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TheFonz

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  • Hasan Piker was set to debate Charlie Kirk. Now he's warning of a "Reichstag fire moment."

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  • Not at all. He professses to be an expert on me issues and the conflict in Israel. He's been covering it for years. You'd better damn well know at least the fundamentals of the GODDAMN region you're covering holy shit.

  • Hasan Piker was set to debate Charlie Kirk. Now he's warning of a "Reichstag fire moment."

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  • Yes. I'm familiar with the horrible human that is Kirk. Nothing of value was lost. He was committed to punching down everyone that wasn't white or Christian. But one thing he was exceptionally good at is organizing.

    See, the difference between Kirk and Hassan is that Kirk was so successful at rallying right wing youth that they showed up in droves to the polls, especially in this election. We gotta appreciate the ability to mobilize so effectively.

    The only thing Hassan seems capable of is shitting on EVERYONE. Because Hassan is not solutions oriented. He is not particularly motivated at building a political movement or accomplishing anything apart from a charity drive once in a while. That's it. He spends 80% of his stream chastising democrats. Then rallying his base day after day about Gaza but not looking towards any meaningful prescriptions. Just the other week he streamed an interview of a man who lost his son in the Nova music festival. Despite losing his child this man was calling for a ceasefire. He wasn't a settler. He wasn't IDF. He wants peace. The best we can get out of Hassan? He calls him Nazi scum.

    I could go on about the ineffective and meaningless content that is Hassan, but at the end of the day, it's just superficial. And I think that's the part that bothers me the most. He has such a massive platform and all he can do is read Twitter headlines and rage bait seven days a week. For what?

  • Hasan Piker was set to debate Charlie Kirk. Now he's warning of a "Reichstag fire moment."

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  • What a joke. What am I even to say to that? Just because I didn't get into specifics off the bat doesn't mean we can't bring receipts. If you want, ask. But don't be no disgustingly superficial in your discourse. I'm exhausted hearing about this guy.

    I watched one week of Hassan

  • Hasan Piker was set to debate Charlie Kirk. Now he's warning of a "Reichstag fire moment."

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  • Fucking bullshit. Hassan has a special particular type of rage bait farming. I've been watching his content on and off for years. It's unfortunate that he has such a large following because he's a disingenuous piece of shit. Also, it's fun and easy do just discount any criticism of Hassan as "trolling"- what a cowardly copout of an answer. It's prefertly fine to use Ad-hominem attacks on people who negate or downplay sexual abuse or say constant vitriol on his stream. I don't care how many charity streams he did. He's a slop streamer (just last week he doxxed several people).

    It's weird how his fan boys enjoy this grotesque parasocial relationship with him and come to his constant defense whenever the slightest criticism is levied of our idol. Almost like another group of abhorrent individuals I see online...

  • Hasan Piker was set to debate Charlie Kirk. Now he's warning of a "Reichstag fire moment."

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  • Hassan is just outrage farm and nothing else. He has been covering Israel Gaza for years, but only learned about the meaning of the Western Wall like last week. Vapid, insipid aimless people making bank off of Gaza genocide

    Edit: For as much of a vile person Kirk was, at least he knew how to organize and mobilize people politically with success. The most Hasan can seem to do is read Twitter headlines from the comfort of his Beverly Hills mansion lol. It's the equivalent of Kony 2012, just repackaged for genz.

    Don't believe me? Go watch his stream. Go for it.

  • So many solutions

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  • Let me assure you I am not a conservative and also align with progressive or lefty ideals. Don't mistake criticism of lefty twitch streamers as a convenient reason to box in reasonable discourse.

    Saying Palestinians have a right to self defense is a fine statement. Farming faux outrage day after day by exploiting the suffering of victims of genocide to farm clicks: not so much.

    Let me assure you, Hassan has no interest in seeing an end to any of the ongoing conflicts in the world. This is evidenced by the way he condones and encourages the visceral rhetoric aimed at any party that is seeking reconciliation of any sort.

    Outrage == clicks

  • So many solutions

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  • It's not clip chimped. Sign on Twitch and watch for yourself. I've been following Hassan for years. This really is the summation of his content (and most of his peers, as well). Their livelihood depends on a outraged and captured audience (same as Alex Jones). This guy does a better break down if you want more meta: Padda

  • So many solutions

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  • So many solutions

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  • How do you measure their sincerity? Is it the charity drives? Is it the way he insults trans people? Or the way he makes fun of victims of SA? I'm curious.

