I’m sorry but if you can reach 7th ban without being permabanned then clearly nobody actually thinks any of this shit is worth banning for and the entire thing is just corporate performative bullshit.
They are just forcing Hasan to participate in the general strike
jeff bezos is the only real communist in north amerikkka, he is a third world maoist - creating shitty conditions for the workers so that we rise up
Jeff Bezos Atreides II, the Tyrant, direct descendant of legendary Agamemnon putting us upon The Golden Path
I saw people calling for a national general strike in a few youtube comments is that actually a thing or is it actually just Minnesota and the internet is declaring a general strike without organising like usual?
i heard about it on tiktok, i am pretty sure it a internet general strike lol
lmao ok so not real at all then
not real at all then
i dunno a bunch of actor are reposting it, and legacy news media - might be a structure test for the lib coded protestors - i am interested to see how far it goes, it will probably reach levels about half of the “no kings” demonstrations, but depends how interested the libs are in relaying the message
>Who has called for the strike?
The call for a nationwide general strike has come from a decentralized movement across multiple large cities, from Minneapolis to Cleveland to New York City. Organizers are asking people to abstain from work, school, and commerce to protest immigration enforcement and the recent shootings.
The National Shutdown website lists local and national partners including the Defend Immigrant Families Campaign, the Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR), the North Carolina Poor People’s Campaign, the LA Tenants Union, and multiple student organizations at the University of Minnesota, while large activist groups like CodePink have also pledged to join.
Several actors and other celebrities have joined in and called for the public to participate in the strike, including The Last of Us actor Pedro Pascal, Hacks’s Hannah Einbinder, Edward Norton, and Oscar-winner Jamie Lee Curtis.
Many of these actors posted on Instagram and social media to spread news of the strike, including Pascal.
“Truth is a line of demarcation between a democratic government and authoritarian regime,” Pascal wrote in the caption of a post about the strike, one of several he has recently made denouncing ICE and federal immigration agents’ actions.
“What they’re doing in Minnesota with the strike needs to expand,” Norton told the Los Angeles Times while at the Sundance Film Festival. “We should be talking about a national general economic strike until this is over.”
They are basically trying to manage pressure from the administration against that fact that Hasan still makes them a good amount of money. Twitch still makes most of their money from subs and donations, and Hasan is the #4 most subbed to streamer currently with ~52k subscribers.
For anyone who doesn’t know, that’s $5 each monthly at minimum. Twitch used to just flatly take half, I think big streamers get a better rate now or something but let’s just make it simple and assume Twitch is taking exactly half of it. That would mean Hasan makes $130,000 a month at the absolutely most conservative estimate. And that’s without factoring in how many of those subscriptions are higher tier (up to like $25 monthly) and the fact that he probably gets a higher percentage of it.
For talking to a webcam.
Money always comes first.
the entire thing is just corporate performative bullshit.
My boy is out here educating and agitating every dang day in real time. He isn’t perfect and will continue to not be. Any criticism of him ought to start from a position of him being a massively popular approachable signpost for socialism and a pipeline to leftist thought IMO. I am now going to log off for many hours and won’t see any replies to this in real time
He was basically the only streamer against Zionism and for Palestinians I had seen for the longest time and for that he has my respect.
Yes! I didn’t even think about that. How many public figures had the right take on October 8th, 2023?
I can honestly only think of maybe two, Hasan and that celebrity that got kicked off the Scream movies lol.
Melissa Barrera, I had to look her up but I heard about that. Good for her.
Ya, while it’s not a bad thing that a ton of other celebrities have jumped on the bandwagon since then, it’s what we want after all, but you have to admit she’s way more brave for being one for the first to speak out before it was popular.
I don’t get any of the hate honestly. He’s pretty consistent about “critical support” for any existing politicians and is good at bringing people in from those folds and introducing them to more radical ideas.
He’s got better positions on most things than CPUSA and DSA, that’s for sure.
Watching him navigate those boomer MAGA chuds recently was a good testament to his communication skills. He straight up broke that old man’s brain with the giant foam MAGA cowboy hat.
6th ban was for reading Israel Embassy shooter manifesto. He’s read many other shooter manifestos and didn’t get banned for that.
5th ban was for allegedly threatening Rick Scott. He said that Republicans should charge Rick Scott with Medicare Fraud and give him the death penalty.
4th ban was for a copyright claim by Gavin McInnes. I think it was Gavin McInnes interviewing Kanye. Many streamers played the interview but Gavin only striked Hasan because he wanted to target a left winger.
