His framing appeals to people disillusioned with US foreign policy, understandably, but it replaces one distortion with another. It doesn’t expose power. It shields it, as long as that power wears the right uniform.
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If your anti-imperialism requires denying atrocities, attacking victims, and shielding dictators, it’s not anti-imperialism. It’s just inversion, reactive, predictable, and morally bankrupt.
aug 3, 2025, 7:41 am • 311 54 • view
Hasan Piker also does this.
aug 3, 2025, 8:42 am • 1 0 • view
It's a lazy way to make yourself look smart, but it's just shallow intellectualism.
aug 3, 2025, 8:47 am • 4 0 • view
Was so depressing when Chomsky became a cheerleader for the Serbian regime.
aug 3, 2025, 7:43 am • 5 0 • view
Max Blumenthal is hardly unique in that approach, so its worth calling it out for what it is.
aug 3, 2025, 7:44 am • 214 8 • view
Man, you put a lot of effort into explaining why Blumenthal is a POS. Honestly, if people know who Blumenthal is and can’t figure out by themselves why he’s a horrible little gremlin, then I usually assume that there’s no point in trying to explain it to them.
aug 3, 2025, 8:20 am • 1 0 • view
I think its worthwhile explaining as its applicable to a whole bunch of people.
aug 3, 2025, 8:32 am • 11 0 • view
Yeah absolutely, I commend your patience, which I definitely don’t have with these people.
aug 3, 2025, 9:12 am • 0 0 • view
For example, if you try to explain this to people on reddit, you’ll usually get blocked and banned from the relevant subreddit. I feel that these people are already way too far into the « anti-imperialist » rabbit hole. Granted, certain subreddits are particularly « tribal » internet spaces.
aug 3, 2025, 9:17 am • 0 0 • view
it could also just be that they're paying him. that's what I've always assumed. I don't know how else he would get the resources to do what he does with Grayzone.
aug 3, 2025, 8:10 am • 0 0 • view
This thread could apply to Roger Waters too - and we all know his reason for being anti-West.
aug 3, 2025, 7:51 am • 7 0 • view
TLDR: Because he's a russian asset. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gra...
aug 3, 2025, 8:00 am • 4 0 • view
Which is the left wing version of Tenet media. The fringes of politics are always the 3asiest to manipulate - that's where the nut jobs and cultists are. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Te...
aug 3, 2025, 8:00 am • 1 1 • view
Well, I was thinking more of the death of his father, but one thing leads to another...
aug 3, 2025, 8:45 am • 2 0 • view
aug 3, 2025, 8:03 am • 4 0 • view
No wonder former band members of Pink Floyd don’t want to have anything to do with him.
aug 3, 2025, 10:15 am • 3 0 • view
Max Blumenthal is pretty much the textbook example of somebody with daddy issues making it everybody else's problem.
aug 3, 2025, 7:58 am • 3 0 • view
See also: Jimmy Dore
aug 3, 2025, 4:39 pm • 0 0 • view
💯... This indeed also apples to the supposed leader of the left in France, Mélenchon: supporting anything or anyone against the USA, etc.
aug 3, 2025, 8:04 am • 0 0 • view
The Inversionists demonstrate their approach to reality when their assumptions are challenged, like when they wrongly assert that Bellingcat only targets the enemies of Western imperialism.
aug 3, 2025, 8:21 am • 157 6 • view
Show them investigations into Israeli airstrikes in Gaza or Western-backed atrocities in Yemen, and they don’t reassess. They reinterpret it as performative, superficial, or just for cover. Every counterexample becomes evidence of manipulation.
aug 3, 2025, 8:22 am • 165 6 • view
This is how inversionism self-reinforces: evidence that contradicts the narrative is not absorbed, it’s reframed as proof of deeper conspiracy. It's not “maybe I was wrong”, it's “they’re more clever than I thought.”
aug 3, 2025, 8:22 am • 159 12 • view
Inversionists don’t trust in verification, transparency, or evidence. They trust in narrative loyalty. If a claim hurts the West, it’s credible. If it doesn’t serve that function, it’s dismissed, no matter how rigorous the evidence.
aug 3, 2025, 8:23 am • 156 9 • view
So when Bellingcat investigates Western allies, that’s not seen as holding power to account, it’s seen as a false flag of neutrality. A deception to protect the bigger project: Western hegemony. Evidence becomes theatre.
aug 3, 2025, 8:23 am • 132 6 • view
This isn’t principled critique. It’s epistemic insulation. It turns journalism into propaganda, NGOs into regime-change ops, and survivors into actors, if they contradict the inversionist worldview, they must be discredited.
aug 3, 2025, 8:23 am • 137 6 • view
That’s why they attack Bellingcat, Amnesty, HRW, OPCW, the White Helmets, Syrian witnesses, Uyghur survivors, Ukrainian civilians, anyone who testifies to crimes committed by regimes they’ve decided are on the “right side.”
aug 3, 2025, 8:24 am • 131 8 • view
They call it “skepticism,” but it’s selective faith. They reject satellite evidence, verified documents, forensic analysis, but will trust a vague tweet from a pro-Assad blogger if it fits the story.
aug 3, 2025, 8:24 am • 133 8 • view