I generally have no faith in public personalities to hold any convictions at all, so it has been refreshing for Hasan to adhere to his position against voting for Gruesome Newscum. I don't at all mean to imply that he's perfect, or that people should look to him as a leader in any respect, it's just nice to see something like that happening and getting broad exposure. Feels good.

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[–] Grebgreb@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

i think a portion of it is people who have a weird parasocial relationship with him who get weirdly confrontational and combative if they perceive someone disparaging him even slightly. i also feel like these same people probably emphasize and get invested in the streamer/twitch drama aspect of what he does that i think generally is off putting to probably most people.

i know in the past he has directly commented on stream about these people and i for some reason have a memory of him calling them "little gremlins."

[–] Wakmrow@hexbear.net 10 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I'll admit I got pretty annoyed with people who were out there parrotting that stupid electric collar story. I do watch Hasan YouTube videos, I find majority report really tedious and liberal. But like sometimes I want to hear the news from a non insane perspective.

[–] Grebgreb@hexbear.net 6 points 23 hours ago

i think i worded it a bit poorly, i didn't have an outright lie like Kayagate in my mind when i wrote that. rather i was referring to the people who get disproportionately hostile over the mildest thing because they're taking someone not liking Hasan as much as them personally. there's probably a better way to phrase it but i cant think of it at the moment