The dude who consistently opposes the use of the word "tankie" and considers us good for the left is probably gonna have some good positions underneath what he does to be popular.

it's making a lot of libs mad too, which is funny, cause i thought this was a democracy

He also didn't endorse Kamala (though he admitted months later that he did vote for her)

I think he would've endorsed her with even a promise of a crumb of decent policy, but alas, she had nothing to offer.

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Whether or not you agree with his positions or approach, he has been very consistent. I think this is overall a good thing. He does hear people to his left, he isn't ignorant, and he even platforms those viewpoints to his audience when he interacts or denounces them.

He's a decent indication for the political climate in the idk what to call them, I guess, Leftist spaces with Anti-Capitalist sentiment. His goals seem to be to grow as much as possible, while maintaining a outwards facing anti-imperialist persona. It's most likely genuine.

His main flaws, from what I've seen, is he's not well educated on Marxism besides the foundational texts and whatever he watches on stream or learns from his friends. But then again I'm not in his position idk how much room he has to move. From what I've heard of him he wants to serve as an entry point for the lumpenproletariat Americans who then get radicalized further.

Of course the elephant in the room here and the big question is: Who is this 3rd space people are supposed to be moving towards in the radicalization pipeline? PSL? All of this radicalization will have been for naught when a populist can just sweep up the chaos, with appealing messages.

I hope this doesn't start a struggle session, but I don't really understand this instances thing against posting Hasan stuff.

I see him as just sort of there. He's not like, massively annoying and as far as I know there are worse streamers out there.

Is it just because streamer slop is super online and annoying or did he do something shitty I don't know about? Don't really follow him outside of the occasional clip.

Our big wet apolitical streamer; Hank Pecker

Hasan has always been pro-Marxist despite his entryist presentation, too many people were simply negatively primed by the destiny led hate campaign and admitting they were misled is too much for some egos

I was surprised by his answer. Probably part of the reason why he’s now openly saying he wouldn’t vote for gavin is because he wants dems to understand that their only option for winning the election is to move to the left, and not already make them feel safe with going for Newson so early on.

I’m annoyed that I’m already confronted with this endlessly frustrating discussion but I suppose it’s good that Hasan is now combatting this bad ’harm reduction’ narrative.

at least one slop streamer has to have a spine in the USA and not be a sellout

In 2040 he will finally see the value in the immortal science and we will achieve communism within a year.

Yeah, I don't think he has demonstrated conviction really (we'll see what he says sooner to the election), but I was definitely pleasantly surprised by his recent comment.

Gonna explain my thought process here. I recognized about a decade ago that I spent SO MUCH time being deeply invested in other people's lives. People who barely knew who I was, or not at all. Family members, old friends -- It felt like keeping up. It was entertainment, something I spent a lot of time thinking about. I think about a time I was at a restaurant and someone said "Did you hear about what happened with Snookie?" except with my own local celebrities.

Well eventually this backfired massively and I had a very significant mental health episode about it, and went through a purge where I stopped following or invensting time people who I had little to no reciprocal relationship with. Honestly, this helped with my feelings of isolation and loneliness significantly.

Paired with my beliefs in anti-hierarchy and generally being anti-celebrity (anti-spectacle,) Hasan is just some guy. His followers and influence aren't significant in my mind. Sure we would have a lot in common, but at the end of the day he's just a person that I do not know. Chances are he wouldn't humor me at all since he's basically a celebrity.