I realize posting Contrapoints is almost too easy at this point, but this is just too much
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Class position and material interests.
There's more successful streamers/tubers than her who have better political inclinations. So idk if this is PURELY about status for her, I think she's also just a coward who years for neoliberal stability.
Yeah, more successful streamers like Hasan "What's a little swastika tattoo between comrades?" "Lenin would run as a Democrat" Piker
At his worst he's still leagues better than fucking Contra
Cheering on Strasserism threatens to prove that wrong
He's at least not a fucking total coward on the Gaza Genocide which makes him at lead marginally better than fucking Contra.
It's hard to say for sure but I think Hasan quietly distanced himself from Graham Platner after the tattoo situation. Hasan has said a few times that he doesn't believe in doing public apologies or publicly chastising oneself. On Oct 25 stream, he told Felix Biederman that he canceled his plans to interview Graham Platner after the tattoo thing. On another stream, Hasan said that he's predicting that Graham Platner will continue to have larger controversies come out after the tattoo.
I think it is foolish to have hope for someone who did four tours in Iraq and worked for Blackwater.
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FELIX Have you ever been to Maine?HASAN No. Or once. I was supposed to go and meet up with Graham Platner initially, way before any of this stuff, and my primary concern at that time was like "why did you join Blackwater in 2018". Which is not a concern for the average voter at all obviously. I was trying to understand what the fuck was going on there because on paper the the his candidacy like: left populist, Berniecrat, whatever, looks good. Then you look into his background you're like "what the fuck? how did this happen?" I had these these concerns. I wanted to talk to him about it and then all of this stuff happened. First the Reddit stuff came out and I was like "okay this is pretty funny." How did you go from four tour machine gunner in the Marines to Blackwater in 2018 to by 2020, being like "I hate white folk. I hate the stupid white chuds."
felix talks for a while and says that chapo considered interviewing Graham Platner as well but felix never liked him
Hasan has definitely acknowledged wrongdoing before, even things as trivial as that during Shocktober 7th he should have checked on Kaya when she yelped, or apologizing for the 9/11 or Rick Scott phrasings (while still defending the sentiment, and also even the phrasing in the second case was fine and he knows it but he chose to apologizing anyway).
Hasan repeatedly and explicitly said that it's good that Platner had support even after the swastika thing because of his platform of economic populism. Literally just Strasserism.
I think that the reason that Hasan ever supported Platner was because he's desperate for there to be any US politician that is anti-Israel. I think there are a lot of people that have that same desperation. The main opponent to Graham Platner is Janet Mills, who is a Zionist that openly supports Israel doing genocide. Some people made the idea that Graham Platner was less bad than the Zionist candidate. I'm not going to engage in lesser-evilism.
I don't think that Hasan is a secret Stasserist. Nobody knows what Strasserism is. Many people don't even know what Fascism means or even what Nazis believed.
Also he tried to ignore the shock collar stuff for as long as possible, but reddit keep spreading new lies about it. Same with the other things.
I'm not saying he has a copy of German Socialism by Gregor Strasser by his nightstand, I'm saying that the logical implication of whatever his brain-broken desperate excuses are is supporting horrible reactionaries who will support economic populism because that's literally what he's doing.
His acknowledgement about Kaya was literally the day after, I'm pretty sure, though of course he spent much more time rejecting the lies around it. He didn't ignore it at all, he just didn't address it in the same stream because basically no one in the stream interpreted what happened that way because it's all based on an out-of-context clip. He's bullheaded to an obvious fault, but usually he doesn't pivot in a completely silent manner.
He literally trashed Platner over the tattoo
See below
Where's the clip?
You're being a little terse and I am thereby not sure exactly what you mean. Is what you're saying that you what me to go dig up a clip where he's talking about how cool it is that Platner continues to poll well with Mainers?
I'm asking where is the clip that proves Hasan is a Strasserite?
If you believe that what I just said and what you just said are different things, then our disagreement isn't based on believing or disbelieving in a clip. Did we say different things?
Huh? Purpleworm, just post the clip, you made a claim, I just want to see what you're talking about firsthand
I don't want to fucking dig around for some clip that I hardly have on hand (and would probably be part of a 40-minute video in the form I could find it) when you may as well just be fucking with me if you disagree with the premise anyway. If you reject that the clip would be evidence, why should I spend a half hour or more going through stream footage so I can bring it back and you can just tell me literally the same thing you could right now? You can just dismiss me without wasting that much of my time, it's okay.
