The Problem with Johnny Harris | Hasanabi ft Boy Boy

[@jessticles7]

If Alexa became a political streamer, I'd be super on board for that. I love his takes and the only real political commentary we have in Australia is through mainstream media (or our beloved FriendlyJordies ofc). We need more Aussies talking about world and domestic issues who aren't being paid by Murdoch media ☠

[@sirderpsalot]

Agreed. We have friendlyjordies (although not strictly a streamer) and he does a lot but his content is focused almost entirely on domestic AU politics. It would be nice to have another streamer in Australasia to talk about global politics.

[@Lach0h]

@@sirderpsalot Friendlyjordies isn't even that good anyway, no diss on the guy as he's called out a lot of corruption and stuff but anything else (mainly it has to do with his uncritical support of Labor and constant bashing of the Greens) is just not worth listening to.

[@sirderpsalot]

@@Lach0h I agree with uncritical labor support comment. He could do better in that regard.

[@TheLisclark]

I think the whole world to varying degrees is hoping for a Murdoch Media empire collapse, sooner than later. ;-)

[@chvron203]

Murdoch has caused so much chaos in the UK, US, and Australia with his media propaganda.

[@pompelmostique]

Don't forget the 16+ million Chinese slaughtered in the 14 year invasion by the Japanese before and all the way through WWII. They took everything imaginable in the Pacific.

[@JoeARedHawk275]

Some things are just horrible, especially Unit 731 and Nanjing massacre. Japan truly had no mercy and morals. Reading some of the stories and events that occurred made me cry a little ngl, imagining what the people who were on deaths bed were experiencing, or the babies that were brutally murdered

[@erikanderson1402]

I also think it’s worth pointing out that usually the people who say America is “defending democracy” abroad… are the first ones to say “America isn’t a democracy it’s a republic”

[@Special_Agent_NSB]

Someone’s got to defend democracy against dictatorship. This used to be the purview of the international left but now we have ignoramuses like Hasan doing apologia for them. DICTATORS ARE THE ENEMY OF FREE PEOPLES. We should be working toward toppling them, not flattering them with nonsense equivocations.

[@galedribble9535]

Those people say whatever they have to say to respond to the given argument. They don’t stand for anything

[@firefly9838]

Defending the republic abroad

[@erikanderson1402]

@@firefly9838 the empire*

[@vhufeosqap]

Interesting that there are idiots who take in old John Birch society crap sure, but that doesn’t have any real importance on whether it’s a good thing to defend a democracy in principle

[@lich109]

Johnny Harris: "Japan, which is formerly a pacifist nation without a huge military-" That is one of the biggest lies I've ever heard, nothing Johnny says ever again can be taken seriously unless he apologises for that whopper of a lie. Edit: Nevermind, Johnny's lie about Australia's nuclear subs might be bigger. Saying it was free when it was 368 billion is absurd.

[@MichaelCasanovaMusic]

Yeah, did he miss the whole imperial conquest of Asia and the pacific by Japans “not huge” military? Lmfao

[@KOmyself]

y he just saying shit?

[@Oscar_the_fascist_slayer]

'Pacifist" nope not by a long shot. "No big military" well legalally speaking no but loopholes exist for a reason

[@JusticeIsALie]

I think it was a tongue in cheek joke And the sub statement was about sharing secret information about nuclear sub technology the US had that they didn’t

[@FunWithGunsAndGames]

Im sure hes not talking about the fact that following world war 2 their constitution literally didnt allow them to create anything more than a defensive military but hey what do i know

[@mrbunnny]

Boyboy is awesome

[@Cryptum404]

Not Johnny Harris

[@gregmcgregor3829]

hes insanely based

[@fippywip]

he could top me

[@subscrypt9218]

Top tier

[@icXINE]

That's cause all Aussies are hectic based, chill and cool af... Just saying as I'm an Aussie as well

[@abdelilhmanflores]

i love boyboy's blank stare when hasan stunlocks

[@antlerbraum2881]

Nothing between those eyes 😂

[@callumsankey5269]

Purely an observer in those moments lol

[@Reefer-Rampage69]

Chronically online

[@abdelilhmanflores]

@@Reefer-Rampage69 wait who how

[@nickb3164]

thats not boyboy, thats just boy

[@lich109]

Skip to 43 minutes in then.

[@nickb3164]

@@lich109 woah

[@gabrielcollin8276]

​@@lich109woah

[@nailinthefashion]

​@@lich109half chub to full banana

[@rakkatytam]

Nah, he's twice the boy any other boy could be

[@black_forest_]

Imagine China having like a line like that just off the Florida coast or something, patroling around the atlantic there with nuclear weapons on submarines. I feel like the US would react way stronger than China is.

[@muffinfighter3680]

"Way stronger" is an understatemate :D

[@ni9274]

There is Russians nuclear armed submarines patrolling near the american coast and all over the atlantic, Chinese submarines also likely do that. China would need to be allied with countries near the US to build bases, but since the US isn't trying to annex lands and waters of other countries near them there isn't anyone who need Chinese military help.

