A lot of them are both compromised and fools. Idk if Hasan is also a fool or just compromised. I'm inclined to say also a fool because even a vet apologist could have seen Platner as being a liability far beyond the typical smol bean proud veteran and taken any of several offramps to more openly disavow him.

[–] Chana@hexbear.net 17 points 2 days ago

Hasan has simply found his niche and is growing within it. If he abandoned unprincipled electoralism he would have less to speak about that's relevant to the news articles and videos he comes across live on stream and have no chance of being invited to electoralist events to do solo pundit things.

He may understand this as maximizing his relevance and bringing people left through it, but of course that's the exact same logic of opportunism and tailism. Supporting a war criminal Nazi settles the debate of which it is, lol.

[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 34 points 3 days ago

Yep. Smart compromised people would be on the "Platner is a Nazi goon" wagon from day 1 so they can reap their leftist cred harvest when the campaign inevitably and predictably collapses.

[–] Blakey@hexbear.net 26 points 3 days ago

Very fair point, yeah. Compromised and a total dipshit.