3rd ban was for calling someone in his chat a “cracker”. Twitch said that cracker is a racial slur. Wheat Thins company mailed him a placard that says “cracker pass”.
2nd ban was for saying “America deserved 9/11” on August 21 2019. This statement is about blowback. He may have also threatened Dan Crenshaw.
In July 2019, he got banned for streaming while driving. He only streams from the passenger seat now.
He may have been banned another time before that. The twitch ban tracker website only tracks that times he was banned after joining the Twitch Partner Program.
Wheat Thins company mailed him a placard that says “cracker pass”.
Based… checks notes Nabisco? No that can’t be right…
Edit: Further searching turned up that Nabisco is also a subsidiary of Kraft foods lmao wtf?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondelez_International
This whole wiki page is like a glimpse at the lovecraftian monstrosity that is the realm of corporate subsidiaries and mergers.
December 10, 1923 National Dairy Products Corporation (National Dairy) founded by Edward E. Rieck and Thomas H. McInnerney. The firm was initially set up to execute on a rollup strategy in the fragmented United States ice cream industry.
1924, Kraft Cheese Company was founded and was listed on the Chicago Stock Exchange.[12] Two years later, it was listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
1928, Kraft acquired Phenix Cheese Company, the maker of a cream cheese branded as Philadelphia Cream Cheese, founded by Jason F. Whitney Sr. and the company changed its name to Kraft-Phenix Cheese Company.
1930, National Dairy acquired Kraft Phenix. After the acquisition, the combined company retained the National Dairy name and management, though the Kraft Phenix side of the company continued to operate largely independently.
The company then changed its name to Kraftco Corporation in 1969, and was renamed again to Kraft Inc. in 1976.
After its acquisition by Phillip Morris and the merger with General Foods Corporation in 1989, Kraft Inc. was renamed to Kraft Foods Inc. in 1995.
On September 7, 2009, Kraft made a hostile £10.2 billion takeover bid for the British confectionery group Cadbury, makers of Dairy Milk and Bournville chocolate. On November 9, the company’s bid (then £9.8 billion) was rejected by Cadbury, which called it a “derisory” offer. Kraft upped its offer on December 4. It had significant political and public opposition in the United Kingdom and abroad, leading to a call for the government to implement economic protectionism in large-company takeovers.
August 2011, Kraft Foods announced plans to split into two publicly traded companies, an international snack-food company and a North American grocery company.
Mondelez International, would be the legal successor of the old Kraft Foods, while the grocery company would be a new company, Kraft Foods Group. The split was completed in October 2012. It was structured so that Kraft Foods changed its name to Mondelez International and spun off Kraft Foods Group as a new publicly traded company. Kraft Foods Group later merged with Heinz to become Kraft Heinz.
I’m buying Wheat Thins now lol.
Wheat Thins company mailed him a placard that says “cracker pass”.
critical support
That’s actually a super funny thing that a brand™ has done. Very rare for it to be funny and not a groan fest.
Where’s our Casey Kasem emote?
He was just talking like two days ago about how calling someone a “zionist X” can get you banned and so he doesn’t do it. I guess it was a heated gamer moment.
Considering his job is to cover Zionist war crimes and propaganda 8 hours a day I’m surprised he lasted this long.
I don’t think I would last a day covering Zionist bullshit without doing something similar
Agreed
there really has been an israeli flavor to the “don’t believe your lying eyes” narrative they immediately pushed (before any real facts were known) about how both murder victims were actually assassins & domestic terrorists. It’s a certain invariance to truth.
One part that was definitely Israeli style was doubling down with losing arguments and not knowing how to react when people don’t cave immediately
ICE also operates exactly like the IOF, this entire thing reeks of US conservatives looking at Israel as a blueprint to run a Christian nationalist version
They banned him for speaking the truth
I’m surprised it took this long for him to get banned over the calling someone a zionist is antisemitic rule.
They should permaban him for being a
Still finances bezos, good boy
I mean, by that logic, anyone who uses any website at all is financing Bezos, because half the internet runs on Amazon Web Services servers. It’s kind of like making fun of someone for encouraging people to buy vegan food at the supermarket. You’ll always have to buy food at the supermarket, because you have to eat, but you can at least buy vegan food to mitigate environmental impact. There are already hundreds of right-wing influencers. I don’t think it’s a bad thing to have left-wing influencers. Unless your ultimate goal is to have the communist movement be, like 7 people living off the grid.
