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Why exactly is Hasan important? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by CountryBreakfast@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml

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Why does he need to be defended? Does he actually contribute to the issues he is concerned with in any way that doesn't also benefit his brand? How would any streamer, regardless of their professed politics, be worth anything to a revolutionary process? Why is he not a mere spectacle?

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[–] BarrelsBallot@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

He's left adjacent entertainment and gives all of the vooooters hope that electoral solutions are still possible

His stream allows the politically impotent to feel like they're making contributions to positive change

I understand why so many here and in general hold on to him as he's the best we've got in the entertainment world, but the medium is the message, and his message is just another facet of the attention economy

[–] CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 3 days ago

Without judgment, look at how many people have him on in the background (he streams 8 hours a day of course people are not going to be attentive for the entire time). To understand the world you must struggle with the material, it doesn't come about through osmosis