• Freeposity@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    If you give a shit, stop watching streamers and actually learn about politics.

    People do grow and change. I’m a pretty old fart and Hasan Piker seems to me to be a generational talent. His knowledge of politics and political theory is pretty deep. Don’t hate just because of his platform of choice. He’s trying to bring class awareness and political education to the younger generation and doing a pretty good job of it.

    So, just because he’s a streamer and related to Cenk(he has no control over who his family is), it does not mean he isn’t doing good and serious work.

    It’s almost as if you’ve never watched any of his youtube videos, which are edited for time and relevance.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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      11 hours ago

      Hasan Piker seems to me to be a generational talent

      No, he was the nepo nephew of The Young Turks founder…

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_genocide

      A media organization literally named after people who overthrew their government to commit a genocide…

      His uncle put him on air, then bankrolled him into the early days of twitch.

      He is not grassroots, he did not got popular because of talent or political opinions.

      He is an outrage machine and rather than complain about literal fascists running our country and supporting genocides worldwide, he uses his platform to make people not want to vote for the literal only option in our political system

      At best he’s a narcissist that just wants views, at worst he’s intentionally trying to prevent progress.

      Fucking think for yourself and stop repeating twitch streamers.

      • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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        10 hours ago

        I guess I don’t understand why the name Young Turks is supposed to be automatically disqualifying or something? Ana is Armenian herself. If that was so disqualifying, you’d think she would be noping out or calling for a name change?