[@black_forest_]

@@ni9274 Have you heard of Cuba

[@vhufeosqap]

Everyone is patrolling with nuclear submarines if they can.

[@easternplatypus]

@@ni9274 "the US isn't trying to annex lands and waters of other countries near them" lmao very funny

[@mjp121]

Imagine if Russia was arming a country off the coast of the US with a bunch of military equipment, we would do everything we could to break the alliance and punish the nearby country- oh wait.

[@yassine8935]

Grenada 🇬🇩 (except it was Cuban arms )

[@lvforbezi7488]

Crazy how Johnny can spend this much time waiting for his editor to send back the video and him doing research to make it and he still didn't find that the AUKUS deal costs 370 Billion and there's been MASSIVE discourse in Australia over it. Also I love boyboy and ididathing but im sad they don't know alot about Australian politics and news, there's alot of info that'd be really interesting to get a new view on besides the classic aussie classical liberal lines.

[@fuzzle426]

I think boyboy is prett knowledgeable considering he used to work for the chaser

[@xTheUnderscorex]

"Some Chinese official drew on a map in 1948". Well no it was first drawn in 1946, and it was the ROC regime (now Taiwan) that drew the thing. The communists just repeated the same maritime border claim that the nationalists claimed (well, almost the same, they actually removed 2 dashes as a goodwill gesture to North Vietnam in 1952, bringing it from 11 to 9). Taiwan still claims the line, and cooperates with Beijing on the issue.

[@n0tthemessiah]

Was hoping someone would point this out in the comments, ty

[@MsCarterElise]

More Aussie content, please! The people demand another visit to the US. These guys are great.

[@SchoolhouseTechno]

Johnny Harris is one of those youtubers who rub me the wrong way. Like if you found out they had somebody chained up in their basement you would be a little less surprised than normal.

[@mimic6494]

That's going a tad far I think lmao

[@fishy000]

@@mimic6494 no wait they have a point

[@085cur1ty]

His stuff feels super manipulative

[@luzzzonix]

i think its the ex mormon rizz

[@MrTensaikan]

@@luzzzonix before I read your comment I was going to say the same thing lol.

[@brittanyrodgers3826]

I love when the Ausies join the stream! It’s so fun!! ❤️❤️❤️

[@warcriminal911]

why does alexa look so traumatised the entire time

[@cpman-zz8xz]

That’s just being Serbian I think

[@teddy9402]

hahah i think it’s just his big eyes

[@bethdeva]

the things he saw while locked in hasans basement will forever haunt him. hes just happy hes allowed out again

[@johnnyapplesmith]

I have employees and contractors in Phillipines, Taiwan, and China. We are all from different backgrounds and careers, and they all hate China. The concerns I would say are pretty valid, China is a bully, and so is USA, but sometimes the bullies that don't harrass you are your best friends.

[@DubhghlasMacDubhghlas]

Yeah and the island China are creating with military bases on them is to expand there territorial waters to be able to collect taxes on shipping lanes. Hasan acting like there would be no tension if the US was uninvolved in the region is just silly, just that there would be no counter power to China. Hasan foriegn policy views are so basic. Like with Ukraine Russian war. He said US to prevent loss of life should dictate peace between Russian and Ukraine which would be an imperialist act by the US, while trying to claim to be anti imperialist.

[@themajesticspider-man6116]

​@@777latheThat's a really, really bad argument, bestie!

[@sicklecuthammerfall]

yea cause the phillipine govt does all the harassing and destroying and killing on part of the US. every govt the US backs is pretty much run by corrupt monsters and genocidal christian maniacs. dont care if this is antichristian but id rather live in a world not dominated by demented end times addled christian fascist colonizer freaks and their corporate buddies with a death drive for greed that melds quite nicely with psycho christian end times fanfiction. china will obv look out for its own interests but they seem a lot more interested in managing stability rather than endlessly profiting from horrific chaos the way the american state department does. it is not the fuckin same

[@senorita-qh6bm]

The bullies that don’t harass you?? Tell that to Latino America or Haiti. You’re just saying that as an American because it would be convenient if America was the only one allowed to control the power in foreign countries.

[@johnnyapplesmith]

@@senorita-qh6bm I wrote from the perspective of Japan, Taiwan, and Phillipines. Latin America and Haiti have nothing to do with this conflict.

[@jahtea7849]

The British had an iron grip on Hong Kong, brutally crushing dissent for over a century. Literally the LAST governor established democratic-seeming institutions basically daring the Chinese to dismantle them. For the most part China, like the Brits before them, has bypassed what little semblance of democracy HK has ever had which has only ever been made by local organizing. But it is all fucked. The fact that Britain and the US have made a mockery of democracy around the world doesn't make China's repression any better. The focus should be on demilitarization and peace-building all around, the world and its people can't afford another massive conflict. But of course this is never anywhere near any serious agenda.

[@okami3271]

"without US there would be no tension." L take tbh, territorial water disputes are well established with Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines, etc. like just kind of a chauvinistic clueless american take. would there be less tension, yes of course. obviously these disputes are aggravated by western interests. but to say there would be none is dumb

[@chinguunerdenebadrakh7022]

Asians have enough racism against each other to start another world war.

