I haven't noticed anything with Garand Thumb, since his videos are almost exclusively about firearms. One was in regard to escape and evasion, on which he passed along elements from his SERE training. In a couple of the others I've watched about other topics, you can tell he's a bit out of his element. It's like he's passing along "things he's heard along the way".
However...
YouTube is indeed chock full of these ex-operator types. I started watching them hoping for some first-hand insight into the underlying political situations. That's how I figured out they were all ex-special forces operators and current psychological operators.
They hook impressionable young men with the bang-bang stuff, then feed them the bullshit politics and history. That's the operation: they come for the black ops and stay for the propaganda.
I came at it from exactly the opposite direction. Their politics and history were so far off that it was not possible that it was a mistake or differing point of view. There's virtually no possibility their audience of wannabes and never wases would be aware of that. It was all so sickening I stopped watching such videos completely.
Not that I've gone out of my way to look up their material, but if someone had an interest in these unconventional warfare types of topics, I'd suggest Craig "Sawman" Sawyer and Eric Prince. That's why one of them is familiar to very few, and the other is known by all as a Horrible Person and (worse) Friend of Donald Trump.
I generally agree. What I see, is that their politics seems to be all 2nd Amendment and they stop at that. Having guns, while great, is actually a step lower on the hierarchy under clean elections and kicking out migrants and such things, but that's just me.
As for Grand Thumb, I think he's found Jesus lately, and he's telling people to read the Bible at the end the video I linked too here.
Checking out the comments I don't see much to indicate this (like someone saying "but what about X"), but YouTube allows you to delete comments though.
I still watch Garand Thumb but I lost a lot of respect for him after he brought in Israelis and Ukrainians to "share their experiences." That said I don't think he's purposely leaving out stuff. I have thermal, and the tips he gave in that video are legit. Obviously you're not going to be a SERE specialist after watching a few 45 min YouTube videos, but his becoming deadly in the mountains videos are pretty solid.
He got ratioed hard in those too. 74k up, 14k down on the Israeli one. I think the dislike button is still disabled for normies too, so those are just the people using Vanced that could dislike it. Most of his other videos with about the same amount of views have less than 100 dislikes.
I haven't noticed anything with Garand Thumb, since his videos are almost exclusively about firearms. One was in regard to escape and evasion, on which he passed along elements from his SERE training. In a couple of the others I've watched about other topics, you can tell he's a bit out of his element. It's like he's passing along "things he's heard along the way".
However...
YouTube is indeed chock full of these ex-operator types. I started watching them hoping for some first-hand insight into the underlying political situations. That's how I figured out they were all ex-special forces operators and current psychological operators.
They hook impressionable young men with the bang-bang stuff, then feed them the bullshit politics and history. That's the operation: they come for the black ops and stay for the propaganda.
I came at it from exactly the opposite direction. Their politics and history were so far off that it was not possible that it was a mistake or differing point of view. There's virtually no possibility their audience of wannabes and never wases would be aware of that. It was all so sickening I stopped watching such videos completely.
Not that I've gone out of my way to look up their material, but if someone had an interest in these unconventional warfare types of topics, I'd suggest Craig "Sawman" Sawyer and Eric Prince. That's why one of them is familiar to very few, and the other is known by all as a Horrible Person and (worse) Friend of Donald Trump.
I generally agree. What I see, is that their politics seems to be all 2nd Amendment and they stop at that. Having guns, while great, is actually a step lower on the hierarchy under clean elections and kicking out migrants and such things, but that's just me.
As for Grand Thumb, I think he's found Jesus lately, and he's telling people to read the Bible at the end the video I linked too here.
G Thumb is legit. He is in the Military still I believe. Others are clearly alphabets, like Shawn Ryan, Goggins.
There’s a quote by an old CIA director that was something like “we own 90% of the talking heads on TV”.
I wouldn't be surprised if key information is omitted or even bad information inserted
Checking out the comments I don't see much to indicate this (like someone saying "but what about X"), but YouTube allows you to delete comments though.
I still watch Garand Thumb but I lost a lot of respect for him after he brought in Israelis and Ukrainians to "share their experiences." That said I don't think he's purposely leaving out stuff. I have thermal, and the tips he gave in that video are legit. Obviously you're not going to be a SERE specialist after watching a few 45 min YouTube videos, but his becoming deadly in the mountains videos are pretty solid.
The having the kikes and Ukrainians really turned me off to him too.
He got ratioed hard in those too. 74k up, 14k down on the Israeli one. I think the dislike button is still disabled for normies too, so those are just the people using Vanced that could dislike it. Most of his other videos with about the same amount of views have less than 100 dislikes.