Contrapoints genuinely influenced my awareness of trans and enby people and their struggle. It created a basic understanding and empathy on which I could build and learn about my comrades and why their fight is mine and vice versa.
Not trying to defend Twitter drama or some "Vote! UwU" takes, but media matters. People go beyond their radicalisation sources all the time.
Of course, you must kill your heroes. There is no point in tying your convictions to an individual, flawed person. But to say "Nothing they do matters" is needlessly blackpilled.
the actual pictures of the report is at the bottom a some stupid scroll thing
thats the brace releveant part of the article
The first individual mentioned in the intelligence report, Brace Belden, cohosts the popular left-wing podcast TrueAnon, and fought with the YPG in 2016. The information appears to be partly drawn from a 2017 article on Belden in Rolling Stone. Belden is described as “a minor criminal and drug addict who started reading Marx and Lenin in drug rehabilitation treatment and became involved in a number of political causes before deciding to fight alongside the YPG.”
The report goes on to describe an encounter between Belden and border authorities.
U.S. citizen (USC) Brace BELDEN was encountered on 08 April 2017, arriving in San Francisco, California from Frankfurt, Germany. BELDEN was returning from a six month tour of volunteering to fight with the YPG under the umbrella of the Syrian Democrat Forces (SDF) fighting ISIS in Syria as part of the ongoing Raqqa offensive starting in November 2016 to retake Raqqa from ISIS. BELDEN stated he recently learned that an open source article had been written about him and his “Anarchist” fighters.
Belden scoffed at the association. “I am not now nor have I ever been a member of any antifa organization,” he told The Nation. “The US government has been spying on and smearing communists for 100 years, but they usually have the decency not to call a Red an anarchist!”
“There appears to be a clear connection…between ANTIFA ideology and Kurdish democratic federalism teachings and ideology,” the intelligence report states. At least one of the activists listed is described as being ethnically Kurdish.
Probably. I'm still tripping on the fact that Belden's dad was a big shot at Pacifica Radio. I spent a lot of time listening to their conspiracy stuff. Wonder why Brace never mentions it. Makes it seem like too much of a family business?
He did mention his dad was journalist in the latest ep, and he has mention he comes from a 'upper-middle class' upbringing a few time iirc, but I guess he could bring it up more if there was context for it
Did you happen to catch the recent trueanon episode 'brat camp'? about wilderness 'schools' for troubled kids, him recounting his personal experience with them gave me a lot more empathy for the guy
He may be an assets he may not, but at the end of the day he puts out decent content and is turning people towards the left imo, I like the guy
Fair, just consider it entertainment rather than serious political commentary and take everything with a grain of salt and don't bother obsessing which media figures may or may not be assest
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Contrapoints genuinely influenced my awareness of trans and enby people and their struggle. It created a basic understanding and empathy on which I could build and learn about my comrades and why their fight is mine and vice versa.
Not trying to defend Twitter drama or some "Vote! UwU" takes, but media matters. People go beyond their radicalisation sources all the time.
Of course, you must kill your heroes. There is no point in tying your convictions to an individual, flawed person. But to say "Nothing they do matters" is needlessly blackpilled.
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Brace also literally fought with the YPG
The kurds are the playtoys of intelligence agencies. Your boy's a fed.
True enough, but understand it's a survival thing for the people in there I'm not a fan of kurds being ethnically cleansed
Yeah he's probably an asset, you have to suspect anyone that has a large audience
Yeah I enjoy Brace and TrueAnon, but you gotta wonder how the fuck he got back into the US as a seemingly free man after that.
Yeah in my country the arrested all the returning volunteers,
did you see that weird freelance intelligence thing on Brace and a couple of others guys a while back? any thoughts? limited hangout?
I did not. Link?
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/dhs-antifa-syria
the actual pictures of the report is at the bottom a some stupid scroll thing
thats the brace releveant part of the article
gimme a sec
This is a good one.
Aw hell yeah! Burnish them creds.
Liz a polish crypto-fascist? or a handler?
Not sure, but didn't she used to be a backup dancer for the Mighty Mighty Bosstones and a writer for a somewhat well known site?
breitbart
Seriously?
Does a podcaster do dead-drops in the woods?
Probably. I'm still tripping on the fact that Belden's dad was a big shot at Pacifica Radio. I spent a lot of time listening to their conspiracy stuff. Wonder why Brace never mentions it. Makes it seem like too much of a family business?
He did mention his dad was journalist in the latest ep, and he has mention he comes from a 'upper-middle class' upbringing a few time iirc, but I guess he could bring it up more if there was context for it
Did you happen to catch the recent trueanon episode 'brat camp'? about wilderness 'schools' for troubled kids, him recounting his personal experience with them gave me a lot more empathy for the guy
He may be an assets he may not, but at the end of the day he puts out decent content and is turning people towards the left imo, I like the guy
I'm gonna go with "Never trust a spook."
Fair, just consider it entertainment rather than serious political commentary and take everything with a grain of salt and don't bother obsessing which media figures may or may not be assest
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