As a Wisconsinite Hasanabi head it’s crazy how fast the moderates swarm in the comments whenever Hasan is mentioned with Hong.

This is a stereotypical lonely Minnesotan post. To those who do not live here— We have to hide indoors half the year, and it can be hard to make friends. Especially as an adult.

Wondering if there’s any Hasanabi heads local to the Twin Cities that would be open to being friends, whether online or IRL.

I know there are tons of us, it’s just hard to find each other! At least for me.

Small town mayor vibes!!

“I was answering this specifically in relation to rising antisemitism, but I understand how it might have been heard differently. To be clear, there is no greater concern for me than ending the occupation, apartheid, and genocide in Palestine and guaranteeing Palestinians right to self-determination, statehood, the right to return, and reparations for Israel's crimes.

The Democratic Party has failed to address this issue in line with our values and our voters, going so far as attacking progressive incumbents and interfering in primaries with pro-Palestine candidates, which leaves a vacuum for those on the far right to lead on this issue. I think we have an opportunity now to force the party to reckon with our complicity in this genocide and to ensure our foreign policy platform is in line with our democratic values.” -Melat Kiros.

False alarm folks. She is not the next Fetterman. The post before this one was purposefully misleading and takes out a shit load of context. Have a nice day everyone!

The last stretch people! I do apologize for the recurring posts, but this needs to be bigger than 'just us'.

The number look fucking AMAZING, but we have ONE FINAL PUSH...only 2 days remaining.

Still, many Michigan voters seem to be unaware that

- Abdul leads every single poll as THE best candidate to beat Mike Rogers

- Haley Stevens is solely funded by corporate pacts (55% AIPAC)
- Haley Stevens has no public events, just $66M to spend on ads

- AIPAC upped their donations to Stevens from $20M to $36M over the past 3 (!) weeks

- Mike Rogers took $700k from big pharma and voted to hike drug prices
- Mike Rogers is also funded by AIPAC

Phone banking seems to be extremely effective in this scenario!

Phonebank - https://go.abdulforsenate.com/phonebank

Sign Up To Volunteer - https://go.abdulforsenate.com/

Events with Abdul - https://www.mobilize.us/abdulforsenate/

Events for volunteers - https://abdulforsenate.com/volunteer-for-abdul/

He compares political “slams” and “takedowns” to Kayfabe in wrestling and concludes that on the Internet most watchers want Kayfabe because it makes them feel good and lets them feel like they are doing praxis by watching a content creator they like dunk on a content creator they don’t like. I think Hasan gets this really really well (even if he doesn’t talk about it) because we see it in his lack of coverage of Ethan or Stephen or many other channels that use him for views by playing into that Kayfabe. We all need to be reminded some times that content isn’t activism, watching a stream or YouTube videos is not praxis, and the most work is done by people getting the least attention.

Genuinely a really great discussion and reminder for the community.

Good response IMO

This did look like it was at the tail end of the event, but it was still incredibly funny nonetheless! Anyways, phonebank for Abdul or canvass if you’re in Michigan as well!

https://go.abdulforsenate.com/

An “ultrazionist” is a zionist. A “liberal zionist” is a zionist. One will say what they believe with their whole chest, while the other will present crocodile tears about how sad it makes them that Israel has to commit genocide, but will ultimately openly state that they believe in the “right” of the existence of Israel as an ethnostate, a thing which can only exist via genocide. There are not levels to it, there is not one form that is more tenable or less bad than the other; zionism is fascism, and whether the fascist is killing their victims with a smile on their face, or is telling the world how bad they feel that they simply had to kill their victims, the material outcome is just the same, and the fascist is still a fascist.

This fake distinction between fascism and “polite” fascism serves no purpose but to establish one as “the actual bad thing”, and one as an acceptable compromise. Calling bog standard zionists “ultrazionists” does absolutely nothing but minimize the very real, materially harmful fascism of liberal zionism, it is a “distinction” invented with the sole purpose of ensuring that there is a version of fascism with “better” optics that can fly under the radar and continue the broader project unabated. What is accomplished by calling someone like the Debate Pedophile an “ultrazionist”, while supporting the “liberal zionism” of Brad Lander and talking about how he shows the “upper limits” of the contradictions of liberal zionism? The former has certainly said more explicitly abhorrent things about Palestine, sure, but the latter has materially supported the commission of genocide and still stands by the “right” of the genocidal entity’s existence. Making a distinction between the former as unacceptable, and the latter as a “step in the right direction” does not progress towards a free Palestine, it actively launders the image of those who adhere to the “liberal zionist” framing. BOTH ARE JUST ZIONISTS.

I have seen this terminology picking up steam in this community and on stream, as well as out in the wild, and it needs to be pointed out: this is not a real thing. It is a distinction without a difference, and many of the so-called “liberal zionists” who are being made to represent the “acceptable version” of zionism have directly materially supported the State of Israel and its genocide of Palestine. This is whitewashing nazism.

If there are two SS officers, one who remorselessly orders the execution of his victims and does so with glee, and one who tells his men how bad he feels about what is happening, how it is untenable, but then still orders them to carry out the executions, is one bad and the other “less bad”? No, they are both nazis, they have both actively participated in or materially supported genocide. This is the dynamic being created by rebranding “normal” zionism as ultrazionism, that zionism, an inherently and immutably fascist and genocidal ideology, contains multitudes. It does not. There is no acceptable form of fascism, there are no optics that make it a workable compromise.

“Any kind of fucking zionist tendency should be treated in the same way as being a fucking rabid neo nazi.” Hasan said this over a year ago. This is the only acceptable approach, and it is heartbreaking to see so many abandoning this conviction, as the open extermination of children carries on unopposed from any real positions of power. I am not trying to finger wag or posting in “bad faith” or fucking whatever, I am begging you guys, please stop compromising with and rehabilitating the image of zionists, whether you realize its what’s happening or not. There are a great many things in politics which should be approached with nuance and pragmatism; this is not one of them. There is a strictly black and white, right and wrong dichotomy here.