Jesus fuck the caliber of our journalists these days is so fucking embarrassing

Stellar response. Florida candidate says is focused on Florida. 🙌

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

I'm floored.

He's a mildly-popular Twitch streamer who's more open about his politics than most and he tends to be leftist. That's pretty much it. People can (and have) get into arguments over him and his views but you can say that about anything online these days. I think the reporter was just surprised that a supposedly popular leftist was unknown by another supposedly leftist political candidate, as if they previously thought we all shared the same hive mind or something

Gayle King - Oprah’s girlfriend

Some dude that said we deserved 911 and everyone has been freaking out since.

To be fair, that is what predators tend to do (especially the human ones now that I think about it...).

Also, while I mostly agree with your assessment of Hasan and don't really pay any attention to him myself, he IS at least mildly popular (or at least well-known) on the internet in the sphere of political streamers and I think the reporter was just surprised that what their data suggested (roughly 1% of the American population follow him on some platform or another) didn't add up to what reality is actually like (this serious political candidate who probably doesn't go on Twitch that often, or at all, has never even heard of him)

Overall, yeah I'm kinda surprised they even turned this into an article. Seems pretty inconsequential no matter what way you look at it

Campaigning for DSA candidates, he has been quite active in the recent senate and house DSA wins.. There really isn't more to it than that. Maga and centrist dems have found it's easier to attack out of context clips than to attack DSA policy positions.

I personally find the man incredibly grating, boisterous and unwatchable. But there is no denying he is the largest leftist platform with true influence on races.