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Pop CultureI might have some criticisms of Hasan but this is based as hell. Dirtbag left stays winning.
hey, that's my funny newsman
what the hell we have fuwamoco emotes??
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Turkish man good
Well fair fucks to him
Didn't they watch the nuke?
haha bruh is so scared of going on the flotilla that he's actually going on the flotilla lmao bruh :skull:
all the flotilla
Zionist, opinion discarded.
I hope someone explained to them that the situation has changed a bit from when Hasan said that before.
I knew there would be tweets like these.
Ultras 🤝 Wreckers 🤝 Liberals 🤝 Fascists
Bulwarks of the Status Quo
All the "problematic" leftist internet figures keep putting their money where their mouth is. Maybe there was something to this Dirtbag Left thing.
Hasan's "problematic" aspect was never really the same as a lot of others. Sometimes he does get a bit libbed up, and into the electoral spectacle of it all, but he is a news commentator. He's a got a bit of that electoral horse race special interest in him, and a bit of good natured nativity. I think some of that has stripped away over time, as he's more and more hit with the grim reality of how static the system is.
But he's always been pushing an internationalist message towards the audience, about AES and US imperialism. Drip-feeding theory and challenging some of the popular misconceptions of revolutionary figures. It's not always to the same degree as what you'd see here, but he is a propagandist. The message isn't oriented directly at people who are already communists.
So to seem him do such a big action in support of Cuba isn't surprising at all to me in the ideological sense. Though it is of course a big move in real practical terms, and I'm surprised (and happy) in that regard.
I've always felt he tries to push people to the left of his public position
He's been quoting Lenin too much to be a social democrat
He's a got a bit of that electoral horse race special interest in him, and a bit of good natured nativity.
I always have to remind myself that he got started as the TYT nepo nephew, and that let's me be a bit more generous to him. He was probably the last person on that show that I imagined I would have any respect for in 10 years, but he's generally proved to be a real one (despite issues).
Well not all of them, where tf is Nick Mullen?
I don't think Mullen would self-identify as dirtbag left, he'd probably dislike it. So, let's keep calling him one
Nick did endorse Zohran for what that's worth.
Also I think he's been pretty consistently pro-Palestine.
i was listening to TAFS maybe 2 years ago and it was just nick and somebody like soder, just having this like mentally checked out conversation about how fucked up what israel was doing to gazans.
and soder was like, "so like, Hamas, aren't they the good guys?"
and nick says, "I don't know. probably. i don't pay much attention to all that stuff. I'm more of a Hezbollah guy anyway."
i laughed so hard i almost crashed the car.
"I don't know. probably. i don't pay much attention to all that stuff. I'm more of a Hezbollah guy anyway."
Gonna make this my response whenever people ask me to condemn Hamas
"They're no PFLP but you can't argue with their love for the game."
Hopefully cutting wood in a cabin in the mountains like he deserves.
Hell yeah that's sick
Muy bien
Cannot wait to see all the dorks talk about how this is somehow "performative".
I wonder if the person who told me that the recent DSA delegation to Cuba, where they brought material aid, was "Just a field trip" feels the same way about this.
Breaking an Imperialist blockade is more important than libdunking online, folks.
He's going to get performatively blown up by Marco Rudio.
Why would you say this?
Ay, I'm not entertaining this here. Thanks.
That would be bad. Love him or hate him, he is an important piece of the early pipeline for budding socialists and there is not a clear replacement for him if some nazi were to kill him.
I don't even know what to put the odds at for the entire flotilla getting bombed by US. They might just decide they're better off cleaning up a bunch of annoying people and instigators and dealing with the aftermath.
This is ironic right? Please be ironic.
Real activism is showing up to vote blue no matter who every other year in a deep blue district in a deep blue state
I'm so ready to vote! I'd vote twice right now if I could!
Fraudulently voting twice in a state than already goes 70% Dem every election.
If you're not willing to put it all on the line for democracy, I don't know what to tell you, kiddo. Let the adults do the strategizing.
This is Hasan’s unironic position
he recently said he'll vote third party if newsom is the nominee, wouldn't be shocked if he votes PSL next time
That's so funny, given his arguments against third parties two weeks ago
https://youtu.be/ViHEXUX0FT8?t=6474
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Yeah, Blue MAGA types are pissed at him because just two days ago he said he would vote 3rd party if it was Newsom on the ticket.
