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"As revolutionaries, we don't have the right to say that we're tired of explaining. We must never stop explaining. We also know that when the people understand, they cannot but follow us. In any case, we, the people, have no enemies when it comes to peoples. Our only enemies are the imperialist regimes and organizations." Thomas Sankara, 1985

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[–] EstreyaZR@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 2 days ago

On a more serious note, I haven’t watched the video and probably won’t but I’m curious to hear if some of our more learned community members would say that Hasan is guilty of adjusting his stances simply because his audience unconsciously calls for it.

I watched him almost daily over the past 2 years and I would soft-agree with you. He seems to adjust his tone, especially when it came to AES back in the day, so that he can still show up and interact with liberal spaces without having too bad of a reputation as a malding tankie.

His role is more to push the overtone window to the (socialist) left, utilising his image as a self proclaimed 'Himbo' and 'just a Streamer', but never letting an opportunity go to give actual food for thought and arguments, sugar-coated in liberal speak by preemptively saying "I have my criticism of XYZ, but ABC", never actually getting into the point of his own criticisms, but always staying on dismantling rightists talking points from the left.

My two cents are, that when he really gets something wrong, it is because he has like 10 things going all the time, and doesn't catch up to things as I want him to. That being said, I think he is actually achieving the goal I laid out earlier (just looking at Gaza and Ukraine-Russia alone), and I view him as indispensable for actual leftist movements.

We don't really have someone like him on the German speaking internet, and it really shows.

(We may have Dekarldent being somewhat left-ish ideologically, but that dude was actively AES bashing like crazy, mixed with this immature western-marxist 'everything has to be perfect NOW', and has this chauvinistic tone with everyone that tries to talk to him in the chat. I think he has many years ahead of him if he really wants to change something, but he only started reading theory after gaza, and has been a lib-politics streamer for some time before that.

One of the things I am glad to see is his active solidarity with Palestine, and actively platforming them as almost one of the only ones in fucking germany-media. Man I really hate it here).