He’s really good at throwing libs into the leftist radicalisation pipeline. He also shows a healthy image of masculinity that can be a model for young men, instead of letting them fall for the toxic ones like Andrew Tate.
Also I think he’s hiding his true power level and he’s actually way more radical than he’s willing to show on Twitch dot television.
He has too much faith in the democrats and has bad takes on Ukraine, but for the most part he’s alright. He is important for the pipeline but he is not the end destination
Recently confirmed to be a tankie by some lib on lemmy.flatworld . For shame Mr. Piker.
I assume he’s loaded since he’s got such a huge audience, so he should use some of those funds to buy an actual tank
An important early part of the pipeline to more radical politics, which he’s outright stated at least a few times that he’s acutely aware of.
I had never watched a moment of his streams until well after Oct 7th. If anything I was inclined to have a negative view of him based on what I had read but had heard he had good takes on Palestine so I was curious. And I have to say, I have been pleasantly surprised by him and am inclined to have a favorable view of him.
First off, he has only good takes on Palestine and right now is maybe the biggest pro-Palestine voice in the US right now. That alone should put him on the nice list, full stop.
I guess the main criticism I see laid on him is that he’s at best a democratic socialist and not a hardened M-L, based on his critical support for socdems like AOC and Bernie. After watching him for a while I think I understand this criticism but I also think it misunderstands him a bit. The dude is a political commentator and talks politics for like 30 hours a week. That’s like twice as much as the old talk radio political commentators like Rush Limbaugh used to do. If your entire analysis is “politics don’t matter in a bourgeois state”, then that’s gonna get boring fast. I think a lot of time he takes off his commie hat and is doing more straight political analysis, which gets misconstrued as support.
But I also think that, right or wrong, he sees politics and socdem politicians as a way to improve our lives somewhat. And I gotta be honest, I’m an M-L but at this time and place I don’t know, I have a hard time criticizing this. Like, it’s one thing to understand the democrats are shit and won’t do anything for us (even the socdem ones). It’s another thing to see this shithole country just get worse and worse every day and not want to latch onto hope that the working class could get just a bit of relief through political means, even if the current political structure does not offer this.
He’s not as good as I’d like on Ukraine/Russia as I’d like, but he’s also not as bad as the libs. He does think Ukraine should actually try and work something out instead of doing what they are doing (marching towards suicide). But tbh I’m not really cool with making Ukraine a commie litmus test like I would with Palestine.
He is hot
Hasan is like Mao in that he has good takes and bad takes. He is also unlike Mao in that Mao wasn’t a Twitch streamer.
now this is the analysis I come here for
I’d rather Mao have been an OnlyFans streamer
Edit: This sums up my entire point in 13 seconds. From a few hours ago, when he covered the LA anti-ICE protest on the ground: “I used to hate-watch you, but you’re all good and now I fuck with you”.
It’s crazy to me that a decade into this, and here of all places, and leftists would still have anything but positive things to say about Hasan.
He’s arguably (and it’s an easy argument to make) the most influential progressive media personality in the western world. As a media analyst alone his input is invaluable. The man streams every single day for 8-10 hours, breaking down the news and explaining the underlying material reality behind the current events to a stadium full of people.
There is a very clear reason why each time he goes to rallies and events both attendants and organizers line up to say “thanks for getting me into this”. He is a role model that we so desperately need more of if we were to have a coordinated mass movement.
As he likes to say: “Judge me by my enemies”. When your enemies are the entire online right, fox news, republican politicians, the ADL, and just generally all the worst people, but you only ever come out stronger - you’re doing the right thing.
There are plenty of negative things to say about him, as others have said. Poor takes on China, Hamas, and Ukraine. Not that these are things he should resolutely condemned for, but one has to keep in mind no one is perfect.
I will give you $100 if you comprehensively explain any out of these “plenty negative things to say about him”, negative enough to warrant this comment, and back it up with exhaustive in-context video proof aligning with that explanation. Especially on Hamas, surely that should be so easy, he spent thousands of hours covering it in the past year alone.
Or you can save yourself some time and just think why your knee jerk reaction directly aligns with all the right wing grifters posting “content nukes”.
lol he said he condemns hamas. save your money dawg
dang you got him. I take everything back, what a phony
He’s got that trotsky vibe. Like he’s pretty charming and often helpful but at some point he’s just going to need an ice pick.
Hypotheticals about who’s gonna need purging 20-something years after a successful revolution are not really constructive
