• No_Values [none/use name]
    13·
    4 years ago

    People here think robert's CIA for reporting for bellingcat and being against the Assad regime right?

    Well whatever he's on the frontline of portland every weekend,, 'the woman's war' is an actual good exploration of rojava from someone who's actually been there, rather than just the competing takes from online anarchists and 'tankies', behind the bastards is currently exposing the Jordan Peterson to fash pipeline

    He does good work, I like him, come at me

    • JoeySteel [comrade/them]
      1·
      4 years ago

      I thought It Could Happen Here was great.

      Sometimes liberals do good stuff - just dont go to him for your politics

      People here think robert’s CIA for reporting for bellingcat and being against the Assad regime right?

      Let's be clear - Bellingcat get funding from NED which means they're defacto CIA.

      So either Bellingcat is directly overseen by the CIA or Robert Evans is putting out what the CIA likes

      And the difference between the 2 is that you can't get a credit card between them

      As The Grayzone has previously reported, Bellingcat is funded by the US government’s regime-change arm the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a CIA cutout created by Ronald Reagan, and is host to a crew of regime-change advocates who work with Western government-backed organizations like the Atlantic Council.

      https://thegrayzone.com/2020/06/10/wikipedia-formally-censors-the-grayzone-as-regime-change-advocates-monopolize-editing/

      All throughout the Cold War the CIA did the same thing - they funded 'Socialist' magazines that were anti-Soviet and they even funded Maoists during the Sino-Soviet split. Robert Evans straddles that line of pretending to be a leftist but not actually holding any principled left positions which might actually inconvenience US imperialism. His whole charade is a familiar one - to sound like thunder and fury with leftist and vaguely Marxist phraseology whilst shoring up support for US imperialism and US wars

      • No_Values [none/use name]
        3·
        4 years ago

        All great points. but I think writing for a CIA cutout is a little different than being a full-on mockingbird plant

        • JoeySteel [comrade/them]
          ·
          4 years ago

          The difference is between wilful deception and being too stupid to know you're being used as a tool of deception and misinformation

          Like I said, a credit card doesn't fit between the two and both serve reaction

    • longhorn617 [any]
      ·
      4 years ago

      https://twitter.com/IwriteOK/status/1100923286785908738?s=19

      Let me see if I can find the tweet where he said overthrowing Gaddafi was one of the few good things Hillary Clinton had ever done.

      • cum_drinker69 [any]
        ·
        4 years ago

        Lol did they poll the slave markets and see if those in bondage liked it better with Gaddafi in charge?

      • No_Values [none/use name]
        10·
        4 years ago

        oof that's a bad take, which we all have from time to time

        My point is the guys doing more praxis exposing online right-wing radicalization and facing pigs in the street than most on this site arguing over who is and who isnt an op

          • No_Values [none/use name]
            5·
            4 years ago

            Fair point, but the actual good praxis he does out on the streets outweighs any number of dogshit twitter takes,

            this should be obvious to anyone who isn't extremely online

              • No_Values [none/use name]
                5·
                4 years ago

                Yeah being part of a shield walls to stop pigs cracking the heads of peaceful demonstrators, is purely performative and done for online content and no one should do it

                Thank you mr real leftist for enlightening me on why we shouldn't confront the state and rightist on the streets and instead stay online arguing who is and isn't an op

                • anthm17 [he/him]
                  1·
                  4 years ago

                  Yeah being part of a shield walls

                  When did he do that?

                  • No_Values [none/use name]
                    3·
                    4 years ago

                    Literally most weekends for the last couple of months in Portland, check out his protest streams if you haven't

                    or are you asking for video evidence of him psychically resisting police?

                    • anthm17 [he/him]
                      1·
                      4 years ago

                      hes there as a reporter, i haven't seen him take part in any other capacity.