Although I have not watched a lot of Hasan videos , I think he is not actually leftist ! He is liberal at best , posing to be leftist ?

  • ReadFanon [any, any]@hexbear.net
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    He seems to have done a decent job of radicalising people from my own small surveying of the situation.

    I don’t hear other streamers getting mentioned anywhere near as often as Hasan when people discuss their path towards radicalisation, for whatever that’s worth.

    I have never watched a full stream of his but he seems fine from clips that I’ve seen. I have seen him doing the typical streamerbro response/react videos and there’s the inevitable drama streams etc. along with him keeping up with the hot take cycle so, y’know, he’ll talk about Oppenheimer or the Barbie movie or whatever because it’s relevant to pop culture at the moment.

    I think he probably fills a similar niche to something like The Dollop which is leftwing content with emphasis on content (in the worst interpretation of the word). If that’s what people on the left find interesting or entertaining then cool. I’d rather people be exposing themselves to left wing content than Fox News or whatever.

    But at the same time there’s a trap in that streamerbros aren’t going to teach you theory and The Dollop is not a viable substitute for praxis but thinking that it is can lead people astray; consuming content isn’t doing a leftism.

    I’d say that if he feels like a liberal to you then that’s probably a good indication that your own ideological development surpasses whatever he offers in his streams, which is a good sign and it means that you’re looking for something more theory-heavy and less about the almighty content.

    • jungekatz [comrade/them, undecided]@hexbear.netOP
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      I have grown up with the content , mostly books , and marxist leninist literature that my father has collected , I even tried to get into theory then , but it was too hard for me to understand then , however I took baby steps then.