• SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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      It’s well documented that Piker’s family is wealthy and he makes a lot of money from being on the front page of twitch.tv (owned by Jeff Bezos) every day. He’s currently on the front page right now in fact.

      Piker praises Hamas and other fascist groups. His content is primarily about promoting hatred. It’s not actually leftism to want “your enemies” to fear you. That’s fascism.

      Sure he may give some lip service to “socialism”, but that’s just going along with popular slogans. The goal is to keep you perpetually angry at liberals so you’ll never vote for anyone that will increase taxes on either Hasan or Jeff Bezos.

      Just do some critical thinking. Why would a socialist be permanently on the front page of a website owned by a billionaire. Either it’s algorithmic, in which case he’s making a lot of money for himself and Jeff Bezos. But given the shenanigans Bezos has done with the Washington Post, he wouldn’t be getting promoted by twitch.tv if he were any kind of threat to billionaires. And why would he be? His family is super wealthy and he himself is making millions off of making “socialist” content.

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        Anyhow found the Zioluser doing mental gymnastics to be angry at Hasan Piker because he’s winning. Stay mad.

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        “Angry at liberals so you will never vote for anyone that will increase taxes on either Hasan or Jeff Bezos” WHAT DOES THIS EVEN MEAN? You are SO Hasan Piker deranged it’s funny! OMG

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          You’re going to bat for a millionaire that’s being promoted by a billionaire. Who’s really deranged about Hasan Piker?

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        You are so upset about socialists. Piker was a nobody until Mamdani won and then a slough of other socialist candidates. Sewer socialism, look it up. You’re childish argument that “socialists” are all hippies with no money in communes is out of touch with the reality of modern labour and common solidarity. Straight out of a John Birch Society propaganda film from the 1960s. Framing this like OH the billionaires have a populist socialist so he makes money and is therefore invalid is just so ignorant. Lots of union bosses are rich AF, and so are their members and you’re a scab for doing this sophistry online.

        • WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them]@reddthat.com
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          Piker was a nobody until Mamdani won

          Do you mean when he won his election for the New York State Assembly? Even before that, he was at least known for being the nephew of Cenk who had videos on the TYT network even before back in the 2010’s, but certainly nowhere near as well-known as he was in 2020-now.

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          You’re childish argument that “socialists” are all hippies with no money in communes is out of touch with the reality of modern labour and common solidarity.

          Pay attention, I’m actually saying the exact opposite of that. Socialists tend to be wealthy people that have gone to university that learned from weird professors that “actually real socialism has never been tried because Russia was agrarian blah blah blah”.

          Everyone is a bit socialist when they’re younger. I was. But I grew out of it, because I talked to people that have lived under these systems and learn more about how politics really work.

          The Internet has caused a lot of arrested development in people. You’ve posted your opinions under your name and formed social groups around those opinions. So you, Hasan, everyone in your online community can’t change your opinions when you’re exposed to new facts because if you did you’d be ostracized by your community. The Hasan community is particularly malicious about this and engage in online harassment campaigns. So not only are people in the Hasan community are worried about losing friendships if they change their opinion on anything, they’re afraid of the community they’re a part of. That’s kinda fashy if you ask me.

          That’s the nature of online communities. They coalesce around dumb ideas and then calcify. When you get people in the community to hate a group of people (whether it’s trans people or Jews, it’s all hate) then they take on fascist characteristics.

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          You only think that because you’re antisemitic and automatically assume your enemies are all Jews.

          Sorry, but I’m not a Jew. Just a regular Canadian guy whose grandparents fought against Hitler. For you Hitler is just a meme. For those who have seen the scars on family members that fought against Hitler, we put a little more effort to understand why that happened. It was because of hate politics, the same kind of politics you engage in.

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            Your grand parents are your grandparents , you are you. Dumb honor by association rhetoric

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              Did you just get a little twinge of nervousness about siding with someone that thinks being a “liberal Jew” automatically means someone is horrible person? Hmmm… what kind of people think “liberal jew” = evil?

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                I did not side with him I reported the antisemitic comment you mentioned. Being a Zionist is as bad

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                  You think “zionists” are bad and assume everyone that’s against antisemitism is a “zionist”. So logically that means you think anyone that’s against antisemitism is bad.

                  I don’t want comments like the one you claim you reported to be removed. That’s just sane washing what “anti-zionism” is really about. We need to get to a point where people are pushing for reconciliation. Covering up and rationalizing hatred doesn’t get us there. Recognizing that hatred is the problem is the first step to fixing the problem. Trying to pretend that you’re better than someone that hates “liberal Jews” because you hate a different group of Jews is just rationalizing your hatred.

                  Right now you’re rationalizing your hatred of me. I’m not Israeli, just someone who recognizes that hatred isn’t making anything better for both Palestinians and Israelis. But you want to cast me as an evil “Zionist.” Someone you should target hatred at. Do you think hating me will make anything better for Palestinians? Will perpetuating hatred make things better for anyone?

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                    Zionism is bad because the reality is that Jews was a minority anywhere, and they never had enough continuous land to create a state without ethnically cleansing another population. Herzl talked about ethnic cleansing and he is mentioned as the spiritual father of the settler colonial genocidal state of Israel declaration of “independence”

                    I don’t think people against antisemitism is a Zionist either

                    Don’t assume I hate all Israelis. I btselem a human right orgs within Israel is doing a great job exposing Israeli state and settler terrorism

                    I want reconciliation that is why I believe in a one state solution with equal rights for everybody and war criminals in both side to be held accountable

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          Yeah. Since the internet causes arrested development, it’s difficult to tell if someone is a child or an immature adult.