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Bob From Brockley 🥤 Profile picture
@bobfrombrockley
Jul 8, 2021 • 19 tweets • 9 min read • Read on X
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I’ve always been confused about why there’s a section of the “left” who think The American Conservative is good actually.

(Examples after the fold.)
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Oh of course @fash_busters got there before me. (HT @tempehlover)
I totally missed the fact that @aaronjmate, on the Grayzone YouTube channel, recently had a fawning interview with Douglas Macgregor, a right-wing American Conservative contributor, to promote Russia’s angle on the Ukraine crisis. See below for some of Macgregor’s greatest hits. ImageImage
Macgregor was nominated by Trump as ambassador to Germany, appointed by the Donald to the Westpoint Academy board, and was a senior official in Trump's Department of Defense, where he was tasked with the US withdrawal from Afghanistan… Image
He pushes white genocide conspiracy theory, saying of Biden’s immigration policies: “they have to bring in as many non-Europeans as possible in order to outnumber the numbers of Americans of European ancestry who live in the US… a deliberate policy to enact demographic change." ImageImage
As well as supporting Putin’s geopolitical ambitions and loads of xenophobic rants about Mexico, Aaron Maté’s guest Douglas Macgregor has a long record of pretty horrific Islamophobia. cnn.com/2021/05/27/pol…
Check out this thread about Macgregor’s AmCon conspiracy fantasies:
And my replies for a whole lot of Aaron Maté’s guest’s racism against African-Americans, Muslims and Mexicans. He said Mexicans on the border should just be shot.
I mean Grayzone was originally supposed to be about combating Islamophobia but they’ve long since embraced anti-Muslim bigotry with wide open arms.
And I hadn’t noticed that the guest on the next issue of Aaron Maté’s show on the Grayzone channel, last week, was Tim Anderson. Ostensibly a left-winger, Anderson has form for hanging out with Nazis…

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Here’s Aaron’s guest Tim Anderson addressing the fascist Leura Forum in 2017 (video via Anti Fascist Action Sydney)

And here’s the context from @slackbastard slackbastard.anarchobase.com/?p=41566

I wonder how @DrGaborMate feels about this
Grayzone just can’t stop platforminb fascist. Next up an AfD activist Is going to “school” us on why Ukraine deserves whatever Russia unleashes on it.
Grayzone try not not to platform fascists for five minutes challenge, continued
Grayzone try not not to platform fascists for five minutes challenge, continued louisproyect.org/2020/05/12/the…

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Aug 10, 2024
1/x A thread on “Tommy Robinson”, the riots and “Zionism”, covering Yaxley-Lennon’s funding, his relationship to Zionism and his role in the riots. I’ll try not to make it too long this time…

A. Who funds “Tommy Robinson”?

Some fringe anti-Zionist influencers (many of whom work for Iranian state media and/or are deeply antisemitic), such as David Miller, Lowkey, Richard Medhurst, Nick Fuentes, Anas Altikriti, have blamed the riots on Israel/Zionism…


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…It’s true that in the 2010s Robinson was connected to and funded (in the 10s of $1000s) by a US-centred network of counter-jihadi donors and thinktanks who were aggressively pro-Israel and linked to the Israeli right… theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/d…
timesofisrael.com/why-are-us-pro…
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Nov 15, 2023
So, "Tommy Robinson" (real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon) has called for his followers to join a march against antisemitism, to a resoundingly negative response from the organisers and the mainstream Jewish community. Quick thread on him and his supporters... Image
"Tommy Robinson" (real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon) joined the fascist British National Party (BNP) in 2004 age 20, stayed for a year. In this pic he's with Holocaust denier Richard Edmonds (convicted of racist violence in the 1990s). But was this just some youthful thing? Image
In 2012, Yaxley-Lennon became the deputy leader of the British Freedom Party, which was led by disgruntled BNP members and advocated "cultural nationalism". Its logo echoes (L) echoes that of Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists (R)
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Oct 23, 2023
I only just realised this “#OctoberDeclaration” against antisemitism comes from Allison Pearson and Laura Dodsworth. IMHO those two are racists conspiracy-mongers nobody should go near. Some examples:
1/ Laura Dodsworth’s book _State of Fear_ (endorsed by the likes of GBNews presenter Neil Oliver) draws heavily on the discredited work of 911 truther and full-time atrocity denialist Piers Robinson. See @DAaronovitch: archive.is/https://www.th…
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2/ Dodsworth is also close to Max Blumenthal, another professional atrocity denier and disinfo entrepreneur.

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Sep 16, 2023
Unsurprisingly, all the worst people are defending Russell Brand. For posterity, here’s a few:

[1/2] Lozza Fox, Ian Miles Cheong, Calvin Robinson, Bev Turner (GBNews)…


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2/2 “SyriaGirl”, Anya Pamparil (Grayzone), Aseem Malhotra, Media Lens…


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Missed one:
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Aug 23, 2023
On Friday, a California storekeeper, Laura Ann Carlton, was shot dead for flying a Pride flag. The killer has been named as Travis Ikeguchi. The son of a Florida state trooper, he was a Christian fascist radicalised online...

amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/a…

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He was a prolific re/tweeter: I just looked through 3 months of his output. As well as Christian fundamentalism and a tsunami of homophobia + transphobia, there’s a wide range of conspiracy theories, linking mainstream conservative anti-LGBT culture wars with fascist terror…
At the heart of his cosmology is a set of hate figures he identified as the globalist elite or the Illuminati — Gates, Soros, Schwab, Fauci, the World Economic Forum. These are shared obsessions with QAnon, anti-vaxxers and those who follow the “Great Reset” conspiracy theory.


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Aug 17, 2023
Inspiring general strike in Al-Suwayda, Syria, including by shopkeepers and public sector workers. Slogans call for dignity and reject the house of Assad.
In an effort to contain protest, yesterday Syria’s dictator Assad doubled state salaries (they’re now just 8% of an average family’s cost of living). Seven minutes later he raised the price of diesel by 300% and gasoline by 170%.
Mass protests across southern Syria, especially Daraa, after Friday prayers last night, demanding the fall of the House of Assad and decent living conditions. (Political liberty and social struggles are intertwined under a warlord kleptocracy.)
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