#hasan bernie

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Bernie Sanders on Hasan's stream was insane

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A Normies Guide to the Alt-Right, the New Right & Their Tactics for Recruitment

OPERATION PULL OUT THE WEEDS AT THEIR ROOTS Be warned: This is for research purposes only. Some of this content may be traumatizing as it shows extremist views and explains acts of violence. Originally published on Medium on Aug. 24, 2017, as a warning to all who had ignored the warning signs before the Unite the Right Rally, which ended in the brutal killing of Heather Heyer. On Aug. 12, 2027,…

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Yo https://www.youtube.com/live/a1NQRP6J4xE?si=sh4BkuSV8pZtojX2

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Typical YouTube dramatic thumbnail. Sanders does definitely talk about Gaza in this, but also US politics in general and comparisons to other nations as well.

I thought this one was good, the beginning is kinda a bit, but then a lot of points are discussed.

Sanders is around the same age as my own father but his politics are so different.

Also, IMO, fair points on why we should vote a certain way in upcoming election, but that there's continuing work to do beyond that.

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I asked Bernie Sanders about a Gaza Ceasefire |

Hasan Minhaj

Hasan Minhaj's latestest interview with Bernie Sanders

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Kamala Harris herself has now borrowed Walz’s lingo and is also calling her opponents “weird”, while Walz is all over our television screens, bolstering the vice-president’s candidacy and playing “attack dog” against the Trump/Vance Republican ticket. I’ll be honest: last month, I would have struggled to pick Walz out of a lineup. This month? I’m Walz-pilled. I have watched dozens of his interviews and clips. And I’m far from alone. He has an army of new fans across the liberal-left: from former Bernie Sanders 2020 campaign co-chair Nina Turner, to one-time Democratic congressman Beto O’Rourke, to gun-control activist David Hogg. “In less than 6 days, I went from not knowing who Tim Walz is,” joked writer Travis Helwig on X, “to deep down believing that if he doesn’t get the VP nod I will storm the capitol.” According to Bloomberg, the Harris campaign has narrowed down its “top tier” of potential running mates to three “white guy” candidates: Walz (hurrah!), plus the Arizona senator Mark Kelly and Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro. Both Kelly and Shapiro have their strengths – and both represent must-win states for the Dems. Allow me, however, to make the clear case for Walz. First, there’s his personality. The 60-year-old governor would bring energy, humor and some much-needed bite to the Democratic presidential ticket. There’s a reason why his videos have been going viral in recent days. Tim Kaine he ain’t. Pick the charismatic and eloquent Walz and you have America’s Fun Uncle ready to go. Then, there’s his résumé. A popular midwest governor from a rural town. A 24-year veteran of the army national guard. A high school teacher who coached the football team to its first state championship. It’s almost too perfect! Finally, there’s his governing record. You will struggle to find a Democratic governor who has achieved more than Walz in the space of a single legislative session. Not Shapiro. Not JB Pritzker of Illinois. Not even Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan. [...] Think about it. Democrats can have Tim Walz on the ticket, who called the anti-war, pro-Palestinian ‘uncommitted’ movement “civically engaged” and praised them for “asking for a change in course” and “for more pressure to be put on” the White House, or they can have Josh Shapiro, who called for a crackdown on anti-war, pro-Palestinian college protesters and even compared them to the KKK. They can have Walz on the ticket, who has reportedly “emerged among labor unions as a popular pick” after signing “into law a series of measures viewed as pro-worker” including banning non-compete agreements and expanding protections for Amazon warehouse workers, or they can have Mark Kelly, who opposed the pro-labor Pro Act in the Senate (but has since touted support for it). They can have Walz, who guaranteed students in Minnesota not just free breakfasts but free lunches, or Shapiro, who has courted controversy in Pennsylvania with his support for school vouchers. They can have Walz, who calls his Republican opponents “weird” and extreme, or Kelly, who calls his Republican opponents “good people” who are “working really hard”. This isn’t rocket science. Walz is the obvious choice. Not only is he the ideal “white guy” running mate for Harris, against both Trump and Vance, but he is already doing the job on television and online, lambasting Vance in particular over IVF treatment and insisting he mind his “own damn business”.

Zeteo News founder Mehdi Hasan for The Guardian on why picking Tim Walz as Kamala Harris's running mate is the best option (07.29.2024).

Zeteo News founder Mehdi Hasan wrote in The Guardian why Tim Walz should be Kamala Harris’s running mate. Hasan’s opinion piece is worth reading.

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I mainly follow people like Holding Dems Accountable From the Left and Hasan and they're saying that Kamala lost because she didn't listen to her base and courted republicans instead. I assumed that was true and was also very conflicted about voting for Kamala given her actions against Palestine but did end up voting for her.

But recently I stumbled on some leftist people, including you, who seem to be saying differently and are actually blaming people who didn't vote instead. So I was wondering if you agree with Hasan that the dem party fucked up really bad and honestly bernie sanders in 2020 or anyone else would've won trump in a landslide.

If you look at the numbers, about 15 million people who voted for Biden in 2020 did not show up in 2024. Trump's number's stayed mostly the same, but Harris just didn't have the turnout.

