I've watched some of his and Hassan's recent debate... Dude has so much boomer internet brain worms he just gets distracted like a Labrador Retriever over completely irrelevant shit. And his political strategy just seems to be to court a moving target of voters for "for our side" as though Dems are leftist adjacent. Using 'no true leftist', 'the wokes have gone too far', crime panic, and other bullshit arguments.

Just log off dude.

  • IHave69XiBucks@lemmygrad.ml
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    22 days ago

    i feel like i cant properly judge people on this stuff because im so fucking china brained even Hasan sounds like a lib to me half the time but everyone talks like hes some far left extremist lol.

    • Blockocheese [any]
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      22 days ago

      everyone talks like hes some far left extremist lol

      Most of those people have a parasocial relationship with him. Even people who normally don't do celebrity worship get weird when it comes to criticizing him online

    • Z_Poster365 [none/use name]
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      22 days ago

      Hasan literally complains about China doing “cultural genocide” against Uighurs, yet this apparently is the best the western “left” can muster

      • invo_rt [he/him]
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        22 days ago

        Hasan literally complains about China doing “cultural genocide” against Uighurs

        dennis-stare

      • invo_rt [he/him]
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        22 days ago

        He's petit bourgeoisie. I'm not surprised. He wouldn't want to be seen with me post-revolution sucking and fucking my way from sea to shining sea laying mile after mile of big, beautiful high speed rail across the US of A. He wants to do reaction content (the most devolved content) on twitch and make a shit load of money doing it.

      • Z_Poster365 [none/use name]
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        22 days ago

        If Hasan is principled why does he perpetuate the Uighur genocide myth and other anti AES positions?

        • somename [she/her]
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          22 days ago

          Well, I wouldn’t say he perpetuates the Uighur genocide myth. He does say he thinks it’s a bit of a somewhat oppressive crackdown, but more for like security corridor stuff rather than evil Chinese machinations or whatever. So something of a middling response. On the other hand he does openly advocate about their intervention in Tibet being good, so idk. Differences in specific position on that idk.

          He’s generally pretty China positive in terms of tone though when covering topics. The overall push is towards deworming the brainworms of the audience imo.

        • tactical_trans_karen [she/her, comrade/them]
          hexagon
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          22 days ago

          I've never heard him say anything of the sort, pretty sure I've actually heard him say the opposite, but I may be thinking of someone else. Principled doesn't mean the correct take every time. I've felt that he tempers/avoids a lot of the Maoist 3rd worldist takes and discussion intentionally to not scare away his mostly western audience who isn't going to understand until they've studied and learned more.

          You see, the brain pan of the average angloid burgerlander has space to grow around areas that are associated with empathy and critical thought. But this void does not fill in until they are taught martialist analysis. For that, Hasan is a good intro.

          All jokes aside, I have a lot of faith in martialist analysis eventually leading to better understanding.

          • Z_Poster365 [none/use name]
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            21 days ago

            It’s not a Maoist third worldist take to dispel western warmongering propaganda about China. He has called it, word for word, “cultural genocide” which is repeating imperialist bullshit. That’s not principled it’s weak and ignorant

  • BynarsAreOk [none/use name]
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    22 days ago

    Not watched it yet, maybe its just me but Cenksgiving and Cenkmas just sounds like Hasan treats him like a pet or mascot which is hilarious to me and I love it. The way he talks about "Cenk's journey". Fucking lab rat experiment on the lib to fascist pipeline or something.

  • Azarova [they/them]
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    22 days ago

    The 'Free Hunter Biden' shirt he brought was funny but I muted the stream after that. Every time I glanced back at the chat, I saw people calling Cenk a reactionary and spamming trans pride emotes, so I assume it was pretty bad.

  • Moonworm [any]
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    22 days ago

    Gurga getting real shaky with it.

    Nah it was real wild watching him kinda just fly into a rage about giving free transitions to the Chinese because he's angry about people in his twitter replies.

  • CloutAtlas [he/him]
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    22 days ago

    Yeah while we're at it, what's that Nick Mullen bit about how his name is basically just 2 slurs?