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Hasan's follower gain for November - December alone is roughly the size of the entire Lemmy fediverse MAU, ~60k.

He’s using his influence to organize the working class and advocate for collective action, which is the one tool workers have in the fight against their own exploitation.

Posting and streaming (which is just video posting) is not "organizing the working class and advocating for collective action". The closest he gets to this is fundraisers, but the buck pretty much stops there.

Money is important sure, but that's not what organizing is. If fundraising is organizing than the Democratic Party should be Bolsheviks.

Going on stream to tell the people who decompress from their shitty McDonalds shifts that they should organize as they say hell yeah man and go back to the work the next day without doing anything isn't organizing, it's not advocacy, it's entertainment.

Depends on what you define left, but if it's left of the DNC and corporate media than he's one of the biggest no doubt about it.

I realized he is very knowledgeable

Citation needed.

Hasan has the same knowledge as an average poster on this website. The average poster doesn't know the differences between Mao and Lenin or China and USSR. Half the posters on this site don't even understand the disagreements between the movements they claim to like.

Hasan literally would tell you this is nerd shit as a deflection when asked (same thing that Felix from Chapo does cuz it's cool not to know basic history about the thing you claim to be). Hasan literally doesn't know how to employ the basics of journalism. When pinned against the wall Hasan will admit that he's entertainment. What you're mistaking for knowledge is the fact that he reads leftist news aggregators all day and his chat is literally one. That's not knowledge that's chattering.

Hasan's strength is that he can understand what vaguely center-to-center-leftish normies vibe with and find convincing, he's a filter, but there's no real depth there.

Half the responses in here are like "he's organizing the working class" which is the lulziest shit ever because for some reason y'all think organizing is posting memes and streaming.

Because he's cool to a certain type of person and those people are vaguely leftist (just like Hasan is vaguely leftist).

That cool factor and the parasocial relationships protect him a lot in places like this where some of the more knowledgeable users will actually dunk on his sources like Ettingermentum when they do/say stupid shit. It's incredibly funny to see.

Honestly that's pretty much it.

Oh I don't know, Gaza ceasefire, Biden being a one turn president and not fucking the party and the nation, pardoning your crackhead son, we can keep going all the way back to card check if you want won't help.

Also my favorite saga of this presidency was price controls. 2 years ago the CHUDs had their gas is expensive meme phase with their "I did that" Brandon stickers and the entire Dem party went on the offensive of saying "THE PRESIDENT DOESN'T CONTROL GAS PRICES YOU ABSOLUTE MORON YOU ABSOLUTE IMBICILE" and then 2 years later Kamala Harris' platform (the one that nobody actually read except to send as a PDF to people to prove that they're wrong about her) says she can lower the price of groceries. Which one is it guys?

Dems lie all the time. There's just an entire media ecosystem ready to give you a technocratic puppet theater about why or how it's smart, or how it actually doesn't count and how they're still the good guys.

Hell Glen Kessler makes an entire department's paycheck by writing "fact checking" where he picks and chooses the dumbest most obvious lies to call a lie, promotes the most innocuous irrelevant truths and then conveniently ignores the statements/lies that would actually impact the American people if they were fulfilled.

Progressives just need to start lying.

What do you mean "start"? They already have been.

what do you mean "about to"? lmao

The pretense that the Hunter pardon is the first time that Joe Biden has acted unethically is rich given he's instrumental in a current genocide that he's lied repeatedly about.

Also you know his entire history from being anti-bussing and eulogizing Strom Thurmond then turning around an telling people they aren't black if they don't vote for him.

He's the best at being part of a big mess, saying that everyone was doing it, then pretending to be the solution, wiping his hands clean and not even rectifying half the damage he's personally caused.

Just look at his involvement with finance, war on drugs, Iraq, etc.

He's a good retail politician which is why he's a classic beneficiary of "we didn't know any better when we were doing this horrible thing but we were the good guys" type shit that Americans love to do.