all they know is horny on main, twitter bad takes, reddit screenshot, be ironic, start struggle session, and lie.

  • No_Values [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    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?

        • badbackjack [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          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?

                • badbackjack [none/use name]
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                  4 years ago

                  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?

                  • No_Values [none/use name]
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                    4 years ago

                    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

                      • No_Values [none/use name]
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                        4 years ago

                        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

      • No_Values [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        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

        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.