[@FirstnameLastname-yh5fb]

I love Hasan but he just wants China to win. I'm Filipino and I don't think he understands that if we let China run us over in territorial disputes they will just win if there is no foreign interference.

[@othmaneelmansouri6314]

True, it would be correct to say there would be no tension due to fear of nuclear war.

[@clarissaashley_]

Heeey hasan. You’ve been my favorite Yt to watch lately

[@MichaelCasanovaMusic]

Yeah, famously friendly China and Japan definitely wouldn’t have any sort of regional tension if it weren’t for the presence of the US navy lmfao

[@NeostormXLMAX]

China and japan had quite good relationships from 1100 ad till 1915 Chiang kai chek and sun yet sen both went to japan for school, and mao tried to mend relationships with japan right after the war

[@robertfancyman3873]

I respect Hasan's position, but I strongly disagree here. Firstly, if there was no US Navy in the area there would absolutely still be massive tension, as everyone in that region hates each other. Most of the region still hates Japan for their horrible actions in WW2, and most of the region hates China for trying to bully them out of their territorial waters. Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, it's entirely realistic that China would just invade Taiwan if the US wasn't there. Let's not kid ourselves, the US isn't protecting them for humanitarian reasons, it's for the semiconductor industry, but doing a good thing for a bad reason is still good.

[@raemmio2761]

It’s only good for the people that benefit from this a good thing done by a bad person is only good for the people that profit. Tawain is fucked either way from either being pushed down by the US or China. Tensions would definitely be way less than now if the US was not there.

[@kobinho1917]

Fed

[@kobinho1917]

Bidens alt account

[@MrCrunch808]

Perhaps Japan should face punishment for their actions? Maybe people wouldn't hate each other so much if things actually got settled in the area instead of the US just making everyone into vassals who have no free will and no sovereignty. There isn't a country with a US military base that has sovereignty.

[@MichaelCasanovaMusic]

@@MrCrunch808do you think the United States is actively preventing the Japanese from acknowledging their war crimes against China and Korea?

[@limen7679]

Do they know the difference between freely and free in this context? Giving access freely to advanced US weapon technology is not the same as giving it for free or no cost.

[@shadow_flame2223]

He quick with it damn

[@apoco_lips9957]

hasans take would be chefskiss if he could weave in an acknowledgement/solution to the fact that the vast majority of semiconductors are made in taiwan including the most advance chips for our military and most importantly our precious gaming GPUS. As a member of the working class, I cant afford the cost of new graphics cards and will definitely not be able to afford them if prices go up because of china going from making 5% of the worlds semi conductors to 65% (90% of advanced ones). Even if the take was to just acknowledge it and to say fuck it thats what we deserve, or that we should invest more in manufacturing in US or that we need to yoink the fabs and then let china swarm in, any acknowledgement would make his take more complete

[@sebastianbardon391]

Why Chinese products would be more expensive?

[@LouisKing995]

@@sebastianbardon391when you own the market you set the price lol

[@gabrielcollin8276]

​​@@sebastianbardon391oing from a US client state owned market from a non US client state owned market. Prices could 10x. Not like the other 35% are gonna complain about it either

[@joshmay2944]

I hear what you're saying but my understanding is that the US is heavily investing in its own infrastructure for manufacturing microchip PCBs to lower our dependence on Taiwan. That's what the CHIPS Act was all about.

[@ni9274]

@@sebastianbardon391 If they have a monopole they can just tax semi-conductors exports.

[@Aberusugi]

Japan actually has a high favorability in Taiwan. Check the polling. The taiwanese basically rank the US and Japan the highest.

[@JusticeIsALie]

Soft power wins

[@Thekidisalright]

Most Taiwanese are political illiterate, those who doesn’t like China share the same “my enemy’s enemy is my friend” mentality as the US.

[@chinguunerdenebadrakh7022]

Yeah, because of the different "models" of colonization established there. Korea was suppressed heavily while Taiwan, a very underdeveloped region at the time was invested in heavily.

[@NeostormXLMAX]

Yeah because the younger generation likes anime, guess what, even mainlanders have a positive opinion of japan lmao. Ironically enough japan at least outside of tokyo is neutral towards china as well

[@NeostormXLMAX]

Chinas most popular streaming site “bilibili” is named after misaka mokotos nickname from scientific railgun

[@travishunter8573]

Johnny said formally because it is written into their constitution that they cant have offensive forces

[@limen7679]

"There wouldn't be tension without the U.S." Huh!?! Usually, I agree with most of your points, but unless I'm not understanding what you mean exactly this position seems incredibly delusional, because you seem to suggest that China wouldn't threaten its neighbors if the US wasn't present.

