LateMechanic
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LateMechanic
17d ago
Were you aware that this youtuber has been going around anywhere & everywhere relevant for at least a year now? He went to greenland, panama, LA, portland, DC, utah, etc., and posted his man-on-the-street interviews & footage from it all (often livestreamed before editing down to the relevant punchy parts). This wasn't like a james o'keefe style designed hit out of nowhere. Most of your comments seem to make more sense if you're missing the context of this guy's stuff.
Well the point is that I don't think O'Keefe ever posted anything if it didn't further his political aims. If he didn't successfully get anyone to drunkenly try to brag about doing something politically untoward, we just wouldn't hear about it. Nick Shirley apparently just goes everywhere following whatever is in the recent news, and adds some ground-level footage of it, regardless of what anyone had to say, rather than creating the story itself. I watched his greenland, panama, LA/portland ICE, and no kings protests videos, which were fairly boring but seemed to give a pretty real perspective.
I just think there's a huge difference between "fbi to investigate further after viral video by nick shirley" vs "fbi to investigate further after viral video by james o'keefe". Which is that the former is like "duh, that's what you could have known the whole time", while the latter is more like a laura loomer style politically-targeted push.
But I would forgive anyone for not knowing the context of any of these people. As for you being a fan of O'Keefe's style and actually knowing more about Shirley than me (didn't know of him going to ukraine over a year ago), I guess I just totally misread your angle here.
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