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[โ€“] Gorilladrums@lemmy.world -3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Yes he is by the very definition of the word

Grifters change what they say according to what's popular. They can say one thing one week according to the news cycle, then say the exact opposite thing the next.

Assmanmold for instance is a grifter because he's contradicts his beliefs as he follows what his audience believes the most. Most recent example of this was with Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Assman praised ICE in the former case and said they should do more of what they did to Renee. Then he condemned ICE in the latter case and demanded accountability.

Hasan has stayed true to his beliefs over the past 10-15 years he's been doing political commentary. He's believed certain things especially when it wasn't popular, and suffered the consequences. Good example of this was October 7th when HAMAS bombed that music festival in Israel. Hasan explained the event as blowback of an oppressed nation against the oppressor regime, Israel, that had been committing apartheid and ethnic cleansing for decades. Hasan lost a third of his community as a result of his beliefs on October 7th, but he's been clawing back a lot of those losses.

Hasan isn't a grifter. He's a left winger. And it just so happens that the right wing in America are fucking shit up so hard that the popular response in the American citizenry is to push left.

You're an idiot if you don't know the difference.