I’m not the biggest fan of BE, i think his online persona can be grating at times, and his takes on China are very half-baked and borderline ignorant, but on this issue he is 100% right. Everyone needs to hear this. If you invite liberal Zionists and Zionist apologist socdem politicians on your stream and don’t call them out as the supporters and enablers of genocide that they are, you don’t get to call yourself “pro-Palestinian”.

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    That wasn’t Hasan in the clip. Idk who that was cause i don’t follow any of this streamer shit. Hasan shills for AOC and Bernie though who are both in the “Israel has a right to defend itself from the barbaric Hamas terrorists” camp. He also did a podcast together with the now very vocally Zionist Ethan Klein who is married to an IDF war criminal.

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      He also did a podcast together with the now very vocally Zionist Ethan Klein who is married to an IDF war criminal.

      This is kind of an unfair “bad by association” thing. I’m not sure why Hasan would carry water for AOC or Bernie at this point, but from things I have heard, he is very clear on it being a genocide and had a very public falling out with Ethan Klein as a result of them differing so strongly on that issue after the October 7th stuff happened. Actually, falling out is an understatement, as it has become this whole thing where Ethan is spiraling in a victim complex, lashing out at anyone and everyone, and behaving like a pathological liar, as zionists tend to do.

      At a distance, it probably looks like internet spat nonsense (and to a large extent, I think it is, in the sense that it doesn’t materially matter much other than hearts and minds of some impressionable podcast and streamer viewership). But Ethan and Hasan are two pretty different people. Ethan has turned into a raging black hole of zionism and dishonesty. And my impression of Hasan is that he’s at worst an anti-imperialist whose left tendencies can sometimes sound a bit hazy in that realm of anti-state / anarchist / ultra-left something or other. But I’m not sure it’d be possible for him to be a principled marxist-leninist, for example, and have the streaming size that he does in the west. So these things go hand in hand to an extent. I could also be misunderstanding how he navigates it and underestimating the extent to which he supports AES states. I mainly learned more recently due to the drama spiral going on, I am not a “fan” of any of these people.

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      Oh, you’re right, that was Ethan Klein in the clip. He has two passports. You’ll never guess which 😐 Supposedly he and his wife are sitting on USD ~20M.

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        I’d love to be able to scam Ethan Kkklein out of his and his zionist wife’s money, and maybe then I could afford to retire early in China.

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        It’s not Ethan Klein, it’s lonerbox, a “leftist” streamer that’s just a frothing zionist and sex pest who BE has previously challenged to debates on the issue but he’d been too afraid to take him up on it.