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Yes. Hasan got his start working on the Young Turks before branching out into streaming full time during the pandemic.

 

To the first point in the first tweet, I’d say that working class people are correct to view themselves as being in conflict with annoying liberals and bureaucrats because the former is actively antagonistic towards the working class while the latter is typically positioned to be a buffer between the working class and the things that would make their lives better (means-testing, complicated red-tape, etc.). To the second point, I see no evidence that people in the working class like billionaires and see them as good - some might like Elon as he’s worked to align himself with Trump, who they’ve cast their hopes onto. But I don’t understand how this person is coming to the conclusion that the working people see billionaires (as a class) as their allies in anything. Pretty much every billionaire you can name has an under water public opinion according to whatever polls I’ve seen, and there were also those polls that I believe @Leftandleaving shared last week that showed Republican, Democrat and Independent voters each saying that a small number of wealthy individuals has undue control over society and negatively impacts their lives by >75% in each camp.

To the second post, yes you can definitely get people on your side by talking about how liberals suck and have failed them. In fact, I think it’s one of the most important ways to talk to working class people, right there with talking about how the weird ass republicans who they also dislike in poll after poll have failed them, and how both parties serve the wealthy elite.

I don’t know who this poster is and where they’re coming from, but I keep seeing you posting people whose whole worldview seems to be “it’s that the voters are so fucked up that’s the problem, nothing we can do about it *shrug*” to which I’d say - shut the fuck up and go away? The true and obvious purpose of the liberal commentary trying to divert attention away from the political need to legitimize people’s class-based struggles and towards a “we’ve gotta become more racist” attitude (add transphobia for 2025) is to shield the ruling class that is responsible for said struggles.

 

I dunno man I wasn’t thinking too hard about his critique of voters I was just laughing at the hating annoying libs is a winner comment lol

 

In Marxist theory, false consciousness is a term describing the ways in which material, ideological, and institutional processes are said to mislead members of the proletariat and other class actors within capitalist societies, concealing the exploitation and inequality intrinsic to the social relations between classes.[1] As such, it legitimizes and normalizes the existence of different social classes.[2]

 

Wtf is going on with JFK's grandson lol

 

he rules

 

he's bringing back george mag

 

Seems like a pretty big fan of Biden, yuck

 

His favorite NYC pizza spot

 

TBF, I feel like Walz had a bigger impact than Tim Kaine

 

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The Survival of Tâi-gí — The Dial

 

Bye-Bye microplastics: Japanese researchers develop plastic that dissolves into the sea

 

Sudan civil war: Nowhere else on Earth are so many children on the run

 

The Next Four Years Will Be All About Natural Gas | OilPrice.com

 

South Africa backs off Taiwan office removal deadline, talks ongoing - Focus Taiwan

 

Most of these picks are going to turnover within a year.