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If Y'all can critically support Asad and Putin y'all damn well better critically support Hasan. This an attempt to silence someone who supports palestine by conflating anti semitism and Zionism. It doesnt matter who it is, it just matters that Zionists dont have control over social platforms.
There’s a difference between “it’s bad that zionists are weaponising antisemitism to silence people” and “the gaming streamer is the best hope for the spread of socialism, and the most important voice on earth about the Palestinian issue, we must stan”
they said "critically support", not "act as if he is the second coming of Lenin himself"
"assad is the best hope for the spread of socialism, and the most important voice on earth about building a socialist world, we must stan."
Literally who is saying that, I’m not sure if you’re supposed to be mocking me, doing a bit, being serious.. Maybe I’m just too dumb to understand this epic own. If only there was a streamer to explain it to me.
The reason you're saying we shouldn't critically support Hasan apply just as easily to some of the people Hexbear does support. My comment wasn't saying, "Hasan is good actually," only that the same logic that leads us to critically support Russia and Syria leads us to support Hasan.
I took your comment directed to Hasan and applied it to Assad, then posted emojis to show the site's implied endorsement of him.
Another part of your comment was that Hasan just isn't that important, just a streamer ect. But, in the current world he is functionally a journalist that reaches millions of people. Regardless, importance determines stakes, not position. Even if this situation is relatively petty, which is very arguable, the position we should take, critical support, is clear to me.
The fact I’m now receiving arguments drawing equivalence between nation-states and twitch streamers behooves me to say
This is a really embarrassing dismissal of a comrade who is trying sincerely to get through to you. Be better.
You're arguing like a redditor, please stop.
bro if I invite you to a tea party and you don't tow the party line on which of my stuffies is being a lib ima come after you. This has nothing to do with how big the stakes are and everything to do with how you are assessing this situation. This being a lower stakes situation than the war in Ukraine doesn't give you a free pass to not think critically.
you have lib stuffies? damn
~kidding~ ~i~ ~agree~ ~completely~
but also like gulag that lib stuffie this is outrageous
I can fix her
When they make me the commissar of plushie affairs all of the lib ones will be re-educated and given beautiful hats and a hammer & sickle embroided onto them
Twitch streamers are the exact same as heads of state who have armies at their disposal.
I was absolutely on the fence about Hasan but that's because I just didn't care for his format ( not going to watch 8 hours ) but the YouTube algorithm has started feeding me clips that someone spends a lot of time sifting through his streams and curating and you know what, critical support to Hasan.
I critically support Assad because he's funneling arms to the Resistance in Palestine. I critically support Putin because his army is turning NATO wunderwaffen into scrap metal. How about we dial it back a notch? You don't have to compare a Twitch streamer to heads of state to make your point.