Sort of a joke that getting an “A” in colleges like Harvard and Yale is easier than Boston College or Ruetgers.
I've taken classes at a few different schools including Harvard. This is absolutely not true. You don't really have to be smart to do well at Harvard, although it helps, but you absolutely do have to bust your ass (in a way you do not at other top-tier schools as long you have some familiarity with the subject going into it.)
I'm not talking just about "heavily needed jobs." I am saying that having an educated populace, one that can tell up from down as far as making sense of the factual world and world events, is incalculably valuable. They can be truck drivers for all I care, but if they can watch Fox News and realize they're being lied to, the whole country will be in a better place.
It'll also be nice if you have people skilled at engineering and things, the "job qualification" part is also important, but the Germany in the 1930s had plenty of people super-skilled at chemistry and engineering, and look where it got them.
Yeah. I was really blessed in terms of my upbringing that my family deeply valued education and taught me what was education and what was a stupid waste of time (which, some but not all of the public school US education I got was) and why the education was a vital human sacred thing. And so when I got to college I really wanted the real education part. It really alarmed me when people would be happy about the easy bullshit classes or upset about the difficult classes. Like bro... why the fuck are you even here? Learn HVAC instead, you'll save some money on loans and you can probably make more than you would as a data analyst or whatever the fuck.
Yeah, so it was Reagan. It doesn't sound really racial, it sounds like it was a reaction against the antiwar and student activism movement (which was definitely not exclusively a black thing). Sounds like it was Republicans, yes, but more than racism it was just part and parcel of them hating things that make America successful or enable us to compete (because that makes them feel weak, because they can't.)
Can you elaborate? I've never heard this before, and for most of the 1960s it was the Democrats who were the racist pieces of shit (to the extent it was even partisan).
Not saying you're wrong; I have a vague notion that Reagan mostly was the one who ruined higher education but I don't actually know that much about it. Is there something I can read about this though?
A man I respect quite a lot used to say that college should pay a full-time wage to the students. It should be challenging, it should be a real education (which a lot of modern college is not), and in exchange for that, if you are improving your understanding of the world and your ability to contribute to society, that should be something that society pays you a pretty decent wage for, because it's a fucking valuable activity.
Call the cops. Harassment online is illegal, and depending on the nature of the pics that part may be very illegal. Even if he somehow doesn't have any legal consequences from anything he's done so far, having police reports in place for stuff now will make it easier for him to potentially face consequences later.
Talk to a lawyer if it's complicated, a few hundred dollars may get a consultation that can set you up for how to frame things in a way that makes it more likely that the cops will do something. But even just calling the cops and laying it out (read up on the laws, stay focused on stuff that's specifically banned by statute in a provable way as much as possible, sometimes people want to "give context" too much) may be pretty productive.
Firefly original series with Wash + Zoe
Three options each with a couple of options, depending on factors:
If short on time or lazy:
If motivated:
If depression:
How are you coming to the conclusion that they are “someone qualified”?
Someone who is trans is automatically qualified, to a certain extent, to speak about trans issues. It doesn't mean they're always right or anything, but it means they start from a baseline of being worth listening to. If you are cis and just derisively shutting them down as far as trans issues, and giving these wild insults (I can't even remember the context from the video but I remember it was bad) that have very little to do with anything they were saying, and just serve to try to tear them down and punish them so they won't try to speak up again, then yes, you're a piece of shit. To me there's not a lot of context that could somehow "save" that.
Maybe there’s more to that interaction that you clipped out of the video - i have no idea
You haven't watched it, have you...
For one of these, I actually did dig up the context. Stuff like that is important to me. So for the "I think you're choking her" clip, I dug up the context and posted it. A couple of the Hasan stans actually swore to me that the likely outcome after that clip was that he would loosen the collar and all would be well. Because of course you would. Any reasonable person would, and is Hasan not a reasonable person?
Turns out the answer was no, he did not loosen it. He blamed the issue on her NECK. MEAT. and there was an awkward silence, and then the guest who has raised the issue wisely redirected away from the looming confrontation, and just dropped the issue and went back to what she'd been talking about, as if they hadn't discovered an active issue of suffering in Hasan's favorite animal.
You know, a normal interaction and normal behavior for a pet owner.
