• regul [any]
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      281 year ago

      In his most recent video (the Philly one), his main points are:

      • Tranq is killing people
      • Open drug use is used to open new neighborhoods to redevelopment. In the 80s and 90s it was done inside.
      • Property crime is often a reaction to gentrification and displacement
      • Unhoused women are particularly hard off

      The most right-wing point he makes is when he lets users and locals say they wish they would be arrested so they could get clean. But he ties this in to his point about property development.

    • @Great_Leader_Is_Dead@hexbear.netOP
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      111 year ago

      This seems more like a neocon pivot, which he seemed to be making BEFORE the allegations.

      Kinda makes Brace’s association with him a bit sus.

      • happybadger [he/him]
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        211 year ago

        I wouldn’t consider it a sus association so much as it was just the zeitgeist of 2020. He was the only notable gonzo journalist covering the gatherings the left was interested in but wouldn’t attend ourselves. It’s an ecological niche that still hasn’t been filled well and the podcasts that featured him still don’t do street interviews for the most part.

        • @Great_Leader_Is_Dead@hexbear.netOP
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          151 year ago

          Yeah I generally just write it off as “Brace wanted to go on a road trip where he gets to interview weirdos and didn’t realize the guy he was riding with was a sex pest neocon.”

  • privatized_sun [none/use name]
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    191 year ago

    https://redsails.org/on-anthony-bourdain/

    a celebrity is “only” an A- or B-lister, until they are inspired to put aside childish things, as Obama said during his inauguration, quoting scripture. This celebrity then throws themselves into the world of humanitarian-branded, progressive-looking activism, generally three-letter State Department-connected NGOs which have been described more accurately as “the human rights-imperialism racket.” This celebrity then transcends mere stardom and becomes someone to whom we should look for not only entertainment, but moral and political guidance.

    every micro-celeb is a wannabee imperialist propagandist

    • @Great_Leader_Is_Dead@hexbear.netOP
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      111 year ago

      Robert Skvarla

      Idk who this guy is, I’m not really a regular trueanon listener so I’m not really totally 100% up on Brace’s views but he seems to be pretty in line with us lot in terms of foreign policy from what I do know of him. So I do think some of his past associations are weird, like I get the feel the ML/Maoist/whatever you want to call this collective sector of the left, has soured on the YPG due to their collaboration with the USA but everyone seems to have literally forgotten that Brace fought with them.

      • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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        Idk who this guy is

        He’s not a big name he currently writes for Geopolitical Economy Report, Ben Norton’s current project

        I’m not really totally 100% up on Brace’s views but he seems to be pretty in line with us lot in terms of foreign policy from what I do know of him.

        Probably more specifically the News mega crowd than the general HB population

        like I get the feel the ML/Maoist/whatever you want to call this collective sector of the left, has soured on the YPG due to their collaboration with the USA but everyone seems to have literally forgotten that Brace fought with them.

        Shrugs When was the last time the YPG discourse was in the western left media zeitgeist? I mean it’s not like his involvement was swept under a rug he talks about it on pod, and there’s like Rolling Stones articles about it and shit. That’s just one of those things where western leftists only talk about it when it’s rhetorically useful in the moment. Also I think TrueAnon/Brace has more purchase with Normies than Maoists.

        • @Great_Leader_Is_Dead@hexbear.netOP
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          81 year ago

          News mega

          News mega?

          Also I think TrueAnon/Brace has more purchase with Normies than Maoists.

          Every TA fan I’ve meet either online or irl was a massive “tankie” (for lack of a better descriptor). The subreddit for the pod is probably more militant than HB.

            • @Great_Leader_Is_Dead@hexbear.netOP
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              61 year ago

              I wasn’t really trying to single out Maoists, more just meant the whole internet culture were a part of, the “non-anarchist leftists in the imperial core who are generally pro-AES states”.

    • @Great_Leader_Is_Dead@hexbear.netOP
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      51 year ago

      I am just realizing now you may have thought I meant “why is Skvarla still posting”

      Bad title wording on my part. I was more expressing surprise that Andrew Callaghan was still posting stuff cuz… well everything.

      • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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        No, no I understood you fine! no need to be hard on yourself for this.

        stalin-approval

        I posted what I did in case anyone didn’t know who Skvarla was, kind of in anticipation of the conversation around Brace’s affiliation with Andrew from Channel 5. I think it changes the tone of that conversation when this tweet is posted by a TA correspondent / published writer and not a twitter rando.

    • voight [he/him, any]
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      21 year ago

      I have bad news about Popular Front and Channel Five’s honest heartfelt interest in the struggles of the Ukrainian people.