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      Brace Belden went to Syria to fight for rojava which ended up just being a trojan horse for US occupation of Syria. I used to enjoy True Anon, until east is a podcast pointed this out. Then it got tougher to listen to.

      Edit, apologies: let me add the context:

      war is hell pt 1

      war is hell pt 2

      I think it comes up towards the beginning of pt 2.

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        Does he still hold that that action was right? That war was complicated, it would have been reasonable to have been confused at the time.

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          Yeah, I remember a trueanon patreon ep where he brought on a guest that wrote the article or whatever that convinced him to go. In the comment section someone pointed out that this made him an imperialist and especially one on a weak whim and he brushed it off and got defensive.

          You can tell by my comment that I was literally a paid patreon subscriber, so it’s not like I was looking for reasons to dislike the pod or whatever. There are still eps I listen to, but def not a paid subscriber. I don’t look for reasons to dismiss anyone, but sometimes that’s where things end up.