I find it funny that people with financial opportunity to dodge imperial monopolies don’t, while right wingers do (see fuentes) Yes streamer with 1k subscribers can’t do shit, millionaire is a different proposition though. But i long despair at encouraging people to dodge monopolists out of spite, yes, i can’t avoid gmail at work, but i can avoid youtube at home. Every time someone says “i searched netflix or here is my spotify roundup or here is a link to instagram” i get slightly mad.
p2p streaming in baby form exists, and people with financial opportunity can force it into reality, you know
If you haven’t noticed, we are entering in american imperial order any dollar that can be rescued from usa clutches is valuable (and political streamers are roughly useless)
Tech as in software layer is the most superficial shit there is, once you get the code built, it exists, and for some indescribable reason popular leftists are all tech averse to the max and behave like normies and pay for shit costing cents
*if we are in the deepest pit of reaction and going down ever more rapidly, while our politics are unpopular or not popular enough for people to sacrifice even a modicum of comfort, the goal of a leftist is not to live alone in the woods (although viable), but to fuck profit rates everywhere we can, which, in current world, includes tech monopolies, where one person can plausibly fuck up the whole music, if they somehow get popular, but “our” popular or interesting persons are nowhere interesting enough to see that as a direction to pursue. I would gladly only link peertube video, and avoid nitter if couple more people were on mastodon, but alas
I find it funny that people with financial opportunity to dodge imperial monopolies don’t, while right wingers do (see fuentes) Yes streamer with 1k subscribers can’t do shit, millionaire is a different proposition though.
Right?
But I have no faith in Hasan. This is how engaged he is with BDS.
His “compromise” was to drink coke out of a glass or something. I don’t watch Hasan but I bet he hasn’t stuck to his word on this. The guy is so rich he wouldn’t even need to switch to generic brand cola, he could import a pallet of Gaza Cola and drink that instead. He could literally get a personal assistant to handle all of the logistics of this and he wouldn’t even notice an impact on his life in any way.
Yet even that is too much effort for him.
He ain’t gonna save us. He can’t even be bothered to look into what’s on the BDS list and to simply avoid showing those brands on stream. But he will work for DHS though.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
He simply has no choice :( no ethical consumption under capitalism
There’s not really anywhere better to stream at the moment. YouTube moderation and chat (which he relies on for content) sucks, Kick is a chud casino for children, TikTok is now owned by Israel.
He’s also just not going to be the one to develop anything new, he’s simply too locked into his 8-10 hour daily streams to do that. There is an opportunity to kneecap Twitch though, if someone were to create a streaming platform that only streamers who are reliably getting 1-2K+ can stream on. Twitch loses money basically because of all the small streamers that eat up resources stream in 1440k60fps to like 15 people.
He won’t obviously, cause of treatlerism and being tech averse, but he could start it
He really couldn’t. Someone could approach him for seed money, but he’s just a leftist himbo who shouts at his chat and eats food on stream as a full time job. He’s not going to be developing anything. Investing is about the extent of what he’s going to be capable of. At the beginning, it would likely only be him and maybe a couple other people that they could afford to have on there, and he would probably struggle to find and keep hosting, because it will be a lot easier for the ADL to harass hosting companies when it’s just him.
p2p and hosting harassment
not to mention how fuentes exists then?And again viability of online peer streaming was demonstrated, a decade ago or more, the issue is finishing the damn thing (and making it popular enough, which might be a bigger hurdle)
Nick Fuentes exists because he’s a government asset
Alternatives exist, but an alternative that has low latency, high image quality, a strong chat function with emotes that can handle his extremely active chat, and strong moderation tool doesn’t really exist.
Just to be clear, I also think he should find someone to partner with on making an alternative streaming platform, I just don’t think that he will because 1) he’s locked into his routine, and 2) his whole thing is about interacting with political “normies” and trying to make them leftists, and Twitch is where those people generally are, streaming wise.
And again viability of online peer streaming was demonstrated, a decade ago or more, the issue is finishing the damn thing (and making it popular enough, which might be a bigger hurdle)
Doesn’t PeerTube already do this?
This guy could barely play games and yall think he can fund his own infrastructure is crazy
funding is very easy, you just have to part with money lmao. i’m not suggesting he will bumble with his own rack in a basement ffs
He gets well over a million dollars a year. He absolutely could do things differently. He’s been doing it long enough and successfully enough he could probably just do it completely non profit for the rest of his life and live comfortably off his savings. He elects not to for the same reason he misrepresents Lenin to encourage people to vote for the democrats - because he is a wealthy liberal and his class interests are ultimately aligned with them.
Hasan is paying a producer, editors, and mods with that money, also. It’s not all just going to him.
He doesn’t pay his mods. He does pay the actual employees a lot though afaik, like I think they divide the revenue equally because they’re in a cooperative type setup.
