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have even posted edited clips from 8 years ago making it sound like Hasan admitted to buying a shock collar when he was actually saying the exact opposite, following the same playbook that they have in the past in their attempts to discredit him.

See, this is a pretty good example: I 100% agree with you here, and just told someone so who was trying to use that clip against him. That's my MO. I see something, I try hard to step back and see it for what it is and then decide how to judge the actions accordingly. I don't just kind of buy into whatever crap shows up on my internet that day (or I try not to, although definitely sometimes I get taken, I like to think it is rare.) Same goes if it's Hasan or Bernie Sanders or Kamala Harris or my brother-in-law. There is a time when "loyalty to the cause" needs to factor into it, but that's like a dire circumstance. Like I would never pretend that MLK didn't cheat on his wife or Thomas Jefferson didn't own slaves, or that Biden didn't enable a genocide just because I wanted his team to win the election. I don't think anyone in Palestine is going to be helped by pretending to see things differently than how I see them on this dog issue. Generally speaking I think truth is almost always better.

For one thing, I don't think it helps Hasan for people to be in hero worship mode. Everyone needs to be called out on their bullshit sometimes, because everyone is bullshit at least part of the time. It's part of being human. If people exist for too long in that space where no one's allowed to call them out, they start to go real off the rails and just think that they're God and everyone else is stupid.

Like I say I may have a blinkered picture of the guy, I fully agree with you about certain negative things about him probably getting played up because of his politics. Fair enough. I can make an effort in the future to catch him on some random stream, to get a fair sampling, but IDK how that translates into all this deflection and weirdness about this particular factual matter that is on display all over this comments thread.