Andrew Callaghan of Channel 5, formerly All Gas No Brakes
Slava Ukraini https://youtu.be/DBah5HNknLM
In the comments Channel 5 has a pinned comment advertising the "St Javelin" art piece donating to Ukrainian forces which I'm sorry is fucking disgusting . This isn't gonna be popular here but I get controlled opposition Vice News from this especially if they start going international . And Vice News was/ is an op.
No this isn't "the revolution" .
i think channel 5 is mostly good, but andrew is absolutely not a brilliant political commentator by any means. he's great at shoving a microphone in the face of crazy people or people on the fringe, and when those people are leftists they usually get humanized in the process.
Andrew is just a baby anarchist, he's not very good with anything large scale and does seem to fall into Jacobin style takes a lot
Hopefully the time he is spending with the Dark Cowboy :brace-cowboy: :brace-dark-cowboy: sends him in the right direction.
I don't remember specifically what was said but I soured on him a bit after he was interviewed for a TrueAnon episode in summer 2021.
Also using the subjects of his videos to sell his merch
Honestly watch that video then go and watch an early Shane era vice video from the Obama years and tell me it's not the same thing . Either way "Slava Ukraini " Javelin pro war bullshit is enough of a red flag imo. no I don't think hes a total agent I'm not a conspiracy clown and know how propaganda in the US is often second hand/compartmentalized where people don't even know they are taking part especially after Reagen .
Plus most of this kind of stuff is just natural western chauvinism and imperial mentality in a land of comfort and ignorance; particularly after the triumph of Humanitarian Imperialism post Soviet Union. Easy as fuck to get these people into the next Yugoslavia , Georgia, Libya, Syria, Nicurigia, Ukraine and so on .
Anyways cheers
Vice-style bemused, cosmopolitan, gawking gonzo journalism gave birth to Gavin McInnes. At its most benevolent it gives some center-left dweebus a media career, at its worst it gives quirky heterodox bigots and actual nazis a megaphone.
Exactly, Vice's videos on Liberia and Gaza which both whitewash and cover for imperialism while having a general presentation of "WHOA THIS SHIT CRAZY BRUH" rather then real interviews with empathy for the experiences of their subjects while giving social and historical contexts's are honestly some of the most racist -and just like you typed- gawking garbage I have ever seen.
And sadly that kind of Gonzo trash is brutally effective propaganda.
I thought he was sober . Why do I know that ? Oh yeah I'm just as parasocial and boring as fuck as anyone . I also know that according to the American exception author he is regretful and realizes the YPG morphed into a dirty war and shit like bombing Raqqa was uhhh -not cool yo- despite it being filled with head chopping probably spook filled itself or atleast adjacent ISIS.
There's also the Al Hol "refugee camp" with the women and children of ISIS run by the YPG and US military functioning as a concentration camp ( https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/15/world/europe/isis-children-belgium.amp.html&ved=2ahUKEwix5vSs0Ib8AhWWp3IEHckyBy8QFnoECAwQAQ&usg=AOvVaw0lar33_ji0f6dYTS1oWbD1 ) -2019 article but any recent news says it's still running- along with various "moderate rebels" while occupying North Eastern Syria which has the majority of Syria's oil resources and valuable trade routes which is apart of the ongoing project to strangle Syria/starve it with Sanctions (majority of Syrians live in government controlled areas).
Truanon is fine there's not much point in having these media and parasocial battles .
But regardless things like the continuing sanctioning and occupation of Syria matter so much more .
"US Is occupying Syrias Oil fields for the Kurds " https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/08/05/kurds-oil-syria-us-troops-trump/ Yeah mhm for the Kurds . (The YPG also occupys some areas where Kurdish separatism is controversial) Read between the lines in this article , the same country along with the EU that imposed the Caesar sanctions, the same one strangling syria and causing a Humanitarian catastrophe is occupying fertile oil and wheat regions of the country.
From the cradle :
https://thecradle.co/Article/Investigations/19394 'Stolen Syrian oil: The fuel for Syria’s partition'The Sanctions are clearly in conjunction with the YPG/US military occupation (I believe there's still 5 US bases in Syria some right next to rebel proxy's) function as the tools to strangle and submit Syria, which -ever sense its independence- particularly after 67, (along with Syria's allying with the Soviet Union and then Russia particularly under Hafez starting 1970 after the US tried to overthrow its government in the late 60's -William Blums Killing Hope has a whole chapter on it- ) has been a bulwark to US hegemony and a festering sore of Independent nationalism. So to the imperialist it must be crushed and it's spoils divided . Nothing new under the sun lol
I don't really think things in Syria are at an equilibrium right now in the way that you're implying. Syrians are suffering and a major reason for that is the weight of empire on them. Hospitals don't have power/generators / lack of meat / no fuel / homelessness / general lack of commodity's/ opportunitys, all with a war in stale mate which includes those suffering in besieged and bombed out "terrorist" -a terrible word these days- held areas . Less attention partially because the full blown war has gone to a simmer but it's not an equilibrium imo.
As far as the initial rise to Kurdish insurgency it's not about good guys or bad guys . Kurdish people's have historical grievances in the region , although more so in south eastern Turkey and Syria's history with the Ba'ath party is complex because they were quite supportive of Kurdish movements -Ocalan even had a picture of Hafez Al Assad in his office in Syria- helping fund the PKK (which is de facto the YPG/Rojava in Syria) insurgency in Turkey which is the armed wing of the HDP.
