yeah someone who watches hasan and learns about the world and takes what he says seriously is a lot more likely to then be receptive to going further, learning more and coming to understand hasan’s limitations and bad/mid takes. But on the whole he’s a positive, even if he’s got a ton of fans who are oblivious or don’t fully take his points/logic to heart, let alone go further, they are at least not instinctively anticommunist and generally vibe with us.

He makes calls and has takes that i don’t agree with, often in the interest of “optics”, but just covering the shit that he does is a huge boost to the level of discourse happening in a lot of corners of the internet. Just getting people talking about ansarallah and their blockade in a positive light and with context is a huge boost against the “they’re just terrorists attacking civilian shipping vessels” people

That is silly. All hexbears are remarkably good-looking and I refuse to believe otherwise.

Incorrect, the reason I don’t like him is because of this rod-polishing parasocial relationship people have with him for scraping the literal bare minimum, which isn’t unique to him but part of a larger critique of the alienation that is inherent to streamer media.

I mean for Christ’s sake, this is the exact same argument as ‘You just criticize capitalism and want communism because you are jealous of other’s success’ level of breadtube argument slop.

Maybe this is because I’m not a Hasan watcher but all this “he’s doing more than any of you critics and complainers” and “you’re just mad because he’s better looking / richer etc” reminds me of the kind of glazing that goes on in any cult of personality… not that Hasan’s politics are anywhere near as bad as Musk’s obviously, but it does remind me of the kind of glazing that Elon stans do.

There’s an element of classism too, like you can’t critique your betters because you weren’t born with the family resources and connections that you get from being born moderately wealthy. Like excuse me if I’m not well positioned enough to talk to a million people online every day, but I think “progressive” streamers should not be glossing over AOC and Bernie’s social fascism, (EDIT) for example.

And yes I am aware that Hasan is always raising money for based causes and that’s awesome, he should keep doing that. I’ll keep criticizing his liberal and reactionary tendencies though. This “you only criticize Hasan because you think you’re too cool for school and nothing ever happens, you only criticize because you’re an edgelord” BS is gross and childish, tbh.

I like him okay. I just don’t really find his stream that interesting. Plenty fan of his message, enjoy that he watches One Piece, sometimes he hangs out with Valkyrae’s group. But I’m there to watch video games personally. I don’t feel any extra love for the Dems because I follow him

Now hold on a moment there, officer! I never said what he was blowing, he could be blowing balloons for the May Day parade!

Do you happen to know if any privacy frontends work for tiktok like invidious does for youtube? I use LibRedirect for everything I can, but it only displays proxitok, which hasn’t worked for well over a year, and offtiktok, which doesn’t seem to have any public instances listed. So I’m guessing there just is no frontend landscape for tiktok like there is for youtube, reddit, etc.?

Sorry to ask you out of the blue, but it sounds like you might be well versed in this kind of thing.

@CyborgMarx@hexbear.net you can disable that “feature” somewhere in the settings under Privacy > Suggest your account to others > People who open or send links to you, but the tracking links do a lot more than just reveal the account

Thanks for the heads up, it was a burner account anyway that’s been linked to a dozen times already, but it’s good I can now disable the tracker

Yeah everyone here thinks Hasan is perfect and tells us everything we want to hear. You type weird

as someone with a middle eastern name, i promise you, it’s really not unbelievable at all that this happened, in addition to him being who he is.

i would honestly say you’re naive to think this is so unlikely to happen that you assume its fake

whats more likely? hasan, who doesnt need more viewers or money lying about something to get viewers and money?

or america being fascist and racist the way it has been for forever?

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How do I know that you’re actually posting this?

Go collect your paycheck, you’ve done enough harm here, your work is done.

it’s just way way more likely that he’s not lying. he doesn’t have a history of bullshit stuntmaking, the government is doing this, and it’s just not a big enough boost to his attention that it would be enticing enough to lie. Looking at this tikok, it has 1.9 million views, and his channel has 44.2 million likes and TikTok almost always stays very close to 10 views per Like, meaning he has half a billion views on just his tikok. Making a huge, risky demonstrable lie to get half a percent across this and a couple other platforms just doesn’t make sense. Just flying out of the country and missing 2 days of streaming probably lost more money than this story brought

They detain journalists who talk about eroding freedoms. They detain activists that protest growing surveillance.

It’s their way of reminding people they are being watched and that they should back off if they don’t want trouble.

What would constitute proof? We can’t rely on Hasan’s word. We can’t rely on the word of the people around him because he may be deceiving them. What would prove it to you? He couldn’t film it. He wasn’t arrested so there’s no public log. We can’t get the video footage from the airport. He wasn’t cited, so no paper trail there.

It’s okay to be skeptical but you have to think further than just asking questions. You want proof but how do you get it? How do you validate the proof? If it’s too difficult to get the evidence you need, then what do you do about it?

I think skepticism is great in general but this is a very strange topic to suddenly become a philosopher over.