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Dude just loves riling himself up into a frenzy, doesn’t he? I guess he was mad that Hasan was going to interview Obama, which never even happened, and now he thinks Hasan is a “genocide supporter” because a random YouTube clip he came across that said “Hasan supports Kamala’s policies”, which he never even watched and was most likely just clipped. Hasan isn’t perfect, but fuck, you think at least him going to the DNC as a journalist would be considered fair from BE. Wild.
We live in capitalism. Whatever method we use, capitalism will be involved. If someone makes money on Twitch while helpfully radicalizing more people in the right direction, I see that as a good thing. It's definitely worked in the opposite direction to make reactionaries, and there's no reason to give up those methods.
It's like how electoralism won't save us but by running and being crushed Bernie helped radicalized a lot of people. He definitely did more good doing that and introducing socialist ideas, making more future anarchists and socialists than basically every socialist I know of, than every every podcaster or reading circle I've seen since.
I mean, the 2024 election year is very dead. You had at least Bernie Sanders sheep dogging people into the Democratic Party in 2016 and 2020. Now, there's not even a need for a sheep dog. You're a Trump supporter if you bring up anything. Like, I don't really think a lot of people are radicalizing as stated. Something isn't working as believed.
It's not great, especially materially, but narrative-wise things look better than when I was a kid in the 90's: the USSR had fallen, and everyone agreed communism had failed. You couldn't even say the word "socialist" let alone "communist" when I was younger, let alone anyone admit they were one. I think there's just been a liberal backlash to these changes as they try to reconstitute control and power of the narrative, but there's been progress.
The main problem as I see it is just we're not organizing fast enough for the problems capitalism are causing, like climate change, and also foreign policy is still dog shit among most progressives. Also, I worry that this revolutionary atmosphere happened in the 60's too and was dismantled by the police state, so I'm hoping we learned some lessons from that time somehow.
Wonder if that has anything to do with kids sitting inside watching a guy be "radical" on their behalf and feeling like they've done something?
Oh you mean like BE? Who I am fairly certain hasnver done any on the ground praxis in his life.
nobody said he had, you're tilting at windmills here
Hasan is a pipeline!
A pipeline to where?
Voting Democrat while holding one's nose instead of doing it happily
This ain’t it
ummm actually skibbidi toilet is the communist manifesto of our time and here in this twenty part thesis i will outline why....
Found BE’s alt
nah BE is also an ultra piece of shit, I hate all streamers
Now I know for sure this is BE
lol
I critically support Maduro, Xi Jinping, Putin, Lukashenko, Hamas, Hezbollah, Ansarallah. BE would never
Did you read my comment? I said BE is an ultra who doesn't support these people, hence he's shit
Death threats to double down on your lies
Dude I don't even watch Hasan. I've learned more about him here on hexbear than I have anywhere else lol. But the point is that I now see more kids complain about modern imperialism and talk about other concepts I would've never imagined could've pierced the liberal media bubble who mention him than at any other time in life (since maybe peak Chapo?). You've got to adapt to the times and environment we have, and start somewhere.
Or you could let that whole audience get scooped up by Tim Pool, Destiny, Joe Rogan, Vaush, don't know who else is popular on the streaming circuit but you get my point. Because, believe it or not, consumed media does make a HUGE difference. It's half the reason this current fight is so damn hard right right now, because of manufactured consent in the media.