No, but Robert Evans and likely everyone connected to him are probably literal state assets
I keep seeing this thrown around. What's the story there?
He works for bellingcat a "open source intelligence agency" that is pretty opish.
I personally doubt he's literally on CIA payroll but that's largely irrelevant if his bosses bosses are and he parrots such propaganda frequently.
I think people greatly inflate the relationship between Rojava/YPG and the US to come to this conclusion. The US has effectively abandoned the kurds at this point and maintain that the PKK (the group Ocalan created) are terrorists. (Read some of Ocalan's writings, maybe you won't like all of it, but he isn't an American op lmao.) I don't know what the feds would gain from PissPigGranddad convincing a bunch of online leftists into tacit support for American presence in Syria. I get it helps with the anti-assad/anti-russia push, but the anti-russia stance is ingrained in the American psyche without any additional propaganda needed. Also, no one gives a shit what leftists oppose/support in the USA. The Iraq war protests failed to do anything, and we have never seen a push against war like that since.
Anyone associated with Bellingcat is fed-friendly tho. And it wouldn't surprise me if Thiel money has made its way through the leftist podcast scene, but at times this feels like when libs were foaming at the mouth because so and so donated $20 to Trump or some shit.
At the end of the day podcasts, like all other forms of media, are simply part of the spectacle. The capitalist machine consumes all.
it wouldn’t surprise me if Thiel money has made its way through the leftist podcast scene
I think there was a scoop yesterday that some Thiel acolyte tacitly admitted that Anna K and Red Scare have received Thiel money to fund their podcasts, along with some other people in that sphere, so it's not much of a stretch.
Red Scare isn't even a leftist podcast lmao. But yeah, I believe it.
Oh yeah whoops I accidentally left out the bit about them being "left-adjacent at best" when I rewrote my reply, but yeah you're right.
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