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 :’(
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.
https://factually.co/fact-checks/finance/does-sayed-own-foreign-property-d7fbf8
got it, so he’s not a landlord per se but there’s definitely some real estate entanglement with that could certainly be a conflict of interest liability. and it’s residential property too looks like. hasan piker’s mother i believe is also a residential property landlord and that disgusts me so i certainly apply the same principle here.
thanks for sharing! again this is genuinely new to me so i appreciate it.
He literally is. He has property in Dubai that he rents out. That’s what landlord means. Doesn’t matter if it’s residential or not, I would even argue that that’s worse.
no im definitely agreeing with you, residential is worse.
maybe you’re right about him being a landlord even though it’s his wife’s holdings, i’m not a real estate professional.
but the technicality doesn’t matter, i agree. the rent-seeking on residential land is the real issue. it’s real bad when donald trump does it, it’s real bad when piker’s mom does it, and it’s real bad when el-sayed does it. i hope he recognizes the error in his ways because that’s really gross.
I don’t. I live in Turkey. We have actual anarcho-socialistic and Marxist-Leninist parties in parliament here, even though they’re heavily disliked by the general population for being “terrorists” and face constant persecution from the government. That’s electoralism for you, but I can’t really say much against them because they did try to revolt.
got it. i know for a fact i don’t fuck with marxist-leninism.
Have fun with capitalism 🤷♀️
the nice thing is that there aren’t just two socio-political-economic schools of thought in the universe lol
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”.