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I haven't even gotten into any real arguments recently, it's pretty obviously from that post.

        • thefunkycomitatus [he/him,they/them]
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          4 years ago

          There goes the goal posts. From "Robert Evans is 100% a spook" to "He might not even be a spook but he might as well be." Also being VP of a PR firm (PR being an industry of propaganda invented by capitalists) and working with fronts of the deep state is not doing service to empire? C'mon jack.

            • thefunkycomitatus [he/him,they/them]
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              4 years ago

              The Bill Gates Foundation does imperialism. Do you know what they've done in India? How do you compartmentalize what these people do from what Bellingcat does? I seriously don't get it. It's like you're using a special definition of helping imperial capitalism and propaganda and useful idiot that arbitrarily excludes the CN guy.

              So being #2 at a PR company that does PR work (propangada) for the philanthropic and activist front groups of capital imperialism is better than being one of dozens of journalists who work for a company that gives handies to the state department despite the journalist not directly creating propaganda through said company and instead is saying lib things on twitter?

              Again, mental gymnastics. For the last time, by the standards you are using to claim Evans is CIA, pretty much every popular leftist podcast is a psyop. And once again, I don't even care. Because politics don't happen in podcasts. If they all came out tomorrow with a group photo and Langley it wouldn't matter. Being a CIA podcaster doesn't do anything to the left. The content of BTB, even if you were to listen uncharitably, is fine 99.999999% of the time. Same with Chapo and TrueAnon and probably CN. The things they have said that are true don't stop being true because they're all CIA.

              If the CIA wants to stop the left they're not going to make podcasts. They're going to fucking kill us. Because that's what they did in the past. They would hand us motolovs and tell us to join militias and show us how to make bombs. They would arm right wingers and point them at us. Podcasts do not matter. But if you're going to disparage someone, then be consistent.

                • thefunkycomitatus [he/him,they/them]
                  2·
                  4 years ago

                  But even still, even assuming that Evans is completely innocent, how does this make these other podcasters spooks?

                  That's the point. Now do it the other way around and you'll get it.

                  The concern I have with Evans is that, ideologically, he is more supportive of the American state, despite its propensity toward fascism, than he is of anti-imperialist government, socialist governments and movements in the global south (see his “skepticism” about claims that there was a coup in Bolivia), and “tankies”, i.e. the communists he doesn’t like.

                  Your concerns are just someone being wrong. Why are you concerned that someone is wrong? His podcast isn't preaching these wrong views. He spends so much time working against fascism. He's put himself face to face with fascists. But because he's not as critical of something as you are, he's tacitly supporting the thing you don't support and therefore supporting the thing he obviously doesn't support. See how that works?

                  Then why have you been insisting, from the beginning, that all these podcasts are psyops or filled with spooks?

                  Bruh the reason why you've been arguing with me is because you missed the point from the beginning.

                  Propaganda does matter, actually, which is why the US government does spend so many resources on disseminating it. There’s a reason why things like Radio Free Asia, Radio Free Europe, Radio Marti, etc. exist. It’s why operation Earnest Voice exists. It’s why that guy who makes YouTube videos critical of the American state got a visit by DHS. It’s why there’s an Atlantic Council spook working for Reddit. It’s why there’s so much astrotufing on the internet.

                  The operations of the state against the left are multifaceted. They are not limited to direct violence, and they prefer to avoid that if possible for a number of reasons. Preventing people from becoming communists is just as if not more important than arming anti-communist death squads. Psyops exist for a reason. A single podcast might be small in the grand scheme overall, but the state absolutely has an interest in these things. If a podcast is actually a psyop, that’s worthy of concern. But also, there are standards of evidence that we should expect before fedjacketing them.

                  None of these podcasts are propaganda for the US government. They all criticize it. All of them. And the shit the US government has done against communism in the past is physical infiltration, framing people, inciting violence, paying right wingers to kill left wingers, and plain harassment. The idea that they're disseminating propaganda by having Robert Evans say true things most of the time except for a few times on twitter and then working for a propaganda outlet, that he doesn't actually produce propaganda for, but complements on twitter, is pretty silly. I can't explain it any simpler.

                  Buddy, that’s all you’ve been doing.

                  Again, you completely missed the point and jumped in on something you didn't understand.