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Hasan has lib moments but he's good on >90% of issues. He has a massive audience to which he spreads leftist ideas, like it's honestly so lucky that one of the biggest streamers on twitch is pro-China and singlehandedly normalizing Xi chad memes on the platform. He also reaches a lot of non-political people thanks to being friends with people like Ludwig, Valkyrae or pokimane, introducing them and their audiences to expressly political figures like Felix Biedermann and Brace Belden.

Good luck starting the revolution by hissing at everyone who doesn't already agree with you.

I once visited a bank, I'm now a capitalist.

Dialectical materialism is me wanting to shit on Hasan for being a sheepdog millionaire living in a mansion vs me wanting to shit on BadEmpanada for being a deranged sexpat gringo holed up in Argentina

All streamers are deeply unserious people

We need to stop purity testing and seeing if people are "good" and start seeing if people are useful instead. Hasan might be a bit cuddled up with libs(bad) and is a millionaire(owns a house) but he provides a useful service and pipeline for the left, making him useful. Norman Finkelstein is a transphobe(bad), but his analysis is invaluable and is tremendously useful to the left. I don't care if a person is good or moral. I care if they help the left. BE occasionally produces valuable content and I applaud him for that, but this is nonsensical, idealist, individualist drivel from him.

Unless you’re just some dude in the Gobi desert who doesn’t even have internet, there is zero merit to being this absolutist

I like Hasan for being a pipeline and I like bademp for being a poster.

Greek man mad at Turkish man. News at 11.

I could really go for an empanada rn goddamn

Kill the streamer in your head

I don't even disagree with BE on much (this is one of the things) but I just had to stop watching him because it made me so miserable. I don't think that man has ever had a positive thought, or if he ever has he certainly hasn't ever made it apparent. Just constant rage and hostility. Not to say it's unwarranted, ruthless criticism etc etc, but it does get incredibly exhausting and depressing to watch.

Locking this post due to continued, excessive hostility.

I've said this before and I'll say it again: He's the Keemstar of leftist twitch/twitter/youtube. He basically latches onto whatever popular topic is being discussed and posts hot takes (which are sometimes good tbf) that are sure to get him views/clicks.

Streamers aren't revolutionaries, at their absolute best they can serve as a piece of the pipeline to the left. It's good that Hasan's audience (the majority of whom are basically kids) is being exposed to consistent and principled anti-imperialism. I wish that didn't come with all the baggage of making his millions off of that same audience but I don't think its a net negative considering we live in a society etc etc.

That being said BadEmpanada is a drama-seeking childish weenie who contributes very little that other minor internet celebrities don't already do better and more consistently

I keep mixing up these supposedly-leftist "influencers" and the slapfights all blend together for me.

This stuff is so petty. Why can’t this person just spend more time doing important stuff, like organizing or something, instead of getting pissed off at someone on the internet. Seems like a colossal waste of time and energy.

I unironically love Empanada drama the guy is so scrappy. Ok so he misses sometimes but and it causes problems but it's also useful energy when he's not missing too.

Yes, bad empinada's only emotion is rage. Just enjoy seeing it