Donald Trump is leading a deeply corrupt, fascist administration that seeks to punish and imprison his enemies – big and small, real and perceived. The unpopular president and his team are laying the groundwork to try to steal the 2026 midterms, and they’re not even trying to hide it.

Democrats in Washington, meanwhile, are hyper-focused on… condemning a left-wing podcaster, Hasan Piker, and distorting his comments criticizing Zionists as a way to marginalize and block the rise of anti-Israel voices on the left.

With less than 10 weeks to go before the election, the opposition party is using this crucial time to demonstrate their continued fealty to Israel – despite its deep and growing political unpopularity in the U.S., its horrifying genocide in Gaza, and the ruinous Iran war that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dragged America’s idiot president into.

It makes me livid that the danger Hasan is pointing to is real and yet centrist Dems can't even handle the subject being brought up without having performative meltdowns.

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[–] -4 points 2 months ago* (20 children)

https://gisme.georgetown.edu/news/against-champagne-socialists/

Hasan spent years being a figure of toxic masculinity and treating his audience like shit. He got rich off talking about other people's accomplishments, refuses to willingly relinquish his wealth, and is currently riding better people's coattails into political stardom.

At this point his fandom is a cult and you're a sucker if you support him. Cut him out and let people doing the actual work like Mamdani and Al-Sayed go on without that leech.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

    I’d really recommend you look further into the charities and donations that Piker has supported in addition to his help in the campaigns of Mamdani and El-Sayed. He really pushed for door knocking and helped get them elected.

    There’s a lot of factions that are working hard to push propaganda about Piker that should be looked at with a critical eye.

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  • [+] -6 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Can they not find a campaign supporter who isn't a piece of shit human being? Do we really need to begin a new political revolution by falling into the same trap of politicians getting into bed with shitbags to get funding? This is how the DNC was captured.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

    How was the DNC was captured? I want to be sure I’m understanding you.

    We’ve all made bad statements and jokes in our youth and Hasan is no different. What are you basing this piece of shit human stuff on? I hope it’s not the false animal abuse stuff pushed by right wing reactionaries.

    Like it or not, (and a lot of people don’t like it), Piker has a huge influence over young people on the left. He’s been able to mobilize his fans to help elect Dem Socialists across the board. That’s a positive thing in my view.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Yeah, piker has had his shit talking justified or not really come back to bite him. In a way previous generations struggle to understand. For them thousands of shitty, poorly thought out statements diffused into the air they were spoken. Never to be seen or heard again. If someone was upset with what you said, you must have been very adamant in saying it.

    Now with social media, and everything you say or do being recorded. It can be held against you for posterity indefinitely. Every meaningless little brain fart or slip that would have amounted to nothing in the past. Can now be used to hang you. It's going to take adjustment for both the older and the younger Generations.

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  • [–] -4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    How was the DNC was captured? I want to be sure I’m understanding you.

    They weren't careful enough about where their money was coming from and wound up beholden to interests that compromise the values they're supposed to stand for.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    Ok so you’re talking about being beholden to corporate interests, yeah?

    The only way Piker is trying to influence the DNC is by holding them accountable to what they’re supposed to stand for and pull them back from how far the Overton window has shifted. That’s why he campaigns with Democratic Socialists.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (9 children)

    Socialism isn't everyone has to be poor. It's non-capitalist solutions to problems like healthcare.

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  • [+] -8 points 2 months ago (8 children)

    Socialism isn’t everyone has to be poor.

    I didn't say it was. Please discuss what I actually said.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    refuses to willingly relinquish his wealth

    Socialism isn't about giving away wealth, but social ownership of the means of production (healthcare, grocery stores, public transportation, etc..) as opposed to private ownership of these industries. People can still accumulate wealth in socialist goverments.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    The “champagne socialist” term is a dead giveaway for that argument.

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  • [+] -6 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I'm not trying to make any clever inferences here. I never heard the term before today but I do feel it fits the bill of "people who claim socialism but are okay with being rich". Put into the same situation, I would feel extremely uncomfortable and find better places for the money than my own overflowing pockets.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 2 months ago* (3 children)

    Your obsession with Hasan is sad.

    Nobody cares, you are just trying to character assassinate someone you can't come up with actually good cutdowns for.

    The point of this article is that hyperfocusing on Hasan is absurd.

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