There’s a lot of stuff about him and CIA ties, although we all know that type of stuff is unprovable without outright admission basically, so I don’t much credence to that.
What I do pay attention to is how he speaks, what he speaks about, who he associates with, who he condemns or celebrates, etc.
I’ll just make this as short and concise as I can. He’s very obviously libertarian in nature, and no, not that the Ayn Rand style, but the not-too-far-off vaguely-leftist “anarchists” style. He seem to understand Marxist theory, or be acquainted with it anyway, but he also seems… to… reject much of it? Which is, to me, what I’d call “not good.”
He does a lot of sussy stuff like kinda give passes to imperial soldiers of the past sometimes even seeming to glorify some of their actions. One example in my mind is the Gen Butler stuff (War is a Racket guy). His wars before his later move to the left are almost glamorized by Evans in an episode with his guest Prop. He will almost jerk off Butler for multiple sentences and then say “but of course it was for imperialism and that’s bad of course!” Ok, then why fucking build it up, call the guy a badass, etc.? It’s hard to place into words my issue with representation of these type of events. Perhaps just saying his condemnation of imperialism feels lukewarm at best sometimes, but at other times he comes off very much against imperialism. The tone and consistency is off to me.
He also takes at face value many government reported things. Small example list:
1 the CIA claims to have destroyed all records prior to some date in the 1960s or 70s (too lazy to google, the detail isn’t that important). He seems to just believe this is true and that the CIA/FBI etc. don’t have backups to backups to backups of any intelligence data and revolving around secret projects like MKUltra.
2 He fully accepted the US state dept line on Russia invading Ukraine totally for real this time (which did actually happen after saying ITS FINALLY HAPPENING for like 30 decades). Anyone who uncritically accepts state dept lines is sussy to me.
3 He seems to have no disdain for US military/US veterans. I’ve never heard him condemn people’s choice to join. He just treats it like a normal job that some people just do. I could say this is possibly from spending too much time on the US side while being an embedded journalist if I’m charitable or if I’m then I could say he’s an unapologetic pro-US imperialist.
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The host of BtB (Robert Evans) is an odd guy.
There’s a lot of stuff about him and CIA ties, although we all know that type of stuff is unprovable without outright admission basically, so I don’t much credence to that.
What I do pay attention to is how he speaks, what he speaks about, who he associates with, who he condemns or celebrates, etc.
I’ll just make this as short and concise as I can. He’s very obviously libertarian in nature, and no, not that the Ayn Rand style, but the not-too-far-off vaguely-leftist “anarchists” style. He seem to understand Marxist theory, or be acquainted with it anyway, but he also seems… to… reject much of it? Which is, to me, what I’d call “not good.”
He does a lot of sussy stuff like kinda give passes to imperial soldiers of the past sometimes even seeming to glorify some of their actions. One example in my mind is the Gen Butler stuff (War is a Racket guy). His wars before his later move to the left are almost glamorized by Evans in an episode with his guest Prop. He will almost jerk off Butler for multiple sentences and then say “but of course it was for imperialism and that’s bad of course!” Ok, then why fucking build it up, call the guy a badass, etc.? It’s hard to place into words my issue with representation of these type of events. Perhaps just saying his condemnation of imperialism feels lukewarm at best sometimes, but at other times he comes off very much against imperialism. The tone and consistency is off to me.
He also takes at face value many government reported things. Small example list:
1 the CIA claims to have destroyed all records prior to some date in the 1960s or 70s (too lazy to google, the detail isn’t that important). He seems to just believe this is true and that the CIA/FBI etc. don’t have backups to backups to backups of any intelligence data and revolving around secret projects like MKUltra.
2 He fully accepted the US state dept line on Russia invading Ukraine totally for real this time (which did actually happen after saying ITS FINALLY HAPPENING for like 30 decades). Anyone who uncritically accepts state dept lines is sussy to me.
3 He seems to have no disdain for US military/US veterans. I’ve never heard him condemn people’s choice to join. He just treats it like a normal job that some people just do. I could say this is possibly from spending too much time on the US side while being an embedded journalist if I’m charitable or if I’m then I could say he’s an unapologetic pro-US imperialist.
Fuck. I ended up typing too much anyway.
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