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Uncritical support for Ben Norton against the LaRouchite cranks at The Grayzone (like Max Blumenthal). (twitter.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Pluto@hexbear.net to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml

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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/766438

Some of the replies and reposts have me chuckling.

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[–] GrainEater@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think they're talking about Norton's takeover (assuming Blumenthal is telling the truth) of their shared Patreon and social media accounts

[–] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This sounds to me like a personal business dispute that should not be aired out in public. Even if this is all true, and i would want to hear Ben's side of the story too before making up my mind, it's also not as if Blumenthal was financially crippled by Norton leaving with perhaps a somewhat bigger share than he was owed. Blumenthal still has a big and decently funded media organization at his disposal with the Grayzone whereas Norton is now presumably on his own.

[–] GrainEater@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 1 year ago

agreed, and I think cornering him on a bus like that was a scummy move

[–] luchuan@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

MR YouTube channel is still up https://youtube.com/@ModerateRebels

But it looks like Multipolarista has a reeupload of its debut video, presumably from when the MR YouTube channel was briefly rebranded. https://youtu.be/zJy0VXn-wN0?si=uD5HgcU-GAHRNN1P

It looks like Ben is correct here, there was a settlement regarding the channel and they've parted ways and Max owns the MR content produced under the Greyzone label. Not really sure what a settled dispute has to do with Ben's move to China or why publicly meltdown about it now.

[–] ProxyTheAwesome@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

Not really sure what a settled dispute has to do with Ben's move to China or why publicly meltdown about it now.

Max can't legally force Ben to do anything while Ben is in China, since China likely won't enforce Western judgments about password control of a patreon or whatever. He was likely hoping to take Ben down legally and then Ben moved outside the reach of the law, so now he's trying to publicly smear him

[–] TankieReplyBot@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 year ago

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