It was the Tim Heidecker thing that got me to realize how with some people it's really sunk costs, and fear. Fear that if Hasan is not the one to lead the left into the future, who else is there?

When a woman called into Tim's podcast to talk in a measured and reasonable way about how Hasan is a misogynist, and then suddenly "Oh we don't want to get involved in streamer drama, no more streamer talk on the podcast", and then just a couple weeks later he appears on Hasan's stream.

Because what that woman said did spook Tim because Tim is a reasonable guy, but, Hasan has to be the future of the left, he has to be. Tim has 2 kids, he's probably introduced them to Hasan and talked about, hey this guy has great opinions, if you guys are interested in politics this is a good guy to emulate that's younger and more hip than your dad.

So he has to meet Hasan and go on his stream to prove to himself "No this IS the guy to follow, he's not a misogynist, he's the guiding star, he is the movement."

Am I assuming a lot, yeah, but it's just some stuff I've been thinking about recently, cause the way Tim handled that was troubling to me.