[@kahleeb624]

The main reason america is so obsessed with Taiwan and the south china sea is computer chips. Taiwan currently is one of only 2 places that can make a certain part that is required for making computer chips. And computer chip power and memory is literally one of the dingle most powerful tool. Russia and china have always had an almost 10 year delay on the best micro chips which is why technology came so quickly from america. If america was not there china would have already tried to take taiwan because they dont want to be years behind in computer chips. China even set up a spy that then stole a machine and took it back to china and thus you have the incredibly rapid modernization of the chinese military. Its all about computer chips man... that and america for whatever reason doesnt know what to do if they arent making new weapons and toys for the military and using those toys they dont know what to do. Lol

[@evanhenderson9461]

We'll probably see a random country in the next 50 years discover massive deposits of rare earth metals that completely flips the geopolitical zeitgeist on its head.

[@goutamboppana961]

1) War on silicon 2) War on Lanthanides 3) War on Trans-Uranyl elements (happened between America and Soviets already)

[@evanhenderson9461]

@@goutamboppana961 Silver lining: those wars assume that we're going to keep rapidly expanding technology for consumerism. If instead we changed to a world where a piece a tech lasts 10 - 20 years instead of 10 - 20 months then the resource aggression would go down at least slightly. we're already seeing hints of a cultural rejection of this wastefulness largely due to people being more poor than normal.

[@ni9274]

Computer chips are also used to build GPU, do you really want the price of GPU to increase ?

[@chinguunerdenebadrakh7022]

@@evanhenderson9461 "rare earth" isn't rare, many of the rare earth are more common than copper. The issue is the refining part, not mining part as it's found in annoying compositions (often polluting processes required). China is the only country that was willing to take on that pollution and to subsidize that process thus bankrupting other countries mining industries.

[@butchblaster7073]

I enjoy I Did A Thing, I LOVE BoyBoy.

[@gregmcgregor3829]

alexa is based

[@Gaspar314]

Interesting watching bunch of dudes who don’t live in the area give their take on what’s happening in that area. The anti-Chinese sentiment is the region is there for a reason. It’s easy to debate for the sake of debating if you’re not in the direct line of fire.

[@olfrud]

yup don't get it either. If everythings fine with china, they should go and live there for a while. Or maybe move to Vietnam and see how happy they are with China trying to overtake everything. And I doubt Hasan can make the claim that Vietnam is an american vassal-state.

[@NeostormXLMAX]

Lmao have you asked everyone in the region? You realize taiwan also claims the south china sea and vietnam now has more artificial islands than china? It was also vietnam who started the island building and they conflict with the Philippines as well

[@jordanmalone2547]

Then why have discourse on world politics if that’s your take

[@phdonme1]

Before I even finish this it's going to be about microchips. The dude created the machine that creates the microchips for our government, defected here like 20 years ago and then he went back to China. One of the components is produced in Taiwan I believe for the machine where I believe another set of components is produced somewhere else and then it's all put together in one place so that is probably the big reason.

[@ilnumero1234]

Yeah,advanced lens for euv lithography are only made in Netherlands by Asme

[@keneola]

"I was wrong. Under no case do you '...always gotta hand it to him'" - (future) Hasan Piker

[@kaan1780]

I love Hasss🐍ssssan except when talks about China where he does not vomit the US State department point of view. I'm a western leftist that does not support a state that combats socialism and any "leftist" movement globally, a genocidal state that STILL places human rights violating embargoes on other countries (*cough* Cuba *cough*), a state that supports and even trains right wing extremist terror groups and militias around the world to combat rising communist movements, a state that has concentration camps at its borders to keep migrants away (the brown ones mainly), like China ...I mean US... oh shoot.

[@donaldsmith555]

Vietnam! China and Vietnam have had a tense history with several border wars where the Vietnamese bloodied the Chinese. Australia would be the “Power” that might fill the US void as it had prior to WWII.

[@chinguunerdenebadrakh7022]

No shot, Japan has way bigger economy and population than em.

[@NeostormXLMAX]

Vietnam never blooded china lmao, the casualties heavily favored the chinese, and the only reason why americans never won was because ho minh chi had support of mao and told americans to never attack the north

[@ezrabrownstein3237]

A foreign policy view that completely centers on exposing and combatting US imperialism is still US-centric. Hasan doesn't give enough agency to the people who actually live in the regions he talks about when he talks international politics. US imperialism is always a factor, bit it isn't always the most important factor.

[@zacotb]

Very much this, I'd like to know what the Taiwanese want. My guess is no domination from mainland China.

[@raidermaxx2324]

you dont understand Hasan, its economic stuff .. it has to do with chip manufacturing and rare earths

[@exosproudmamabear558]

Yeah there is something America likes more than power is money. But wanting to get power over China is important too.

[@gravejello2331]

It’s all because of *dramatic pause* China (music stops)

[@gabrielcollin8276]

*clic* *clic* *clic* , *Goes through flashing images of China millitary*, China is... scary

[@barbaroja.mp3]

Johnny CIA Harris...it's bad when other countries do US shit, the US is the only country entitled to do that kinda stuff and it's good for the world....gosh I hate his lies so much despite how good the videos look.

