He did it from his hotel in Las Vegas with scuffed audio and Internet because he’s there for TwitchCon

      • Galli [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        Hard stance can result in flak from the presenter or the audience. Softening stance could help get further invitations to the show, repeat exposure leading to appearances on other mainstream programs and perhaps eventually entry into the lucrative club of being a talking head. This is one of the filters in the Herman-Chomsky propaganda model.

        Ironic really, he could save others from taking the easy bag but not himself. chomsky-yes-honey

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          Hasan doesn’t care about mainstream news. He only goes on there as a pipeline for others to discover him. He essentially doing the Contrapoints Patreon thing, except that Hasan is live every day for like 8h a day. He’s a news aggregator for a big chunk of that schedule. Sometimes he plays games/watches fun vids to destress but he mostly is known as a news aggregator.