• SeizeTheBeans [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    28 days ago

    Alright, let’s look at this honestly because I’ve read many of your comments over the years and know you’re better than this. Right now you are grossly misrepresenting the things people (in this case me) are saying. I sincerely don’t know if you’re aware you’re doing this and just want to score points or if you are in an emotional state that is distorting what you think I’m saying. It seems like the latter, and that is what I mean by going off the rails.

    I’m growing increasingly annoyed at obtuse parasocial nonsense

    What parasocial nonsense have I expressed in this conversation, from your perspective?

    for the purposes of trashing the largest leftist voice in the country

    In what way am I trashing Hasan? I literally said I am grateful he is out there and that while I don’t like everything he does, I think he is a force for good in the world. I agreed with you that as far as outreach and spreading and popularizing leftism, that he almost certainly has done more than people here have done.

    To pretend you (a forum user) has more motion than the largest funder of the Amazon labor union

    What is motion? Where did I pretend I had more of it than Hasan?

    If you’re gonna talk shit, the least you could do is know something about the person you’re trashing

    I haven’t been doing anything that could remotely be called “talking shit” unless saying “Hasan is not radical” by the standards of nearly anyone on this website is “talking shit.” To the contrary, I’ve been saying that Hasan is undeniably a net good. As for what I know about him, everything I’ve said is well within reason to say given what I do know about Hasan. I have said nothing about him that is not perfectly commensurate with my non-expert but more than average person on the street’s knowledge of who he is.

    [your link]

    I’m glad he is talking to and is friends with someone else who I will take your word is a well-read Marxist Leninist. It doesn’t matter though, I contend that someone who endorses Democrats, especially genocidal presidential candidates, someone who is as concerned and supportive of one half of the uni-party posing as a two-party state kayfabe politics as I’ve personally seen him to be, that person is simply not a radical leftist and that no actual radical leftist would claim him as one.

    Of course you would, you want the left to stay motionless

    Great. Nice little jab of meaningless nonsense, accusing me of something that doesn’t even parse, let alone related in any way to anything I said. That’s the way to stick it to your opponents! Come on, what is the point of doing that, really?

    • CyborgMarx [any, any]@hexbear.net
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      28 days ago

      I get what you’re saying, but I can’t help it, I have to be pedantic here because words matter. How radical a person is is not dependent on how big their platform or loud their voice is, how many people they’ve exposed to leftist thought, or even how much material change they can affect or may have brought about

      This is how you began the conversation, this is incoherent; according to you in terms of what is radical, actions don’t matter, radicalizing people doesn’t matter, exposing people to leftist thought, who cares, loudest anti-genocide voice in the country, platforming countless Palestinian voices, teaching 50,000 people the concept of social murder…etc

      “Tried your best kid, BUT THAT AIN’T RADICAL”, that’s your take huh?

      No, what apparently what only really matters is a person’s take on electoralism and the concept of entryism, that’s how we here at Hexbear judge what is or isn’t radical, absolute nonsense, is democrat derangement syndrome a thing now?

      And you wonder why I might be annoyed and put off, the loudest anti-genocide voice in the country is disqualified from the vaunted halls of Hexbear radicalism because he encouraged his viewers to neither vote for or against Harris, while still trashing Harris the whole time, unforgivable

      End of the day, this shit still boils down to 2024 for all of you

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        28 days ago

        You are truly hung up on semantics. Hasan is not radical in ML terms but does have significant impact and reach. You are literally conflating concepts, as it’s been explained to you several times. We recognize you’re claiming that in order for a radical to have impact, they must have reach, but this is not the point. The point is that calling Hasan a radical is bizarre given his Democrat entryism even if he does good under the banner of Marxism.

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          28 days ago

          The point is that calling Hasan a radical is bizarre given his Democrat entryism even if he does good under the banner of Marxism.

          And there it is, and that’s why all of you are dumb, sorry but pro-Palestine radicalism boosted by his REACH, doesn’t stop being radical just because of his takes on electoralism, and second of all his electoral takes for the last 8 months have been about how the democrat party is shit and is doomed, while still being rightfully skeptical of third party emergence

          Regardless that doesn’t trump his radicalism concerning Palestine and how that radicalism is elevated by his reach, my entire point the whole goddamn time

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            28 days ago

            I’m not dumb. I think you’re wrong and arguing out of emotion.

            I’ll state it plainly before leaving you to your devices: one’s degree of radical is unrelated to one’s reach. You are conflating concepts. Also, Hasan is not radical in ML terms.

            Good bye.

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              one’s degree of radical is unrelated to one’s reach

              One’s expression of radicalism is often ELEVATED by one’s reach, and one’s reach can be defined by one’s radicalism, that’s been my point from the start, far from being “unrelated” they interact with each other, welcome to the real world Neo

              Elevating and defining each other, concepts sometimes do that, of course this conceptual interaction is obvious, but you all want to pretend you don’t know how to follow a basic logic chain, because at the end of that chain you’d have to hand it to Hasan, and we can’t have that

              No, we have to pretend this forum is more radical and impactful than aipac’s number one target and the literal face of American left radicalism

              Why? Because he said vote once

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                It’s wild how you are the person calling others “parasocial” lmao

                And literally no one is doing this here:

                No, we have to pretend this forum is more radical and impactful than aipac’s number one target and the literal face of American left radicalism

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                  27 days ago

                  Seriously get a grip, people in this thread literally said Hasan isn’t “radical” cause of his pro-Harris electoral takes and that he’s friends with and platforms Zionists, people don’t lie this much about a streamer (they apparently don’t watch) unless they got some parasocial hate boner

                  That’s what’s so obnoxious about this anti-Hasan clique of yours, you all dogpile, you intentionally misinterpret EVERYTHING SOMEONE SAYS, and then when someone pushes back a little, suddenly it’s “get over yourself”, “haha crash out” and “you like seeing homeless people suffer

                  When it comes to Hasan, you weirdos act like Destiny stans, it’s gross and unhinged, we get it, you’re all podcast millennials who hate streaming culture, stop making that everyone else’s problem

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                    you intentionally misinterpret EVERYTHING SOMEONE SAYS

                    When it comes to Hasan, you weirdos act like Destiny stans

                    it’s gross and unhinged, we get it, you’re all podcast millennials

                    Seriously get a grip

                    Have you ever heard the phrase “every accusation a confession”?