Now we also see from polling that the vast majority of leftists did vote for Harris. And while I still have a bone to pick with the ones who didn't, they weren't the major factor this time around.

Because, let's be honest, our politics aren't popular enough to make up for the 15 million missing voters. Some of this was voter disenfranchisement, but these are people who largely just didn't show up to the polls. These are the apathetic masses who were energized in 2020 because of Trump's fumbling of the pandemic who just didn't give a shit enough about what happens to anyone else to vote.

That's why my anger is largely for Trump supporters and people who voluntarily did not vote.

A lot of people looking at the numbers are ignoring this though, and just looking at percentages -- or overestimating the popularity of their positions -- and are grandstanding to make their own political point.

But the math just doesn't work for that.

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😭FUCKING HASAN ALWAYS ASKING EVERYONE TO BALL YOU ARE GOING TO KNOCK BERNIE OVER AND KILL HIM BY ACCIDENT MAN

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I MISS ONE DAY OF STREAM AND HASAN FINALLY TALKED TO BERNIE AND GOT A SHOUTOUT FROM KIM KARDASHIAN

IM BRIAN KILLME

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I knew a kid (my besties younger bro) who was the sweetest boy ever. kind, considerate, selfless. And by the time he was in 7/8th grade his whole personality changed. He had started playing COD and the sociality of those games turned him into a callous, sardonic misogynist. The family was centrist liberal. voted obama but didn’t like clinton’s elitism so begrudgingly voted for trump(interested in bernie). His family was hardline anti guns.

Cut to 2021 and everyone has the most ridiculous cartoonish guns, everyone is qanon’d. election deniers, anti-vax (mom is a nurse, dad is retired firefighter 🥴) —this kid is actually the only one in the family to vax bc he was emt during the onset of covid.

Anyway i say this to say that the longevity of prepolitical positions that Josh points out is super important. radicalization is a long game (deradicalization is longer)

the analysis of the right alternative media ecosystem is spot on. they can play nice with each other to achieve goals that at least rhyme with each other. the infighting of the right isn’t as fractious bc they are various shades of capitalist. The anomalous designation of “left” encompasses neoliberal democrats (imperialists) and communists (anti-imperialists). so if harris did go on hasan the hun, neither could play nice bc of this wide division — harris has more in common with trump (pro-israel) than the turk (anti-israel).

But a lot of rich white socialites funded the panthers. HU alum and former member the League of Revolutionary Black Workers Neville Singham funds the lefty news site BreakThrough. it wouldn’t surprise me if socdem Adam McKay starts funding a “left joe rogan” type podcast.

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Noah Berlatsky at Public Notice:

Two weeks ago, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was largely unknown nationally. Today, he’s a widely beloved Democratic figure and a leading candidate to become Kamala Harris’s running mate. It’s a startling and disorienting political ascent. How did it happen?

Part of his sudden success is due to Walz himself, whose avuncular charisma plays well on television, and whose strong record in Minnesota gives him a lot of bragging rights. Walz has also benefited, though, from the fact that progressives and the left have settled upon him as a pragmatic compromise. Left presidential preferences over the last decade have been dominated by Bernie Sanders, a unique and to some degree anti-establishment figure who promised to seize the party from its current leadership and turn it into a vehicle for radical change. Walz is a very different politician, and his embrace by progressives suggests a new willingness to work within the Democratic Party. That willingness might translate into more influence within the coalition. It also might signal greater Democratic strength and unity.

Walz’s wins

A lot of Walz’s recent national success is directly the result of the talents of one Tim Walz. Before running for office, Walz spent 24 years in the National Guard and worked as a high school history teacher in Mankato, where he helped form Mankato West’s first Gay-Straight Alliance at a time when LGBT people were marginalized. Walz has a long and impressive record of electoral, personal, and policy successes in Democratic politics. He was elected to Congress from a rural southern Minnesota district in 2006, a year Democrats picked up 30 seats, and was elected freshman class president by his colleagues. His local focus and popularity allowed him to hold the seat through the red waves of 2010 and 2014. Trump won the district by 15 points in 2016. But even then Walz wasn’t dislodged, winning the district by a point. Walz is in fact the only Democrat to win the seat since 1992. Before his 2007-2017 tenure and afterwards, it’s been in GOP hands.

Following his 2016 victory, Walz ran successfully for governor in 2018 and won reelection in 2022. Ahead of his second second term, Democrats won a two-vote Democratic majority in the state House and a one-vote majority in the Senate. That gave them a trifecta and full control of state government for the first time in a decade.

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Progressives for Walz

Walz has also benefited, though, from a swift and unusually coordinated progressive effort to elevate him. To be clear, Walz is popular within the party. However, many progressive pundits and activists with large platforms have been especially enthusiastic about his candidacy. Gun control proponent David Hogg has been promoting Walz relentlessly; so has left journalist Mehdi Hasan; so has YouTube influencer Kyle Kuczynski.

Noah Berlatsky wrote in Public Notice about how Tim Walz makes a lot of sense as Kamala Harris’s running mate.

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hasan is streaming w bernie sanders and i’m not going to be home to watch fml for ever