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 ?
He’s pretty good actually. I don’t watch his content because he spends too much time yelling at chatters but 90% of what I’ve seen is good. My main issue with him was some ace-exclusionary comments he made a while back but he’s grown past that now.
Tbh most content i have seen by him is talking about the GOP candidates and he is yelling , it feels like he is a dem , dods not talk much about theory , in a recent video he did talk about few good things but apart from that idk !
Not a regular watcher, so I might have missed something
I dislike how he is a debate bro/live streamer and do disagree on some finer points of his takes, but broad strokes I find him acceptable.
Why do you think he’s a liberal?
Most of his content in recent past , is exclusively anti GOP ( republican ) , may be i need to watch his streams , but whatever gets filtered to youtube feels like that ! And while there are similar things all libs do ,I dont see on his YT.
He wants to reach as wide of an audience as possible, by dunking on the GOP he can expose libs to actual leftist thought
YouTube is a bit more curated (a fair bit of his anti dem speech is in response to twitch comments), but he has regularly criticized the dems and promotes leftist ideals like class consciousness, multipolarity, and solidarity
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.
Good guy, great for baby leftists, he did a livestream with Adam Conover walking on the WGA picket lines talking about the history of unions, which is better than 99% of the rest of twitch imo
he’s hot