They are radical and separatist . US proxy war in Syria suffice to say funded both the Islamist and let ISIS rise and funded Kurdish separatism, but these are also all organic movements. It's all very complex I could go on too much . I'll just say this sorry for sectarianism: It ended up having in effect that Ocalans movement sort of has had sense its inception: Chaos , imperialism, bloodshed .( yes war reducing in intensity is a good thing of course which is largely due to the Syrian Arab Army , Iran and the Russian Air and support campaign). I get why the Modern Kurdish insurgency in Syria -with it's Anarchist political doctrines laid out by Ocalan that in many ways mirror New Left discourse in it's most utopian visions- along with the birth of ISIS onto the "moderate rebel" scene seemed like the good guys, taking part in armed action before ISIS but most people in the US know them from the PR campaign that begin with the artificial creation of the SDF. Especially after ISIS was wiped from Iraq and only really existed in Syria and Russia and the Syrian Army were making gains against them.
Just imo the image of Rojava in many ways masks a more brutal reality on the ground (from prisons , to military bases) where large imperialist are backing pretty much all of the separatist movements in Syria, ready to take any real discontent (the regime is oppressive and even began to put in neoliberal reforms before 2011) or manufacture it if need be to divide and conquer and suck the blood out of the people.I'll add this as the chaos of the war did have a moment where yes even the most ardent anti war activist struggled not justifying US Special Ops , bombings and so on : The ISIS siege of kobani . Yes ISIS and the breakdown of Syria's protest into total war (yes Islamist) insurgency wouldn't have happened without Iraq , the Libyan post 2011 'rat line' , Tymbore Sycamore and so on . But it happened and it's true bombs/US Special Forces/Contractors helped save it [kobani] . Kurdish women were apparently fierce warriors in that battle and killed a lot of ISIS -obviously male- militants .
I remember an interview he had with someone (sorry for being vague as I can't remember the details lol). He just came across as a generic liberal. What's interesting is his political commentary about the 2020 election and 1/6, which was "Everyone, especially the far right and far left, made a big deal about it, but nothing radical happened in the end, so they were both wrong." It's like some bizarre half-apolitical/half generic liberal take. I wouldn't take anything political he says seriously, and given his support of Ukraine, perhaps he's being groomed to be an op.
Scroll down . Look at the comments welcome to "fucking" hexbear I guess . Of course it's a fucking YouTuber and it's all stupid . Your the in the same slop and shit as everyone else . Mediocrity is indeed our reality .
I thought it was a joke too, but maybe not? Am I too irony-poisoned, or not enough?
At least one person seems to think it was serious :shrug-outta-hecks:
Mostly meant as a joke about Tim and Eric but :yea:
He's literally the Don of Lemons, of course he's a little twisted
Hes just completely drained of charisma when Andrew speaks up. Such a revealing moment and i hope thousands of moralistic aunts and grandparents witnessed their life coach stumbling around like that on air.
It does, it's also the 24/7 home of Trump outrage porn.
This and all the recent Brace cameos give me a little bit of hope.
I mean he's not exactly an investigative journalist, he just goes to places and interviews whoever will talk to him (usually crazy people). Going to an active warzone where most of the population doesn't speak english was at best going to be a waste of time and at worst going to be outright propaganda.
Going to a warzone and interviewing people will always get you a completely biased outcome depending on which side of the war lines you go to.
Brace could go to Donbass.
That was early on in the conflict when it was Russia is very bad and the horrors of war. Now the longer it goes on we’re seeing the presence of fash in Ukraine’s ranks lending some credibility to Russia’s claims.
America is his focus and he’s on the road all the time. My takeaway from that video they were going for was “war is hell for civilians”.
It’s fascist to criticize journalism like this. No wonder he didn’t say anything bad about the proud boy.
You can see the adrenaline start to surge as he gets into it. Man that's got to be an intense thing to do. Public speaking fear maxed out.
The movie is being produced by A24 Films with the help of Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim, and Jonah Hill. Here's the trailer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH_rX9S6sU8
Tim and Eric will be the vanguard of the revolution
Just let a CNN anchor embed with the troops in any military action and see how fash CNN is. Police and military will happily produce cheap and riveting content for any news source as long as they accept the narrative angle with it. Look at how media has covered every war since Vietnam.
Due to falling viewership CNN decided to do a right-wing pivot a few months ago. So now rather than being "center-left" in terms of the US overton window they are right wing.
The way Don Lemon completely stumbles when he says it and they wait to cut back to him :michael-laugh: :miyazaki-laugh: :capitalist-laugh: fuck i can almost psychically read the pain in both their fucked up repressed Panem elite faces this is amazing
They really only have a handful of subtle tricks and they barely work anymore on chill, mentally stable younger people. Pathetic.
What can you tell us about this S P O O K Y January 6th leader?
He sells t-shirts
:michael-laugh:
Lmao they're so horrified by him just describing him as a regular loser with crazy beliefs instead of using a million tactical tics, codewords and tangents to literally preemptively justify his destruction by a team of SEALs