Interesting you list Chomsky as an example because he’s made exactly the same arguments about the Ukraine war as Piker was in that video.
What? These are totally different arguments. Chomsky says, more or less:
That all makes sense. I might agree with it or disagree but it's fine. What Hasan says is:
That, in contrast, is a big bunch of horseshit.
Like I said, this is what I don't like about Hasan. He's just an idiot. He just says weird stuff, whatever comes to mind ("vibration collars are good for calling your dog back when she can't hear you...") but it lines up generally speaking with the geopolitical battle lines that some people like to draw, and so they support him even though a lot of times what he's saying is just nonsense. He blames world events on CIA/Mossad the instant he hears of them, he waves around his shock collar with tape over it swearing it's something else, he just kind of says stuff that's on the right performative side, and to some people that's enough.
I have no idea why you guys are taken in by this guy. You're welcome to it, I guess, but he's a pretty fucking bad standard bearer if you're looking for leftist podcast people. What happened to chapotraphouse? Behind the Bastards? I haven't seen them, I don't know... like I say I just am not involved in this space, so I have no idea who to vouch for in it, but there has to be better out there than this fucking guy.
Also, I asked you a couple times: What should I watch from Hasan to get a good idea about him? I'm going to stop asking soon, but I am genuinely curious what his supporters would want me to watch as a good introduction. If someone asked me that about James Baldwin, Noam Chomsky, whatever, I would have something that I would want to share. You are not obligated to of course I guess.
To what end?
Okay, so I'm going to take that as you're not going to try to argue with the idea that there's strong evidence that he shocked his dog and then lied about it.
I have no idea why that would not be pertinent information for you to know about this man you seem to take seriously, but it's up to you of course.
Anyone who watches this person regularly aren’t going to judge his character on the one clip
If I hang out with a friend every day, and then one day I see him punch a baby, then yes I'm going to judge his character based on that one interaction.
That's separate from the issue that literally every clip I have seen of this guy makes him look like a piece of shit in some way or another. Like I say, I actually look more at the totality of what I've seen him do while interacting with Kaya in these clips and the overall emotional interplay at work, than I do indict him specifically for shocking her and lying about it. But yes, shocking her and then lying about it (which you suddenly don't want to litigate... wonder why...) is very significant to me.
I fully acknowledged that it's probably a one-sided picture created by his enemies, and invited you to send me a clip showing the other side of his character where he's providing something insightful or valuable that I should be able to take on and make some use of, and you keep not doing it. So yeah that also makes me feel pretty settled in the conclusion about him.
No, i’m looking for literally anyone you think is a good representation of your geopolitical perspective that might better inform what you consider “someone who knows what they’re talking about”.
Oh, so a different thing from someone qualified coming in and trying to help Hasan understand and him treating them as the enemy and him and all his chat going on a wild tear of insulting them and tearing them down instead of spending even a moment hearing out what they have to say.
Got it. You should have said you were interested in that totally separate question. On geopolitics I like Noam Chomsky, Rachel Maddow, Al Jazeera, Bellingcat, Tim Snyder... kind of hard to list out individual people on the spot, but those are some random ones that come to mind who deal with global issues who I generally will trust their judgement because I've seen them be right a lot in the past. Almost any perspective I can appreciate as long as it seems like it's coming from an honest place, but those are some where I actually feel pretty firmly aligned with the person's viewpoint or the overall editorial viewpoint. Then there are specific people (Dan Ellsberg, John Perkins) who have some kind of unique insight into a specific element of geopolitics that I think is valuable to include in my overall picture.
I strongly dislike the reaction slop. This stuff is that, sure, and I'm only reacting to it because they seem like they're bringing receipts, the topic is important, and the counterargument from Hasan's side is so transparently dishonest that it doesn't really convince me that he's not guilty. But I'm limited to those people for my picture of Hasan, I think, because that's the only ecosystem where he is really active and so those are the only people in a position to criticize him. That's why I asked you for some of his exemplary work on geopolitics so I can take a look at it, and judge it in the same light that I would those names I listed earlier.
You're welcome to, if you would like to. I would actually really like for someone from Hasan's followers to try to explain why this post is not factually solid.
I wasn't specifically talking about you. I just noticed that the initial narrative was dew claws and airtags, and then it was vibrating collars, and now it's shifted over to 100% attacking the messenger and they're not at all interested in talking about how it's obviously an airtag collar and anyone who can't see that is stupid.
