Yeah he also works for a state department funded "investigative journalism" outlet so he's on the take as well as being a useful idiot
Damn, can't imagine what kind of losers do the shit for free, at least get your chips you know?
Weirdest thing is the way him and his pod and everything he does is constantly pushed everywhere by random posters. Everywhere. "DAE this brilliant episode/book/tweet by bobert evns, who is cool, is great". Like, the info contained in his pod is decent on general anti-fash stuff, less so on anything that contradicts us foreign policy, but the number of posts pushing it seem way disproportionate to it's reach.
It's not weird at all. #bellingCIAt. lets get it going guys. you saw the hashtag here first.
Yeah the foreign policy is where it shines through, using Leninist analysis, we can see who's real or not by their anti-war record.
His podcasts are pretty good overall, but the NED/Bellingcat thing and stuff like this makes me question where he'll end up standing at the pivotal moment. On the whole he still has vastly better takes than any of the shitheads on TV though. If I had to guess, dude's just a moderately naive anarchist who came out of high school with a journalism boner. Like Chomsky, he doesn't have to be a Fed for the Feds and bourgeois media to prop him up when says things they find useful.
If it turns out he's knowingly pulling a long con on behalf of the CIA, I wouldn't be entirely shocked, but I would be a little impressed. I think if his primary goal were to do state propaganda, he would spend a lot less time teaching about revolutionary history and fascism.
He certainly wouldn't be my first choice if I had to recommend something for people to listen to, but his audience also ranks pretty low on my list of groups that cause me concern.
Given the history of the second half of the 20th century, any media leftist that doesn't actively repudiate the agency constantly and at every opportunity, never mind one that actively works with their arms and associates, is 👀 imo.
I mean, I think any public figure on the left should automatically detail any and all possible natsec/intel interaction they have ever had, and keep us updated, as a precondition for credibility. Jesus christ, the history ffs.
That's fair. The fact that it is even a possibility in the first place is a pretty big concern and why I'd never hold him up as a standard bearer. There are a lot of great public speakers who don't have that issue.
Bobby Bellingcat says don’t do guillotine meme folkz in his civil war 2.0 podcast, he’s no fun
Don’t disagree in the slightest, but I found it funny of him to call them out in his podcast as (if I remember correctly) something that could be a slippery slope to civil war.
I also remember he’d open each episode with an ad where he’d talk about how a meditation app would help him deal with the possibility of civil war. Like yeah, meditation helps me with my anxiety, but good grief that’s some good grifting
He's not a fed, he's an America with anarchist tendencies, which in practice tends to mean being indoctrinated with strong "anti-authoritarian" beliefs that lead to a shitty sort of anti-communism.
It's all over the place.
He does write for an outlet that gets a huge chunk of NED funding, though.
I'm usually skeptical of and careful about claiming people are feds, but you can make a pretty strong case for him
Ehh I think he's an asset. I still love him though, he's good on domestic issues.
He might be a CIAnarchist but he's my CIAnarchist. :comfy: I love my antifascist boy, just ignore his foreign policy.
I stopped listening to his podcasts a while ago or paying attention to him at all, did he do something?
He's virulently anti-communist. Like, annoyingly so.
He managed to cite the Holodomor during a podcast recently about fascism.. in France.
Yeah, his anti-communism was a sticking point for me and why I started to tune out. It's what really connected the idea of state department anarchist to me.
I was listening to the recent episodes on spain/germany and the fascist movement and he mentioned in passing how they got called out as not being very fair to german communists before.
Yeah I'll bet.
Bet I can paint out the exact narrative used too.
No but lots of CIA socialists listen to him, basically he covers police abuse in order to launder his state department shilling for US wars of aggression.
Cool, that's more or less why I stopped listening to him in the first place.
Eh, he's fine for domestic stuff. He was pretty trash on Bolivia last year though. Don't really listen to his foreign policy takes.
This thread title gave me whiplash because I thought you meant Rich Evans from RedLetterMedia at first.
No need to worry, we all know Rich is a firm believer in Marxism-Leninism-Maoism-Sandersism.
I like the podcast man who does the podcast. I listen to it with other podcasts. He does advertisement like a lot of podcasts. He is miscorrect in some points like other people. I don’t look to him as a hero or a villain, but a person creating stuff. Mostly I think it’s good historical stuff that I feel educated by.
