Picking a fight with Hasan Piker while midterms are gearing up is the dumbest fucking idea. The consultant class really is a problem when it comes to meaningful change. (TikTok screencap)
Picking a fight with Hasan Piker while midterms are gearing up is the dumbest fucking idea. The consultant class really is a problem when it comes to meaningful change. (TikTok screencap)
I’m going to guess, and I may be wrong, that a lot of people who would vote for the US Dems have no idea who he is. I didn’t until the last year, though I’ve lived outside of the US for a decade now
He’s hugely popular with people under 30 as far as politics goes. He is turning on an entire generation towards politics while also acting as an alternative to Nick Fuentes and Andrew Tate.
So you can imagine the kind of threat he poses.
Same, haven’t heard of him and moved away for nearly a decade. Just the dog shocking memes.
Good if he’s mobilizing young people to vote I guess? But I don’t really trust any of the political YouTube people in general - seems there’s too much money involved to not be biased.
That’s my take as well- the dog shocking thing is all I know about him, and that is alarming, because that has the hallmark of a typical right wing smear campaign, like, obviously that is a bad thing but now his whole thing and message is overshadowed by this one event and it’s what being pushed. Getting your dick sucked in the oval office by an intern isn’t a great look either, but does that really disqualify literally everything else a person does or has achieved?
If we expect perfect morality of people or we reject them wholesale based on extremely narrow single issues then we can’t trust anyone or listen to anyone, ever, which falls in line pretty well with right wing agenda because that’s precisely what they want people to think: everyone is immoral, therefore it is ok for us to be immoral, and you should support us because it’s all the same anyway.
I mean, animal torture is pretty high there though.
See, thing is the are not things I’ve heard of more prominent people who would be easier targets of smear campaigns, like Bernie Sanders or AOC.
And then there’s purity testing and holding any morals at all. Purity testing is completely dismissing AOC because of the railroad workers strike vote. Dismissing morals is supporting a talking head that financially benefits from saying things and tortures their pet for appearance purposes.
Not defending it, for sure. Still, though. It’s a useful tool for a detractor to pounce on. So don’t do that. Because don’t hurt dogs , first of all, second that it’s something that will be held against you and drown out what good you’re trying to do.
With you on the purity tests.