hasan piker (guy on the right) does not represent the left and is not worthy of your attention.
he is actively making abdul el-sayed’s chances at election worse and i am frustrated about it given the stakes so i made this meme.
because like. my absolute BESTIE abdul el-sayed is out here working miracles at home trying to keep poc, migrant, low-income, queer, etc. people alive and doing the actual work of building a coalition, including making real inroads with his Jewish constituency, while being explicitly pro-Palestinian and rejecting AIPAC money.
hasan piker has made a handful of appearances with both abdul and zohran, but now abdul is getting viciously smeared for hasan’s own words, with fox news literally turning things hasan said into attack-ad material against him. and hasan just will not read the room and step back.
this is the same BOZO hasan piker who wears mao outfits, plays literal terrorist propaganda videos for his friends and goes “they’re just very musical people,” denies the Uyghur genocide, supports the invasion of Tibet, lies about queer rights in China while going on tours, and has said enough insane shit that even my OTHER bestie zohran mamdani disavowed him months ago. and the room is STILL unread and some people are trying to tell me i have to fall on the sword for piker.
do i have to beg ;;;;;;
i just want candidates who aren’t evil to win :’(
rw slop trolling.
see this is what’s so scary to me is i can literally say “i am a progressive leftist and i want progressive leftists and social democrats (edit: and democratic socialists) to win”
and i’ll still get accused of being “right wing” (what i assume you mean by “rw”, correct me if im wrong) for not… diving on the sword for the imperialism-condoning “I call it Crimea river, a Russian river bitch” guy?
i just want human rights and healthcare sadge
I mean you’ve accepted a wholly right wing frame built to literally target hogs. How do you expect people to react to your regurgitation of right wing talking points.
Yeah it doesn’t matter what you say, it matters what you do. People say one thing and do another all the time, and you are doing that right here.
You aren’t doing what you say. You are doing this other thing, literally just accepting the slop that fascist media is shoving down the slop tubes like any other hog. Fox news and right wing corporate media have spent billions to get you, yes you to repeat their lines for them. And you ate it up like a lil’ piggy. You doing the fascists work for them.
So if you want people to evaluate you differently, do different things.
okay thanks for sharing your thoughts, your exceeding rhetorical politeness is seen and appreciated
I thought Abdul was a democratic socialist, not a social democrat?
he’s actually not DSA but he does have the approval of some DSA members. Mamdani is DSA. clarified in the edit!
Socdems succ off the dems (okay they’re further left than the US Democrats but it’s funny). Demsocs are dem socialists
this is exactly what i needed thanks for the mnemonic 😭
He literally pulled out some kind of right-libertarian dogwhistle during live interview 😂
I’m not sure how that’s a dog whistle for the right… The right HATES science and it comes off to me like he’s making a point about what works instead of playing stupid word games.
They don’t hate science, they hate “soyience”. The kind that tells you that trans people exist and black people aren’t inferior. This is how most of them think.
And I said right-LIBERTARIANS. I’m not talking about MAGA etc. I’m talking about the Ayn Rand people who won’t let you touch a specific hard drive in their house for some weird reason.
Is that you in the video? You’re no better than the right in my opinion. Also playing words games and saying nothing useful with no hard evidence.
Sorry, I thought that the words coming out of his mouth on video was enough. Silly me.
And no I’m not a YouTuber what the hell are you talking about 🤣
Your entire reply to me was about things you “said”… You didn’t say them in this reply chain as far as I can tell. But I’m not going to go around searching for your other comments.
Anyways. I hold out for Abdul and he sends much more legitimate to me than most others claiming to be progressive.
That’s a 10 minute video, no thanks. Why don’t you watch the video and then just spend two minutes telling Me what happened.
That’s why I included the timestamp in the link?
He said “I don’t believe in socialism, I believe in science.”
Edit: Sorry, I guess it got borked for some reason. Timestamp is 2:00.
In no world is that a right wing libertarian dogwhistle let’s be so for real.
El-Sayed isn’t DSA and, while he has the approval of many DSA members, he is also free to moderate his speech to be effective in the unfortunately highly propagandized context of the American Midwest.
The right, conservatism, and especially fascism are all explicitly the ones associated with the denial of science so I am asking us not to kid ourselves here.
No, it very obviously is. Him being a Dubai landlord puts more weight behind it as well.
The U.S. currently has huge inertia in terms of leftism, but you continue wasting that on “I believe in science” and “Israeli Jews have a right to self-determination” candidates.
If only y’all had the courage to form a completely new, radical communist party from the ground up…
oh wow actually i didn’t know that one. do you have a source that isn’t the daily wire? but yeah that’s significant, he still has my endorsement for now but with that as an asterisk
also i am like totally down with supporting emerging parties/activist groups. do you have someone/something to point me towards? i’m just working with the assets we have for now.
obviously i encourage doing your own source analysis toward your own conclusions—
but also the source they linked is basically the socialist-imperialist (tankie) version of right-wing conspiracy channels
proceed with caution is all i would say
I’d LOVE one example of him being an “imperialist”, “tankie”, or “conspiracy theorist”.
BadEmpanada is not a trustworthy journalistic or subjective source heads up
How so?