[@ni9274]

Johnny Harrs pratically never praise the US

[@pegatrisedmice]

​​​@@ni9274yeah but to tankies, praising=not blaming America for everything 100% of the time

[@themrwoody1434]

How is it that this video gets 5 minutes in and hasan doesn’t mention Taiwan. That’s what the struggle in that region is all about because taiwan produces a majority of our super conductors that are needed for everything. Screams to me that Hasan doesn’t actually know.

[@Thekidisalright]

And that’s exactly why the American care so much about Taiwan, it’s commercial value and being the singular best way to poke China to get an negative reaction. the US doesn’t care about Taiwan, the US only care what leverage Taiwan provides in the tug-of-war with China, the worst part? The Taiwanese are so fucking stupid they have no idea about any of these.

[@Gamersauce99]

Hasan has always had dumb takes when it came to foreign policy. He only looks through the lens of "america bad" without seeing the bigger picture. His social takes are usually fine

[@DubhghlasMacDubhghlas]

The turkish air space map does make sense because the air space goes of what is the countries water. And yes Air space ends where there is land boarder with another country.

[@jtc4309]

I'd like to point out that you guys might be under certain bias watching this. Harris is by no means a pro-Chinese person, however he's just as critical of the US as he is of China. Having watched a lot of videos from him, he seems to have solid critical thinking. Nobody's perfect, but he has a pretty good grasp of things regardless. My point is simply that you guys seem to be watching that video with the enduring thought that Harris is pro-American. I get that you guys are pro-Chinese, sure, but still, I'd still suggest maybe putting in a bit more critical thinking. Thanks

[@COMMIECOMMANDER]

360p ?.

[@MrGaborKukucska]

It's all about weapon manufacturing, sales, and the money made on these bloated government contracts. In every nation on earth... or almost...

[@MrGaborKukucska]

BTW. Love the trio 🙌🏼

[@luckartist]

"why is america there?" isnt hasan supposed to know the answer to that, as a political streamer rofl :D

[@irtwiaos]

Johny Harris is great for a lot of things except when it comes to geopolitics. The guy is completely clueless and tows the US military propagandists machine.

[@CyanCooper]

Johnny doesn't do his own editing, @BooneLovesVideo does.

[@jerusuy6859]

Notice how he doesn't have any comments when it comes to how Chinese military vessels harrass small Filipino fishing vessels on a daily basis. He obviously doesn't know shit with what's happening in SEA.

[@lilshadow48]

god I need to learn not to click on videos where Hasan talks about any country outside of Turkey or America

[@NeostormXLMAX]

Cope amerigolem

[@GetOfflineGetGood]

Bro there would definitely still be tension without the US but that doesn't justify the US being there. We don't need to have our nose in every single corner of everybody's business. The biggest problem with China is they're too much like the US.

[@ni9274]

So you can't provide help to countries being bullied by China ? You're the first world power, you have responsability to all the country that use the dollars and trade with you.

[@NeostormXLMAX]

China is nothing like the us

[@ilnumero1234]

I mean US should not have their nose in every single corner but thank god it was US and not SOviet Unions. Can u immagine a world where the entire Europe is under the Soviet Union,the east Asia Under Mao’s China and Soviet Union? What about the middle east? I remembering them also shoving their nose in that part of the world 😂😂😂

[@oshinoedan5666]

we gotta get Hasan to have Vijay Prashad on

[@Cryptum404]

Not a fan of Johnny Harris

[@Jawn..]

opinion noted. thanks.

[@naota3k]

No sound. :(

[@masterbaiter1688]

Same

[@HasanabiProductionsfanchannel]

youtube processing, should fix in a couple of seconds

[@limen7679]

The mix of sarcasm and gibberish makes this video unwatchable.

[@ThatSayYou]

Joe Hattab is honestly a more likeable and better edited version of Johnny Harris

[@wrt142]

Love boy boy

[@Monthlyjune]

Evil obi wan kenobi

[@WolfvineGaming]

26:14 Ummm no? It was spying, regarding of "wind current"

[@Kylepsmoore]

The pompousness of this episode was absolutely too much, chill dude.

[@kellynaz9256]

how can the us comment on china bullying its neighbours

[@Space_Aquila]

"China and who?" what about the 9 dash line and Taiwan? I feel like he is ignoring some stuff to make the US look worse.

[@zantezalighieri]

15:10 fire 28:08 BE mention 1:03:58 not enough men in china

[@satiricgames2129]

The Chinese government also were tweeting that Auslians are war criminals and then also included references to how the indigenous Australians are treated which is ironic

[@DubhghlasMacDubhghlas]

And how is the Muslim minority in China being treat. And want to get historically how was the non Han Chinese treated.

[@hankhill6707]

Are they wrong though?

[@ericktellez7632]

@@DubhghlasMacDubhghlasgenuinely not as terrible as the natives were. Discrimination and segregation isn’t as bad as actual extermination, uninterrupted holocaust that natives had to endure in Australia and the Americas

[@DubhghlasMacDubhghlas]

@@ericktellez7632 And China was not always Han Chinese there was several groups there that was went through Hanifaction, with side of genocide. And currently Uighurs are going through a genocide. China is no better.

