A year ago in the midst of the U.S.-backed military coup in Bolivia, left-wing mayor Patricia Arce was captured, beaten, had paint thrown on her, her hair chopped off and was paraded through the streets by right-wing thugs who wanted to intimidate supporters of Evo Morales and the Movement Towards Socialism.
Yesterday, she was elected Senator.
I think people just need to metaphorically kill their heroes. I don't think robert evans is a fed or wholly bad, just a normal guy who is radicalized against fascism (such as the police), but at the same time has a hair up his ass about "tankies". like he has literally interrupted his podcast to explain to complain about 'tankies' to his guests who are not Online is as if that's an actual real phenomena.
IMHO he just drank too much of the imperialist kool aid and probably got called an anarkiddie online so now he just uncritically swallows literally every piece of american propaganda about countries that america wants to conquer. And no doubt him ending up working at bellingcat, with the kinds of people that are allowed to work at a place like that and still retain 3rd-hand CIA funding, has influenced his anti-communist views as well.
I guess this is a long way of saying i think there could still be hope for this guy, IF he actually wanted to take the L on the chin and learn from this. But I'm too nice sometimes. Even as a filthy communist tankie.
I mean he has good takes on USA domestic policy, but due to the potential CIA influence just don't trust him on anything foreign policy related
yeah i had to stop listening to his pod when he got to a latin american country and was treating the guy who was at worst a republican as hitler 2.0 bc he was part of the communist party. i.. i don't think people should rely on his podcasts for anything to do with latin america tbh. The history of policing was fine tho
That's my guess as to why the who "anti-police" "anti-authority" stuff is a lot of people's shtick. It will never damage the US's police state (it's way too organized, advanced, and supported by propaganda), but it can be weaponized to use against left-wing countries' "police states" under that same "anti-authority" rhetoric. The anti-cop rhetoric gets a lot of people on one's side, rightfully, but doesn't really do much in the long run. I mean for this dude to not be for the Bolivian government, which has even had like no police brutality incidents in the media or anything, is just ridiculous. "Anti-state" is just stupid.
Either he's a fed or a useful idiot for the feds with numerous connections to the feds. We should treat him like a fed either way.