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[–] 90 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Says the guy that has raped and killed infinitely more men women and children mathematically then piker ever has

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  • [–] 38 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    That's kind of a mixed compliment. I'm pretty sure Piker hasn't raped and killed any men, women, or children.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    Yes that was the implication. That's why I said infinitely more mathematically. Even one is infinitely more than zero. And for Trump it's easily in the hundreds if not thousands

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    And for Trump it's easily in the hundreds if not thousands

    If we're talking just deaths, with his closure of USAID, reductions in health insurance, cuts to CDC, his covid response, etc. Trump has been the cause of millions of avoidable deaths.

    Lancet estimates that Trump's USAID closure alone will kill ~5 million children under the age of five by 2030.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    To be fair, USAID is also partially responsible for killing millions. It's a deliberate tool of soft-power that often gets funneled into the hands of pro-US dictators for military equipment, etc. The role of USAID is to make imperialism seem better.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I'll admit, it's been a while since I've mathed, but iirc, one is one more than zero

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    When dividing by zero as one would to compare the tolls. One is infinitely more than zero. So considering Trump is verifiably responsible for hundreds if not thousands already and potentially millions in the future. That Infinity is only getting larger by the moment.

    Ultimately it comes down to the fact that. Anyone that can excuse pedophilia, rape and murder. Is someone that nobody should give a fuck what they think or say.

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  • [–] 70 points 1 month ago

    If Trump says Hasan is bad for Democrats, that means he must be fantastic for Democrats.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 month ago* (7 children)

    Again, they’re horny for Hasan Piker. It’s the only thing that explains their irrational obsession. Most of the left doesn’t even consume his content.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    He's coming for the tradwives.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    Bruh what the fuck are you doing? I was on the train when I opened the thread and saw this and I instantly started furiously masturbating. That made me drop my phone, and some poor old man saw the meat pic, now they are furiously masturbating.

    Now everyone is furiously masturbating to the meat pic. Would you think of the consequences before posting this?

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Jesus, at least use the blurred version.

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  • [+] 27 points 1 month ago (3 children)
  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    They can't attack policy, because they've had absolutely no obstruction to implementing policy for nearly two years now. The Republican party has gotten to do exactly as it pleases for nearly two years now, and almost universally Americans say they are worse off than they were before.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago

    I would be shocked if Trump has ever actually watched/listened to anything Hasan has said.

    Let's be honest, this isn't trump hearing a different view, forming an opinion and disagreeing with it. This is trump being told what the current culture issue is and what his views are.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago*

    "Judge me by my enemies"

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago

    Trump is a terrible liability for humanity.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago

    Trump saw that underwear picture and is mad Hasan isn't on his side.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    Not Hank Pecker he’s a red blooded American patriot

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (14 children)

    Does Trump even know what a Communist is?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (11 children)

    To be fair, Hasan is a Communist, and has called himself as such in the past. He uses the Progressive and Democratic-Socialist labels more these days for the same reason he wears suits now, to look less threatening to the audience seeing him on TV.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (10 children)

    Hasan is more of a communist-sympathizing social democrat. His strategy is overwhelmingly reformist.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (9 children)

    At most you might say he's a Democratic Socialist, because his goal is still to eventuate the abolition of capitalism. He's a Communist who knows the best available action is political mobilization. He's certainly not a SocDem who only wants to reform capitalism. He's openly spoken in favor of worker revolution, but he's also aware that such a thing isn't possible in America, at least at this moment.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (8 children)

    Democratic socialists are social democrats in practice, considering it is impossible to reform capitalism into socialism. Revolution is absolutely possible, but it isn't something you trigger, it is a response to crisis with an organized revolutionary class. We need to organize so that crisis turns to revolution.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (7 children)

    You're saying what Hasan says, idk what else to tell you. He's not trying to reform capitalism into socialism, he's organizing a political base that will be capable of turning the coming political crises into a productive Communist movement.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    I disagree that he is succeeding in that by going through the DSA and focusing so hard on electoralism. It's important to understand the necessity of democratic centralism and consistent revolutionary rhetoric, because otherwise we fall into the same problems as the second international and the SPD.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Democratic Centralism...? Oooooh you're a Tankie, I got it. I just noticed the domain.

    Go back to your HoI4 campaign bud, and let the grownups do actual politics.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago* (4 children)

    I'm a communist and organize for socialism. Democratic centralism is a core function of successful party-building. Infantilizing me for speaking on what I know from both historical study and practical experience as an organizer within the framework of democratic centralism is childish. How are you going to convince others of your views if you act like this? Even Hasan doesn't criticize demcent like this, and speaks very positively of demcent organizations.

    For what it's worth, I've never played HoI4 either.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Even Hasan doesn't criticize demcent like this, and speaks very positively of demcent organizations.

    Then what's your problem??

