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I don’t know anything about Brace, but I do know this Gwen Snyder person has a history of being unfairly antagonistic to anything related to Chapo
you should probably ignore anything coming out of gwen snyder's mouth
Snyder is a notoriously toxic Twitter crank who IIRC is near-universally despised by lefties who hang out on that site. Her whole shtick seems to be maliciously smearing any public socialist media figure who she doesn't like for whatever reason. Some people have called her a fed but idk, people call everything an op. She shouldn't be posted here as any kind of credible source on anything.
Don't have receipts on hand for this and don't care to dig for them. There's a reason I dewormed my brain by deleting Twitter. But what I'm saying is being corroborated by a lot of other comments in this thread.
Reminder Gwen pretended neo-nazis threw a brick through her window when her neighbours saw her do it herself.
Don’t have receipts on hand for this and don’t care to dig for them.
I posted in the other Brace-adjacent thread a link to one of Gwen's infamous "Chapo-to-Fash Pipeline" tweet threads
https://hexbear.net/post/161916/comment/1986187
Everyone is welcome to reach their own conclusions, but I will reiterate that Gwen's twitter account is not something you should be basing any analysis off of.
I've never heard people unironically calling Brace CIA before, although the spectre of it has been around forever. What evidence exists? I understand how you can criticize his military history but I don't have any frame of reference for what a CIA-run conspiracy podcast looks like, I only listen to like 3 pods
Yeah I was gonna say, if the thing that sticks out to you the most is literally the opposite of the truth, and been thoroughly explained by Brace, the shitload of other volunteers, and the government itself. Unless every US volunteer fighter is a fed, but somehow NOT the UK ones who did get arrested entering back into the country as the YPG is on their list, then it makes no sense to assume Brace is CIA.
To the people talking about airstrikes, pretty sure his unit didn't call it in, but more than that, the Kurds had been openly coordinating with the US. That's like saying Stalin was CIA, because he got trucks shipped to him by FDR, and got intel from allied nations. This was during the liberation of Raqqa, the big setpiece of the war. It is not some shady or suspect thing for the YPG, part of a coalition force, to get air support from the US during a joint attack. Or should the Kurds have refused air support for this offensive as to keep their purity in our debates?
I am not saying this applies to you specifically, but i think a lot of leftists go extra in critiquing Rojava, while valid and I have plenty of critiques of my own, because they see this direct militant action occurring, with fellow leftists going over and fighting and dying in what feels almost like a fantasy and they need to excuse themselves. There is nothing wrong with not volunteering, but i think people do have some level of an inferiority complex over the volunteers. It is where I think "purity politics" actually does exist, not in condemnation or critique of party decisions, but in distrusting individuals from the get-go on some level due to self-doubt. I catch myself feeling like this with DSA a bunch, we on some level want the more extraordinary examples to be adventurism, because even if we know there is no shame in not doing the same as them, part of us does resent them. We need a narrative to not just accept what we did or did not do, but to justify ourselves as the truer and better leftists.
Criticize Brace all you want, I just think from my own weaknesses, that we easily project a lot onto people.
Ok yeah I see where you're coming from. Had no idea the org was designated a terror organization, I assumed it wasn't considering the US's support for the Kurds in the past. Perhaps it's only been designated as a favor to Turkey and they don't care because he's relatively high profile and was fighting ISIS? Hard to say, I'll keep it in mind
i've listened to warkrime it's so obviously a punk parody band it hurts me
Are you literally posting for confirmation on some BS twitter drama some known :brainworms: haver said?
Brace also has talked about his band, and iirc doing an album cover with a swastika and being embarrassed about how stupid the parody of skinheads that they were going for was. Keep in mind this kind of irony-poisoned shit was the norm for punk in the early 2000s, and brace was a teenager.
He literally didnt brag about pissing on a corpse, he admitted to accidentally doing that when expressing how intense the destruction of airstrikes are. As for war-tourism, a yes that's the term for accepting a general request for help to literally fight ISIS. I swear the same folks who fetishize the spanish civil war, are also the people who find assisting the third world to be evil
