What did Hasan do now? I’m not in the know
No this is the Hasan Piker theory
ah yes, the pop-atomism of US succdems
nukes totally stopped the US from proxywarring Russia and China
It did stop potential invasions of the DPRK.
Love or hate him (Hasan), his theory game is always on point. His actions within the Dem party are disappointing at the very least, I wouldn’t even say calling him a reformist is wrong. I do believe he is a genuine anti-imperialist and until he writes a book & runs for president I still like to believe his content has value.
I see him as one of the better social democrats, one that doesn’t waste time punching communists but nevertheless is severely limited by the failings of social democracy.
Bingo. I used to watch him a lot more but tbh there are far better content creators that cover the same stuff and they don’t ever really disappoint me with their rhetoric, Gotta remember at the end of the day these people are just entertainers and not revolutionaries; though that does not make them immune to criticism so on and so forth. Hope that makes sense
Yep!
I do believe he is a genuine anti-imperialist
Hasan supported a candidate that went on 4 combat tours in the Middle East, that guarded the Abu Ghraib concentration camp YEARS AFTER the human rights violations came out, that ran on the campaign promise of strengthening the Epstein military; and he only stopped supporting him when it turned out that the guy had raped an American woman.
He also broke BDS by going on Haaretz (where he condemned the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation), and he very recently retweeted Ziohran’s October 7th statement where the motherfucker literally mourns the dead IOF terrorists.
Not sure how he was before his collaboration with the DSA, but he’s certainly an American supremacist now.
instead they’re being sanctioned to hell
that talk of nuclear proliferation just feels really First Cold War coded, I don’t know, is there any theory about nuclear proliferation in service of anti-imperialism?
Has Nukes: (Pyongyang)
Doesn’t Have Nukes: (Tehran)
They’ve been sanctioned to hell, but by maintaining a nuclear-first doctrine they’ve been able to cut out their own sovereignty and maintain independence. This is being leveraged in the 2020s into increased trade with Russia and cooperation with China, and economic development. Each nation developing its own sovereignty needs to seriously consider pursuing nuclear deterrence to protect itself from imperialism, if it doesn’t have something like the Strait of Hormuz (which itself is a post-facto deterrence in practice).
I mean it stopped them from directly warring. Have nuclear powers ever directly gone to war? I feel like I might be forgetting a time they did, but I can’t recall one.
This is Kim Jong-Un theory actually.
How about “Make a revolution”. As in do it.
That’s what we’re trying to do. The assholes convincing everyone it isn’t necessary bcs they can just keep voting for the people who made the problem to begin with and that will somehow solve the problem are far more numerous and supported by the entire propaganda machine of the wealthiest empire in history and the personal social clout of every person profiting from the problem.
Revolution requires class consciousness and organization. You’re encouraging adventurism which is counterproductive.
Be so fr rn. Violent revolution is such a silly idea in a country that allows corporations to legally kill people and a govt that will drone strike you. 1) Half this country doesn’t vote. 2) The Black Panthers weren’t a threat to the corpos because they had guns, they were a threat because the improved the material conditions of their communities without the need of the government. Hasan has never said to not help out locally. I’d love to see an clip if he has.
Anything but violent revolution is a silly idea in a country under the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie…
What’s your defense against an ultra militarized police force who has drones?
12 ga shotguns and bird shot. Wrist rocket slingshots. Guerilla tactics.
What’s your plan to make the people with all the wealth and power give up without forcing you into a violent confrontation anyway, in the incredibly unlikely event you overcome their propaganda power and get a majority to vote for stripping their wealth and power?
Before or after mass incarcerations of political prisoners? You’re not going to use Guerulla tactics to change the hearts and minds of the liberals across the country. Other counties have taken steps to prevent unregulated exploitation. They’re not perfect but it’s a step in the right direction.
I’m not particularly worried about the sequence. And I’m not convinced that most Liberals are all that gung ho about it, most just follow the cultural defaults. That can be changed inside a generation. And the US already has mass incarceration of political prisoners, so the overall per capita prison population would probably go down regardless.
That’s exactly why you need revolution, lmao
Recently, in France, high school studient have revolted. The gouv sent them riot police, and stun grenades have made some of this kids loose an eye or a hand. In the next days, a riot policeman got caught too far from his line by some studients, who used ultra violence on him, kicking his face many times. That is how the gouv decided to remove the dangerous stun grenades.
As long as violence is the only way that works, violence is the way to use (unfortunately).
If oppression could stop when we say please, their would not be social violences.
ICE has murdered multiple people and we can’t even get body cams on them.
And as long as the violence is only issued by ICE against the population, it won’t stop. I may reduce a bit in targets, or expend, according to the ruler, but only to match the ruler’s interests.
Of course police remain violent here too, with the wonderful umbrella of “so much less than in the US”. Here if the police kills a minor, their is a trial… that always gives police’s violence as legit and the death as an accident. At most the policeman killer could get a warning from the hierarchy.
The few remaining of free news and public opinion do all the pressure they can ; a video was released in the press, video made by the police, were officers instruct to shoot aiming the head of pacifist manifestants, and policemen joke trying their best to “kill one”. Over an hundred manifestants got serious injuries. Based on laws, that officer and the policemen should be fired, but there has been no output (not even a trial, not even a “sorry”).
I would prefer that politics push for justice, for social dialog, for (really) democratic processes of managing problems. And I am really sad to see that none of this works this days.
When the police (or public force) fear for their life, they come to a point they agree to avoid violences. If they renounce to free brutality, the gouvernment is often forced to discuss and to let the people have some power.
Nobody has yet lured any of their command structure into an ambush and stomped a mud hole in their chest. Americans are far too fucking domesticated, which is why step one of starting that revolution from the original comment is spreading class consciousness and making sure everyone understands that there is no possibility of voting away the fascism.
it doesn’t matter what piker says, he’s popular until he fucks up like his compatible left predecessors usually do – like platner.
Planter didn’t have a “fuck up.” Platner is a sex pest. What is this take?
he was the “progressive” that people like piker supported
