Chatters deflated this dude in record time. Weaponizes mental illness and then immediately back peddled saying "you know that's not what I mean". Paints them as monoliths BE fans. Puts a ban out on all BE supporters in the chat for being "parasocial thinkers". Then mopes and pouts for the next 20+ minutes.
I enjoy Hasan, I like the Fear& podcast, but I also see his limitations, and it fully drives me up a wall when he starts dropping "mental illness" derogatorily. Use that college education and find some new fucking words.
Anyway, I don't know much about Graham Platner, but I love this part of his Wikipedia page:
He was pictured holding a sign reading "Free Kosovo, Chechnya, Kashmir, Palestine, Kurdistan, Tibet". When he was 18, he was quoted in the Bangor Daily News after protesting President George W. Bush and the Iraq War at an appearance by Bush at Bangor International Airport.[7]
Platner enlisted in the Marine Corps shortly after graduating from high school, and served three tours in Iraq, in areas including Ramadi and Fallujah.
How do you get from "protesting the Iraq war" to "did three tours in Iraq including Fallujah"?
I get it, he's doing the populist thing, but we should be clear that populism isn't socialism by it self. If I have that wrong then maybe Donald Trump is the greatest socialist of our time.
I have more faith in Zohran coming out of the DSA then this guy coming off the oyster boat. I have a funny feeling he won't be met with the same resistance that these DSA candidates are getting hit with. At least there is a chance thr DNC turns on the DSA and forces them to rethink their strategy. There is nothing supporting this guy should he get the same treatment. I don't think he will though. I think the dems like dudes who do 5 tours as an imperial foot soldier and another as a security contractor for the State Department.
Hasan states in the video that his support is basically "is he going to support defunding Israel?" Which, to my eyes, allows for a MASSIVE open window for opertunism, especially since the DNC just voted down doing anything about Israel at all. Graham knows that they won't be doing anything about Israel, he can say whatever he wants and shake his first at the party he is eager to join, and when nothing happens, he can say, "I was there! I was shaking my fist!" And before someone comes at me with, "Well, what are you doing?", I'll tell you what I'm not doing, I'm not running on a populist platform under the Democratic Party, which has clearly established that genocide means nothing to them. Someone with the power and motion to run for office, with the backing of a highly respected member of Congress, should have a lot more influence than me. Anyone with eyes and ears should be able to see that adding this one guy to the wretched waters of the Democratic Party isn't going to make the waves any bigger. As time continues to move forward, we reach even more critical and escelating conditions in Gaza. Nation states have yet to implement any legitimate material measures against them. The best hope I have for the immediate future is the Freedom Flotillas. These brave comrades are putting their bodies on the line, and every time they do more people decide it's time to put their bodies on the line. I have more hope for dock workers finally putting pressure on their docks to stop accepting ships heading to Israel. I have more hope in the Ansar Allah and the people of Yemin to be an even more forceful deturrent on shipping lanes.
So I'm not even convinced that Hasan is viewing Graham as a leftist anti-imperial guy. I think he is hyperfocusing on changing the collective line on genocide within the ranks of the Democratic Party in the short term, while not acknowledging the damage supporting oppertunists like Graham will have in the long term. I can't even give this guy a pass for being "young," if his story is even true, frankly. The cognitive dissonance on display here is astounding. If he was only in for a year, even two years, and then got out, and was very critical of his own participation, I might be more receptive. To do 4 tours and then spend time as a contractor for the state department, that's really wild. He strikes me as an "opposed to all wars except the current war" type, which will fit right in at the DNC.