I guess the Bellingcat stuff just doesn’t bother me that much, and the (pretty mild) criticisms of AES just don’t come up much. I enjoy a lot of the content he makes, and I don’t have to agree with him about everything in order to listen and get something out of it. I don’t really buy that he’s on the CIA payroll or anything like that. I’m also an anarchist, so maybe I’m more sympathetic to where he’s coming from.
Chapo has some dumbass takes sometimes and I still (sometimes) enjoy them as well. As someone else said in this thread, I don’t know that I’d want to organize with any of the left podcast guys, but that’s not what I’m doing. I’m listening to podcasts.
Personally I’m not sure how someone posting on Hexbear could fail to find a CIA connected anti-communist objectionable.
I guess the Bellingcat stuff just doesn’t bother me that much, and the (pretty mild) criticisms of AES just don’t come up much. I enjoy a lot of the content he makes, and I don’t have to agree with him about everything in order to listen and get something out of it. I don’t really buy that he’s on the CIA payroll or anything like that. I’m also an anarchist, so maybe I’m more sympathetic to where he’s coming from.
Chapo has some dumbass takes sometimes and I still (sometimes) enjoy them as well. As someone else said in this thread, I don’t know that I’d want to organize with any of the left podcast guys, but that’s not what I’m doing. I’m listening to podcasts.
You should absolutely not be sympathetic to where this guy is coming from, he’s a piece of shit lib.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220608174908/https://twitter.com/IwriteOK/status/1120888497869430785
http://web.archive.org/web/20220608174857/https://twitter.com/IwriteOK/status/1194094729962672128
If you give credence to what this guy says you’re going to find yourself supporting crypto-fascist counterrevolutions.
EDIT: side note, he’s also a fucking coward who won’t stand by his words, both of these tweets are now deleted.