• davel [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
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    Aaron Maté still live streams with Blumenthal on The Grayzone’s YouTube channel. Has he not yet left for contractual reasons or what?

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      He is not pro Marxist or pro Trumpist. He doesn’t support Trump though. He and Kaite do regular podcasts.

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        Aaron & Katie don’t seem to want to reveal their actual ideologies, but they seem to be reliably anti-imperialist & anti-chauvinist, and they never seem to portray capitalism in a favorable light. So they seem to at least be sympathetic to socialism.

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          They are democratic socialists. It’s fine for me atleast it’s better than “secret cabals” and other non marxist vulgarism.

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    The term for what the hog groomer is describing is fascism. That’s what fascism is and does. It’s an anti-left cooption and redirection of fallout from the consequences of liberalism into a false consciousness that points fingers in the vein of moral decay and nativism.

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    I don’t know about Max having vast wealth, as Ben put it, but his dad, Sidney Blumenthal, probably has a few million bucks, is well-connected, and seems to be a shady political operative, having allegedly been involved with Obama birtherism and the debunked Steele Dossier.