https://mobile.twitter.com/eshaLegal/status/1470533497253240839

Look ma! I got pinned to the front page! I'm Hexbear famous now!

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    I dug up the source of this and there is no joke context, he is admitting to having been a snitch and informant. He frames it around every org being filled with them and that "an org isn't necessarily run by feds just because it has feds in it"(paraphrased), he directly references how the Black Panthers were still a legit org despite also having informants in them that got Fred killed.

    He is legitimately admitting to being an informant.

    This is the timestamp for when he says it 2:24:04

    Broader context of why he says it begins here in my opinion at 2:21:11

    I made one of these clip things with this site but who knows whether Hashcut will disappear in future, someone should make a proper clip of this same context-included section. I might but god I have to download a 3 hour video to do it... (edit: Alright I'm doing it just need to render, will take 20 mins or so)

    If you continue watching afterwards, it is never addressed further.

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        It took about 90 minutes but doesn't seem to have been wasted time. It's a damning moment.

          • Awoo [she/her]
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            3 years ago

            I don't see a dry delivered joke at all? But could be because I'm British and we do it as better as it's a national pasttime. He's explaining to his chat that he has done things that are informant stuff. The best I can come up with here is it's intentional planned trolling but it seems like the kind of thing you'd realise beforehand is a bad idea to joke about because nobody jokes about being a fed when they are legitimately under scrutiny for being a possible fed. It just muddies the water and gives people reason to be even more sceptical of you.

    • REallyN [she/her,they/them]
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      3 years ago

      eh, it still comes off as a joke to me if I am being honest, despite how shitty vaushes comedic timing and such is, idk if it's because I used to watch him 2 year ago and occasionally hate-watch a video now, but when he takes on a certain tone like he does when he says "I am in informant" I can just kind of tell.
      esspecially when someone in the chat continues it with "cia caush confirmed" or whatever, it's clearly a community joke because leftists criticize him for being a liberal.

      edit: tbh there is a decent likelyhood vaush is some kind of fed or sellout of some kind, but I don't think this is him admitting it here.