cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/9447978
Hasan more popular then trans gender on fox news
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I don’t like the guy but I’d much prefer him taking up fox news talking time rather than trans people.
I am shocked people care so deeply about a streamer and we aren’t talking about the people watching him. That is the craziest part
The Republicans love to angry masterbate to this guy
Honestly some of the best allyship to take the brunt of this for trans people.
(Semi /s)
Hasan derangement syndrome. The entire media arm of the right wing got a serious case of that HDS. That underwear pic will do it to you.
Still no idea who this guy is or why they are so obsessed with him.
He’s a political commentary streamer on Twitch. He’s generally on the left with some mixed positions on various things that you’d honestly just have to watch to get the sense of.
In the last few years he’s gotten more directly involved in political organizing, highlighting certain progressive candidates around the US and even getting a lot of his viewers to donate or volunteer for their campaigns. It’s hard to know the full impact of this, but it’s one contribution among many to the movement needed to get the left elected.
Because of this more recent round of successes from progressive candidates, including ones Hasan helped with, establishment interests in the Republican and Democratic parties have been targeting him as a proxy for the movement as a whole. In particular pro-Israel groups have been prominent in attacking him since he’s against genocide.
He says some dumb shit sometimes, wording things the wrong way, being hyperbolic, etc. That plus the many opportunities for out of context clipping make it easy for these bad faith actors to find things that make him look bad. While some of it is red scare stuff, there’s also a lot of Islamophobia mixed in. They then try to tie this to the progressive candidates to hurt their chances.
I probably wouldn’t agree with every position he has, but he’s overall not a bad guy. The hysteria around him is basically just manufactured outrage for political gain and it’s not even working that well for that.
He says some dumb shit sometimes, wording things the wrong way, being hyperbolic, etc. That plus the many opportunities for out of context clipping make it easy for these bad faith actors to find things that make him look bad
Any kind of streamer I give some level of benefit of the doubt because you get anyone talking for 6-12 hours straight without any opportunity to edit out something in post, you’re gonna get something questionable every once in a while, even if its purely just a joke that doesn’t land or a mispeak, or of course sometimes its the mask slipping for a moment and the real colors showing. It takes a bit of digging sometimes to figure out which it is regarding a given flub, but Hasan is generally a pretty decent guy from what I’ve seen.
He’s a “left” Asmomgold/grifter.
I feel like that does Asmongold a disservice in how fucked he is. We are talking about a goblin who used a rotting rat carcas as an alarm clock.
he is the guy conservatives online will bring up whenever I try to tell them that tankies are a small minority and that most of the real left is actually just very reasonable democratic socialists
I am not a fan, really, but he does reach demographics that other leftist have trouble reaching, so I guess he belongs in the tent
He’s a hard-left twitch streamer who does reactions on YouTube videos and current events. I find it boring as rain but he’s one of the most popular streamers on twitch.
You find the rain boring?
Yeah I’ll admit that rain didn’t deserve this gratuitous side swipe
It just been falling for years. Get some new material!
They tried acid rain and you all freaked out.
There was LSD rain and I missed it?!
We liked chocolate rain.
Chocolate rain is still ahead of its time
Bruh purple rain?
He’s got a YT channel, maybe check it out & make up your own mind
Reminds me of Obama’s Reverend back in the day. They really went after him.
Streamer, very popular. I haven’t watched a full stream, but there are a lot of clips doing the rounds. He has a couple million followers.
He’s campaigned for various Democratic politicians, that’s his friendly USA “front”.
But really, he’s a pro-Islam shill and he hates the Democrats and all of secular society. (this last sentence is my personal assessment)
The baleful eye of Republicans turned upon him when he said “America deserved 9-11”
If the meat pic is taking some heat off the trans peeps, then I suppose the Prada Propagandist is doing some good!
Jesus fucking christ i didn’t think they actually talk about transgender so fucking much. Insane
British media: hold my ale.
When you don’t want your audience to think about any real issues, you pick one or two focus on them so hard that anyone watching that is the single biggest problem in the world ever.
Also helps if the population is small and politically powerless so they can be exploited for political gain.
if they didn’t do that, then they might have to actually report some news to fill out their broadcast day.
this just in Hasan Piker beats transgender people on Fox News. news at 11.
beats
In what way 🤔
take note cis ppl this is how you be an ally
Will start sending my nudes to fox journalists, got it
By getting mentioned on Fox News? Or by monitoring Fox News?
By getting talked about on fox he is giving them less time to talk about trans people.
Ah ok, that makes sense. He’s a lightening rod
I’ll do my best, but as I don’t have a dog is it acceptable for me to wear the shock collar myself?
If you’re going to continue pushing that false narrative then yes, please wear a shock collar.
If you want to wear a shock collar, I won’t kinkshame.
So good. This comment alone should be enough to get you five minutes at the Comedy Mothership! You can open for Tony Hinchcliff
These people are like sleeper cells activated by any mention of this guy’s name
No idea who he is before this post, good example of a barbra streisand effect
Fox has talked about Hasan so much that my mom tried to watch some of his videos bc she’s anti-trump so she figured if fox hated him that much maybe she should see what he has to say
She said his content is difficult to watch bc he jumps from topic to topic too quickly but she agreed with some of what he said
You’re totally right about the Streisand effect being in full force here
I am officially out of the loop. I remember his body pic at the CPAC, but what do conservatives have against Hasan Piker?
He’s left wing, outspoken, much better at articulating complex issues than they are, and extremely popular with young people.
Any one of those things are enough for their vilification, but the combo of all of them has them ABSOLUTELY apoplectic 😄
He’s also a first-generation Turkish-American and Muslim by upbringing, which works pretty well with their new fear mongering around the threat of muslims taking over the country
Gotcha. So it’s the old, “But he is not named in the Epstein files” that got to them.
Viking Hippie got you but I wanted to add that Hasan rightly calls out Israel’s genocide against Palestinians.
A hateful boner. That’s what they have for Hasan.
He has a large support base, particularly reaching young men that would likely have otherwise gone down the alt right/redpill pipeline. He also appeals to some of the older republican voters who watch his actual content and not just clips because the majority of the content is responding to arguments on the merit of the argument and evidence, even if his takes are sometimes questionable and there are some outrageous clippable moments. Republicans view this as someone coming in and eating their lunch.
Democrats view it as someone easily achieving the success in converting nonvoters and republicans that they wished to achieve without actually changing their policy and hate him the same, attacking anyone left of them harder than they attack republicans. In doing so they also provide more ammunition to the republicans and republican media to try and paint him negatively, sometimes leaning into outright slander and libel (e.g. purposefully taking a clip of him reading someones comment then arguing against it, but clipping just the reading part to make it seem like he thinks that)
Why were you at the cpac 🤨
I was trying to find a Grindr date, obvi!
He could beat me fr
…wait what’d you say
First time I hear of this dude. He’s doing the numbers!