Though I was literally just about to edit the comment to repeat what I already said in the comments I directed you to, which you surely by accident misrepresented, which is specifying that I don't know what Hasan believes, I don't know what his ideology is, I am simply identifying the nature of a particular line he took as relates this specific issue.
I'll totally call him an opportunist, but that's because it's a pattern of behavior and not an ideology, and I don't think anyone who seriously purports to be interested in Marxism can make an argument against his entryist bullshit being textbook opportunism.
If you're gonna lop accusations of Strasserism against prominent pro-Palestinian leftist voices, then I don't think it's a big ask to back that claim up with something more than a vague intuition of "opportunism"
Am I not explaining myself clearly? Arguments aren't just collections of empirical facts, they are also the relations of ideas. A conclusion can't be proven simply from facts if there is a disagreement on the relations of ideas. With empirical facts themselves you can only have premises. If we agree that the sentiment that, and this is my paraphrasing, "It's good for people to be willing to embrace economic populism coming from someone who had Totenkopf tattoo until like two weeks ago and doesn't acknowledge the basic nature of the tattoo, much less the meaning of it, i.e. I'm glad that they don't care if he could very easily be an unrepentant Nazi if he'll make the trains run on time" is a Strasserist line, then I'll go look for an example of the multiple times he's said that shit. If you do not agree that that's a Strasserist line, then our disagreement doesn't hinge most proximately on if that's what he said, it hinges on our interpretations of that sentiment.
The opportunism thing I mentioned is tangential, and it's not a "vague intuition" (could you stop insulting me, by the way?), it's because Hasan is very explicitly an entryist and has argued for it frequently in the past few weeks. Do you not remember him screaming at his chat over and over about how they're ultras for believing that it's not productive to run socialists in a capitalist party? Do you not remember his butchered exegesis of Lenin? Here's a clip summarizing that issue from Socialism4All.
Translation: you can't back up your claim
Love the idea of reading the streamer tea leaves to smear pro-Palestinian voices, super cool habit you got there
Stop fucking insulting me, what's wrong with you? I'm literally just asking you to answer a single yes or no question because I've seen this behavior before and I'm pretty confident how it's going to go, which is that after I sit through an hour of his bullshit about Platner to find where he says the thing I present him saying the thing and then you do exactly what I describe above, which is rejecting the significance of it, meaning it was a waste of time. But no, deigning to do that wouldn't be a power move, wasting even more of my time while slinging absolutely horseshit accusations at me is a power move, even when I directly and immediately refute some of your claims with evidence. When I did give you evidence, you ignored it, almost like I have a reason for anticipating this. It doesn't matter that he's an opportunist, he's Your Guy and you can use his Palestine advocacy to shield him from any criticism and smear his critics.
It's so fucking tiresome that people can't have a basic level of consideration and there's just this miserable posturing and shit-slinging instead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woPJcVNBiyQ
17:38, 1:14:35 Here's the tepid version he had when the story broke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf2fD21fLK8
3:34, and I expect you will disagree even more with my view on this one but 11:03. He also says similar stuff somewhere around 30 mins about "cancel culture" arguments in relation to the news panel, though he is obviously a bit ambivalent here again. Here he overall makes a much stronger statement.
Obviously Hasan does not like the Nazi tattoo, he does not like Nazis, etc. etc. but he is still casting it as being a clearly good thing that libs are willing to overlook seeming to be a Nazi because of economic populism. This is a catastrophically bad line and he perhaps he's too stuck in his specific manner of being "I just want healthcare, man" internet brain-broken to see the problem, but Platner's success here would only demonstrate the viability of Strasserism, or maybe people on this board would find a term like "social chauvinism" (in the sense Lenin wrote about) more useful as a description, i.e. socialism distorted by chauvinism.
