraq war was right, it was just justified and executed poorly" in the past.
But generally I love him and his show as well.
Seriously, he said the Iraq war was just poorly executed? From what I’ve read and listened to I thought we was very anti US intervention.
I can't find the tweet, maybe it was deleted. Here's an example of a soft pro-intervention stance (I'd let it slide because it's always tough to see suffering and not think that we ought to do something to lessen it):
https://mobile.twitter.com/IwriteOK/status/1029486646830358528
I thought the Assad episodes he did were pretty interesting, but his pro-interventionism take is extremely myopic and buys into the "humanitarian war" bullshit propaganda that has been used to justify nearly every US imperial action in the past several decades. Assad might be a monster, but when has the US overthrowing a government ever made things better for the people of those countries?
Late update because I was browsing Robert's reddit like a creep and came across this quote which describes his political beliefs quite well outside of 'Anarchist?/Leftist'
"I don't think hard and fast terms are super useful and I think getting stuck up in ideology is where a lot of people on the left lose their ability to actually convince folks and make things happen. I spent my childhood watching the insane chunks of the right wing co opt mainstream politics and i try to do that with my own loony left views because i view the democratic process as preferable to a revolution that would likely kill us all"
Bellingcat is run by ex-Atlantic Council freaks. Atlantic Council being a soft power arm of NATO
I think he's definitely an anarchist. That comes with certain contentious takes around these parts.
Not accusing Evans of anything but his employer Bellingcat is very suss.
Sure, but most of our bosses aren't cosying up to US intelligence and ISIS.
Or run by people whose job was literally to be a think tank for NATO
I miss the time when you could steal the pilot's scotch bottle and threaten to pour it down the drain unless the plane is diverted to Havana