    Dawg, if you don't think Hasan Piker is left enough to be a Communist, idk what to tell you. It's just a silly thing to say.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    My issues with Hasan are that he pushes a reformist line, and focuses primarily on electoralism. I'm not some hater of Hasan, but those two positions put him squarely into social democratic territory. It's not about some arbitrary level of "leftness," it's two strategic positions he has that puts him at odds with communist struggle. And no, it isn't a silly issue at all, the concept of reformism vs revolution is an active struggle among the left in the imperial core, and the communist line historically is 100% in favor of revolution since Marx.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    So... He's a Communist in every way anyone would care about, except for you, because he's not actively attempting to overthrow the US government? Before building a support base for a revolution?

    So you can only be a Communist if you're suicidal, I guess?

    the communist line historically is 100% in favor of revolution since Marx.

    Ffs even Marx himself participated in electoral politics. Revolution was always the inevitable outcome of struggle against bourgeois democracy failing to respond to the crises bared by the proletariat.

    He's using the strategies available to him now, just like me and you, and everyone else ever before us, and everyone else long after.

    Again, this is just a big silly argument, drawing lines in the sand for no good reason. Calling some other Marxist organizer "at odds to the Communist struggle" while he delivers aid to Cubans and shining a light on their revolutionary struggle.

    This is silly.

    You are being silly.

    Stop being silly.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago

    No? I have no idea where you got these ideas. Revolutionary organizing doesn't necessarily mean throwing your life away, it means building an explicitly revolutionary and disciplined organization of cadre. These revolutionary organizations can participate in elections to advertise their platforms and grow the movement, but the understanding is always that you cannot establish socialism through reform. Marx himself was a revolutionary, not a reformist.

    Again, I am not some Hasan hater. He's not an anti-communist, but his positions are those of a social democrat sympathetic to communism and socialism. That's not "silly," it's taking a consistent stance based in Marxist understandings of revolutionary change and the class nature of the state.

    Revolution doesn't just "happen," you have to organize for it directly. Crisis is not the same as an assured revolution, to actually get revolution you need a revolutionary party leading the charge.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    I suppose a party liability such as Trump would be an expert in the field.

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  • [–] 47 points 1 month ago (23 children)

    Stop trying to make Hasan Piker relevant

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  • [–] 27 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Every single headline about him could be about a progressive candidate.

    That's why neoliberals and Republicans live him. He takes up valuable real estate in people's minds so they're not talking about progressive candidate.

    It's hard to tell who's doing it intentionally and who has twitch brainrot.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (2 children)

    He’s a proxy. They can use him no matter what, if a candidate they feared the most drops out or is defeated in primaries or dies or is removed they can just connect the next one to Hassan like he’s kevin bacon.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (5 children)
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    He's literally just some twitch streamer

    Pretty sure algorithms are pushing him to make democrats look stupid

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    I don't know... I will admit the reason he's fair game and relevant is because he has gone on campaign tours with el sayed and gotten interviews with other DSA candidates. I'd say he's not relevant to the democrats as a whole, but individuals who bring him to campaign events... are liable in the same way that any republican candidate that invites Kanye or Fuentes is accepting some baggage from them.

    That being said, I'd also point out Pikers baggage is just plain stupidly overblown as well. The guy streams for like 8 hours a day. The main "ammunition" against him, is one statement he made 8 years ago along the lines of "America deserved 9/11". which he admitted he admitted was more of a misphrasing, and meant it as "america is responsible for the conditions that made 9/11 an inevitability".

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Many twitch streamers are influencial. That's why many progressive candidate talked to him and that's why establishment are going to fox news the media wing of the fascists to trash him. Establishment Democrats makes Democrats stupid

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    He's relevant, there is no "try", it's done.

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

    Why stop there? What about Mr. Beast’s opinions?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago*

    They literally just had Logan and Jake Paul give a speech at the Pentagon, at a time when Trump is posturing like he's going to escalate the Iran War.

    You may not care about a bunch of Twitch streamers but the fucking Executive Office of the United States does. These are very stupid times.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (8 children)

    Yeah who gives a shit about a streamer?

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  • [+] 2 points 1 month ago (7 children)
  • [+] -6 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    I’m the kind of dumb liberal who gets power fifty percent of the time so you might want to show a little respect.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    You wins fifty percent of time and failed each time leading to republicans winning after each 1 or 2 elections . You trash the progressive but when they wins you try to steal the wins and act like you never tried to sabotage it

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  • [–] 23 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    No idea who the fuck he is, but if this orange loser is spamming him. He must be an ok dude in my book.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    He's a twitch streamer that strongly supports the DSA, so he's a Social Democrat. He has a few million viewers and has been helping DSA candidates this midterm cycle, so he became a big target of the media. He's okay, the biggest benefit IMO is that he doesn't do the typical socdem thing by endlessly condemning socialist countries and trying to separate himself from them, which is why he gets labeled a communist despite being a SocDem.

