What political stance does Hasan technically identify with? I see democratic socialist on his wikipedia page, is that it? I love daddy hasan and just wanna know what i can reference when friends and republican family members are wondering. 

Edit: Ty for all the jokes :) and for the honest takes. I’m trying to get people to watch him so these comments were helpful in describing his platform
user
Assuming you're serious and not a troll, there's no benefit to telling them what he actually is, so I'd leave it at "leftist/progressive". You'll just get people derailing if you tell them he's a Socialist. They'll immediately force you to pivot to Venezuela and talk about how the Soviet Union killed millions blah blah blah. You'll be stuck in that trap. 

If you want to explain his world view to them it's pretty easy. He uses a materialist analysis as a lens to view political issues through the world: i.e. who has power, who controls the resources, who controls the means of production.  Gaza for example, his viewpoint would be that the IDF and Israeli government control the resources and territory, have military superiority and wield it to control the lives of those with less access to those resources and power. They have less rights than Jewish Israelis under the state's control and have their homes destroyed/taken away regularly in an oppressive fashion. Using that analysis, you don't need to consider religion or historical context, you can see who's oppressed and who's not simply from the division of resources and power. This can be applied to any conflict, any subgroup, any issue as long as you apply materialist analysis to find a moral stance that corrects for inequality. Every single policy take he has can be viewed through that lens and predicted.

  
Other than that, he's a self-admitted hedonist, which just means he enjoys pleasurable things. A nice meal, a cool car, a house that his family can live in, friendships, video games. 

  
It's important not to fall into the pitfall of having to explain socialism though, because you'll just get frustrated. Americans in particular don't know what it is, and assume it means everyone's poor except one rich guy (except they're describing authoritarian capitalist regimes with that). You can be a rich socialist, own nice things, go on expensive trips etc. Socialism is mostly about labor, and effective government policy that serves the people rather than corporations and wealthy people.
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Holy crap this is delusional.  Socialism doesn't even work on paper.  Without ownership, you can have no market, without a market there is no price, without price, your effectiveness at accounting for scarcity is greatly eliminated (other than seeing starvation).  Every country that has tried to implement this, has had its quality of life significantly decline.  "But that wasn't real socialism."  No, it was imaginary, it's real socialism.  The hubris of "I could have done it better," of people who spend their lives on social media would be hilarious, if it weren't for the real life implications of widespread propaganda.  You could have done it better, I'm sure.  You would have been altruistic.  Even if that were true, there'd be a person behind you, scheming to take your life and make you disappear.  Hitler had a term for people like you...useful idiot.

I like how the further we get from capitalism, and the greater the gap between the rich and the poor gets, the more yall say, "we just need more."  People are selfish and do what's in their best interest.  Want to change the world for the poor?  Make some money and help them, quit spewing garbage on the internet.
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This thread is 3 weeks old and you're a regular in the Joe Rogan and Destiny subreddits. 

Since you clearly don't know anything on the subject, [here is an explainer for someone like you.](https://youtu.be/fpKsygbNLT4?si=NFuUcdi8H3XC_v7Z) Have a pleasant life and don't come back here until you're in good faith.
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