Granted I know next to nothing about our handsome husbando since I don't watch him but the interview he did acknowledge how he's kind of the Joe Rogan of the left. Not sure if that's good or not.
the story here is that donie o'sullivan at cnn in particular, who doesn't have particularly a good understanding of politics himself, but is roughly a progressive sympathizer, personally likes hasan. that's it. they did over an hour and a half of interview and then cnn cut it down to this apparently. cnn is in general a dumpster fire, but there's the occasional decent bit of coverage.
I think of myself as the Ronald McDonald of the Left, the Doogie Howser of the Middle, and the Clown Prince of Costco.
So who is this Hasan guy? He any good or is this gonna be like that time my wife showed me Vaush because she “knew I liked communism stuff”?
Hasan is good. The only brainworms I've seen from him are China and even then he stays off the topic. He's relentlessly defended "tankies" (marxist-leninists) and for that he will always be considered "good" as far as I'm concerned. Honestly, I don't care what brainworms a person has as long as they're not punching left or patsoc.
Nah he’s been relentlessly anti imperialist this last year (and before, but we saw a lot of people show their ass after oct 7).
Personally I think he's entertaining, and has solid media analysis, but he is very much a prolific twitch streamer and orients his content as such, even with an older average audience than usual for twitch.
Hasan has gone full tankie mode over the past year. Before that he used to be more moderate.
Yeah like the piece even mentioned how he was at the DNC...but didn't mention the fact he got kicked out for not towing the party line on Palestine.
CNN had a video following him at the DNC I think and talked with him about it then. Might be conflating memories though.
Hi🐍🐍an is a CIA asset!
Edit: he's also the rightful president of Venezuela
Indeed, to give him credit he kind of balked at the idea of being the leftist version of him and he said the dems aren't going to podcast their way out of the problem.
He also said Joe Rogan was their version. But they lost him.
Too bad Hasan is a big fan of Mr. Beast. I never watched streamers or anything before but saw a clip of him very recently praising Mr Beast unironically
He views China as imperialist to my knowledge. He's a socialist but he isn't very well read so he has weaknesses in viewing AES other than Cuba, and really in general ideologically
i don't think that's an accurate framing of his views on china. he pretty regularly defends
and 
unironically. there's small amounts of criticism in his coverage, but overall i'd say he's one of the few people i've seen actively combat sinophobia, such as shouting at people who are serious about social credit score shit or talking about how the most famous talk show host is a trans woman or defending chinese investments in Africa
