AnneVolin

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[–] AnneVolin@lemmy.ml -2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Because this is a plain instance of him not being a class traitor to further his own career and desires.

The reality of the "stop pocket watching" argument that Hasan has successfully deployed on his fans and friends is that it's the same argument every rich person pulls out when you question how they spend their money and what that practically says about their place and ideas for society at large.

My argument isn't that "people shouldn't live in LA" (okay fine maybe it is a little). My argument is that Hasan made the same choice that every influencer makes.

Beyond the very obvious influencer argument, how exactly do you think that upper middle class comes to support capitalism as a whole? They get addicted to their level of consumption like every wealthy class has done for millennia.

So the underlying argument there isn't "Hasan doesn't deserve nice things", it's that "Hasan's appetite for nice things is a form of class expression" and there is a point of where that class expression and the addiction to consumption overrides any "do socialism" argument that you say on stream.

This is literally how the nomenklatura got fat in the USSR, they didn't have streams but they had their local, national, and general assembly soviets. Every post-Soviet person knows an uncle who was a party apparatchik and stopped saying "do socialism" the moment the wall came down, and he was one out of maybe two/three guys in your whole extended family who happened to have a car prior to 1995. I have 3 of such uncles and 2 of them aren't even blood relatives.

Y'all are getting wrecked by the same attitudes that wrecked the USSR and y'all don't even have state capitalism with socialist characteristics.

The real problem here is that Hasan doesn't admit these things. Hasan can't admit these things because he doesn't know these things. Hasan is very limited in his knowledge of "socialism", he's a guy who just says shit on stream. Being a class traitor is a cool coat he wears along with all his other cool coats.

I struggle to even call myself a class traitor despite the fact that I have Eastern European thrift embedded so deeply in my veins that I live way below my means. Guess what class expression doesn't stop there. Being thrifty doesn't stop you from being compromised by your class. That money doesn't sit under my mattress it's invested, which means I'm in a class of people who not only will have private money for retirement but I'm invested in the outcomes of the market like every upper middle class person.

So I'm sorry that I don't buy the whole class traitor shit, because neither the fans giving him that title nor he can actually untangle and explain his place in the world beyond saying "stop pocket watching". It's one thing to call yourself a class traitor because you bought a cool eat the rich shirt, it's another thing to actually take inventory of your life and apply socialist theory to figure that out.

[–] AnneVolin@lemmy.ml -2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

If y'all are gonna LARP again as "serious leftists" for 4 years and then put it all down to elect another Joe Biden and go back to brunch then yeah. Sounds like what you want is to not care.

Also if you haven't noticed that half of your party now agrees with a core set of Trump policies because Biden/Harris implemented quite literally Trump policies or Trump adjacent policies regarding immigration, national security and trade.

[–] AnneVolin@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 weeks ago

Shame that seriously asking is so hard to distinguish from trolling at this point.

Common-L among left-ish Lemmy instances when you start noticing the paint chipping off of their golden idols.

[–] AnneVolin@lemmy.ml -2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

Okay let's do some introspection, why does Hasan Piker need to live in LA?

He could live in La Puente which has a median sale price of $700k, 20 miles from downtown LA, but for some reason he moved to LA.

It's kind-of odd you know? That basically once a streamer, podcaster, or one of these online personalities makes it big they often move to like LA or NYC. Why is that? Why don't they move to Nabraska or something? It's kind of weird that there's this seeming class of people (new media people making it big) that have an interest in moving to some of the most expensive areas of the country that seemingly have a conglomeration of other people who are part of their class.

[–] AnneVolin@lemmy.ml -2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

Who gives a fuck? Harris' own team knew she was unelectable. This is only a surprise to libs who are so high on copium they cannot read a room.

[–] AnneVolin@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

Damn you're right, that's drawn by someone who's never seen a molotov in real life lmao.

[–] AnneVolin@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

No I'm saying maybe offer people something other than tax spread sheet bullshit, which is generally all the democratic party can ever do. They fucking can't stop talking about the EITC.

[–] AnneVolin@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

It's a combination of books, news sources, and some formal education. I was lucky that my highschool still heavily invested in humanities before I went off to a stupid ass tech collage. Beyond that I am constantly researching things because I'm weird. So when people pull up reasons that are fairly well documented quite literally easily sourced on wikipedia of all places it's incredibly easy for me to remember and reference them.

[–] AnneVolin@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 weeks ago

You seem to believe that I think I can convince others.

I think I cannot because the love and defense of Hasan doesn't come from an objective place at all. I'm merely shitposting. There are people deifying him in this thread and all over the internet.

[–] AnneVolin@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)
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