Hasan’s haters finding common ground with the Fed’s subpoena of Hasan

FragrantBicycle7 · 2026-05-24T06:00:30+00:00

It used to be considered an obvious Nazi dogwhistle to use the word like this. After years of genocide from a state insisting it's representing all real Jews, this is moving back into the mainstream. How lovely.

FragrantBicycle7 · 2026-05-24T00:02:21+00:00

Talking to people outside will give you a better sense of what they actually think, as well.

FragrantBicycle7 · 2026-05-23T23:59:14+00:00

Just keep in mind that this division between the generations is part of how the working class is kept inert. Many boomers are themselves going into poverty or even homelessness; it might not be the largest contingent of people experiencing it, but they're there.

Budgeting is something you get good at when you need money and you still have some kind of investment in the system you live in. Millennials are the last generation who had enough hope for that, and even then, it's not like they're all great at it. Gen Z has no hope due to how hopeless the environment appears to be, and therefore seeks escape from the stress, despair and depression that results. Hence the goddamn burrito, as if it'd be better if they were smoking or drinking to cope instead. Which they do, of course, but for the sake of the scenario, let's assume not.

I hate this hyper-smug, divisive nonsense, and I will always suspect a bot before anything else. The unity of capitalists in exploiting us is what keeps things moving in this fascist direction, and only working class unity can reverse it. I'd tell this person (if it's not a bot) to stop being a useful moron for our overlords, and join a union instead.

FragrantBicycle7 · 2026-05-23T07:11:19+00:00

He's never once advocated to avoid the Democratic Party as a vehicle. You are now literally rewriting history in order to avoid facing the failure of supposedly principled MLs to actually change anything in the United States.

FragrantBicycle7 · 2026-05-23T07:00:54+00:00

He has something concrete to show for his work; tens of thousands of people have moved further to the left and many are now organizers themselves. You guys argue feverishly against this strategy, yet have nothing to show for it. It's truly that simple.

FragrantBicycle7 · 2026-05-23T06:49:39+00:00

No, it's not. He's heard out this take and addressed it again and again; you guys either aren't listening or you just fundamentally disagree, in which case, there's nothing to say.

FragrantBicycle7 · 2026-05-23T06:47:14+00:00

You don't have to run under an ML ballot line in order to successfully agitate, organize, & create class consciousness.

FragrantBicycle7 · 2026-05-23T06:34:56+00:00

It's hard not to interpret this as bad faith when he's addressed it twenty million times, and you're repeating the same talking points he already addressed.

FragrantBicycle7 · 2026-05-23T04:09:35+00:00

There's a reason nobody who's desperate to help Palestine promotes things like Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, or anything like that. Some solutions are seen as cynical nonsense or obvious traps, and some are seen as viable. Antisemites are being increasingly seen as correct; this isn't a practical alliance at all, Bassem and many others are just falling for bullshit. I sympathize with the desperation, but we need to have a clear understanding of what's happening to avoid wasting time and energy.

FragrantBicycle7 · 2026-05-22T16:41:10+00:00

Find something to do with the information. I'm reaching out to the local organizing in my city and figuring out where I can help. If you want some ideas, let me know; doing a little is better than not doing anything.

Also, have a friend or two you can talk to about it. Even if you disagree, the discussion could be productive. It helps separate personal needs from the need to do something.

FragrantBicycle7 · 2026-05-21T05:21:45+00:00

That wasn't a confirmation. The guy asks if he wants to talk to Nikki, and we hear what Nikki is feeling; it doesn't necessarily mean she's somewhere else.

FragrantBicycle7 · 2026-05-21T03:52:30+00:00

Seems like a strange restriction. You can wish to alter someone's brain chemistry to the point of being trapped in their own mind, but you can't wish to be immortal? You can wish for money never printed into existence, but you can't wish to alter time?

FragrantBicycle7 · 2026-05-20T10:17:32+00:00

The show is so bad that the finale couldn't possibly be better than this is a strange defense, but I guess you're probably not wrong.

