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Gross response.

Here’s the Bad Empanada video I finessed this title from. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69BlRK9Jql0

Rare Hasan L. Why the fuck is he doubling down on this? Does Bernie really mean that much to you Hasan? hasan-smash

  • CyborgMarx [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    51·
    2 months ago

    Parasocial whining and dishonest rumor-mill bullshit is not “criticism from the left”

    When I see real counter-analysis and critique that doesn’t arise from cultural and social media “vibes” then I’ll take it seriously

    • starkillerfish [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      16·
      2 months ago

      my critique of hasan is very simple:

      1. broadly he has a DSA-right / Democrat-left position on the party-building, which is progressivising the Dems. Because of this, he barely covers anything that the PSL does, if at all + he is attached to the Dems so much that he normalizes the party as leftist (by doing interviews with Dems, not pressuring AOC or Bernie, going to the DNC etc etc.).
      2. he has absolutely atrocious takes on Ukraine. in the same interview with Duss he agrees that USA is “on the right side” of the war. this past week he was also pushing the “trump and putin are gay” meme which is gross.
      3. he has weird “china is doing cultural genocide” takes. he rarely brings it up, so its not as a big deal to me like the other two points, but it also signals to me that hasan doesn’t really have a coherent analysis.

      i dont know if this counts for you as parasocial whining and / or dishonest rumor-mill bullshit. i am happy to expand on my points further if necessary

      edit: another minor point that i remembered is that in context of defending relaxed immigration policies, he often calls US a “nation of immigrants”, which is a common liberal take (rather than recognising the US as a settler colonial state.)

      • CyborgMarx [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
        51·
        2 months ago

        not pressuring AOC

        He slammed AOC hard during her recent fuck up

        he barely covers anything that the PSL does

        I mean WE barely cover anything the PSL does, Hasan is not qualified to lead the third party charge, and frankly I don’t hold that expectation for him

        he has absolutely atrocious takes on Ukraine. in the same interview with Duss he agrees that USA is “on the right side” of the war. this past week he was also pushing the “trump and putin are gay” meme which is gross.

        There we go, some actual critique with substance, I feel like I’ve seen a unicorn

        he has weird “china is doing cultural genocide” takes. he rarely brings it up, so its not as a big deal to me like the other two points, but it also signals to me that hasan doesn’t really have a coherent analysis.

        He more than makes up for it with his regular China glazing videos where he showcases Chinese infrastructure to the normies he babysits

        My position on Hasan is simple: He’s a pipeline, he introduces baby-level leftism to lotus eating Americans who will never in a million years listen to anything people like us have to say, leftists who ignore the usefulness of Hasan or the nature of his political work strike me as whiners with unrealistic expectations for what should be considered a tool, the man is a tool, a resource, don’t worship him but also don’t sit there yelling at a basic utility because it didn’t help you build a rocket ship to FULL COMMUNISM

        Leftists look at a pipeline, smash a spigot into it and then complain about the taste, it’s not for you and the constant hunt for reasons (most of them wrong) to dismiss that resource is counter-productive

        • starkillerfish [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
          10·
          2 months ago

          He slammed AOC hard during her recent fuck up

          i was not aware of this. i was more referring to his interviews with her that never push back on her shitty positions. from what i see he does critisise the dems a lot on stream, but still never breaks from them completely. which is what i think makes his stance aligned with DSA-right (and now the DSA is also broadly against AOC, so it makes sense why he would critique her)

          I mean WE barely cover anything the PSL does, Hasan is not qualified to lead the third party charge, and frankly I don’t hold that expectation for him

          that is fair. i would like him to use his platform to do it, but i also think it is unlikely

          There we go, some actual critique with substance, I feel like I’ve seen a unicorn

          unicorn is my second name

          He more than makes up for it with his regular China glazing videos where he showcases Chinese infrastructure to the normies he babysits

          also fair. i just personally dont like the trend of showing good infrastructure as a proxy of good politics. its not super principled. cool infrastructure is not why we support china.

          on your last point, i disagree with the “hasan is a pipeline for baby leftists”. i know im in the minority on this one, but ive only really heard anecdotal evidence which seems more like survivors bias (ergo, evidence only from people who “went through the pipeline”). i know way way way more people who became principled leftist organisers for other reasons than political streamers or youtubers. which is why “he is a pipeline” argument seems to me as an excuse for bad politics really. my logic to criticising hasan is the same as for any public figure who positions themself as left / socialist.

      • CyborgMarx [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        I don’t even watch him, frankly his style and niceness annoys me, but I know his uses and i know the difference between good faith criticism and bullshit contrarian nonsense