• TootTootComingThru@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    Most people don’t. He’s a weird and offputting perpetually online guy with shit politics that doesn’t treat his dog well and I don’t like that some people on the left are trying to push him down everyone’s throats. No thanks.

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      12 hours ago

      He’s also very politically influencial to a non-insignificant demographic whether you like it or not. Feels pretty important to be aware of people like that as a politician.

      But this headline is bullshit clickbait. They DO know who he is, they said they don’t know him personally.

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    23 hours ago

    I love how the conservative press is trying to make all DSA candidates out to be Piker clones.

    In 2024, Harris actually did campaign with Liz Cheney. Should we assume Harris’ oinions are identical to Cheney’s?

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      20 hours ago

      Or even that every political moderate knows Liz Cheney? And she was in Congress. Like, relative to other streamers on the left Piker is a big deal, but he’s still just a guy who talks politics online.

      Next shocking revelation for Gayle: most people also don’t know what the latest drama on Twitter is.

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      22 hours ago

      These headlines are a psychological propaganda that is meant to add doubt to candidates or make people question democratic socialism off petty bs like knowing who a streamer is

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      14 hours ago

      He’s a twitch streamer with media training and leftist politics. He’s been stepping up with his community to promote progressive challengers to the democratic establishment for the past 7-8 years, really making headway in the last 2-4. He’s also Rupert Murdoch’s current obsession, so every right leaning network in the English speaking world is obsessed with him right now.

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      21 hours ago

      He’s a commentator and he’s on the left. He has said nice things about China and calls himself a Marxist. He also has a scary foreign name, so he’s basically the perfect bogeyman to tie the entire left to.

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        14 hours ago

        He’s Cenk’s nephew and used to work at The Young Turks. I genuinely don’t think he’s a good dude and I don’t think we should be giving a perpetually online streamer influencer any more attention.

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      12 hours ago

      He tortures his dog with a shock device to enforce compliance without regard for the dogs mental or emotional wellbeing. Pure trash of a human

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      23 hours ago

      First time I saw him was about 5-6 years ago. He was role playing on Nopixel. He now does political stuff.

    • Trump Rapes Kids@lemmy.world
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      22 hours ago

      Just another asshat social media celebrity. I think he tried to seduce kids by playing minecraft or something. Most of them seem to do that.

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        12 hours ago

        I’m not a Hasan Piker follower but what the fuck kind of comment is this? “I think I heard he’s a pedophile because he played the most popular game ever and also most streamers seem to be pedophiles”

        Don’t you think that’s an accusation that necessitates a source?