I do think it’s crazy how Piker has managed to sidestep his whole “America deserved 9/11, American vets of Iraq and Afghanistan deserve PTSD and should [REDACTED] themselves” bit pretty masterfully, he and people who have been associated with him have never suffered any consequences for that.
I assume that would end the second a Dem who appeared on his stream was nominated for president or senate in a swing state.
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Socialists have made it clear that their goal is to infest the democratic party and push it away from liberalism to socialism,
I stopped listening to the Pod Save America guys after they platformed this terrorist supporting, dog abusing, socialist, nepo-baby. Establishment liberals need to be better and distancing themselves from DSA types trying to push socialism into the party.
> The antisemitism spewed by Mr. Carlson, Nick Fuentes, Candace Owens and other far-right bigots is well-documented and widely condemned. But the far left has antisemites, too. No left-wing agitator is more influential and extreme than Twitch streamer Hasan Piker. Mr. Piker is often called “progressive,” but that does violence to the term. A self-identified Marxist, he has referred to ultra-Orthodox Jews as “inbred,” employed antisemitic dog whistles (“bloodthirsty, violent pig-dog”) against an anti-Hamas viewer of his stream, compared liberal Zionists to “liberal Nazis,” and said “Hamas is a thousand times better” than the Israeli state.
> Mr. Piker’s depravity doesn’t stop there. His misogyny is indistinguishable from that of far-right influencers. He believes “America deserved 9/11.” He praised the Chinese Communist Party, saying “in terms of good governance, there’s a lot that we can learn from the way they perform out there.”
> Mr. Piker is anti-American, antiwomen, anti-Western and antisemitic. No Democrat should engage with him. All should seek to push him to the fringe, where he belongs.
> This isn’t happening. The Pod Save America team put him onstage at CrookedCon. Abdul El-Sayed, a candidate for Senate in Michigan, tweeted a picture of himself celebrating Piker with a supporter. California Rep. Ro Khanna, a possible presidential hopeful, pushed back on X against concerns we raised about antisemitism on the far left by declaring his pride in going on Mr. Piker’s feed. Mr. Piker chimed in to support him.
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Hasan is part of the populist cancer killing the country
KvonLiechtenstein on
I think that absolutely NO Dem who platforms and endorses this chucklefuck has any right to get mad at right wingers for doing the same to Fuentes.
It’s bigotry all the way down.
admiraltarkin on
The dude is insane. I saw him on Pod Save America and was like “he seems problematic” and when I looked him up, yep
TF_dia on
I am self-aware enough to know I am terminally online and should touch more grass, so I am not even sure if most democrats know who Hasan even is and what he espouses. Like yeah, AOC and Newsom certainly do know him, but what about your rank-and-file and your median voter?
I am asking because of the calculus of exposing him to the greater base (And giving him free publicity) over ignoring him and acting like he doesn’t exist because he is irrelevant to politics,
NoVABadger on
This article is total catnip for this sub. (Not complaining! I love when my priors are confirmed.)
MartinTheOrderly on
Let’s look at this logically. As much of a piece of shit as he is, who with any measure of influence has even given him the time of day? The DSA loves him, but the DSA is irrelevant in all but the biggest leftist bastions in the country.
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I do think it’s crazy how Piker has managed to sidestep his whole “America deserved 9/11, American vets of Iraq and Afghanistan deserve PTSD and should [REDACTED] themselves” bit pretty masterfully, he and people who have been associated with him have never suffered any consequences for that.
I assume that would end the second a Dem who appeared on his stream was nominated for president or senate in a swing state.
Socialists have made it clear that their goal is to infest the democratic party and push it away from liberalism to socialism,
I stopped listening to the Pod Save America guys after they platformed this terrorist supporting, dog abusing, socialist, nepo-baby. Establishment liberals need to be better and distancing themselves from DSA types trying to push socialism into the party.
> The antisemitism spewed by Mr. Carlson, Nick Fuentes, Candace Owens and other far-right bigots is well-documented and widely condemned. But the far left has antisemites, too. No left-wing agitator is more influential and extreme than Twitch streamer Hasan Piker. Mr. Piker is often called “progressive,” but that does violence to the term. A self-identified Marxist, he has referred to ultra-Orthodox Jews as “inbred,” employed antisemitic dog whistles (“bloodthirsty, violent pig-dog”) against an anti-Hamas viewer of his stream, compared liberal Zionists to “liberal Nazis,” and said “Hamas is a thousand times better” than the Israeli state.
> Mr. Piker’s depravity doesn’t stop there. His misogyny is indistinguishable from that of far-right influencers. He believes “America deserved 9/11.” He praised the Chinese Communist Party, saying “in terms of good governance, there’s a lot that we can learn from the way they perform out there.”
> Mr. Piker is anti-American, antiwomen, anti-Western and antisemitic. No Democrat should engage with him. All should seek to push him to the fringe, where he belongs.
> This isn’t happening. The Pod Save America team put him onstage at CrookedCon. Abdul El-Sayed, a candidate for Senate in Michigan, tweeted a picture of himself celebrating Piker with a supporter. California Rep. Ro Khanna, a possible presidential hopeful, pushed back on X against concerns we raised about antisemitism on the far left by declaring his pride in going on Mr. Piker’s feed. Mr. Piker chimed in to support him.
Hasan is part of the populist cancer killing the country
I think that absolutely NO Dem who platforms and endorses this chucklefuck has any right to get mad at right wingers for doing the same to Fuentes.
It’s bigotry all the way down.
The dude is insane. I saw him on Pod Save America and was like “he seems problematic” and when I looked him up, yep
I am self-aware enough to know I am terminally online and should touch more grass, so I am not even sure if most democrats know who Hasan even is and what he espouses. Like yeah, AOC and Newsom certainly do know him, but what about your rank-and-file and your median voter?
I am asking because of the calculus of exposing him to the greater base (And giving him free publicity) over ignoring him and acting like he doesn’t exist because he is irrelevant to politics,
This article is total catnip for this sub. (Not complaining! I love when my priors are confirmed.)
Let’s look at this logically. As much of a piece of shit as he is, who with any measure of influence has even given him the time of day? The DSA loves him, but the DSA is irrelevant in all but the biggest leftist bastions in the country.