We can have critical support for his support of Dems who are half-measures or other blind spots around left politics, but why bring that in here when this is basically the kind of praxis that any good ML should approve of wholeheartedly. We can disagree about some of the things Hasan supports (and I should say, some of his stuff around CA politics in particular is depressing though some of that is also just the left in CA's fault as well...), but in this case I don't get why folks are blasting him.

[–] free_casc@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago

Yeah I appreciate the anti electoralist tendency, but keeping the chuds off my city council/county board and doing direct democracy on state measures is not where that applies IMO.

I also think that we can still do analysis of electoral politics even if the community isn't going to center getting involved in them in our discussion. I think if we had a healthier attitude, c/electoralism would have a mega going on election night(s). Instead the discussion around it is "Mamdani (or other elected) did something bad, you're an idiot for expecting different" or "Mamdani (/whoever (/Hasan?)) did something good, but I don't care cause I'm not a lib btw and I still dont like him".

I guess one of the reasons I would like to see it is because it is an opportunity to bring new people into the community and educate them. I don't think the site will last a whole lot longer in its current form.