The reason it's funny is cause :brace-cowboy: has featured in two of his videos now, and there's a chance he'll appear in the HBO series that's about to come out.
Brace going mainstream (even fringe mainstream) is the funniest timeline to me
Me in 2005: There's probably a respectable, polite way to explain leftist positions that will resonate with people. They just haven't heard it in the correct words yet.
Me in 2022: I hope PissPigGranddad, aka Da Gay Pussy Eater gets a show on HBO and talks about that time he took horse steroids in the butt
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I was indoctrinated into The Belden Program at their live show. Now I am rich and have lots of money. 10/10 would recommend.
Was just thinking about how long:joined-by-producer: 's intro set was
I bought tickets but was too tired from work to go :bawllin-sad:
Show was honestly mid overall (lots of self-referential humor), but they do have great stage presence and it was nice to see the trio in person, living out the edgy theater kid dream. They've just shifted from punk rock to punk-irony-poisoned-post-Maoist political comedy.
I wouldn’t be at all surprised if TrueAnon went mainstream. Covers a lot of topics that don’t get covered anywhere else and Brace & Liz are just the right combination of funny and informative, and in a way that I think would be appealing well beyond leftist circles. It’s probably the best overall podcast out right now imo.
Most recent episode or the one before that he literally, earnestly called himself a Maoist. He also alluded to a friend in the Philippines who he asked about armed political movements but wouldn't say anything more about her "organization". Like I would seriously bet money Brace has friends in the NPA. It would not exactly be outlandish. You listen to older commies and socialists and they will casually drop having acquaintances in Hezbollah or the FRELIMO
pretty sure he spent like 6 months doing "something" over there. he got an interview out of it but not sure what was going on for the other 5.9 mos. he seems like he's legit active in some real stuff in the world and too much of an asshole to just be some op.
He went with an international election oversight thingy, probably only legal way for him to enter the country. My guess is that that stuff just took a longer time to set up and then head there, etc. I assume you are on the organizations time so if they wanna go a month early (which iirc is closer to what it was) you do it.
most maoists are not aligned with the fkn shining path lmao they're just MLMs. I don't know why you'd say he could be an ML but somehow doubt MLM
Given how popular Joe Rogan is, I think covering these sorts of topics would make them more popular, not less. Like, I feel like I could easily recommend TrueAnon to Rogan-listening coworkers and they’d probably like it, whereas there’s no way I could do that with something like Rev Left Radio.
"Brace Belden - Combat Veteran" in the recent episode left me cackling like a mad woman, and I had to explain the joke to my friends.
my 50 year old coworkers and lib/chud cousins don't know what tf Rojava is, they know Channel 5
ISIS sure, but I would be surprised if these people knew what "Kurds" are, or even Syria tbh
That's for people who care about news, and even in that group I bet you'd find people who don't know what continent Syria is on
Fair nuff. Maybe if the jake gyllenhall project dropped then they would have
inb4 "Andrew bumped elbows with Azov" etc etc... we've talked about that like 4 times this week already
He'll have some legitimacy when they read is wikipedia page at some point, then
They were literally going to make a movie about Brace starring Jake Gyllenhall. He’s been mainstream