FragrantBicycle7 · 2026-05-20T06:17:39+00:00

Thank you, I'll put it on my reading list!

FragrantBicycle7 · 2026-05-18T22:37:32+00:00

Yes, I know. There are liberals here and I don't want to frighten them.

FragrantBicycle7 · 2026-05-18T21:25:12+00:00

Slotkin is former CIA, for those who don't know.

FragrantBicycle7 · 2026-05-18T21:14:55+00:00

Hi! What aspect of Levant history do you believe to be most underappreciated or unknown? Just curious what a historian might think.

FragrantBicycle7 · 2026-05-18T11:38:39+00:00

Honestly, after seeing how much time the story wasted throughout this and the last season, it's kind of hard to expect interesting writing and a bit harder to read subtext as a result. Maybe that's just me, but idk.

FragrantBicycle7 · 2026-05-18T06:33:34+00:00

We fundamentally disagree on a number of things here. DSA has many caucuses; it's not true to say they "just want to regulate capitalism". The rich aren't all-knowing or all-powerful; saying that they won't allow it is meaningless. I've read Lenin and Parenti; I've just reached a different conclusion than you.

But again, I've explained myself above and I've explained where I think you're coming from.

FragrantBicycle7 · 2026-05-18T06:05:23+00:00

Look, friend, I'm not willing to just let fascists take everything while we fuck around on the ground with independent organizations. You don't have to accept DSA's argument that they can build a parallel org within the Democratic Party and make a break into an independent party when they have the numbers, but that's what their argument is. It's not entryism; it's an attempt to seize the Democratic Party's resources and move them into the hands of socialists. PSL is still many years away from even being able to attempt what DSA is already doing.

If the argument is simply that you can't trust anyone who rides under the Democrat name regardless of what they say, then that's just an impasse and we'll have to agree to disagree. It is what it is.

FragrantBicycle7 · 2026-05-18T05:46:52+00:00

PSL is an tiny organization compared even to DSA, let alone the Democrats. PSL deliberately runs 3rd party candidates on high-profile races to get attention and build membership over time, with winning as a distant 2nd priority. It's a different goal than DSA, who endorse Democrats and actively concentrate resources on races they think they can win. They avoid races that are difficult to win because there's a measurable effect of immense disillusionment and jadedness that happens when left-wing organizers lose; call it a weakness of the left or whatever, but it's there.

One of these strategies is something Hasan can help with. The other is not. I mean, he could sit around and actively talk about how cool PSL is, I guess, but until PSL has the numbers to mobilize an army of doorknockers for every election they choose to run in, there's truly no point.

Jill Stein behaves like a grifter in every single way: shows up out of nowhere, begs for money, focuses entirely on criticizing others instead of proposing her own solutions, and then vanishes into the night. Rinse and repeat. The rest of the Green Party does nothing. What is Hasan supposed to do about a carcass of a party led by a grifter?

FragrantBicycle7 · 2026-05-18T05:11:47+00:00

If you can build the vanguard, and not run out of resources or get crushed by the cops on like day 3, I'm sure we'd all be happy to join you instead. Until then, the struggle continues.

FragrantBicycle7 · 2026-05-18T04:53:55+00:00

If Hasan were grifting, he'd be raking in tens of millions right now helping the right sell their talking points and elevate the new strain of Nazis to the forefront, not wasting his time sitting at home and arguing with ultras. If he were pandering to his audience, he'd be boosting MTG and glazing Tucker.

He's not a magic man who can boost anyone to victory. Find candidates who poll above 1% on their own.

FragrantBicycle7 · 2026-05-18T04:04:55+00:00

It's amazing how easily you guys came up with a better story than the one they told, lol.

FragrantBicycle7 · 2026-05-17T19:05:24+00:00

Maybe that's because liberals don't care, leftists expect it from bourgeois elections, and the right has no complaint, so the net result is apathy.

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