hasan piker (guy on the right) does not represent the left and is not worthy of your attention.
he is actively making abdul el-sayed’s chances at election worse and i am frustrated about it given the stakes so i made this meme.
because like. my absolute BESTIE abdul el-sayed is out here working miracles at home trying to keep poc, migrant, low-income, queer, etc. people alive and doing the actual work of building a coalition, including making real inroads with his Jewish constituency, while being explicitly pro-Palestinian and rejecting AIPAC money.
hasan piker has made a handful of appearances with both abdul and zohran, but now abdul is getting viciously smeared for hasan’s own words, with fox news literally turning things hasan said into attack-ad material against him. and hasan just will not read the room and step back.
this is the same BOZO hasan piker who wears mao outfits, plays literal terrorist propaganda videos for his friends and goes “they’re just very musical people,” denies the Uyghur genocide, supports the invasion of Tibet, lies about queer rights in China while going on tours, and has said enough insane shit that even my OTHER bestie zohran mamdani disavowed him months ago. and the room is STILL unread and some people are trying to tell me i have to fall on the sword for piker.
do i have to beg ;;;;;;
i just want candidates who aren’t evil to win :’(
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fox news literally turning things hasan said into attack-ad material against [El-Sayed]
I don’t really think that’s gonna do much? Fox was gonna run attack ads regardless of Hasan’s proximity, and the core audience of Fox News… is the core audience of Fox News.
hasan is awesome; they’re not attacking abdul because of hasan, they’re attacking him because they’re fucking racist assholes who love aipac money.
and abdul is still winning <3
i wish that was true, but you know who i trust that disagrees with you in both word and action?
abdul el-sayed and zohran mamdani. who have both taken real steps back from california twitch streamer hasan piker. those guys have good heads on their shoulders and i am glad about it.
this is the same BOZO hasan piker who wears mao outfits, plays literal terrorist propaganda videos for his friends and goes “they’re just very musical people,” denies the Uyghur genocide, supports the invasion of Tibet, lies about queer rights in China while going on tours
Alright it’s pretty clear what community you’re coming from, or you’re a really gullible liberal. Why do you seem to care more about this streamer than these political campaigns? Mighty strange behavior.
you really think it’s impossible for me to identify and call out a campaign vulnerability, while also sticking to my values?
i got similar “oh you’re so gullible” attacks in 2023-24 when i saw and verbalized the vulnerability that was Joe Biden’s age and suggested he drop out earlier. hindsight’s 20/20 and we saw how that turned out, huh?
i have to say i’m used to it by now. continue with the ad hominems. 🙏🙏🌹
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What are you going on about with “playing terrorist propaganda” and “denying the Uyghur genocide”? And why are you calling politicians ‘buddies’?
It’s the standard issue destiny smears that are profoundly stupid if you scratch the surface of basically any of them.
here’s the “terrorist propaganda” moment. you can see how visibly uncomfortable it makes his friend.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=cDNfpKfZL-g
important to note that whatever your feelings on this clip hasan piker is a california twitch streamer and does NOT represent leftism or progressivism. DSA politician zohran mamdani has publicly denounced instances of hasan piker’s language.
So, he plays an anti-Saudi Arabia and anti-Israel resistance group’s music video, and that counts as terrorist propaganda? Like, I don’t support Houthis’ political ideology either, but when they’re against such sociopathic imperialist war criminals I will also side with them.
And yeah, I know many of the entryist DSA candidates are slowly but surely moving rightwards.
lets get real I would rather live amongst the houthis than amongst genocide supporting israel controlled zionist oprrated child eating US government. it is literally that simple. one side is good the other is evil
that’s crazy to admit you’d side with the Houthis
i personally side with international human rights organizations, relief charities, and NGOs engaging with the victims of Saudi Arabia and Israel because they do a better job at like… not killing innocents, but hey that’s just me crazy lib over here
Yeah, their strongly worded letters will end the genocide one day 😀
geez! why would you say that?
anyway you’re blocked… anyone reading this please consider donating to these “strongly worded letters”
in addition, please organize and fight for justice against the government organizations that ghoulishly fail to protect or downright attack/murder these heroes in clearly marked aid convoys.
