• dead [he/him]@hexbear.netOP
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    I saw this video posted multiple places and I’m still confused on why Hinkle is invited to speak to large international audiences. Reddit titled this video as a “Houthi rally”. The watermark logo on the video is Al-Masirah news channel.

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        Ansarallah have plenty of leaders, they’re just not going to make public appearances during a US air campaign, they don’t want to get tracked down afterwards and die. The most that happened was Brigadier General Yaha Sare’e greeting the foreign delegation inside a building. Abdul-Malik al-Houthi (the leader of the movement) gives daily televised speeches on the state TV channel as far as I can tell, at least he did for all of Ramadan.

        This was from the part of the “million man march” where they let a representative from each country of the foreign delegation that was present, give a small speech. The USA’s representative was Hinkle.

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          i believe proletariandictator meant the western left has no leaders, not ansarallah. hence our enemies have given us hinkle

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            That doesn’t really make sense when you consider that Hinkle has ties to Tulsi Gabbard, who is Donald Trump’s appointed Director of National Intelligence.

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              WDYM? That’s what ProletarianDictator meant: the Western left has no leaders, so our enemies (the natsec ghouls) nominated them in our stead.

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                The western left has no leaders but Jackson Hinkle is reactionary at face value. All of his beliefs are reactionary and contradictory. He likes Trump but also claims to hate Netanyahu while Trump is aiding Netanyahu. I would think that organizations around the world would see contradictions on the surface level. It’s like inviting a clown to speak at your event. You can tell it’s a clown by the clown costume.

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                  And yet, he’s invited to Lebanon and Yemen by the resistance. Either arabs are fooled by the smooth talking white man, or there’s a void in the internationalist anti-imperialist US-based left that is filled by state agents

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                  Yeah, true, but he’s an easy punching bag as a result and he has a ridiculous amount of press/influence which reflects poorly on the actual left because we don’t have anyone to tell the masses that that’s not what we believe.

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      His twitter fame over gaza has given him a lot of friends in the Arab/muslim world, especially among the conservative types that don’t care about his infatuation with fashy rhetoric.