So...this has been weird for me. I was on a sub for political predictions and some guy started going on this deranged rant about how Abdul El Sayed (MIchigan primary candidate, has like 0% chance of winning, but a M4A supporting progressive) did a campaign event with Hasan Piker and how he was APPALLED, APPALLED I TELL YOU and it just seemed over the top. Anyway, given that sub regularly moderates me for so called "partisan slop" and, well, this was sloppy AF, I called him out for it, only to be confronted with the guy's most extreme foreign policy stances that are admittedly cringey, but again, I'm not gonna consider this guy so toxic he should be EXCOMMUNICATED! EXCOMMUNICATED FROM THE LEFT I TELL YOU! He's just one of those cringe leftists who lose the plot who become so extreme with their "America bad" mentality that he starts simping for our opponents instead. I try to be more nuanced, recognizing that the criticism of US foreign policy is sometimes valid (especially in the age of trump and his rank disregard for our international reputation), but also condemn bad people bad. But...a lot of people dont do that. If Hasan goes way too far into America bad, we gotta be super pro America good and suddenly give the US and Israel a pass on everything while demonizing Iran, Venezuela, and China. It's a common thing the more mainstream centrist liberals and conservatives try to pull, ya know, the "uniparty" types who are all rah rah america good, everyone else bad, and if you admit we suck too you're helping our enemies types. Again, I'm in between.
But yeah, it's come out from multiple media channels that I follow that apparently this is all a smear campaign by the "Third Way" think tanks to try to attack progressive candidates. And again, it is astroturfed, it is pushed by moderates in bad faith to try to set the terms of debate and put anyone too far left outside of their overton window. And it's cringe. Honestly, I'll be blunt. On Israel, since that's part of this too, Israel deserves almost all of the criticism they get. No, it's not antisemitic unless you go full idiot mode and start ranting and raving about "da j00z" in an obviously anti semitic manner. But no, criticizing the state of israel, or zionism, or their genocide of palestinians, their influence over US politics (of which this is an example of), or the fact that they just got us into a war with Iran, is fair game, and no, it's not antisemitic. That's bad faith idpol bullcrap.
And to be frank, I can't say im the biggest fan of hasan. In part because he IS too far left for me, and I obviously am this like very left leaning liberal who borders on leftism but isn't quite there, but you know what? I think sometimes he has good points. Remember him and Cenk covering housing and me writing an article on it? Yeah, Hasan had the better position on that debate because his leftism gave him a clear problem definition and solution to the problem while all Cenk had was vibes with nothing to back it up. Leftists do deserve a seat at the table. Their opinions deserve to be heard. That's not to say they're always correct, and quite frankly, if one really follows my blog and listens to what I have to say, that much should be obvious. I have a lot of criticism for hasan style leftists on foreign policy. I really do. I've discussed them on here before. I just think this attempt to draw outrage over them by centrists is in bad faith because let's face it, their opinions are garbage too. And I certainly dont endorse or support many centrists in dem primaries. I want progressives.
So no, I dont care of Abdul El Sayed or whatever other progressive candidate running for office DARED APPEAR WITH HASAN. I mean, should we really vote for centrists who we hate instead? And that's what they're trying to do, do this obnoxious red scare crap. F those guys. And F their foreign policy views too. We can argue that Hasan is too far left, but we need to get past this weird establishment centrist liberal faction that coddles the zionists too and have foreign policy positions that unenlightened 2008 me would endorse. Because seriously, centrist libs are just 2008 me, and I called myself a conservative back then. I was just "moderate" about it. Honestly, the moderates within conservatism and liberalism end up being the same people all things considered. Seriously, they're closer to each other than the extremes in either party these days. And let's face it, if the dems had their way, they'd be the a moderate uniparty facing off both against trumpers and "the left", which doesnt even include just people as far left as hasan. It probably includes you and me too. So keep that in mind. These people are out to screw us over too. And we shouldnt cave to their bad faith BS.
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