Why does he need to be defended? Does he actually contribute to the issues he is concerned with in any way that doesn’t also benefit his brand? How would any streamer, regardless of their professed politics, be worth anything to a revolutionary process? Why is he not a mere spectacle?
I hate the term pipeline anymore because everyone views it as a literal pipe. That’s there’s just one link leading to the next. When it’s more like a network leading from one side to another. The more channels, the better the flow.
It’s like, it’s like a swamp. You have dirty water coming on from all over. Some is far off and murky. Some is just rain water falling near the end, but it all has to pass through the swamp that filters and cleans it.
And Swamps, can be pretty gross. Nasty stinking, terrible places to LIVE, but are great for the ecosystem. That’s what we actually have, a swamp, and as we progress through the swamp, things get cleaner and cleaner, but we won’t have the nice forests and clear streams at the end, if we don’t have all the nasty swamp bullshit at the other.
This is why I advocate against farther along leftists attacking some of the “murkier” parts of the swamp. It’s like, as an example, stupidpol shit. They are crude and offensive and say some dumb shit, but like, you aren’t going to get chuds even considering communism otherwise. Hell, I spent a lot of time in that community many years ago. Then I grew past it as I learned and grew. I used that community to turn a chuddy friend into a communist who sees China as the hope of Communism.
So, so long as some of those people “move through the swamp” to cleaner parts, then it’s doing it’s job. If we cut it down, drain it, then that water will never get clean. Same with the Dem socs, etc. not all “water” falls clean and pure from the sky.
Of course the problem becomes when we turn those filthier places into our homes. Water is meant to flow through a swamp, not sit in it forever. We have to watch out for damn and such. And some areas of the swamp is contaminated with “artificial pollutants.” Like Vaush types that are like a leaking oil pipe stuck in there. So obviously we have to keep an eye out for these things. The key point is identifying, is this person actually aiding in filtering people to the next level? Are they outputting cleaner water then what came in? If so, we should do what we can to support them, while still trying to bring that “cleaner but still dirty” water through the next level.
So yeah, that’s my thoughts on it. I guess I see Hasan as a part of the swamp doing some good work. Maybe? Idk. I have been typing and thinking about this for way too long now. Swamps are cool, or something. Thanks for tuning into my rambling.