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

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] dead@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

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.

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.

Also he tried to ignore the shock collar stuff for as long as possible, but reddit keep spreading new lies about it.

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.