Seeing CIA behind every account with bad takes is probably giving them too much credit. Oftentimes we assume that someone cannot genuinely hold two contradictory beliefs at the same time because it seems so obvious to us that they don't fit together. In this case there is a clear contradiction between on the one hand believing in communism, which is an ideology of liberation for all, and on the other hand rejecting LGBT+ liberation. For us it is plain to see that these two are incongruous, but not all people who grow up in a culture with such deeply embedded prejudices have managed to reckon with and discard those prejudices. Unfortunately it happens more often than we would like to believe that people simultaneously hold both progressive and reactionary views. I'm not saying there aren't a lot of opportunists out there who are just acting cynically in order to build some kind of following, and very likely also a few intelligence agency plants, but reactionary communists do exist.
I don't think so. For one thing he's neither smart nor subtle enough for that. And his target audience is mainly conservatives. A fed would behave more like Vaush. Hinkle sounds to me like just another grifter looking to make money off of building a social media following.
Yeah, this is clearly just someone phoning it in from Langley.
Seeing CIA behind every account with bad takes is probably giving them too much credit. Oftentimes we assume that someone cannot genuinely hold two contradictory beliefs at the same time because it seems so obvious to us that they don't fit together. In this case there is a clear contradiction between on the one hand believing in communism, which is an ideology of liberation for all, and on the other hand rejecting LGBT+ liberation. For us it is plain to see that these two are incongruous, but not all people who grow up in a culture with such deeply embedded prejudices have managed to reckon with and discard those prejudices. Unfortunately it happens more often than we would like to believe that people simultaneously hold both progressive and reactionary views. I'm not saying there aren't a lot of opportunists out there who are just acting cynically in order to build some kind of following, and very likely also a few intelligence agency plants, but reactionary communists do exist.
Have you seen Hinkle speak? He is 100% a fed.
I don't think so. For one thing he's neither smart nor subtle enough for that. And his target audience is mainly conservatives. A fed would behave more like Vaush. Hinkle sounds to me like just another grifter looking to make money off of building a social media following.