Hasan is a saint trying his best to make a capitalist understand why capitalism = bad.
He’s not gonna get it, bro. It’s not in his materialist interest.
TBH, Hasan is also not the best debater but every other “socialist” debatebro is a PatSoc chud so I don’t think they’ll do a better job.
He used to be better, but I think because Twitch as a platform allows you to ramble on and on, and you only have to respond to a chat which of course has a much harder time communicating, it worsens your debate skills over time.
It’s been pretty interesting watching the class contradictions become visible in Ethan’s ideology as the podcast has become increasingly successful over the last couple of years. For someone who used to often self admit to not caring about money, he sure seems to care about getting the biggest slice of that podcast pie. He assumes that being the original founder entitles him to it.
I still have about 30 minutes to go. It’s pretty frustrating hearing Ethan say that he just wants to have a conversation so that he can learn and then immediately debate every point with the typical liberal dogma. How can people feel good about debating toics where they have exactly no understanding of the opposition? He should watch himself debate Ollie London and then this episode back-to-back. It should be crystal clear to anyone that there’s a large discrepancy between the quality of these arguments.