Hasan's arguments about how it's good that Platner can succeed despite some of what's on his Reddit account is true (though I would disagree if the thing about effectively disobeying orders to keep using explosives in densely-populated areas was a real vector of attack, you shouldn't be able to shrug off that but Platner doesn't even need to), but bearing a Nazi symbol on your chest for 20 years and lying about never knowing what it meant until the oppo dump and even then insisting that it merely "looks like" a Nazi symbol (e.g. 42:54 in the second video) means it is clearly the less reasonable interpretation to say he's just a dopey person who nonetheless takes the issue of fascism seriously.
My overall stance is that, for the left to be able to survive, it does need to be able to accept people changing, but Platner has proven that he is some type of horribly bad actor and needs to be shunted to prevent coopting, whether he is personally even capable of doing such a thing or not (and I don't believe he's an "op" or anything of the sort, I think he's just a chauvinistic fool).
Now please prove me right and move the goalpost to "what Hasan was explicitly outlined as saying is something that was never meaningful evidence, actually," and you were just disingenuously fucking with me. If you gave a shit, why not respond to the opportunist thing that you immediately misrepresented and then ignored? Why demand evidence that you're about to reject anyway when I already told you what it was? Do you just get off on me having to sit through over two hours of stream footage to retrieve this nonsense? You could have just said "no" at some point over the past two replies and it would have been much better.
I found YouTube links in your comment. Here are links to the same videos on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
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Well, looks like you finally watched the stream and despite the paragraphs of copium and post hoc rationalizations you typed out, you seem to have realized how unfounded your smear was, cool
Maybe next time don't jump immediately to the worst accusations possible because other leftists have differing theories and interpretations about a character as bizarre and confusing as Platner
Like for instance imagine some other leftist accused you of being a Zionist AIPAC shill who wants Platner's opponent to win or some shit, see how uncharitable and out of pocket an accusation like that would be. So maybe don't bludgeon other leftists with a similar uncharitable vibe
Just keep behaving like a condescending prick and you'll convince yourself eventually. I had seen these streams before and more, I was speaking from my own interpretation of what I saw him say on my own and he said what I said he would say, that it's cool that libs will apparently support someone who they have more reason than not to believe is a genuine fascist if he promises to make the trains run on time.
I agree that that's nothing like how you represented my claim, but that's because you've been pretending I said this or that completely different thing from square one and I'm not responsible for that shit. You've just been lining up imaginary targets to knock down.
With regard to charity, shut your fucking mouth. You've been constantly misrepresenting me for the sake of cute little sanctimonious dunks because your parasocial hero was in danger. You aren't wise or a bigger person, you're just an asshole who keeps on insisting on being one no matter how much I ask you to act like a human being for one fucking comment. God, how tragic it would be for me to ever encounter someone with an "uncharitable vibe" instead of the paragon of intellectual integrity that you've chosen to be.
Typing out this bizarre ass post is a lot more work than digging up a clip
It isn't, and it shouldn't be this hard to get someone to answer a simple yes or no question, but he's insisting on being obtuse because they think it's some kind of fucking power move to make me sit through an hour of tiresome litigating on Hasan's stream to find where he made this argument just so he can turn around and say it doesn't fucking matter anyway.
I would point out I didn't even bring up Hasan in the original comment in this thread, you just assumed that was who I was talking about. I don't really give a shit about the dude but it's like you're trying to start struggle sessions over him.
I wasn't blaming you for anything. It's fair to say I have a chip on my shoulder about this subject, though it's been somewhat validated by that one asshole making such slimy bullshit defenses of him.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
I think Contra gets it extra because for a time we all assumed that she was further left than she was because she was making content about the alt right, critiquing it from the left. There was a similar phenomenon around Destiny when he went on his anti alt right arc, and I would even draw a comparison to the support behind AOC.
None of these people were ever lefties, but their position made many people think they were, in part through motivated reasoning because people really wanted them to be.
Contra's stated position in some videos early on was way more anti-capitalist than Destiny, even if we can still rightly say that it didn't mean anything. Contra herself has talked about identifying more to the right than she used to.
Yeah, I honestly think her rightward drift was a reaction to that time she got cancelled on Twitter. She seems to genuinely think that's what "the left" is.
Yeah it's a lot easier to get a broad audience by attacking the right than by outlining a positive vision and advocating for a specific strategy, because the latter can be kept ambiguous to avoid alienating people who might disagree. The problem of course is what we see now, that opportunists like Contra can get in on it and then easily redirect their followers towards supporting the ruling class.