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[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 78 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Cannot wait to see all the dorks talk about how this is somehow "performative".

[–] ConcreteHalloween@hexbear.net 59 points 1 week ago (6 children)

He's going to get performatively blown up by Marco Rudio.

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[–] vovchik_ilich@hexbear.net 41 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

No but you see, he's totally just an anticommunist lib /s

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 41 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No but you see, he's totally just a champagne socialist tankie! /s

LOL the man cannot win.

[–] sewer_rat_420@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

He is just doing this flotilla to shepherd us back into voting for democrats /s

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[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 33 points 1 week ago (20 children)

Real activism is showing up to vote blue no matter who every other year in a deep blue district in a deep blue state

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm so ready to vote! I'd vote twice right now if I could!

[–] Chapo_is_Red@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Fraudulently voting twice in a state than already goes 70% Dem every election.

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[–] ConcreteHalloween@hexbear.net 71 points 1 week ago (2 children)

All the "problematic" leftist internet figures keep putting their money where their mouth is. Maybe there was something to this Dirtbag Left thing.

[–] somename@hexbear.net 70 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Hasan's "problematic" aspect was never really the same as a lot of others. Sometimes he does get a bit libbed up, and into the electoral spectacle of it all, but he is a news commentator. He's a got a bit of that electoral horse race special interest in him, and a bit of good natured nativity. I think some of that has stripped away over time, as he's more and more hit with the grim reality of how static the system is.

But he's always been pushing an internationalist message towards the audience, about AES and US imperialism. Drip-feeding theory and challenging some of the popular misconceptions of revolutionary figures. It's not always to the same degree as what you'd see here, but he is a propagandist. The message isn't oriented directly at people who are already communists.

So to seem him do such a big action in support of Cuba isn't surprising at all to me in the ideological sense. Though it is of course a big move in real practical terms, and I'm surprised (and happy) in that regard.

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 35 points 1 week ago

He's a got a bit of that electoral horse race special interest in him, and a bit of good natured nativity.

I always have to remind myself that he got started as the TYT nepo nephew, and that let's me be a bit more generous to him. He was probably the last person on that show that I imagined I would have any respect for in 10 years, but he's generally proved to be a real one (despite issues).

[–] mayo_cider@hexbear.net 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've always felt he tries to push people to the left of his public position

He's been quoting Lenin too much to be a social democrat

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[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 28 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Well not all of them, where tf is Nick Mullen?

[–] ConcreteHalloween@hexbear.net 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nick did endorse Zohran for what that's worth.

Also I think he's been pretty consistently pro-Palestine.

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 48 points 1 week ago (1 children)

i was listening to TAFS maybe 2 years ago and it was just nick and somebody like soder, just having this like mentally checked out conversation about how fucked up what israel was doing to gazans.

and soder was like, "so like, Hamas, aren't they the good guys?"

and nick says, "I don't know. probably. i don't pay much attention to all that stuff. I'm more of a Hezbollah guy anyway."

i laughed so hard i almost crashed the car.

[–] Chapo_is_Red@hexbear.net 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"I don't know. probably. i don't pay much attention to all that stuff. I'm more of a Hezbollah guy anyway."

Gonna make this my response whenever people ask me to condemn Hamas

[–] GoodGuyWithACat@hexbear.net 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"They're no PFLP but you can't argue with their love for the game."

[–] CHOPSTEEQ@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 week ago

Hopefully cutting wood in a cabin in the mountains like he deserves.

[–] Chapo_is_Red@hexbear.net 19 points 1 week ago

I don't think Mullen would self-identify as dirtbag left, he'd probably dislike it. So, let's keep calling him one

[–] somename@hexbear.net 60 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)
[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 41 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I knew there would be tweets like these.

[–] Emmet@midwest.social 37 points 1 week ago

Ultras 🤝 Wreckers 🤝 Liberals 🤝 Fascists

Bulwarks of the Status Quo

[–] thefunkycomitatus@hexbear.net 38 points 1 week ago

haha bruh is so scared of going on the flotilla that he's actually going on the flotilla lmao bruh :skull:

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 23 points 1 week ago

all the flotilla

Zionist, opinion discarded.

I hope someone explained to them that the situation has changed a bit from when Hasan said that before.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 53 points 1 week ago
[–] spectre@hexbear.net 38 points 1 week ago

Uncritical support

[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 35 points 1 week ago

Turkish man good shrug-outta-hecks azan

[–] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

hey, that's my funny newsman holo-point-1-baubau hasan-stfu holo-point-2-baubau

[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

what the hell we have fuwamoco emotes??

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[–] 3rdWorldCommieCat@hexbear.net 26 points 1 week ago

I might have some criticisms of Hasan but this is based as hell. Dirtbag left stays winning.

[–] Spike@hexbear.net 21 points 1 week ago

Well fair fucks to him

[–] Egonallanon@feddit.uk 21 points 1 week ago (3 children)

More of a legal question than anything but if he and any other US citizens take part in this would it constitute a violation of the US embargo of Cuba and put them at risk of imprisonment?

[–] InexplicableLunchFiend@hexbear.net 37 points 1 week ago (5 children)

These flotillas are by definition illegal. They are attempts to run the blockade with civilians

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[–] SerialExperimentsGay@hexbear.net 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The US doesn't have functional rule of law anymore, but yes, this does constitute a violation of the embargo. That's the point, actually. Most non-violent resistance that deserves to be called resistance is, in fact, completely centered around breaking unjust laws and publicly enduring the consequences of that to expose the injustice.

[–] sewer_rat_420@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Isn't humanitarian aid exempt from such an embargo? This is why the Sumud Flotilla was legal, under international law (obviously won't stop the ICEraeli regime will seize the vessels anyway every time)

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago

The question was from the US citizen perspective so it's still practically illegal.

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[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago

That is a fair question, one that I am not equiped to answer.

[–] mayo_cider@hexbear.net 19 points 1 week ago

Didn't they watch the nuke?

[–] Aquilae@hexbear.net 19 points 1 week ago

Hell yeah that's sick

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