[@mirrenmoomin6314]

@@DubhghlasMacDubhghlasread about the UN investigation into the “genocide”. You’re using a very strong word that doesn’t completely apply here.

[@endodouble6691]

Wait there’s only one problem?

[@caleblee1780]

This is the worst take i’ve heard from hasanabi, and I like him a lot usually but…. The reasons why the u.s. want to contain china are simple. 1. Maintain free trade in asia. This benefits both countries in asia and the u.s. if the u.s. doesn’t ensure free trade with their military, china will tax these trade routes or block them harming the surrounding countries to china’s benefit. 2. A byproduct of maintaining free trade is maintaining basic human rights. 3. Hasanabi acts as if china ruling the world is equally bad as the u.s. it’s not. China does not allow basic freedoms. It is a totalitarian state. The whole argument by hasanabi just feels immature and like a false equivalency.

[@sgb1534]

If it were about human rights, the US wouldn't be funding a goddamn genocide in Yemen and they would be all over Israel and Saudi Arabia's shit. Get real, it's an hegemonic power finally seeing a competitor trying to smear them from being a competitor

[@user-qd3dm7ut2n]

okay joe biden

[@lowkoalatee4033]

@@sgb1534i dont think u understood what this guy is talking about. He said both countries are bad theres no comparison bc u can hate both countries that can be a thing lol

[@PsychedelicSocialist]

You’re right if China ruled it wouldn’t be equally bad as the US, it would be infinitely better

[@caleblee1780]

@@PsychedelicSocialist you wouldn’t even get to view this video in China.

[@wgiblet]

How much does this man eat?

[@sortacoolmaybe]

Johnny meant Japan was a pacifist nation because they’re in the Pacific Ocean

[@travishunter8573]

I love taking facts that johnny is just stating is then taken as him saying that this is the best thing ever in the history of mankind

[@EM_vi_ix]

I don't know who he works for but Johnny Harris videos are propaganda.

[@ryanwilliams8750]

I watched this video and it didn't seem like it was anti-china to me. just seemed like he was raising awareness for us aggression in the region. Did I interpret that wrong? Pretty sure he even said that at the end of the video

[@MikeyMile5411]

This whole video was pro China and anti us

[@travishunter8573]

You are correct Hasan just assumes anyone who isn't him is wrong unless they continually reassure him that saying something exists doesn't mean they support it

[@ni9274]

US aggression in the region ? Can you give me any exemple of US aggression in south china see ?

[@ryanwilliams8750]

@@ni9274 Yeah of course! when the US builds brand new military bases on Japanese Islands near Taiwan or in North Philippines, or patrolling nearby waters with nuclear submarines, it looks like super-aggression from the Chinese point of view. If you think about it in a role reversal, imagine China and Cuba agree to building three new bases in the western part of Cuba very very close to Florida. Or Chinese submarines patrolling the Caribbean. The US government would be shitting themselves and responding saying this is aggressive behavior. Hope that helps!

[@IziahThompson]

Tanky China love doesn't suit you Hasan.

[@Nemo_Anom]

What do you call an anarchist? A useful idiot for capitalists. Or, in modern parlance, a third imposter.

[@adaml6125]

First and last hasan video im ever watching lol 😂. Well i only got through 10 min. Was looking for critiques of johnny harris videos and these dudes dont know what theyre talking about

[@arianaink100]

4:36 the thing they’re directly referencing is agriculture and mass manufacturing. (The us can give a shit about democracy it’s about money.) In China rn agriculture done by the everyday people is treated kinda similar to Britain of the 1920-1950’s ie. You had normal regular people doing a normal amount of work for their normal goods/crop of their choice these people get offered a governmental grant or financing which requires they produce a certain amount and then give it to the officials who will then use it for rations/food trade/etc (standardization of a practice is a good concept when you’re making sterile and non contaminated food for mass populations. However it can lead to financial collapse when suddenly the normal quality crop is considered poor quality/not sellable/illegal. The reason why China/Taiwan is such a big deal is because China uses Taiwan already as a major imports of fruits due to growing conditions Taiwan produces more fruit for some areas of China then even the Chinese market can produce. This leads to china developing their own country brand of the exact same good then banning the trade of the foreign goods (which was noticeably seen in their fruit sales when they dropped Taiwan imports for a Chinese grown variant that was pushed into Chinese farmers to grow instead of the original seeds from Taiwan) Taiwan also culturally grows marijuana for culinary/traditional/medicinal/everyday use and is part of the appeal when traveling to Taiwan you get beautiful beaches and every other food can be an edible if you want it to be. If China takes over Taiwan their legislation of marijuana will make all Taiwan growers of their culturally and historically significant plant as criminals and send them off to an internment camp. China also does this with other countries and nations where they have trade negotiations but loose foreign copyright laws and they control the quality and quantity checks. Their ability to look at a regular person or a farmer of their own country or a foreign country and say ‘we aren’t buying anything you’re now selling’ after that person spent the last 4 years and their life savings to reach the designated quality requirements and the designated quantity requirements. (You force them to grow everything perfectly spend all their money on it and the land/equipment/shipping then tell them you’re not gonna pay it’s all waste product and burn down their farms infront of them claiming it’s contaminated land. Why it contaminated? Because regulations got updated and they weren’t wealthy or aware of how to manage their farms sucks to be the little guy who has to sell their time consuming cultivation to make a living, why couldn’t they own 6 different farms for different plants why not focus on a different meat? Why couldn’t they afford to have 4 years of labor unpaid shouldn’t their production be as mechanical and seamless as possible? If the international trade falls then can’t they sell at a local level (only that drops a price from $20 a cart of açaí berries to about 1.50 on the street because they’re commonly grown locally by every person who also gets a grant to make it for other countries.

