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Hasanabi doctrine proved right.
Credit to Hasan for openly identifying himself as an eclectic "social libertarian", usually I have to spend way too much explaining to people how almost every grifter fits the bill. (As in he actually used the term to describe his positions in earnest. I'm not just inferring it from the following quote, which I did get the context for and is not a joke.)
Critical support to him in exposing the empire's lies. At a time like this I think his role in providing an anti-empire view is far more important than his problems.
Yes, he is problematic to put it mildly as he has patronized prostitutes in Germany and bragged about it. Being proud of r*pe is not a good look but I'd certainly rather he be popular and young people flock to him and his views than any other mainstream view on offer in the US. He is unambiguously a net good at present despite his problematic attitude towards sexual exploitation of women, his ambiguous views towards China, the fact he's not an ML, etc.
So now is not the time I think to attack him as he's on the right side of these issues at least usually.
That quote def looks taken out of context, like many things are that he says. I mean, you don't have to like him, I hardly ever have watched him myself. But ffs, this is such a goofy, vague jab that trivializes all of the rest of what he has done and said over years. If that quote is real, the likelihood based on what I've seen is he's a bit of an ultra and is falling for the "China is also imperialist" narrative in the context of that quote, and saying that if he's going to be living under the shadow of an empire, he'd rather it be one that is (seemingly) less "conservative" in its laws for individuals. Though personally I think any such comparison is rather confused, as the US's "liberties" are highly conditional and face a lot of reaction. Anyway, that's all I can figure, since you provided no context for it.
But the implication of it at face value that he actively wants US hegemony, I'm pretty confident is pure nonsense. It is hard to pin down what he is exactly in substance (not what he calls himself, that matters little), but it seems clear that he is at the very least anti-imperialist.
https://files.catbox.moe/aaj1z3.mp4
1.) No it's not out of context
2.) If he was joking, it still reflects his actual political positions (China is vying for hegemony to replace the US, sex trafficking can be cool and good and normal)
3.) You people have spent years insisting that the country providing all the support to the resistance & its main geopolitical allies should be slathered with the most unhinged criticism which can be drawn from Western sources, while the content creators aggregating alternative media drivel to you must be entirely immune from all criticism of their beliefs or consequences from promoting crypto-Zionist Azov whitewashing rapists
4.) You should already know this, and I'm going back to sleep
The context does matter. Even from 42 seconds of it (which is still out of context, since it shows nothing of what lead to him saying that), it syncs up almost exactly with the guesswork analysis I wrote.
What in the world even is this. I included criticism of Hasan in my post, pointing out that he's probably falling for the "China is also imperialist" narrative. This paragraph is itself unhinged criticism of others, completely divorced from what I actually said.