when people are calling democrats controlled opposition, this is what they mean.
Well, I kind of mean it as a joke, since they are not even opposition.
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Peanutbjelly@sopuli.xyz 13 hours ago
“look the guy who spends all day every day saying things said a cringe thing once! stop listening to him about israel and billionaires!”
there’s a huge hasan smear campaign by corpo “democrats” right now, because obviously he’s the real danger for some reason and not the cheeto rapist in power.
when people are calling democrats controlled opposition, this is what they mean.
remember hasan’s dog? don’t think about the entrenched democrats actively enabling the fascist takeover. don’t think about their support for funding israel’s genocide of gaza. what if his dog possibly potentially had a shock collar because the way it moved once! keep hasan on the defensive so he isn’t talking about israel or billionaires!
etc.
i definitely am not the biggest hasan fan, but i find myself defending him regularly from absolute bullshit.
if there’s was ever a time to be picky about hasan’s choice of emotionally biased statements on non-issues, this is really not it.
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
JDPoZ@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Same - I feel like I’m going insane reading all this obvious bullshit. It’s good to know there’s other sane people in this shitpost thread.
7101334@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I agree with everything you’re saying buuuuuuuuuuut also
the dude lives in a mansion and plays down the importance of mutual aid, he’s a grifter and the left should be demanding better
MeansTV is great and less braindead-Twitch-stream formatted
nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
Yeah this is ridiculous criticism. If he was poor and arguing for socialism he would be called jealous. Now he’s rich and arguing for socialism and your criticism is…what exactly? That he takes care of his family? Seemslike ad hominem attacks to avoid having to engage with what he’s saying.
7101334@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
If he was poor and arguing for socialism he would be called jealous.
Not by me.
Now he’s rich and arguing for socialism and your criticism is…what exactly?
That he’s rich.
nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
And a grifter, which I already said.
Cool unsubstantiated opinion.
starelfsc2@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
Taking care of my family by having a multi million dollar mansion fancy clothes a sports car and a Rolex, amen brother. I don’t expect someone to live like a pauper but wtf give 2 million to red cross and you’ve literally saved like 1000 peoples lives.
Badargel@thelemmy.club 8 hours ago
If there’s nothing wrong with it then he should stand on business and admit it rather than lie about it.
starelfsc2@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
youtu.be/GIIQQqnPVuw?t=3m49s He said democrats have to earn your vote, so the harm reduction argument isn’t valid. The democrats didn’t earn my vote so I didn’t vote. Now Trump killed 2 people, started a war, cut all solar programs, ruined our trade negotiations, destroyed the fda, destroyed usaid, destroyed the department of education, pulled out of the climate accord, destroyed research for being “woke,” but I mean hey the democrats didn’t earn my vote so I was fully justified not voting I think.
buddascrayon@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Did you go out and vote for any other candidates (local, senators, congressmen, school board?) or did you just skip voting all together?
Because if you did skip voting all together then yes it is 100% your own fault. Because I’m sure as shit he didn’t say “don’t vote”, he just said Democrats need to earn your vote. You’re the fuck weed who decided not to.
I’m a fucking Bernie bro and I was not on board with Hillary I was not on board with Kamala, but I sure as fuck went out and voted for both of them because I knew what the hell was coming.
This damage was self-inflicted. And every person who puts up their hand says, “not me I didn’t do this, I stayed home and didn’t vote cause both candidates sucked” is part of the problem and not any part of the solution. You don’t like the candidates? Then show up to the primaries and caucuses, get signs and put them in your lawn and support the candidates you want. Don’t just sit at home and post on Facebook how “everything sucks and it’s not my fault”.
starelfsc2@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
I am saying I sucked it up and voted for kamala despite hassan explicity saying it was okay to not vote for the lesser of 2 evils “especially this time.” If there was ever a time in history to vote for the lesser of 2 evils, this was it. Hassan either pretends to or actually doesn’t realize how much America got shafted by trump, and how much WORSE trump would be for hamas.
TheOakTree@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
I don’t love or hate him, but I keep up with what he has to say because he is undeniably the largest online voice representing the younger left-leaning voter base.
I can’t agree with many of his more agitating statements, but I’d rather have him reaching young people who feel disenfranchised by politics than the next manosphere crypto gambling tycoon. He’s more of a step in the right direction than liberal influencers.
Stuff like this is why leftists have a (mainstream) reputation of infighting and semantic policing instead of actual praxis.