BadEmpanada is mad Hasan went to the DNC, I guess.
Dude just loves riling himself up into a frenzy, doesn’t he? I guess he was mad that Hasan was going to interview Obama, which never even happened, and now he thinks Hasan is a “genocide supporter” because a random YouTube clip he came across that said “Hasan supports Kamala’s policies”, which he never even watched and was most likely just clipped. Hasan isn’t perfect, but fuck, you think at least him going to the DNC as a journalist would be considered fair from BE. Wild.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Hasan is just following in the footsteps of AOC where he spends some time critiquing Democratic policies but then spends every waking moment trying to get cozy with the Democratic party.
Hasan can't have it both ways where he's an "outsider" that gets kicked out of the Convention for saying some stuff on stream that made the DNC or Donors angry, but then also had spent all that time trying to get into the Convention in the first place so he could stream from the Convention and attract as many Democratic party hogs who wanted to watch the convention via Twitch.
You're either outside the convention, demonstrating against it and explicitly against a genocide, or you're just trying to keep an audience just happy enough by saying that a genocide is bad, while you try and triangulate enough in order to get into the Convention and "network"
It can't be both, and unfortunately BadEmpenada is correct for once about something.
It's also the case that it's one internet personality trying to start shit with a more popular internet personality in order to get clout, but the point still stands.
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.