Yes, your well-documented interest in dogs, and not your woefully underrepresented distaste for a specific type of leftist commentary that piker happens to advocate for.
Yes, your well-documented interest in dogs, and not your woefully underrepresented distaste for a specific type of leftist commentary that piker happens to advocate for.
PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
You’re actually 100% right about that. I actually forgot about this, but I talked about it here:
https://lemmy.world/search?q=hasan&type=All&listingType=All&creatorId=15951251&page=1&sort=Old
I completely forgot about that stuff. He was saying that basically every country in the world except America was backing Russia in Ukraine. Something like that. I don’t fully remember (and I guess the post got deleted?), but yes, I think he’s incredibly ignorant about world issues, and incredibly hostile to anyone who does know what they’re talking about who disagrees with him, and then cloaks in in this shield of performative leftist anti-Imperialism in a way that garners him supporters without him needing to be worth listening to.
And in particular there’s a huge following that sees that he’s pro-Palestinian, and then they start supporting him, and that becomes a shield for any kind of wrong or toxic thing he wants to do. I’m pro-Palestinian. You’re pro-Palestinian. Hasan is pro-Palestinian. Bernie Sanders is pro-Palestinian. It’s fine. It is the only moral viewpoint. But he understands that in the modern left it’s this kind of trump card where if someone convinces their idiot supporters (like you, right now) to attack everyone who’s “against” him by implying that they’re ANTI-Palestinian, because what other type of person would EVER attack a PRO-Palestinian, they can literally get away with torturing a dog on stream and everyone will look the other way for them.
That’s why I compare it to small town Christian communities. It’s 100% the same. It is to a T. He’s the people who go out to eat after church and tip fifty cents. He’s the people who torment their stepchildren without mercy, are just blowhard pieces of shit on a personal level, but no one will say a word against them, because they’re PRO-Christian in a huge way and big names in the community, and so… you get the idea.
So yes, I have distaste for “a specific type of leftist community.” I honestly didn’t pay enough attention to Hasan before this to see it in any level of detail, I just saw that one video 2 months ago. And sure, maybe it’s fair to say that I should watch some of his streams that haven’t been cherry-picked to look bad by someone with malicious intentions. That’s completely fair, I really will do that. But honestly everything I have seen, including stuff that was cherry-picked by his supporters as a “gotcha” against my POV (when he was showing the dog collar on stream and explaining himself), has made me think he is pro-Palestine’s TV evangelist preacher, and y’all are the suckers who keep sending your retirement money hoping he’ll bring Gaza to the promised land, when all he wants to do is buy more cars for himself with it or whatever. Has he been covering the flotilla? Has he been burning up about all the protests spreading in Europe now? What’s he been talking about? I haven’t seen, maybe he is, tell me.
Honestly I appreciate this whole interaction because now I can see more clearly I think. Whatever was burning me up to interact about the topic of the dog-shocking (to this, sure, a little excessive degree) is gone now, I think, because the thing I was wanting to know or wanting to understand is resolved for me now.
anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Hmmm, now who would that be
PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
Like this person his chat who made an incredibly succinct comparison to highlight the error of what he was saying, and then he (a) missed the point completely (b) lost his shit:
https://files.catbox.moe/vpcdhp.mp4
anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Yes i’ve seen you post this a couple times. I’m still looking for an example of who you think ‘knows what they’re talking about’
So far it just seems like its anyone who shares your perspective, including any old twitch chatter or outspoken genocidal zionist, but you’re being a little cagey. Is it willymac? Is that your go-to foreign policy expert? I just want to make sure we’re on the same page.