Our daily bread

"The Grayzone" is an extreme left-wing site (almost Stalinistic) with a range of political positions I hotly disagree with. To be put it somewhat mildly. Still, Max Blumenthal´s article on BreadTube is nevertheless interesting. 

Blumenthal and his co-writer Kit Klarenberg argue that a clique of British-employed disinfo operatives who previously promoted the Islamist rebels in Syria (who are supported by certain Western factions) have now been weaponized by the UK government through various front groups to counter...COVID restriction critics! 

Note that many of the people involved claim to be leftists (think "decent left" or something like that) and belong to a social media network known as BreadTube. The BreadTubers are especially interested in attacking anti-lockdown and vaccine-skeptical leftists such as Jimmy Dore and, I suppose, Blumenthal himself. The uncritical support from many on the left to the COVID restrictions - including the most crazy ones - have baffled me for two years now. Why would the left support locking down the entire working class, smashing the economy of the Global South, and forcing Third World immigrants to take vaccines astroturfed by Donald Trump? 

The article linked below reveals an aspect of the situation I wasn´t aware of before. The lockdown leftists are quite literally getting paid by Boris Johnson´s Tory government! Or at the very least by structures associated with the UK government bureaucracy (whoever is in government at the moment). BreadTube are getting their daily bread from "imperialists" and "capitalists" they pretend to be fighting...    

"Leaked files expose Syria psyops veteran astroturfing BreadTube star to counter COVID restriction critics"