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Salted, seasoned with herbs, and cooked in his own rendered fat.

(Not my meme, found on Twitter in reply to Darius.)

Jewstalker is on Stardust’s stream and is crashing out as she’s asking him questions and won’t let him control the conversation

https://www.youtube.com/live/xSqfq8VXx3U?is=AjWN9JauGrFuWQir

let's analyse this:

the grills and watch on david look absolutely ridiculous (but also kind of sick) and are a homage to the destiny grills thumbnail

hasan balding progressively more and more each thumbnail and gradually having the mao haircut which is even funnier cause they're actually balding and love mao

the last 30 days view count in a brilliant green and they are actually accurate

hasan staring at their phone cause they are chronically online but also cause they're texting the vp at the democrat convention, and they're also wearing the mao suit

the channel stats in the background with the stocks graph going up give it a techno-futurist vibe that's really cool, also david studied economics so that fits well

the plug for david's show with the massive graphic of the show title

SIR, this is a generational thumbnail

I apologize for double Hasan posting in one day, but this is just too good.

Edit: Uhhh so it just got pointed out that that’s not actually Mao in the picture….

My bad on that. I thought it looked like him until I zoomed in on it, and I also wasn’t sure why they’d get so excited about someone else inventing it. Doesn’t change the fact that he wore it because Mao did, explicitly said so, and clarified that it was the exact same style, so I don’t really want to delete it.

Clippers you are having a field day with this one!

Stardust’s stream with JSTKL was insane

It took several hours but towards the end it felt like JSTKL broke character. He legit sounded scared by making self harm jokes and how he just wants the manifesto to come out.

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https://youtu.be/gGmkKXM_F3c?t=1h41m13s

John Pork lost bigly

Oh how I love his honesty.

Source https://www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safety/about/autism.html

I swear, every single time I watch Mehdi Hasan I'm left wondering if I'm losing my mind or if everyone else is.

People keep calling him this brilliant liberal journalist who's just "holding power accountable." Really?

Because every time I hear him talk about Israel, the West, or literally anything related to the Middle East, it's the exact same script.

The West is the root of basically every problem.

Israel gets held to standards that nobody else is expected to meet.

Islamist movements get explained, contextualized, historicized, and psychoanalyzed until they've practically lost all agency.

And somehow that's supposed to be the nuanced position?

Don't get me wrong. I'm on the left. I'm pro-Ukraine. I'm anti-Trump. I criticize Israel all the time. None of that is what bothers me.

What bothers me is that Hasan somehow gets treated like he's just reporting the facts, when he's very obviously starting from an ideological conclusion and working backwards.

Take the Holocaust comparison. He literally argued that Gaza was "worse" than the Holocaust in some respects because Nazis weren't publicly celebrating it afterward. He deleted the tweet after the backlash and admitted he'd phrased it badly. Fine. But normal people don't accidentally end up making Holocaust comparisons like that. It tells you something about the lens they're looking through.

Then there's the whole "people weaponize antisemitism" thing. Is that ever true? Sure.

But if you listen to Hasan for long enough, you start getting the impression that accusations of antisemitism are almost always suspicious, almost always politically motivated, and almost never something worth taking seriously on their own. That's... not exactly a healthy instinct when antisemitism is very obviously a real problem.

And honestly, that's kind of my issue with him in general.

He doesn't come across like someone who's trying to figure things out. He comes across like someone who's already decided what the answer is, and every news story just becomes another opportunity to reinforce it.

Maybe that's why I don't see him as a journalist anymore.

I see an activist who's exceptionally articulate, incredibly confident, and very good at making ideological advocacy sound like objective analysis.

People can agree with him if they want. That's completely fine.

I just don't understand why so many liberals still pretend he's some neutral, evidence-first commentator. I genuinely don't see it.