I posted a video a little while back, of a trans person who came in Hasan's stream and said that they disagreed with his handling of trans issues. He booted them from the chat and started these wild personal insults against them (as did a lot of his chat).
You know, like a perfectly reasonable person.
It's somewhere in here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdCFycPw3fI
Like I say, the source of the information means nothing to me. It's all untrustworthy. I would want to look and double-check a lot of the information first regardless (unless it was a highly trusted source somehow). Actually, for a lot of this Kaya stuff, I made sure to grab the source video where I could directly from Hasan's pages, so I could look around and see more of the context (and be sure it's not some kind of deepfake, although that seems highly unlikely.)
And yes, I'm probably getting a one-sided picture. Do you want to send me something which is Hasan making some really clear and important argument that I really need to hear? Or just his normal day-to-day coverage of the flotilla or the European Gaza protests that are going on right now? Happy to take a look at that stuff, too.
They were doing that, super vigorously, up until about a day ago when it became pretty clear that Hasan was lying. Now, all of a sudden, the identity of the messenger is the only thing worth talking about (and also why you keep talking about this, bro, I think you're taking streamer drama WAY too seriously...)
Like this person in his chat who made an incredibly succinct comparison to highlight the error of what he was saying, and then he (a) missed the point completely (b) lost his shit:
not your woefully underrepresented distaste for a specific type of leftist commentary that piker happens to advocate for.
You're actually 100% right about that. I actually forgot about this, but I talked about it here:
https://lemmy.world/search?q=hasan&type=All&listingType=All&creatorId=15951251&page=1&sort=Old
I completely forgot about that stuff. He was saying that basically every country in the world except America was backing Russia in Ukraine. Something like that. I don't fully remember (and I guess the post got deleted?), but yes, I think he's incredibly ignorant about world issues, and incredibly hostile to anyone who does know what they're talking about who disagrees with him, and then cloaks in in this shield of performative leftist anti-Imperialism in a way that garners him supporters without him needing to be worth listening to.
And in particular there's a huge following that sees that he's pro-Palestinian, and then they start supporting him, and that becomes a shield for any kind of wrong or toxic thing he wants to do. I'm pro-Palestinian. You're pro-Palestinian. Hasan is pro-Palestinian. Bernie Sanders is pro-Palestinian. It's fine. It is the only moral viewpoint. But he understands that in the modern left it's this kind of trump card where if someone convinces their idiot supporters (like you, right now) to attack everyone who's "against" him by implying that they're ANTI-Palestinian, because what other type of person would EVER attack a PRO-Palestinian, they can literally get away with torturing a dog on stream and everyone will look the other way for them.
That's why I compare it to small town Christian communities. It's 100% the same. It is to a T. He's the people who go out to eat after church and tip fifty cents. He's the people who torment their stepchildren without mercy, are just blowhard pieces of shit on a personal level, but no one will say a word against them, because they're PRO-Christian in a huge way and big names in the community, and so... you get the idea.
So yes, I have distaste for "a specific type of leftist community." I honestly didn't pay enough attention to Hasan before this to see it in any level of detail, I just saw that one video 2 months ago. And sure, maybe it's fair to say that I should watch some of his streams that haven't been cherry-picked to look bad by someone with malicious intentions. That's completely fair, I really will do that. But honestly everything I have seen, including stuff that was cherry-picked by his supporters as a "gotcha" against my POV (when he was showing the dog collar on stream and explaining himself), has made me think he is pro-Palestine's TV evangelist preacher, and y'all are the suckers who keep sending your retirement money hoping he'll bring Gaza to the promised land, when all he wants to do is buy more cars for himself with it or whatever. Has he been covering the flotilla? Has he been burning up about all the protests spreading in Europe now? What's he been talking about? I haven't seen, maybe he is, tell me.
Honestly I appreciate this whole interaction because now I can see more clearly I think. Whatever was burning me up to interact about the topic of the dog-shocking (to this, sure, a little excessive degree) is gone now, I think, because the thing I was wanting to know or wanting to understand is resolved for me now.
Iilluminaughtii is a strong contender. Karl Jobst didn't really do anything though, he lost a lawsuit and then kept streaming. Was there something else I didn't know about?