• i’ll say i am surprised and disappointed he hasn’t had PSL reps on his stream if that’s the case; and would agree that he could/should use sprinkle some clout in races for socialist party candidates as strategically appropriate.

    but the implications of the OG post is that hasan is intentionally designing right-wing coded candidates – that seems plainly untrue, given his prominent support of other non-good ol’ boy oyster farmers (zohran ran, what a 6 hour marathon, and couldn’t bench 100 lbs? dude is a waif). further, this contention it is incoherent with the larger thrust that hasan is failing to take a leadership role: is the issue that he’s a bad leader, or not a leader at all?

    if the message is . . . .

    the message is, and should be, we want to win, by any means necessary. winning doesn’t mean Go Blue; it means ending genocide, it means everyone gets healthcare, elder care and an education, can have meaningful work, and a home. and if the organic intellectuals in Maine want some meathead advocating for that, so be it. and any means means any means. and if the people are still only ready for the ballot box, so be it. more vanguardist energy should be spent preparing for after the ballot box, and not the endless moral posturing, the endless kvetching online about a streamer.