• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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      22 days ago

      Every single headline about him could be about a progressive candidate.

      That’s why neoliberals and Republicans live him. He takes up valuable real estate in people’s minds so they’re not talking about progressive candidate.

      It’s hard to tell who’s doing it intentionally and who has twitch brainrot.

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        22 days ago

        He’s literally just some twitch streamer

        Pretty sure algorithms are pushing him to make democrats look stupid

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          22 days ago

          And Tucker Carlson is just some youtube streamer.

          Joe Rogan is some spotify streamer.

          Your point is a point without a point.

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          Many twitch streamers are influencial. That’s why many progressive candidate talked to him and that’s why establishment are going to fox news the media wing of the fascists to trash him. Establishment Democrats makes Democrats stupid

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      They can’t attack policy, because they’ve had absolutely no obstruction to implementing policy for nearly two years now. The Republican party has gotten to do exactly as it pleases for nearly two years now, and almost universally Americans say they are worse off than they were before.

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    22 days ago

    No idea who the fuck he is, but if this orange loser is spamming him. He must be an ok dude in my book.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      He’s a twitch streamer that strongly supports the DSA, so he’s a Social Democrat. He has a few million viewers and has been helping DSA candidates this midterm cycle, so he became a big target of the media. He’s okay, the biggest benefit IMO is that he doesn’t do the typical socdem thing by endlessly condemning socialist countries and trying to separate himself from them, which is why he gets labeled a communist despite being a SocDem.

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        He labeled himself a socialist. He also talks out of both mouths, he calls himself anti Zionist but it’s currently bragging about his positive interviews Israeli media where he said he wants to build bridges with Zionists.

        He’s a net positive in grabbing people from the far right and pushing them left. He’s a net negative when it comes to liberal Zionism and normalizing the colonization of Palestine.

        If you’re a centrist or right leaning, by all means watch him. If you’re already a leftist, you can avoid the brainrot.

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          I’m not a Hasan viewer, I’m a communist. I am just more in-tune because I have to know what’s salient to do org work.

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          currently bragging about his positive interviews Israeli media where he said he wants to build bridges with Zionists

          Which interview is this referring to?

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            https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2026-08-24/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/hasan-piker-talks-hamas-anti-zionism-and-why-americans-are-fed-up-with-israel/000001a0-29fd-d293-a1e7-39fdf95c0000#comments-section

            Read the comments if you want to see the mindset of haaretz readers. It’s a “liberal leftist” outlet that serves primarily to whitewash Israel and portray them as diverse.

            Of course there’s nothing leftist about a settler colonial ethno-religious supremacist apartheid state, so…

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              There’s a paywall, so I can’t see the “building bridges” part, but the summary says this

              In his first interview with Israeli media, left-wing streamer Hasan Piker tells Haaretz that October 7 must be seen in the context of the Israeli occupation, that even liberal Zionists should be ‘named and shamed,’ and explains why most Americans just don’t like Israel anymore

              So I kind of doubt “building bridges” was some centrist take. It was more likely about educating ignorant/confused American Zionists out of that mindset, if I had to guess based on what I know of him. If you have access to the article though, I’m happy to read a copy/paste of it.

              I do agree that an “Israeli leftist” publication seems suspicious at best. However, Piker appears on other right-wing media all the time. Fox News, Peirs Morgan, etc. So I don’t think his giving an interview necessarily endorses them.

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    I would be shocked if Trump has ever actually watched/listened to anything Hasan has said.

    Let’s be honest, this isn’t trump hearing a different view, forming an opinion and disagreeing with it. This is trump being told what the current culture issue is and what his views are.

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    Sounds like this Piker guy is good stuff. That is a sterling recommendation if it came from such a corrupt PoS pedophile like Dump…

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      To be fair, Hasan is a Communist, and has called himself as such in the past. He uses the Progressive and Democratic-Socialist labels more these days for the same reason he wears suits now, to look less threatening to the audience seeing him on TV.

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          At most you might say he’s a Democratic Socialist, because his goal is still to eventuate the abolition of capitalism. He’s a Communist who knows the best available action is political mobilization. He’s certainly not a SocDem who only wants to reform capitalism. He’s openly spoken in favor of worker revolution, but he’s also aware that such a thing isn’t possible in America, at least at this moment.

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            Democratic socialists are social democrats in practice, considering it is impossible to reform capitalism into socialism. Revolution is absolutely possible, but it isn’t something you trigger, it is a response to crisis with an organized revolutionary class. We need to organize so that crisis turns to revolution.

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              You’re saying what Hasan says, idk what else to tell you. He’s not trying to reform capitalism into socialism, he’s organizing a political base that will be capable of turning the coming political crises into a productive Communist movement.

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                I disagree that he is succeeding in that by going through the DSA and focusing so hard on electoralism. It’s important to understand the necessity of democratic centralism and consistent revolutionary rhetoric, because otherwise we fall into the same problems as the second international and the SPD.

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                  Democratic Centralism…? Oooooh you’re a Tankie, I got it. I just noticed the domain.

                  Go back to your HoI4 campaign bud, and let the grownups do actual politics.

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    Not meant to be an endorsement, but it sure reads as an unwitting one. (For the other side, I mean)

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    The world has way more labels for trump than trump has for others. trump’s voice tends to get amplified more because…you know…billionaire media owners.