And Alan Macleod and I hope Aaron Maté leaves also.
The shift began with Covid, specially when the ‘‘Freedumb Truckers’’ showed up in Canada, and the Patsocs were on the rise, which also coincides with the return of the Larouchies and the notoriety of CPI…It also coincides with Max showing up on Jimmy Dore’s show more frequently, and instead of influencing Jimmy towards the left, again, since he had been shifting right himself, Max fell in with Jimmy…He marched in D.C along with reactionaries that were against lockdowns and vaccine mandates, and the day I saw him walk out on stage with sunglasses to the cheers of MAGA, alongside Awaken with JP and some snake oil peddlers, I unsubscribed from the Grayzone. During that time, as an addendum, I was subbed to Mint Press News, and Max’s friend, Dan Cohen, whom has done decent work before on Haiti and isn’treal, also chomped at the bit of the antivax bullshit that swept the US, and was at that same march. That day, I unsubscribed from Behind the Headlines, Dan Cohen’s show, and Mint Press News for giving a platform to that shit.
After Ben left The Grayzone, the quality of guests, articles and the audience itself, got worse…This is not a matter of taste, or an opinion, this is a fact. If you’re listening to people whose focus is on the WEF, Karl Schwab, Covid, punching down on LGBTQ+ people cause you think it’s part of some western assery to interfere in other countries, that speak of ‘‘globalists’’, that think the US can be reformed or fixed, and are still attached to it, then you’re not getting the correct information, nor, ideological formation. I don’t care if every blue moon, they say something right about Ukraine or some other world issue. If that comes at the expense of selling some new form of ‘‘Judeo-Bolshevism’’, then I want no part of it. Cause at the end of the day, things in the world have simple explanations.
I also have a video of how people like Tulsi Iversen and Dore turned Rightward. https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=5frqh-hm8h8 https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=Tx2Hp-gJAzU https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=yTEs42WCDCs All of these were made by The Kavernacle.
Blumenthal’s anti-vax views are cringe, but i don’t see the problem with this tweet (assuming that it’s true, which feel free to correct me if it’s not) What is worse, having some idiot grifter at your anti-imperialist event, or marching alongside weapons manufacturers who are fueling imperialist wars and a genocide? I’m not saying PSL shouldn’t take part in a march for a good cause just because these evil organizations are trying to co-opt it, but it does seem hypocritical to attack others with guilt by association while doing worse yourself.
I don’t know PSL, I’m not United Statesian, but I found this trying to find pride parade and PSL, Lockheed Martin, etc.
Lockheed Martin was present in 2023 DC Pride Parade, and PSL was present in 2016 DC Pride Parade, but I couldn’t confirm the presence of both simultaneously, nor do I know what was PSL’s purpose in this corporate event.
Yeah, from what I’m seeing here I don’t actually see how he’s wrong here. All this shows is that for as bad as we might say Blumenthal is, PSL isn’t really proving themselves any better than him.
for as bad as we might say Blumenthal is, PSL isn’t really proving themselves any better than him
Another way of putting is is that neither is bad, they just aren’t perfect and do or say things that they should be criticized for. I don’t like this tendency that leftists have to immediately want to cut all ties to a person or organization as soon as they perceive a problem. We need to stop doing this moral puritanism thing when it comes to people who, at least in the struggles over the primary contradictions, are on our side. The Grayzone has issues but they are a valuable anti-imperialist outlet. PSL has issues but they are a valuable socialist organization trying to do good work inside the imperial core.
Oh no doubt, I’m not condemning everything Blumenthal ever did or said based on one or two bad positions, and you’re right that there is a tendency to discard everything a person says in this space because they don’t pass every single purity test that we place on them. Hell, one look at OP’s post history shows you that it’s all too easy to just end up spending more time shitting on people who you agree with on 90% of things, rather than those who you agree with 0%.
Yeah, Grayzone is weirdly Nazbol. Ben Norton has a tweet thread about why he left the Grayzone due to Max Blumenthal’s right-wing tendencies.
Bookmarking this for reference, thank you.
Really sucks this guy is a chud when they have some valuable reporting…
I’ll be honest, I thought that Max Blumenthal was better than this. I’m disappointed.