palestine & gaza
- (medical aid & emergency relief) (https://www.msf.org/palestine)
- (food aid & cash assistance) (https://www.wfp.org/emergencies/palestine-emergency)
- (shelter & healthcare) (https://www.unrwa.org/)
- (ambulances & emergency medical aid) (https://www.palestinercs.org/en)
- (humanitarian aid & civilian protection) (https://www.icrc.org/en/where-we-work/israel-and-occupied-territories)
- (refugee aid & protection) (https://www.unhcr.org/)
- (children’s medical aid & healthcare) (https://www.pcrf.net/) <— edit: this is the one i have donated most frequently to, i believe they do beautiful work
yemen
- (food aid & nutrition) (https://www.wfp.org/emergencies/yemen-emergency)
- (medical aid & clean water) (https://www.icrc.org/en/where-we-work/yemen)
- (refugee aid & shelter) (https://www.unhcr.org/where-we-work/countries/yemen)
- (emergency relief & healthcare) (https://www.rescue.org/country/yemen)
global
- (emergency medical aid) (https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/)
- (disaster relief & emergency aid) (https://www.ifrc.org/)
- (refugee aid & protection) (https://www.unhcr.org/)
- (children’s aid & healthcare) (https://www.unicef.org/)
- (food aid) (https://www.wfp.org/)
- (humanitarian aid & civilian protection) (https://www.icrc.org/)
Let’s all pray that your money doesn’t go to killing another one of these defenseless aid workers.
Oh, nevermind. They wrote a strongly-worded letter for that as well.
anyway you’re blocked(…)
Have fun reinforcing your lib echo-chamber 👍
That’s crazy you’d admit to siding with the genocide state.
I think this shows your ass more than you know. I wish one day this opinion would haunt you but I’m afraid you would need to have thoughts beyond Hasan bad.
gross and weird that you conclude i support genocidal terrorists Israel’s IOF based on just that. team sports syndrome. free Palestine.
All these right-wing smears have been debunked (see description for the timestamps of each smear)
I hope you also realize that Mamdani and Abdul are still friends with and have regular contact with Hasan, which makes these smears even more strange coming from an Abdul fan
yeah i’ve watched that whole stream when it aired, my opinion was honestly bolstered.
i even skipped ahead today to 4:27:50 where my above complaint is “addressed” and nothing was “debunked”; he just compared Saudi Arabia to ISIS which is absolutely a valid argument but does not excuse restreaming Houthi propaganda. neither American nor Israeli nor Saudi nor Houthi propaganda should be treated with such frivolity.
If you don’t fuck with anti-imperialism, that’s your choice. But to me it’s pretty clear he was not “excusing houthi propaganda” when you watch the full clip. He’s also talked extensively about the ongoing Genocide in Yemen, and how all aspects of that affect the daily lives of the Yemeni people
i actually do fuck with anti-imperialism and i fuck with it heavy! i also am deeply sympathetic to the yemeni plight under the imperialist west.
that DOESN’T mean i have to condone hasan restreaming and clapping and laughing along to houthis, the vast majority of whose civilian victims have been yemeni.
So your upset he shared a part of Yemeni culture for like a minute? I’m sorry but that’s a ridiculous thing to hyper-focus on, especially once you acknowledge the entire scope about his coverage of the Yemeni people’s plight and interviewed a Yemeni teenager to talk about his experience growing up under that genocide.
Get zapped idiot
Shit ass take
If their only avenue of attack is some vague association with a twitch streamer then i think el-sayed gonna be just fine tbh.
hopefully! this post is me hoping to make the association even less compelling.
Idk why people feel the need to defend hasan on this platform so much. he is directly depositing money into Amazon’s pocket by streaming on twitch. I feel like thats pretty antithetical to using platforms like lemmy. he has the budget to self host something like Peertube.
this in addition to everything you said OP.
Nobody goes on peertube. I have no idea about his policies but leaving mainstream sites would be a political suicide.
So why is Trump using Mastodon…?
Reposting on here in the minute chance mastodon takes off when twitter fails? Or just gets popular for some unknown reason. All they do is copy paste his whitehouse, and truth media shit everywhere.
Because he got banned from Twitter before Musk has bought it. The original comment condemns Hasan for using Twitch, which I am assuming was intended as bad for using at all. Your example is somebody who uses multiple platforms, which hasn’t cut off the part of his base that refuses to follow him to Truthsocial. It also has an advantage of moving his most loyal cultists to a different platform, where he can feed them propaganda without having to worry as much about scaring off potential moderate republicans. Oh and the chicken and an egg problem. Trump solved it by buying chickens and other power given to him by an insane amount of capital.
