• invalidusernamelol [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      15 hours ago

      Yep, he’s not really that quiet about being a sacrificial lamb. I honestly read this post not as him clowning on someone, but as him saying “please take this fucking burden off me and actually build a vanguard, I will immediately recuse myself and step aside when that happens” which I actually kinda believe. Bro is tired, but he’s not gonna stop till the zoomer vanguard executes him with a smile on his face.

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          14 hours ago

          Lol, it was meant as hyperbole of course. I just don’t see him as someone who gets fully subsumed by the party. His entire position is to be “left of the Dems” so even if they do become actually social democrats at some point I think he’ll continue to hold that position.

          And yeah, he’s not consequential as a political figure, but honestly Marx wasn’t either. It took a new generation of workers to carry the very moderate manifesto into a revolutionary movement.

          (Also not comparing Hasan to Marx in terms of theory, just in terms of practical influence on the working class of their time)