It will be some good slop i can tell 
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They juxtapose him with Luigi. The connections are, presumably
1 - we want you to hate (obv) 2 - heartthrob
Does this mean that Hasan is arranging for Hannity to be shot in the neck as we speak?
Nah, his neck will just do that
Popping a pimple gone wrong
Hannity can't not look smug, can he?
bronis pulling this face
He went to the barber and said "give me the 'I just got engaged to someone 15 years my junior'"
Maybe not such a big deal at older age, but still feels kinda weird
I really thought he was older than 64
Dogs age in dog years
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c/slop will be well fed 
I am once again declaring a fatwa on criticism of Hasan.
Regardless of some valid criticisms of him that do exist, he is taking Hexbear talking points to the literal mainstream:
- "Hamas is 1000x better than the IDF, as a lesser evil voter, yes I would vote for them every time"
- "obviously Iran should have built a nuke for their own protection, this is the clear message to every country hostile to the United States based on the last several decades' events"
- "the Chinese century is upon us, we have much to learn from them"
... And the slop troughs are going to overflow for the next several years because of it, especially because of his engagement with Democratic electoralism. In online spaces we ought to offer uncritical support so we can farm the reactionary and liberal rage.
In offline spaces, offer some support and soon enough your friends will be a bunch of hasanabi heads that you can recruit to your union/DSA/PSL/whatever chapter that you are organizing with outside of electoralism (because we are all active in our local orgs, right? Or are we just going to a book club and getting mad online?)
The Zionist/Imperial narrative is "Hasan bad" and thou shalt not lend that narrative an once of credence lest one be declared a LIB!
I generally hate streamers/YouTube etc. that being said, There are two cadres in my org who actively watch Hasan and cite him as part of the reason they got involved in communist organizing. Hence I don't buy the sheepdog narrative. I refuse to watch streamers though
and then says vote blue despite his endorsees never accepting his views, thus functionally it's nothing. all that money and attention ends up in same coffers.
do you think chomsky never said such things?*
*money fishing from epstein aside, he is at least had much clearer and educated rhetoric, and a wealth of knowledge, which we substitute for a guy yelling at tv.
Hasan Horseshoe Theory:
The right hates Hasan because he supports the Democrats. The centrists hate Hasan because he does not support the Democrats enough. The Left hates Hasan because he supports the Democrats.
Thus, the left must ask ourselves: "what do people think if we loudly go around saying 'Hasan sucks cause he supports Democrats!'"? Do you think people will be receptive to our views? Is that going to expand support fo the global socialist movement?
There may well be a time to actively denounce Hasan, however one must recognize the context of their rhetoric. A viable alternative must exist for that to practically generate an expansion of the political left. The alternatives (DSA, PSL, something else...) are still in an incubation phase, and denouncing he most prominent left-wing media figure in the imperial core does not build those movements at this time.
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My view of hasan has changed recently. I was reading Stalin's foundations of lenninism in which Stalin defended the Bolsheviks participation in the 3rd bund as essential for 2 reasons.
- To build some experience with the state apparatus for the Bolsheviks, see behind the curtain as such
And even more importantly
- To show the masses that participation in bourgeoisie democracy can never lead to the results the working class is demanding. Thus illuminating the need for a socialist revolution to the masses.
I've never actually been a viewer of hasan but if this is the plan he is following I must begrudgingly support him for it
I don't think it is strictly necessary to cite Lenin to support Hasan, but this is pretty close to what his approach is. Biggest difference is that he is just a very online guy, rather than a party (which does not yet exist in the US in a viable form).
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"Says vote blue" is a very shallow description of the role he plays.
If you don't understand his role, I would encourage you to expand your analysis. Best way to do that is to listen in on a few streams instead of going off of clips and tweets.
If you can't figure out how to make him useful to your own propaganda, I think that's a skill issue. Hasan is an informer and educator doing the arduous task of re-education for you. As a better-educated socialist engaged in political practice in your community, you should be the political leader of those around you. Your voice should be louder than his to the people around you, but the good news is that if you post on Hexbear, you agree with Hasan 98.5% of the time.
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Let's not do campism for a fucking streamer. He should be criticized insofar as he is incorrect, and how communists talk to each other is different from how they should prioritize what may be a salient line of discussion with the public. No amount of knee-jerk contrarianism to the Zionist press makes internally banning criticism of literally anyone make sense.
