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submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Some of the replies and reposts have me chuckling.

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[-] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago
[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

LICHRALLY

"anti woke" class warfare is so untenable. most people who try it just find out that they're normal conservatives, and actually unions are nothing more than protection rackets that keep people out of employment.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Damn, looks like a messy breakup. I was wondering what the status of their current relationship was exactly, so this clears things up a lot. Good on Ben for ditching the Grayzone brand.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

lol at the image.

And yeah, it was messy, but I think, overall, Ben was in the right here.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago

Ben Norton was why I was reading The Grayzone in the first place. When he left, I left with him. Then I saw Blumenthal's tone really change on twitter over time and I was like... ok this guy is not a principled leftist, but an opportunist. He kind of did the Glenn Greenwald thing.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

He posted an excellent podcast on his experience in China recently that I recommend.

Here it is

Edit: It's hard to take Blumenthal seriously as a person after seeing him find and yell at Ben on a public bus.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

Edit: It's hard to take Blumenthal seriously as a person after seeing him find and yell at Ben on a public bus.

My impressions of the video are:

  1. I didn't know Ben had a twin brother.

  2. How the fuck did Max track where Ben was to the point of narrowing down what bus he would board? This is some serious stalking.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

Here's the original Tweet thread by Max Blumenthal:

https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1709655692750033035?s=20

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Greyzone lost their shit when Ben Norton left, the shit is basically yellow journalism with some analysis before (and you can clearly see who is the one driving the analysis part of their podcast). Now it's just yellow journalism with weird ass shit like how Philosophy tube is a british intelligence psyops because she took a grant for cultural related content creation

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Check the link in the title.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

What about all your thoughts?

What do you all think?

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

Silly lil men do silly lil dramas.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Nah, absolutely critical support until he rescinds the bullshit takes about anarchists.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago
[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago
[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I mean, I agree that anarchists were used to infiltrate and attack communist orgs by the FBI and so on, but I certainly think that not all of them are responsible for such things.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Not gonna search back now but as far as i remember the zine he used as proof that FBI is among anarchists (no anarchists deny that they dont try that) was actually axed and they went with a maoist one.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Interesting...

I'll have to do my own research and looking into this.

Fair enough!

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Were the patsoc guys originally larouchites or did they reverse engineer it from the ground up? Or were they initially something else and then got hijacked by larouchites? The second option is the most intriguing.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

They were originally LaRouchites.

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