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I'm out of the loop when it comes to Robert Evans.
Outside of the normal American anti-Communist brainworms, what's the deal with him?
Outside the brain worms, I honestly thinks he's pretty decent in a lot of respects. Behind the Bastards explorers a lot about how moral failings develop in people, and the conditions that lead to it. It Could Happen Here does some pretty great reporting with lots of discussion about countering narratives and direct action.
Plenty of flaws and I've heard rumblings of criticism. But they're anticapitalist, so I'll continue to listen and take whatever good stuff I can from it.
He used to do some work with Bellingcat, which has three-letter agency ties. He's also very critical of China and the USSR (especially under Stalin), and claims to be an anarchist. I don't really find him all that objectionable, but lots of folks here do.
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.
Yeah, maybe there's a connection, I wouldn't necessarily organize with him. I skip the anti-communist stuff and have learned a ton of different historical figures and how they've influenced society. I enjoy a good deconstruction of monsters that are held up as saints.
I don't hate the guy I just don't find him funny anymore. And he always seems to reach really, really hard to attack communists even if it's not called for or relevant.
Maybe he'll become less shitty now that the threat is outside his door and the money tap to Bellingcat is cut off.
The material they cover on the pod is often interesting but I hate the banter, kind of hate the format where it's Robert explaining stuff to some clueless liberal dork from Twitter who doesn't know anything about the topic and really, REALLY hate the ads on his network. The pods advertised on those adbreaks should classify as cognitohazards
Fair. When's the last time you listened to it? I haven't heard anything egregious in a good long while, but I'm sure I've missed a decent amount too.
been listening to It Could Happen here semi-regularly since the election just to get their takes.
i suppose it's less Evans and more the other hosts that love dunking on communism whenever possible.
I do remember Evans making pointless comments on BTB. usually just throwing "Stalin" or "Mao" in as frequently as fucking Hitler.
Maybe it was just me but when something "authoritarian" came up it seems 90% of the time he would connect it with a socialist state instead of like, every other possible state that did worse shit
Yuck. I only listen to it can happen here once in a while if I've run out of better stuff. The ones I've caught were some pretty great reporting though. One of the hosts (English accent guy, I forget) traveled with migrants trying to get to the US through South/Central America.
I haven't heard much of this on BtB lately, but I do have an uncanny ability to tune things out.
Either way, there's plenty of better stuff out there.
Yeah, James Stout is extremely legit. He's done a bunch of on the ground praxis relating to migrants, and he's a hell of a journalist.
So wait, what do you like about this guy or his content?
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