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  • [+] -11 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    He labeled himself a socialist. He also talks out of both mouths, he calls himself anti Zionist but it's currently bragging about his positive interviews Israeli media where he said he wants to build bridges with Zionists.

    He's a net positive in grabbing people from the far right and pushing them left. He's a net negative when it comes to liberal Zionism and normalizing the colonization of Palestine.

    If you're a centrist or right leaning, by all means watch him. If you're already a leftist, you can avoid the brainrot.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    currently bragging about his positive interviews Israeli media where he said he wants to build bridges with Zionists

    Which interview is this referring to?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2026-08-24/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/hasan-piker-talks-hamas-anti-zionism-and-why-americans-are-fed-up-with-israel/000001a0-29fd-d293-a1e7-39fdf95c0000#comments-section

    Read the comments if you want to see the mindset of haaretz readers. It's a "liberal leftist" outlet that serves primarily to whitewash Israel and portray them as diverse.

    Of course there's nothing leftist about a settler colonial ethno-religious supremacist apartheid state, so...

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago*

    There's a paywall, so I can't see the "building bridges" part, but the summary says this

    In his first interview with Israeli media, left-wing streamer Hasan Piker tells Haaretz that October 7 must be seen in the context of the Israeli occupation, that even liberal Zionists should be 'named and shamed,' and explains why most Americans just don't like Israel anymore

    So I kind of doubt "building bridges" was some centrist take. It was more likely about educating ignorant/confused American Zionists out of that mindset, if I had to guess based on what I know of him. If you have access to the article though, I'm happy to read a copy/paste of it.

    I do agree that an "Israeli leftist" publication seems suspicious at best. However, Piker appears on other right-wing media all the time. Fox News, Peirs Morgan, etc. So I don't think his giving an interview necessarily endorses them.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    Suck it Trump. You are the worst human to have ever been shit out of a womb.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    I don't care what Trump thinks and know nothing about Hasan, nor do I care beyond understanding why the conservatives want his dick so bad

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    yeah yeah take a number and get in line

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    He is projecting again. Trump knows that he is a big liability for the GOP...

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago*

    Not meant to be an endorsement, but it sure reads as an unwitting one. (For the other side, I mean)

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    Sounds like this Piker guy is good stuff. That is a sterling recommendation if it came from such a corrupt PoS pedophile like Dump...

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    The world has way more labels for trump than trump has for others. trump's voice tends to get amplified more because...you know...billionaire media owners.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    Yawn. Also, did he talk about how the Democrats are for they/them?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I don’t even know who Hasan Piker is. Nor do I care.

    I want my tax dollars, which I already pay, to be used for programs and services that benefit society rather than the Ultra-rich Trump-Epstein class.

    I want sane governance that respects and upholds the constitution.

    That’s not communism. Thats common sense.

    Vote blue

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    He wouldn't talk about him if it was as true

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    I'm not so sure, communist organizations are getting targeted by the state and talked about publicly now as a part of the crackdown on rising socialist and communist sympathies around the country. Hasan is more of a Social Democrat, but he is generally more sympathetic to socialism and communism than most socdems.

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  • Is that why the Republicans blasted a photo of him at their convention?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (6 children)

    Says the man who has more communist policies than Hassan. Trump is very much in favour of state control of everything.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    State control without any analysis of the class struggle isn't socialist in any capacity. Communists want to establish a socialist state, one run by the workers, not simply empower an existing capitalist state. Hasan generally not demonizing existing socialist states is to the left of Trump, even if he's more of a Social Democrat than anything else.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (3 children)

    But communism as the GOP defines it, is the Stalinist model of the appearance of socialism though communism state control.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Communism is a post-socialist society where there is no state in the Marxist conception. The Soviet Union was socialist, run by a communist party. Stalin may have agreed with Marx on that, but did not invent it.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    At some point, when the original definition is overwhelmed by the self described example, I think it warrants a change in definition.

    Both the east and the west called the soviet union and Maoist china communist, when it was far from it based on the original definition. They were little more than authoritarian oligarchies reigning over a socialist economic system.

    Just like in the west, many democracies were mostly oligarchies reigning over capitalist economic systems.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    The Soviet Union and China are both examples of socialism, rub according to Marxist principles. They were called communist because they were run by communist parties with the intention of developing into communism, not because anyone thought they weren't genuine. Both the Soviet Union and PRC were what Marx described as "lower-stage communism," or what became known as the transitional phase known as socialism at the time of Lenin.

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    Wasn't it Sun Tsu who said not to interrupt your opponent when they are making a mistake? That's why I don't complain when Drumpf runs around the country stumping for the toadies in his own party. The orange ass-clown really believes his own hype that he's popular.

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