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I am told I am an autonomous human being, in charge of my own destiny, a free man, but every single time Hasan Piker has said something and I have heard about it, it has been against my will
I don’t get the hasan hate. Yeah he can be annoying at times but there are SO many more problematic people out there.
But no one hates the left like the left hates itself.
You’re surprised that people “on the left” won’t just bow down to a semi-famous person who claims to support progressive policies?
Like, even assuming this guy was a politician or actually trying to help people besides increase his twitch views…
People “on the left” aren’t the same as MAGA, some will blindly follow a charismatic person who tells them what they want to hear and convinces them that all you need to do is listen constantly and never question…
But most won’t.
Like, you realize literally everyone with an anti-authoritarian streak is on “the left” and they’ll never just blindly hitch their wagon to a streamer.
If Piker put his money where his mouth is and ran for an office with a progressive platform…
His popularity would skyrocket.
But if he’s just gonna “raise awareness” don’t be surprised when people stick him in the same category as Susan G Komen.
Whatever time you spend watching Piker and juicing his twitch metrics, would be spent better elsewhere. All you’re doing is funding his West Hollywood mansion lifestyle.
It’s the same fucking grift MAGA fell for.
A millionaire neo baby streamer is not gonna save us, he’s only gonna grift the stupidest of us. And if we’re really unlucky, he’ll manipulate a non zero amount of people into not voting in the Dem primaries.
That is the reason people don’t like him, we need all hands on deck and he’s telling people to just watch him and do what he says.
Wow, calm down lol.
Not everyone has to run for office. He reaches millions of people with his waffling. That’s much more than you are doing by posting.
Also it’s really not a new thing that ‘the left’ loves to tear into itself much more than do something productive. Ever heard of the purity spiral?
Wow, calm down lol.
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He reaches millions of people with his waffling. That’s much more than you are doing by posting.
Crazy how Hasan fans talk just like Maga and uses the exact same logic…
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I don’t know much about him, but didn’t he also help get trump elected by using his platform to discourage people on the left from voting?
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Yeah, like I said “I don’t know much about him.”
I don’t fucking watch streamers, and I’m not about to start. All I know about him is from what I’ve read, and I acknowledge that not everything I’ve read is guaranteed to be true. Hence why I phrased it as a question.
You could have chosen to clarify without acting like it was a gotcha.
I’m no Hasan fan. I know of the guy and have seen him in interviews but I don’t have time for twitch or wherever he streams. I’m too old for that. I just find the constant nitpicking and subdividing of ideas on the left really depressing. I’m not from the US but it killed all momentum in my country too. Several times over. Just be happy a guy is getting more people on our big tent side. We sure as hell need it.
I try not to think about Hasan, but he comes across as the next Maher. He’s more right then wrong for the time being, but eventually he’ll get stuck on some issue and refuse to budge.
I don’t hate him. I hate the omnipresence he has on some social media. I use YouTube a lot and I watched some of his videos before, but it’s not for me. I’m not interested. But YouTube keeps suggesting his videos to me. So I blocked his channel. But he also has a few other channels, or people reacting or condensing his videos, and even when I thought I blocked them all, some other new channel with his face eventually gets in my suggestions. It’s like playing whack-a-mole.
The right love him because hes such a useful asset for them. That only leaves the left to hate him and its pretty fair, he spends majority of his time attacking them.
Hasan has his place, to me he is the left-wing Joe Rogan, someone who has decent appeal with terminally online people and more broadly among people disillusioned or bored with regular news.
The right-wing online ecosystem is more than just one monolithic faction. Be they MAGA loonies, religious fundies, techbro simps, economic acolytes, etc. etc. That variously align and lead into one another.
Hopefully people here can understand the concept of solidarity, you don’t have to love or hate him, just allow him to cultivate the audience and then discuss the differences with his followers where you think he can improve. I found out one of my close friends watched Hasan a lot, which was shocking to me since he hasn’t come off to me as a person with particularly strong political views. I find him annoying to listen to for long periods of time, but it’s a bro-coded way of teaching people empathy so I think he’s worth having around.
He’s the leftist Candice Owens or steven crowder. He isnt “bro coded” in a way that appeals to men like Rogan. He has no hobbies which give him any reach to non political people he doesnt seem like someone who could hangout with a normal person. .
Yes people talk about things that you don’t know about.
“Every time my coworker has talked about their baby it has been against my will”
Hold this for a sec
I’d like to hold him for a sec
This is a really bad take
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T Someone is giving attention to a niche streamer. I don’t get it, it’s like Joe rogan. After he got his spotify deal. Clearly, someone hasn’t heard of the Streisand effect