  • So many solutions

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  • We get it. You don't like liberal Dems.

    Make your own party. Go. Do something.

    do anything please

  • So many solutions

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  • Not Hassan though! He's totally genuine about his Gucci bag and Porsche haha

  • So many solutions

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  • Hasan is purely outrage farming and nothing more. He builds no electoral power, has no goals to move to, and couldn't care less to build coalitions. You know, the stuff you gotta do to get things done. He needs his viewer base to remain angry all the time because at this point he is completely audience captured and his subsistence depends on him just yapping to Twitter headlines all day.

  • American "left" and "liberal" can't decide if they're in the same nutshell.

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  • Right. You could totally be right about OPs offline political engagement. My critique is more directed at the entirety of the online leftist media apparatus (the twitch streamers, the youtubers, the online pundits, etc). These people are so wrapped in their own personas and audience capture, that they are essentially worthless at building any political power or anything that resembles a movement.

    We have twitch streamers with insanely huge audiences like Hassan, who claims to be a socialist, but whenever he's offered a chance to expand the message or gain some kind of momentum he shoots it down. There seems to be no will or strategy to expand this effort beyond maybe growing youtube subscribers. That's it. So when I see the same memes posted on lemmy, day after day, I have to wonder: what is the end goal?

  • American "left" and "liberal" can't decide if they're in the same nutshell.

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  • I don't disagree with this sentiment. It's also hard to entertain these types of conversations online because I never know who I'm talking to. Am I interacting with a tankie, an anarchist, or even worst - lemmy's worst nightmare - a soc dem? Each will have a different position and mandate it's own type of discourse. But regardless of what your political alignment, you should want to build power.

    If you're a tankie, you will completely eschew building coalitions with liberals. And there's nothing wrong with that! But then, I don't know, build an independent party and do something instead of bitching 24/7 about liberals.

    If you're a soc dem, you could try to rebuild the democratic party from within. It's already undergone several waves of changes, so whose to say it couldn't happen again? AOC and Mamdani are trying. I support them.

    If you're an anarchist, the same principle applies. You should want to build power. You don't have align all the time with liberals, but maybe you can form coalitions around policies that highlight the goals of anarchism in a way that makes the movement visible to the general public. You know, building power.

    Posting memes 24/7 about liberals is like screaming into the void where all your friends are standing next to you and clapping. Like, ok? What's next?

  • American "left" and "liberal" can't decide if they're in the same nutshell.

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  • Yes. I didn't think establishment democrats would just roll over without a fight. But they are boomers on their last ticket out. If we don't at least try, then what's the point? Is the sum total of all our efforts then intended to be online memes? That's why I look up to Mamdani because he's not punching the entire democratic apparatus. He's punching the hardline centrist boomers that are holding the party back. After all, Zohran is running from within the democratic primary, and not as an independent. I have a lot of respect for him and will always support him. He's doing the work to change the party and move it in the right direction. So is AOC. On the other hand, online lefties sum total action amounts to....memes? I don't know. You tell me. What exactly are y'all doing?

  • American "left" and "liberal" can't decide if they're in the same nutshell.

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  • I feel like online lefties are all performative and have no genuine strategy for building power. So they resort to the usual purity testing and punching out at liberals non stop. Meanwhile, conservatives are literally ripping people off the streets and putting them in cages. But hey, did you know liberals are actually centrists?

    It's like, my dude, learn to build political power first. Then you can move on to putting liberals in concentration camps like you've always been wanting to do. This here is just posturing

  • American "left" and "liberal" can't decide if they're in the same nutshell.

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  • It's just that lefties don't seem to want to or know how to build power. It feels very performative. If they actually cared about any of the issues they are so vocal about, I don't know, maybe they would do the groundwork to build a political framework. That's why I applaud people like Zohran or AOC. They are there, doing the work day in and out. But online lefties are just pouting and crying about liberals non stop

  • Spotify boycott: Artists leave ‘garbage hole’ platform after CEO invests in AI weapons

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  • I jumped on Qobuz from a lemmy thread. Really happy with it. The artist selection is pretty broad and the Playlist are decent. But honestly, I haven't disliked anyone from the recommended home page which says a lot. I was on yt music before and it would always loop the same five artists no matter what radio station I started. It was really weird.

  • I used to believe in the American dream. Then the police killed my son

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