His policies, what I’m lead to believe, is that hes a socialist.
Why wouldnt he be able to dual stream and move his viewers over? Have exclusive other platform only streams until enough people have moved over to stop supporting a fascist?
That is, unless he really doesnt give a shit, because hes a socialist in name only, and doesnt care that he is directly supporting Jeff Bezos by using his platform.
People dont leave abusive platforms unless their favorite creators move with them.
Why wouldnt he be able to dual stream and move his viewers over? Have exclusive other platform only
as I’ve said in a different comment:
The original comment condemns Hasan for using Twitch, which I am assuming was intended as bad for using at all.
Yes, he can dual stream if he wants to and should.
Addition after like 2 minutes after posting: I’ve noticed the one who responded was an original comment. My assumption of what you’ve said was then incorrect. In that case only thing I want to mention is that most leftists are still normal people who don’t spend their time boycotting every evil company. Should they? Yes. If we were to count only the most radical boycotters as leftists then our movement would shrink to less than Desktop Linux % presence.
yeah and he also spends literally all day scrolling elon musk’s nazi twitter. he really knows how to pick an aesthetic lol.
This entire smear campaign is just an attempt at assigning guilt-by-association to progressives. A full-throated condemnation of Hasan Piker will only be taken as an admission of guilt for their prior association and the media will continue to use it as a line of attack, so it’s less than pointless to do so, it’s counterproductive because it would only alienate those who agree with Hasan while doing nothing to appease “moderates.”
Stop pretending you care about electability. It’s obvious you’re not doing this out of concern for Abdul’s chances of winning, but out of hatred for an online personality you have a weird parasocial vendetta against.
no full-throated condemnation is required! i am happy with a continuous gradual distancing.
i care about human rights and stemming pragmatically from this i care about electability. go back in my history and you’ll find that this is my first post about piker, and the reason for that has entirely to do with el-sayed being threatened.
None of you clowns care about Hillary Clinton wearing Mao suits, but act like it’s a problem when Hasan wears one.
i really don’t like clinton either but thanks for the broad strokes accusation & insult combo silly goose
The point is that you’re taking the bait set out by right-wing and Israel-backed smear campaigns and that you even care about Hasan wearing a Mao suit is a result of that. If Hillary came out and said free Palestine they would start non-stop accusing her of being a Chinese psy-op using her Mao suit preference as “evidence.” Most of the things listed in the last paragraph of your post are false such as Hasan denying the Uyghur genocide, supporting the invasion of Tibet, and lying about LGBTQ rights in China. You only believe these things about him because you have accepted the mainstream media lies about him at face value and refuse to think for yourself. As for the Houthis, characterizing them as terrorists and considering someone a terrorist supporter for reacting to their propaganda is hypocritical if you don’t apply the same logic to those reacting to US or Israeli military propaganda because they are also terrorists (and much more prolific ones at that).
you clearly don’t watch his streams, and that’s okay. just know i have been observing and concerned with piker longer than most people here knew he existed. he doesn’t represent me nor the left.
I think you just outed yourself as a chronically online hate-watcher who should not be taken seriously. You realize it’s not normal to regularly watch content made by someone you hate for years, right?
plenty of leftists like me observe the output of harmful political and social figures. for example i keep regular tabs on andrew tate, bill mahr, candace owens, tim pool, ben shapiro, john fetterman, graham platner (formerly) and even/especially the president and the entirety of the AIPAC-funded congress.
i don’t know what to say other than you’re blowing things way out of proportion.
I keep tabs on political figures I don’t like as well. I don’t do it by watching their content regularly for years. Your online habits are abnormal and unhealthy.
also i looked it up and piker’s is far more Mao-esque, clinton seems to wear like orange and white but piker’s is like classic mao suit grey so… i’m not an authoritarian fashion historian just my personal insight
You can’t attack my goat Hasan like this bruh. He’s an epic political commentator
i just want candidates who aren’t evil to win :’(
then why aren’t you electing yourself :'(
Why let others do your policies?
Build coalitions, make real inroads, liberate Palestine, and reject capitalism.
Why do you need a servant to do commit your demands?well the answer is simple, i am evil and i would never vote for myself
then you have your answer why your demands are never met :'(
Gonna go back to actually feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, and decapitating private equitours.
