• Crucible [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    Someone on here suggested Evans was up to sketchy shit when he tried to make a teenager he met at a protest his podcast protege and as the type of company he keeps gets revealed it seems more and more plausible

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      3 months ago

      Even before I realized how much fedvans sucks that shit was so sus.

      “Hey it’s me, Robert Evans! Check out this vulnerable child that escaped from a cult with no support network! I met him at a protest! Against cops! Isn’t that neat? What? This is effectively doxxing a child? Sorry, can’t hear you, I’m too busy playing with my knives! I’m a silly goose.”

    • FALGSConaut [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      3 months ago

      Dude is sus af, he openly admits to working with the feds teaching them to recognize online extremism. And then there’s the whole hanging out with a minor he met at a protest situation…

      • JayTreeman [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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        3 months ago

        Right? It even seems like that kid moved onto Evan’s ‘compound’ (where he probably drives around drunk on his ATV) I’m all for compounds, but it’s more than a little weird when it’s one persons and that person is also employing everyone… It’s a fiefdom guys… In some more news, it’s kind of interesting to watch his former colleagues Katie and Dan get more and more radicalized because they’re just paying attention.

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          If you haven’t watched Small Beans on YouTube you should. A lot of the Cracked staff went there after the site was sold. And they have all gotten more radical over the last decade lol. I think some of them are legit Marxists, but they aren’t open about it because anti-communism.

          On the episode about Bowling for Columbine (they re-watched it after not seeing it since it came out), Michael Swaine says something along the lines of “I used to think we solve things nonviolently, but I’m not even sure that’s true anymore [because reactionaries are getting emboldened] and people should arm up.” The other hosts agreed with him.

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    3 months ago

    Robert Fedvans also specializes in protest movements around the world (surprising, mostly countries the US doesn’t like), by being employed by the NED

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    3 months ago

    Ugh I really liked his show until quite recently when I got a bit of a bad feeling from some of the episodes. Seems like things keep getting worse then.

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      3 months ago

      I dropped it a year or two ago. What happened recently? I just realized that I really didn’t like Robert. I was actually called out on a podcast because I went on their subreddit and pointed out that their making fun of the French or Italian accent was closer to racist than not. They didn’t mention me by username, but they were definitely talking about me

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    3 months ago

    I hate liberals less then fascists so thank you liberals for appropriating NAFO, because I don’t think I can handle another couple months of “fren”.