Al Qaeda really ruined hijacking airplanes for everyone.
He’s outspoken about not liking tankies (His words) and that comes across a little in this episode when talking about the Japanese Red Army, to some in the chat that makes him automatically a lib, though in early/mid 2019 he described himself as an Anarchist, and those views came across (To me) in some of ‘It could Happen Here’
Yeah I heard those comments about tankies and didn’t like them either.
He been the best live stream field reporter during the Portland protests and has a podcast where he tears down scumbags and reports in wars from a leftist perspective. So overall I’m good with him and I can see where some may not like him.
I don’t care about tankie comments, although I firmly disagree with his dismissal as modern day Stalinists being inherently denialists, especially given that Stalin was a theorist as well and you can take his work seriously without having to support all of his actions.
My main beef with him would be that in the past he’s been very pro US intervention, for example he’s taken the “Iraq war was right, it was just justified and executed poorly” in the past.
But generally I love him and his show as well.
Seriously, he said the Iraq war was just poorly executed? From what I’ve read and listened to I thought we was very anti US intervention.
Late update because I was browsing Robert’s reddit like a creep and came across this quote which describes his political beliefs quite well outside of ‘Anarchist?/Leftist’
“I don’t think hard and fast terms are super useful and I think getting stuck up in ideology is where a lot of people on the left lose their ability to actually convince folks and make things happen. I spent my childhood watching the insane chunks of the right wing co opt mainstream politics and i try to do that with my own loony left views because i view the democratic process as preferable to a revolution that would likely kill us all”
