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All the "problematic" leftist internet figures keep putting their money where their mouth is. Maybe there was something to this Dirtbag Left thing.
Hasan's "problematic" aspect was never really the same as a lot of others. Sometimes he does get a bit libbed up, and into the electoral spectacle of it all, but he is a news commentator. He's a got a bit of that electoral horse race special interest in him, and a bit of good natured nativity. I think some of that has stripped away over time, as he's more and more hit with the grim reality of how static the system is.
But he's always been pushing an internationalist message towards the audience, about AES and US imperialism. Drip-feeding theory and challenging some of the popular misconceptions of revolutionary figures. It's not always to the same degree as what you'd see here, but he is a propagandist. The message isn't oriented directly at people who are already communists.
So to seem him do such a big action in support of Cuba isn't surprising at all to me in the ideological sense. Though it is of course a big move in real practical terms, and I'm surprised (and happy) in that regard.
I always have to remind myself that he got started as the TYT nepo nephew, and that let's me be a bit more generous to him. He was probably the last person on that show that I imagined I would have any respect for in 10 years, but he's generally proved to be a real one (despite issues).
I've always felt he tries to push people to the left of his public position
He's been quoting Lenin too much to be a social democrat
He has been explicit about this several times. He openly said in The Deprogram that his goal is to be the funnel of the socialist/communist pipeline.
Well not all of them, where tf is Nick Mullen?
Nick did endorse Zohran for what that's worth.
Also I think he's been pretty consistently pro-Palestine.
i was listening to TAFS maybe 2 years ago and it was just nick and somebody like soder, just having this like mentally checked out conversation about how fucked up what israel was doing to gazans.
and soder was like, "so like, Hamas, aren't they the good guys?"
and nick says, "I don't know. probably. i don't pay much attention to all that stuff. I'm more of a Hezbollah guy anyway."
i laughed so hard i almost crashed the car.
Gonna make this my response whenever people ask me to condemn Hamas
"They're no PFLP but you can't argue with their love for the game."
I don't think Mullen would self-identify as dirtbag left, he'd probably dislike it. So, let's keep calling him one
Hopefully cutting wood in a cabin in the mountains like he deserves.