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[-] spectre@hexbear.net 20 points 1 week ago

"Vote blue no matter who" means exactly what it says.

His stance is "vote blue for these socdems (or socdem+'s) or I don't care either way". He literally got into the media cycles saying "I will not vote Gavin Newsom for president".

It is totally fine to have skepticism of his tactics, rhetoric, positions, or behavior, but "vote blue no matter who" demonstrably does not apply.


That said, it doesn't bother me because Hasan is a media figure, not a political leader. It is up to us as on the ground political operative to provide leadership in our orgs and communities and "play off" of his growing presence in the political sphere and steer people in a better direction, since his platform is larger than ours. I firmly believe that denouncing him in front of liberals or reactionaries does not suit this purposes in most cases, and constitutes an unforced error in rhetoric.

Even in this thread you can see reports of how hasanabi heads are ripe for becoming effective comrades in the western left wing movement. I agree with you that he plays around with Democratic party electoral politics more than I would like, but also that is what gives him.his platform, and it is comedy gold as more people have a meltdown over his takes (since most of them align with hexbear). Same goes for Mamdani, sieze the moment and guide people farther along!

[-] CommieKhinkali@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 1 week ago

i mean hey, i did say i agree with most of what he says. i became a communist because i started watching him in like 2022 and i am grateful for that. but overtime he has toned down his "radical rhetoric". saying that he would not for gavin is great but half the libs also dont like gavin so idk. i mean if youre supporting platner after all the info thats been leaked about him, youre basically vote blue no matter who in my eyes. also does he promote any further left streamers or video creators on his streams? i havent seen it when i watched him. instead of watching him its better to sit and read news from the intercept or dropsite or counterpunch or any other socialist/communist outlet

[-] spectre@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

Fair enough! o7

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