I sometimes see New Atlas videos popping up, and I have often needed to have the same struggle session with the poster of the video. So my problem, being an old fuck that I am, have been following Brian since the late naughts. Back in 2009-ish, being an internet nerd meant Indymedia, Blogger, and Geocities created webpages. He was a pretty open reactionary before Twitter and YouTube became big. He tied his wagon pretty solidly to Inforwars around 2010.

Brian Berletic used to go by the name of Tony Cartalucci. The original Tony C used to write HEAPS for Infowars [example] [example - he cites Paul Joseph Watson] [example]. Sadly the Wayback Machine doesn't have a search name feature, but you can still find Infowars when you type his name in. The message was very globalist, George Soros kinda stuff.

I hear you saying, hey ButtBidet, that was in 2012. Maybe the guy has grown in the last twelve years. Hey, many of us started out as libs.

To which I answer: with the name change to Brian Berletic, he's distanced himself from the Infowars garbage and gotten a better message, but he's still far right as fuck.

For example, he did the antivax thing hard during 2020-21. He's done a lot of climate change skepticism pretty recently. Lastly, he's very clearly pro-monarchy.

I see that he writes from the maybe Russian funded journal NEO (according to Wikipedia which I'm too lazy to verify). Honestly I couldn't care less if Russia is funding him, but I just assume that he's an intellectual for hire.

  • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]
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    2 months ago

    Berletic is part of a constellation of content creators like Richard Medhurst, George Galloway, The Duran, Max Blumenthal, Glenn Greenwald, Carl Zha, Danny Haiphong, Xiangyu, Daniel Dumbrill, Scott Ritter etc. who give the impression that they are anti-imperialist and part of the radical left but often they are deeply reactionary.

    Carl Zha doesn't really vibe like that to me. I haven't seen anything openly reactionary from him. He isn't that much far off from other Chinese-tailored-towards-an-Anglophone-audience-that-isn't-some-Falun-Gong-reactionary-cutout Youtube channels like Li Jingjing and Wave Media. The bad thing about all those channels is they don't like talking about socialism and how socialism is why China is the way it is today, but honestly, even CGTN is like this as well. CGTN pretty much never talks about socialism.

    I guess they're anti-imperialist more from a left-wing nationalist perspective than a socialist perspective?