CNN had a piece about Hasan that was actually flattering of him.
Granted I know next to nothing about our handsome husbando since I don't watch him but the interview he did acknowledge how he's kind of the Joe Rogan of the left. Not sure if that's good or not.
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So who is this Hasan guy? He any good or is this gonna be like that time my wife showed me Vaush because she “knew I liked communism stuff”?
Nah he’s been relentlessly anti imperialist this last year (and before, but we saw a lot of people show their ass after oct 7).
Hasan is good. The only brainworms I've seen from him are China and even then he stays off the topic. He's relentlessly defended "tankies" (marxist-leninists) and for that he will always be considered "good" as far as I'm concerned. Honestly, I don't care what brainworms a person has as long as they're not punching left or patsoc.
His views on the Ukraine war are completely off base IMO. Very Westoid.
Personally I think he's entertaining, and has solid media analysis, but he is very much a prolific twitch streamer and orients his content as such, even with an older average audience than usual for twitch.
Hasan has gone full tankie mode over the past year. Before that he used to be more moderate.
I like him a lot and you should check him out at least for background noise if that is a thing you need.
He has done a lot of good things, particularly charity and union activism.
He is not perfect though, I think his weird American patriotism is just bizarre and I still don't know how much he actualy believes in it deep down(watching him for years now).
He also believes in some very liberal values(freedom/democracy) which also sounds more like pandering than a real and concrete ideology.
But that is the worst I've seen from him. When we live in a world where the fucking Chinese Communists are openly hugging the western Nazis during the holocaust things start to matter a whole lot less in the end, at least for me.
can you explain what you mean by "freedom/democracy" being liberal values? i'm a communist who believes in both of those things, just not those things as defined by liberalism or liberal values
When he talks about democracy and freedom its almost always from a western liberal perspective on multiple parties, multiple choices, freedom to organize etc and he doesn't explicitly support the common one party one leadership theory. Communists have a much stricter definition of reactionary forces that can only be dealt with through "undemocratic" means. This is the crux imo, jumping from "Communism ideal is cool and good" to "here are the steps we need to take and some of them are inherently labelled as anti-democratic". That is not a line he can cross due to his platform.
He jokes about re-education camps as if its just that, a mere joke and not something that almost certainly would be necessary. Terms loose their meaning, a liberal nordic "prison" is as much a prison as the American slave camps. But you go and tell you want to throw everyone in a prison and oh no heads turn. You explain the Xinjiang prisons are more like a combination of prison and vocation school and liberals wont care about it. You're attacking the sanctity of "freedom".
Too much baggage and the fact liberalism dominates the definition of these terms means you can't realy talk about it in the same way.
All of that on top of his weird American patriotism which as I said I'm not sure how much of it is real makes me realy doubt this in context.