This guy’s dad is the former VP of a multibillion dollar Turkish conglomerate, as well as the secretary of a government department. Mom and Dad were able to fly to their other home in NJ to give birth so he’d get US citizenship. His uncle is the founder and owner of TYT Media and gave him his media career. He went to Rutgers. He lives in a multimillion dollar mansion in the Hollywood Hills. This is by definition not the kind of person who can be a voice of the People. Saying “I recognize my privilege” over and over, while living his lifestyle, doesn’t negate his privilege and complete lack of real-life experience outside of the curated garden of the wealthy. He gets paid obscene amounts of cash to sit in his bedroom and word-vomit for 9 hours a day. Why are his unending opinions taken so seriously? He gives me strong controlled opposition vibes.

Edit: Thank you all for this discussion. I learned a lot.

  • TheFonz@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    His class shouldn’t matter ultimately.

    However, his superficial and putrid understanding of anything regarding politics or the world in infuriating. At one point he was simping hard for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine repeating verbatim rt talking points.

    I loathe this man more than I hate Joe Rogan. Joe is an imbecile, through and through. Hasan, on the other hand, supposedly has a poli Sci degree. He knows what he’s doing and it’s disgusting

    Edit : I don’t have time to go into every fact check of the mountain of lies he spews. The guy has never opened a book in his life and spends all day reading Twitter. Some great intellectual.

    Willymac does a good breakdown on yt:

    Hasan sucks

    Ukrainians react to Hasan (yt) :

    Ukrainians react

    He’s such a joke