[@JonathanKvitky]

It's almost definitely about Taiwanese semiconductors. And we SHOULD be opposing Chinese growth. China and the U.S. have competing versions of capitalism; libertarian and authoritarian respectively. While I'm no fan of the U.S. model for capitalism...China's is worse.

[@NeostormXLMAX]

>us = libertarian 😂😂😂😂😂 holy shit i keep trying to give you the benefit of the doubt but amerigolems really are npc

[@JonathanKvitky]

@@fluxonite In the US model, it's possible to succeed based on luck and personal initiative. In the Chinese model, you only succeed if you're in tight with the ruling party.

[@realsmosher53]

Help is this real or is Jonny Harris a liar i dont know this content

[@frost1183]

Johnny is not lying. China is a shit country with a shit government that is bigoted and imperialist. Hasan is just too stupid to think that if something has “socialism” in the name then it’s actually socialist.

[@Patrick-jj5nh]

hasan is just cringe on foreign policy

[@Patrick-jj5nh]

minimising suffering of HK people is disgusting, thousands had to flee the country, many still disappeared... what an asshole

[@PsychedelicSocialist]

You mean based

[@snipercow861]

True, he needs to be significantly more critical on Chinese oppression

[@ilnumero1234]

@@PsychedelicSocialistcringe as fuck,he thinks that Russian invasion is justified

[@mrmannsalt2444]

Aussie Aussie Aussie!

[@louisceresa9795]

is this one the badempanada videos

[@rundownthriftstore]

26:25 wait the ballon wasn’t spying? I thought I just read the other day that we confirmed it did record information about sensitive sites?

[@ilnumero1234]

Nope,until the recovery and found out they just assumed for sure that it was actively spying. But it wasn’t a simple meteo ballon since it has a lot of camera attached on it. The ballon was for spying but it got accidentally on US territory since all the equipment were turn off. The L take of Hasan is that he think satellite are the better way for spying and taking pictures but ballon are actually better because they are at a lower altitude and they can stay stationary way longer than satellite or plane

[@Reprodestruxion]

The Chinese love the Okinawans and viceversa

[@stuntenmetstorm]

i both agree and don't agree with his china take, i feel like ignoring the whole killing and prisoning of uyghurs is kind of tone deaf....

[@mirrenmoomin6314]

They didn’t kill them though? Even the UN investigation said they didn’t. It was akin to the internment camps we use for Japanese Americans. Still not okay but stop spreading the killing narrative.

[@mfindley08]

I agree that it's awful, but it's not like we're rooting for sports teams here aside from the absolutely negligible effect any of our takes have on the situation. Democratic and Republican presidents oversaw the war in Iraq and Afghanistan that killed over a million civilians, and we force immigrants into border camps, but I still voted and haven't been able to stop my own imperial nation from committing human rights violations. Tl:Dr - Don't stress about having a take on this sort of thing beyond violence and genocide are always bad. Hasan doesn't like it either, but we're here to armchair quarterback superpowers and billionaires playing chess with our collective lives.

[@goolumf]

@@mfindley08true out takes don’t matter much but hasan has considerable reach and with great platform comes great responsibility etc etc

[@bobslobbins2864]

maybe that's because so many American takes sound incredibly tone deaf when they talk about the Uyghur's, like America didn't just get finished 2 decades of killing Muslim civilians...hard to take seriously when the concern is always vastly heightened when "the other" does it.

[@PsychedelicSocialist]

They weren’t being killed

[@paniclogic5109]

Idk man. Not really in favor of China taking over that portion of the ocean

[@FlatGuitarsSharpCats]

is hasan a sleeper agent? lol

[@MikeyMile5411]

My American brainwash programing gets upset when Hasan speaks positively of China and negatively of the US

[@PsychedelicSocialist]

Gotta deprogram

[@phdonme1]

It is a chip race.

[@ol1pol1]

you are just as biased in your takes as the people you are critiquing . Chosing to ignore what matches and supports your views and jumping way too eagerly on and critiquing the claims that dont match your views. Bad content that only polarises our society further.

[@GreenEarth20]

I see CIA Harris is going strong.

[@frost1183]

Calling out a genocidal bigoted and imperialist country like China is not CIA propaganda its just being truthful.

[@ni9274]

Harris never praise the US, but I guess not being a tankie mean you're a CIA agent

[@showstahpp]

Cause you are, the western standard,

[@mzk275]

Kaya!

[@paifu.]