Ah cool don’t keep up with streamer drama but last I heard from him he was pressuring people to vote Kopmala if they were in a swing state. Glad to see he has evolved, but the real test is when the election draws near if he holds or goes back to lesser evilism
IDK where you heard that because he never endorsed her and spoke out against her the entire election. He still gets shit for not endorsing her to this day (because a twitch streamer endorsement surely would've turned the tide)
He did admit months after the election that he did in fact vote for KKKopmala, which I certainly disagree with, but he never pressured anyone to vote for her even in a swing state. His only position in 2024 was an anti-endorsement of Trump
It's not my argument but I do accept the argument that a Harris admin would have been marginally better.
Nah it would have condoned genocide. It's good that the Democrats lost, and continue to lose, until they course correct. And if they never do, then they should be destroyed as a party to make way for something better
While I agree, I'm not in danger of getting sent to cecot (immediately).
The point isn't that Harris's policies are identical to Trump's, but that this endless capitulation to 95% Hitler versus 100% Hitler will inevitably turn into capitulation to 100% Hitler against 105% Hitler and 195% Hitler against 200% Hitler, and that a left opposition that is willing to withhold its support is necessary in order to stop this spiral into fascism by either forcing the "left" candidate to be more progressive or by building a third party. Resources spent on campaigning for cops and making them look more popular by obeying them (whatever you claim to feel in your heart) are ultimately just contributing to the spiral even if in a portion of elections (probably no more than half), you get 5% lower Hitler. It is counterproductive to ending elections of X% Hitler vs Y% Hitler.
Yeah I agree on all points. At the same time I doubt the Harris admin would have given ice a blank check and started occupying American cities in year 1. I am just stating I'm sympathetic to the argument of casting blue votes in swing states no matter the candidate.
Not my personal opinion but especially if someone is feeling targeted directly, I'm sympathetic.
No but you see, he's totally just an anticommunist lib /s
No but you see, he's totally just a champagne socialist tankie! /s
LOL the man cannot win.
He is just doing this flotilla to shepherd us back into voting for democrats /s
Nope, that was what the lenin quotes were for
He is just doing this flotilla to justify buying a big nice boat with all his bazos bux /s
Uncritical support
More of a legal question than anything but if he and any other US citizens take part in this would it constitute a violation of the US embargo of Cuba and put them at risk of imprisonment?
The US doesn't have functional rule of law anymore, but yes, this does constitute a violation of the embargo. That's the point, actually. Most non-violent resistance that deserves to be called resistance is, in fact, completely centered around breaking unjust laws and publicly enduring the consequences of that to expose the injustice.
Isn't humanitarian aid exempt from such an embargo? This is why the Sumud Flotilla was legal, under international law (obviously won't stop the ICEraeli regime will seize the vessels anyway every time)
In the case of this embargo, humanitarian aid is not illegal, but needs to be authorized by the respective US federal government authority. Which they are not gonna do in this case obviously.
With embargos in general, it depends on the case - unilateral sanctions by the US are particularly bad at causing civilian deaths due to being specifically aimed at worsening living conditions under the pretense of facilitating regime change. This is why the sanctions against Iraq killed about as many people as the invasion under Bush jr. The same kind of massive excess mortality could never been shown for multilateral UN sanctions, which are much, much more limited in scope. Basically, the US (and to some degree the EU) treats sanctions as a means of geopolitical social murder, whereas the rest of the world doesn't.
The question was from the US citizen perspective so it's still practically illegal.
These flotillas are by definition illegal. They are attempts to run the blockade with civilians
I don't think it is illegal, under international law, to deliver humanitarian aid. This is why the russian tanker that is supposedly being dispatched with oil is considered a delivery of aid (US will still seize it of course) and also why Mexico is currently shipping aid, primarily food (no oil or fuel), to the island.
The Russians should spare a war fleet to protect the aid
If only. They will probably just let the US take it and send the oil to Haifa
International Law is fake, it's a theatrical farce with no power behind it. Hasan is a citizen of the US and subject to US law, which is real and can put him in jail
This is true, but its also been illegal to travel to Cuba at all in the past, which was never enforced.
That is a fair question, one that I am not equiped to answer.
