It's kinda amazing that they managed to hit every single normie meme about communism in 10 minutes
You're all being too negative about this.
It does us precisely zero harm while, on the other hand, it normalises not just socialism but the hammer and sickle in the mainstream west as something that is politically real and sought after by people. Not just fringe people but popular as fuck people.
It is politics as aesthetic but more of this needs to happen and it is a good sign not a bad sign.
Yeah it's good to see socialists doing popular stuff, normalizing socialism. Hasan is also to the left of Bernie and I've seen people go down the path of radicalization using his videos so I'm gonna call it a win.
Gets me pretty hype to be honest.
How the fuck do people think communism is going to look when mainstream in the west? Some magical thing that invisibly grows in the streets and in homes behind closed doors? Fuck no, it will absolutely permeate throughout consumption culture as aesthetic before it ever reaches even 10% of the population supporting it let alone 50%.
There is a lot more normalisation to come.
I had the same thought when I saw it. It’s silly of course but this kind of normalization (along with Squid Game, Grimes reading the Communist Manifesto, and a lot of other things) may actually impede attempts by reactionaries for a brutal new red scare crackdown, which is always a good thing. I’m sure the exposure to people like Hasan helps too. I’m pretty sure no one in the US mainstream has openly called themselves a socialist since the 1940s at least, so this is progress.
Exactly.
The more normalised something becomes the more not-scary it becomes. The biggest problem with communism IS aesthetic to begin with. Red scare is aesthetic fear of something people do not understand, do not know, do not see.
The more people see communism, and the people that support it being mundane and not-at-all-scary everyday people including hyper-popular people, the better. Fucking put it everywhere, on everything. Make it VISIBLE.
The more visible and backed by people that are obviously not dangerous it is, the harder fighting it as some scary unknown becomes. We need to become visible, in all hobbies, in all things. We need to dominate niche hobbies, consumer shit, online shit, we need to be seen.
The comments are so full of that weird "actually socialism and communism aren't the same thing" fixation
I was just downvoted on /r/Hasan_Piker for suggesting Linus isn't a leftist :agony-deep:
Linus is not only not a leftist, but he's actively cryptofash.
He went mask off that one time, which spurred the "Linus Headset" meme.
I hadn't heard that. Do you have a link to the original video?
Of course he's definitely petite bourgeois, being the owner of "Linus Media Group".
Obviously scrubbed that shit clean with his massive PR team after realizing that Nazis pay in exposure. Next time I see something like that i'm going to save it.
At yes capitalism innovates by providing the customer with a broken product