Edit: and even in terms of public messaging, the idea that criticizing Hasan at all is impermissible is completely ridiculous.
how communists talk to each other is different from how they should prioritize what may be a salient line of discussion with the public
This is my less-ironic stance, and the core point of my post
No amount of knee-jerk contrarianism to the Zionist press makes internally banning criticism of literally anyone make sense.
True, good thing I'm not actually a immam or anyone with actual authority (it would be be unpopular across the board)
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“Hamas is 1000x better than the IDF, as a lesser evil voter, yes I would vote for them every time” “obviously Iran should have built a nuke for their own protection, this is the clear message to every country hostile to the United States based on the last several decades’ events” “the Chinese century is upon us, we have much to learn from them”
see, he says all of this and way more that i agree with, but then he turns around and defends soc dems like zohran, bernie, platner and aoc to no end. i dont understand how can a "communist" believe that the usa can be reformed. idk overall i do think hes good for bringing new people in, but recently i feel like hes become more of a vote blue no matter who guy, once in a while he will say things like "zionists are rabid dogs" but nowadays mostly he just defends socdems like his life's on the line
"Vote blue no matter who" means exactly what it says.
His stance is "vote blue for these socdems (or socdem+'s) or I don't care either way". He literally got into the media cycles saying "I will not vote Gavin Newsom for president".
It is totally fine to have skepticism of his tactics, rhetoric, positions, or behavior, but "vote blue no matter who" demonstrably does not apply.
That said, it doesn't bother me because Hasan is a media figure, not a political leader. It is up to us as on the ground political operative to provide leadership in our orgs and communities and "play off" of his growing presence in the political sphere and steer people in a better direction, since his platform is larger than ours. I firmly believe that denouncing him in front of liberals or reactionaries does not suit this purposes in most cases, and constitutes an unforced error in rhetoric.
Even in this thread you can see reports of how hasanabi heads are ripe for becoming effective comrades in the western left wing movement. I agree with you that he plays around with Democratic party electoral politics more than I would like, but also that is what gives him.his platform, and it is comedy gold as more people have a meltdown over his takes (since most of them align with hexbear). Same goes for Mamdani, sieze the moment and guide people farther along!
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We're not going to vote our way into a revolution and I'm very confident that he knows that. He sees his place as pushing the narrative that leads people to dig deeper and shift the overton window, and I'd argue that he's very successful at doing this. He's just one of the many pressure points we need to apply to the system, we have a different role.
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Infinite Hasanabi Threads on Hexbear
As long as he keeps sayin israel is bad my streamer hatred is suspended.
critical support for the radlib in his struggle against the liberal-fascists
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My favorite leftist streamer who still casually drops the gendered b-slur to his impressionable majority male audience. It’s not as if The Young Turks have ever produced someone malignant to the discourse setting us back another fifteen years or anything.
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they are institutionalizing this dem influencer at a rapid pace, seems like looming chomsky disappearance might have scared someone
There is only a single rule Chomsky had to follow to get his platform, just like all the other imperialist socialists of his ilk: decry the USSR and China as evil authoritarians no better or even worse than the US. Gabriel Rockhill laid out very clearly that this is the line. They don't care who you vote for. They need you to think an alternative is possible because socialism in practice is worse than capitalism. Chomsky has never wavered.
Hasan says China has an outright superior economic and democratic system. He says the collapse of the USSR was the worst tragedy of the 20th century. He is breaking the fundamental rule. He would never get institutional support unless the deep state has abandoned its most important single principle.
im so tired of hearing about this guy
im not anti hasan, i agree with him, i just find him an annoying person
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Who the fuck is Sean Hannity!? They HAVE GOT TO STOP MAKING THESE 80S TV TALKSHOW GUYS!!!
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As revolutionaries, we don't have the right to say we are tired of explaining. We must never stop explaining. We know that when the people understand, they cannot help but follow us.
Thomas Sankara
I can't tell if this is good or bad but ultimately I think it's neither
A dude who articulates all of our talking point is about to throw them into the face of millions of conservatives and demonstrate actual leftist opposition to the Republican Party, something most Americans don't know is possible
I think that counts as a minor win
The moment I seize power and establish an authoritarian dictatorship, I am cancelling debate culture.
me not reading a single comment in a Hasan thread before shitting out my hot takes on him like the vast majority of the comments here: The pipeline^TM^ only works if there are people who shit on him for not being a real^TM^ leftist. If everyone vaguely left supports him, absolutely no one will buy him being just a progressive liberal but thinks he's a crypto-communist pretending to be a liberal. So, the people who think the pipeline^TM^ exists have no choice but to quietly seethe as people shit on Hasan for not being a real^TM^ leftist.
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