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You seriously have no qualms sending clicks and fans to a guy who used to write for Infowars? There no one else that we can post??
What did he write for Infowars? Do they exclusively publish lies or is their barrier to entry just low? I've found Brian Berletic to use sources well, be transparent and make logical conclusions with few or reasonable leaps.
As I posted in the top comment, some pretty right-wing Alex Jones level, anti global warming, "globalist", anti vaccine level shit. They're still on his page. He's never once self-crit over them. And lot of the bad takes have been very recently. I'm actually very happy to have this line of discussion. Please, ask me for more info.
Hi ButtBidet. Do you have more examples? Especially interested in bad arguments, rather than bad takes.
If I can copy/paste a previous conversation that I had with a mod:
Another article:
On his page, although written by Paul Joseph Watson:
If you want bad arguments instead of bad takes, I'll have to find the text of a struggle session from over a year ago. You want to see it?
If you're willing. When I say bad arguments, I mean misrepresenting a source or bad quality sourcing, or drawing conclusions that aren't supported by the data he cites.
Thank you for these 3 links as well.
I would advise you to get off facebook and youtube, like yesterday.
You know how streamers make money, right? You know why they produce content, right? Do I need to explain it to you?
No, i don't, seriously, i'm not into online drama, online wars and "influencer" fetishism or whatever all that is called (also please do not explain). Touch, and i cannot stress this enough, grass.
Please stop replying to me
It's a little frustrating that you seem to ignore everything i wrote about engaging with the content of a piece instead of just attacking the messenger.
To answer your question, no, there is not much out there with this level of quality of analysis on these topics. There just isn't a huge amount of content like this coming from progressive channels, i wish there was. By the way this channel isn't even the worst offender as far as reactionary sources of good geopolitical analysis that have been shared here. When we do so we assume a certain level of political maturity from our comrades, such that they can engage with the analysis presented and separate that from whatever other reactionary views that source may have.
If someone is uncomfortable with giving a particular channel views they can use one of the alternative links provided where the video is embedded on a third party website. I'd recommend doing that anyway for privacy reasons.
The advantage of videos like this is that they use the western media's own reporting and publicly available information to show how when you actually dissect what they are saying they frequently slip up and admit the truth even while they try to spin it to fit their narrative. That is helpful when trying to deprogram people who would otherwise not trust any non-western source, or who would refuse to listen to any overtly communist channels.
If you think that sharing videos like this should come with a content warning to caution against listening to these sources on other topics then that is totally valid and we can absolutely do that.