• machiabelly [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    15 days ago

    If Y’all can critically support Asad and Putin y’all damn well better critically support Hasan. This an attempt to silence someone who supports palestine by conflating anti semitism and Zionism. It doesnt matter who it is, it just matters that Zionists dont have control over social platforms.

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      15 days ago

      There’s a difference between “it’s bad that zionists are weaponising antisemitism to silence people” and “the gaming streamer is the best hope for the spread of socialism, and the most important voice on earth about the Palestinian issue, we must stan”

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        “assad is the best hope for the spread of socialism, and the most important voice on earth about building a socialist world, we must stan.”

        assad-must-stay who-must-go must-go

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          Literally who is saying that, I’m not sure if you’re supposed to be mocking me, doing a bit, being serious… Maybe I’m just too dumb to understand this epic own. If only there was a streamer to explain it to me.

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            The reason you’re saying we shouldn’t critically support Hasan apply just as easily to some of the people Hexbear does support. My comment wasn’t saying, “Hasan is good actually,” only that the same logic that leads us to critically support Russia and Syria leads us to support Hasan.

            I took your comment directed to Hasan and applied it to Assad, then posted emojis to show the site’s implied endorsement of him.

            Another part of your comment was that Hasan just isn’t that important, just a streamer ect. But, in the current world he is functionally a journalist that reaches millions of people. Regardless, importance determines stakes, not position. Even if this situation is relatively petty, which is very arguable, the position we should take, critical support, is clear to me.

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      15 days ago

      I was absolutely on the fence about Hasan but that’s because I just didn’t care for his format ( not going to watch 8 hours ) but the YouTube algorithm has started feeding me clips that someone spends a lot of time sifting through his streams and curating and you know what, critical support to Hasan.

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      14 days ago

      I critically support Assad because he’s funneling arms to the Resistance in Palestine. I critically support Putin because his army is turning NATO wunderwaffen into scrap metal. How about we dial it back a notch? You don’t have to compare a Twitch streamer to heads of state to make your point.