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Hasan be like "Dont organize into a 3rd party, instead work inside the Genocide Party and change them from the inside"
(hexbear.net)
https://x.com/socialistadri/status/2051361245664555385
HASAN CHATTER: “but people like Platner are the same people who killed almost 200 little girls in an Iranian school”
HASAN PIKER: “I don’t care”
At first when I read the tweet, I thought the OP was criticizing Hasan. The tweeter who posted this clip believes that there shouldn't be a third party in the US, also the tweeter is Canadian. That tweeter is a huge Hasan fan and many of the tweets are thirsting for Hasan. In the 10 minute video, Hasan says that he's not against a communist party forming in the United States. Then he says that his involvement with Democrat Party shit is because he thinks it will increase people's political awareness.
The second clip he says "Yeah i don't care man" in a dismissive tone, meaning that he doesn't care what the chatter thinks. The chatter presents a hypothetical that Platner would have killed 200 girls and Hasan dismisses the hypothetical. The clipper is trying to make it seem like Hasan supports killing girls but Hasan is saying that he doesn't care to entertain the hypothetical. Hasan obviously doesn't like that the US bombed an Iranian school, killing 160 girls. He says that all the time.
You can tell that the first tweeter is a fan because the clip is 10 minutes long. Haters aren't going to watch a 10 minute clip. You can tell that the second tweeter is a hater because they posted a 7 second clip. The 7 second clip is short so that you don't get any sense of context. It is meant to deceive the viewer.
Graham Platner is a war criminal. It's kind of funny how much Establishment Democrats are talking about Hasan. It doesn't really matter what Hasan thinks. He can't stop you from organizing into a new party.
You should organize a communist party.
He can't, like, physically prevent you, no, but if the people you would organise into that party are Hasan viewers, they won't join because he is literally here saying not to. Because he is a liberal.
he also tells people to join PSL, i don't think you have a good handle on what his average is. if you're only seeing his most entryist efforts, you're going to get the view being offered to people with little to no political consciousness.
I know like 5ish Hasan fans IRL, and frankly they don't seem to have a cultist dedication to doing exactly what he says unlike a lot of other streamer fans. I doubt if they really wanted to join a new party, Hasan advising against it would deter them.
if they really want to organize with communists, they probably won't like hasan very long. the problem is the ones who are comfortable remaining socdems. the ones who don't have a problem with imperialism so long as they get their cut of the money graham hitner tortured and murdered for. hasan's thing is keeping those people comfortable. not to mention the male chauvinists. whether he turns potential comrades into baby leftists as a byproduct of that, i can't say. either way, just on a personal level, i really don't like hasan piker.
I don't like him either. But I think we should remember he does a lot of apolitical content like just gaming streams and stuff. I think a lot of his fans mostly like him for the entertainment value and less cuz they totally agree with all his political takes. And at his worst I still think he's better than the majority of people of that ilk (IE guys who are mostly just streamers but also do political hot takes). I'd take Hasan on his worst day over fucking Destiny or Asmongold on their best.
there is truth to the notion that at least some significant proportion of his fans are there more for the bloodsport and general news coverage than are there for his specific political ideology. there is not truth to the notion that he spends much time doing apolitical content, it's significantly less than 1% of his overall output in the last three years. also the concurrent viewership drops by half the second he does something that's not news/politics. it's considered a meme within his community the extent to which he says he'll do apolitical content and then doesn't.
for what it's worth, i have no qualm with your take or feelings, i just think you should have up-to-date anthropological data.
He is pretty buff