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Plenty of billionaires and millionaires do this, and 99 times out of 100 its a highly ineffective way to help people that is mostly a good way to get their taxes reduced and to make themselves feel better. I'm curious what specific orgs he donated to, even. I bet you the directors take 100-200k/yr cuts.
It fundamentally is the foundation, have you ever read Kropotkin, the guy that popularized the term? A family unit is often seen as the core fucking example of mutual aid. To have effective mutual aid, cohabitation (or living in proximity in a different housing area, which is difficult to do in American society outside of chance) is necessary. Just sending cash to someone is charity (albeit the most effective form of charity, which afaik Hasan does not partake in). You also have a reduplication of efforts if you become too spread out, making the mutual aid highly inefficient.
It isn't unreasonable, what is unreasonable is the individualism-to-a-fault in American culture, even among supposed 'leftists'. To solve homelessness you must by definition fight for homeless people and see them as important as yourself, which you are clearly incapable of doing or even comprehending.
How about Number One funder of the Amazon Labor Union, what's the phrase? "No investigation, no right to speak"
I'm not an anarchist, and that's all I'll say on the subject
To solve homelessness you need STATE POWER, not simply individualistic quests reifying noblesse oblige
That's fine I guess, but by your own standard that didn't directly result in the conquest of state power so you know, what a waste
Me neither
Bro did you just call me a noble for helping homeless people not fucking die in the street
you dont need to be a fucking rich landlord with a heart of gold to do this thats the whole fucking point im making, it saves you fucking money even!
holy fuck america is so cooked, stop with this ridiculous parasocial obsession dude
Almost like it's a process or something
Then why bring up Kropotkin???
Your inability to recognize your expectations for other people are over-the-top, is what I was calling noblesse oblige, not your personal activism, which like I said previously, is valiant
Then how can you not understand saving someone's life, someone whose material circumstances makes them a likely socialist, is not part of a grand process? I've done this a lot at this point, you can just keep doing it, and its not even hard to do.
You said "The dude gives small fortunes to charities and mutual aid orgs all the time" as if you appreciated it. I was explaining the basis of what good mutual aid looks like, and it is rarely about the money (though a good mutual aid setup can save you money). It is best to directly house people if you want to use a lot of money efficiently and effect people in the most profound ways.
This is a skill issue on your part and on the part of society. The white supremacist settler society will continue to do those things, yes, but to call yourself a leftist you must first decolonize your own thinking and be willing to see others as important as yourself.
Did I say mutual aid wasn't part of the process? You made assumption about my "standard" not resulting in "conquest of state power" and I corrected you by calling it a process and now you're talking about how I don't include mutual aid in that process, which is another assumption???
You're shadow boxing with a phantom in your head and I'm catching strays, all because I called out your over-the-top expectation for other people, I wasn't making a value judgment on the concept of mutual aid itself
Again, I understand what you're saying, but I'm not an anarchist, under a capitalist system it's always about the money, I'm disagreeing with your theory and I said didn't want to get into it because I didn't want to make this sectarian
The state can do that better than idealistic social expectations
It's a skill issue because you don't have state power, that's my point
I'm not an anarchist lmfao, ML all the way through
And you don't have one oh my fucking god
im not expecting the whole of society to suddenly decide this is the way to go, but you can hinge on the idea if you save the lives of 30 fucking people who will go on to say communist shit, that does in fact change something. like i get it, you personally are a sack of shit and will continue to be a sack of shit! have fun!
just keep jerking off to hasan, its praxis, bye!
Anarchist getting called a tankie
ml getting called anarkiddie
Also fuck streamers I hate that I keep having to hear about these people.
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Hi comrade, just stepping in to say that I agree with your points throughout this thread, esp about reach/audience/impact vs. the idealism of being ideologically pure. Also you've been posting for several hours now. At this point don't worry about idealist and armchair leftists in the thread, there's better things to focus your frustrations on.
Yeah I'm done now, people are looking at upvotes instead of arguments, no point in continuing
Mildly critique someone's unrealistic expectations while describing what they do as valiant, and you still get called a "sack of shit" lmao
I've tried to cure this site of it's Hasan derangement syndrome before, and dogpiles tend to follow when I do, but it's important to combat misinformation about one of the genuine left figures out there