21:20

[@darkstarjoe]

your foreign politics are american centric , do better

[@federicomachado811]

Says the brainwashed american lol

[@PsychedelicSocialist]

Liking China is American centric? LMAO

[@peeptbgod7047]

I love johnny

[@exosproudmamabear558]

The area is a tension driven place anyway. China bullies their neighbors and Japan is odd with anyone in there. Tension is inevitable Usa adds to the tension only because China cant bully their neighbors as they like when america comes between. Usa shouldnt let China do whatever they want nor China should let Usa do anything they want so both balance each other and dont become dictators over the world. When it is come to world leader countries one too many two isnt enough

[@dahnmason3243]

*Cenk's nephew on Taiwan:* "Bro, w/o USA China cld physically bully all the countries w impunity. Problem solved. *Cenk's nephew's view on Ukraine?* LMAO omg I don't even want to say it out loud.. The pain that it'll bring via secondhand humiliation is just TOO severe.💀💀💀🤣😭🤡

[@petrovpark1468]

so my boy is pro colonialism on one side and not the either both sides are ass and you can agree to disagree but both sides have and are committing genocide. (Both sides also targeting muslims, as well as refugees, Tibet, etc)

[@petrovpark1468]

China also have their hands deep in Africa and South America as well as much of the world (Necklace of Diamonds Strategy)

[@goolumf]

yeah he’s so frustrated about the U.S’s anti china propaganda that he’s entirely unable to take any china criticism seriously.

[@bobslobbins2864]

@@petrovpark1468 America coming off decades of backing right wing death squads in South America, but we should be really afraid of China...it's like the second someone else does something we don't like, we suddenly forget what the alternative with us was (and demonstrably worse to date).

[@user-qd3dm7ut2n]

​@@petrovpark1468what is china doing in Africa that's bad ? imagine trying to equate western colonialism to Chinese building the railways/schools and doing loans that dont require you to restructure your entire economy like the imf. so many braindead libs in these comments

[@ni9274]

@@goolumf What's U.S's anti china propaganda ?

[@arman6954]

I think it's important to discuss the human rights criminal acts China is committing when you say you are "pro china" including what they are doing to the people of Xinjiang and the Uyghur genocide. HRW's report on the issue was insane.

[@fish5693]

yes yes at the same time lets ignore all the human rights criminal acts US committed and are committing. Uyghur genocide nice Joke That aside lets also ignore every Genocide The US has committed. Hypocrisy Unleashed Like wild animal. But then again you get your Information Feed to you and brainwashed what can the world expect from people who are like you. Stop caring about the other nations Human rights and maybe JUST maybe deal with your citizens, extend an olive branch and maybe give them real democracy I wonder What's your take On Japan's Nuclear waste Dumping into open waters which will continue for the Next 30 years. ''HRW's report on the issue was insane'' what's Insane is how you process Information Then 40 years later truth comes out and oh I was wrong . . . . oh well to late to care now not that you ever did.

[@rakkatytam]

You still believe that? Tell me what ever happened with that story? Sort of disappeared huh? Even the OIC, a committee of 57 Islamic states that exists to ensure Islamic rights internationally, did an investigation and found no evidence of human rights abuse against the Uyghurs I think US propaganda has gotten to you...

[@NeostormXLMAX]

Complete propaganda, so many years and not a single footage or photo of deaths this has to be the most pathetic genocide in history

[@NeostormXLMAX]

Not to mention no muslim delegates ever criticized china for it, even US ALLIES THE SAUDIS AND UAE

[@Nemo_Anom]

There is no genocide. And, if you really think there is, then, to be consistent, you need to stop supporting the US and the West who have done a million times worse...but you won't because you're a reactionary fascist Westoid hemorrhoid.

[@r.h.f.6073]

The One China policy does not mean that the US accepts Taiwan as part of the PRC. It means the US accepts both as parts of China. He says that he has a problem with the US rocking the boat and changing the status quo. What about when China rocks the boat? Is it also bad when they destabilize the situation?

[@buscemi3986]

Dawg it would literally be like of the confederate goverment all moved to puerto rico after the civil war and then france and GB recognized that as part of america. Come on

[@LouisKing995]

@@buscemi3986It’s not even remotely like that lol. The confederate government was never legitimate

[@LouisKing995]

@@777lathe The KMT was the legitimate government of China, the confederacy was never a legitimate government.

[@kkomentor1037]

am I just missing something? The KMT did establish ROC against the Qing before fleeing to Taiwan from the CCP. Saying the KMT is analogous to the confederacy is pretty bad faith when both ccp and kmt held justifiably nationalist beliefs fighting against imperialist powers from their inception. Modern Taiwan is more progressive than China (and America) today.

[@LouisKing995]

@@kkomentor1037 It’s just a dumb comparison from Twitch edgelords. KMT is nothing like the rebel confederacy, whether you agree with it or not.

[@zacharyhughes2950]

Orr norr

[@lzmunch]

Love hasan and Johnny Harris is a lib and a capitalist but hasan does such a poor job of debunking him here

[@justsummers1559]

Awh naurr