I doubt I’ll get many actual answers, but without doxing yourself, did you volunteer in any antifascist group abroad, or did you consider it?

If so, how did it go?

I’m asking because I know there are still places with important antifascist volunteer presence (Rojava, Myanmar…), and I thought maybe there’s a fringe chance any of you has gone there.

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    Yeah I was in Iraq and Syria with kurds for almost 2 years beginning in late 2014 (just checked some records to confirm). It sucked, everyone was great for the most part and there’s still a lot of people I worry about but they’re also caught in the middle of disputes over oil and pipeline control and getting armed not too dissimilarly from ISIL/ISUS.

    https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/d0bbf518-480e-4b96-8563-d8dfb2cc8fe4.jpeg

    I was literally suicidal and just couldn’t do it myself so I figured I’d go get myself killed there. Now I’m ok. Just stay in the imperial core and be ready/try to mobilize there safely.

    And I can’t substantiate this at all but Israeli medical professionals were stopped on at least two occasions I was aware of leaving areas where ISIS guys got rounded up days later with recent medical aid having been rendered to them.

    I primarily did forensics on dead ISIS guys’ phones. Matched photos with geographic features/GIS data, sat in their group chats, etc. But I also got shot.

    Most cool thing happened north of Musil, on the way back to the center of a town we were staying in. A puppy ran right up to us and I thought it looked a little too much like a wolf. Sure enough the mom was staring at us with her grey wolf puppy from 20m away and as soon as I saw her we retreated and took a longer route.