hasan piker (guy on the right) 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 :’(
Idk why people feel the need to defend hasan on this platform so much. he is directly depositing money into Amazon’s pocket by streaming on twitch. I feel like thats pretty antithetical to using platforms like lemmy. he has the budget to self host something like Peertube.
this in addition to everything you said OP.
Nobody goes on peertube. I have no idea about his policies but leaving mainstream sites would be a political suicide.
So why is Trump using Mastodon…?
Reposting on here in the minute chance mastodon takes off when twitter fails? Or just gets popular for some unknown reason. All they do is copy paste his whitehouse, and truth media shit everywhere.
yeah and he also spends literally all day scrolling elon musk’s nazi twitter. he really knows how to pick an aesthetic lol.
fox news literally turning things hasan said into attack-ad material against [El-Sayed]
I don’t really think that’s gonna do much? Fox was gonna run attack ads regardless of Hasan’s proximity, and the core audience of Fox News… is the core audience of Fox News.
There is nothing Abdul El-Sayed could do to make Establishment Democrats or the Republicans party stop attacking him. All the things you like El-Sayed for are the exact reasons he is being smeared by Fox News and CNN. Disavowing a streamer will not help because the DNC and RNC do not actually care about Hasan Piker; they are just using him as a tool to attack progressive ideas. There will always, always be something else to attack Abdul over.
Jesse Watters has said and done way more horrible things than Hasan Piker, yet it would be absurd to claim that Abdul El-Sayed should apologize for going on Fox News and should disavow Jesse Watters. That Abdul is going to lose his left wing voters for guilt-by-association with Watters.
I cannot speak for what other people have told you, but I do not think you need to fall on the sword for Hasan Piker. You do need to stop falling for conservative propaganda though. The GOP’s official plan is to try and use Hasan Piker as a distraction away from the actual harm they are inflicting upon US citizens. Fox News talked about Hasan Piker over 300 times since April not because they think Piker and Adbul are close friends, but to try and manufacture outrage against a twitch streamer while gas and eggs are absurdly expensive. You are angry at Hasan for the idea that Hasan and Abdul are closely tied together. Fox News is the one tying the knots. CNN and MSNBC are providing the string.
Any time spent upset about Hasan Piker is a distraction from the actual harmful people in this country who have access to the levers of power.
You are angry at Hasan for the idea that Hasan and Abdul are closely tied together. Fox News is the one tying the knots. CNN and MSNBC are providing the string.
doesn’t that kinda mean by posting this I am untying that string? i kinda fuck with that TBH.
📣 hasan is NOT the face of the left yall! 🗣️🗣️i have no defense of him and the actual harmful people in this country are exploiting him for power. 😬😬😬😬
and abdul for senate. shoutout my boy abdul.
I am trying to explain that you are wasting your time trying to untie the two. Hasan Piker is not a significant weight holding down Abdul El-Sayed. The Establishment Democrats and the entire Republican Party are where you should focus your ire. The Republicans because they are doing evil shit and the Establishment Democrats because they are focusing on attacking Abdul El-Sayed using Hasan Piker instead of fighting the evil shit.
If Hasan genuinely gave a shit about making the country a better place, he wouldn’t be trying to self enrich off of El-Sayed. He’d have continued to support him as a fan and advocate, but not try to insert himself as a key figure to his campaign.
I also don’t agree with the take A LOT of leftist have that El-Sayed is “running away from Hasan to save face” or “he’s betraying Hasan by refusing to defend him”.
El-Sayed’s campaign and political career is about a million more important things than Hasan. Its about saving our country’s Democracy. Its about universal healthcare. Its about ending the grip of Israel over the US and their genocides. Its about justice against the fascists.
If El-Sayed spent his time trying to defend Hasan from every bad-faith attack on Hasan, El-Sayed’s campaign would cease to be about any of the WAY MORE IMPORTANT things he’s fighting for, and it’d become all about Hasan. It’d be playing into The MAGA and Zionist Liberal playbook and pigeonhole his campaign with Hasan. Its what his opponents want.
I kept hearing about that betrayal thing and its some minor election on the other side of the globe, so pardon me for not knowing or caring about the details, but what is Hasan’s political project for if he’s not gonna help people like El Sayed get elected? (He loves aesthetics of revolution, but I’ll eat a shoe if he actually helps make one happen) There is nothing that stops him from supporting figures that publically disavow him apart from ego, is there? What even is the point of him being a part of the campaign?
Abdul was the one who reached out to Hasan and asked him to stump for him. None of these right-wing attack ads have any motion anyway, and doesn’t change Abdul’s messaging discipline, as these ruthlessly islamphobic attacks would happen either way
so much more eloquently put than i could do yet i agree with every word thank you so much 🫡🫡🔥
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 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.
can literally say “i am a progressive leftist and i want progressive leftists and social democrats to win”
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 just want candidates who aren’t evil to win :’(
then why aren’t you electing yourself :'(
Why let others do your policies?
Build coalitions, make real inroads, liberate Palestine, and reject capitalism.
Why do you need a servant to do commit your demands?well the answer is simple, i am evil and i would never vote for myself
then you have your answer why your demands are never met :'(
Gonna go back to actually feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, and decapitating private equitours.
