He did it from his hotel in Las Vegas with scuffed audio and Internet because he's there for TwitchCon
The floundering news media now desperate to have twitch streamers come on to spice their lives up, admitting that they get less views than a radical communist
Not bad but Hasan is being too soft here. All of this is basic British soft-left stuff which we have in overwhelming abundance to be quite honest. He should be going further given that even the right wing audience of this channel is to the left of the average american liberal.
Only 39% of tory voters support Israel and only 9% of Labour voters support Israel. I suspect this is very different compared to US voters.
Man should have gone way harder to present an actually novel leftist case to a receptive audience.
Only 39% of tory voters support Israel and only 9% of Labour voters support Israel.
ngl thats much better than i expected
only 9% of Labour voters support Israel
Someone should tell Labour.
to be fair to the rich guy that i don't even like (that's a hell of an opening), he is american, so he's probably operating on american assumptions
Yeah I mean, he's probably not even aware that JC is being attacked for refusing to condemn Hamas which is probably a good barometer for how different it is here. The americans would have an apoplectic fit over that whereas here it's all rather meh, the potential for going harder is there, honestly the main barrier is actually how some of Hasan's audience might react rather than the BBC's.
fair
was kinda an eye-opener for me when i became more online in the pandemic that "apolitical" in america meant "solid dem voter" as opposed to "i don't vote because everyone running is a dickhead" like it is here
Hasan started out by by commending BBC for being objective in some of their recent coverage that they're being criticized for by Zionists and their allies, maybe he was trying to reward that
gotta say, respect for his stance not softening under pressure
he deals with a chat full of the world's dumbest libs all day, every day. what's a single TV presenter next to that
Hard stance can result in flak from the presenter or the audience. Softening stance could help get further invitations to the show, repeat exposure leading to appearances on other mainstream programs and perhaps eventually entry into the lucrative club of being a talking head. This is one of the filters in the Herman-Chomsky propaganda model.
Ironic really, he could save others from taking the easy bag but not himself.
Only thing I wish he said was then asked why he has a big audience is a reply along the lines of "because I analyse issues through the lens of dialectical materialism". Just throw out an academic term for the boomers. Other option is to straight up say he's anti-imperialist, or a communist or marxist. I don't think there's any point in saying that he offers some unique perspective crap because everyone says that
