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4·2 days agoJail time for RFK’s brain worm is more likely.
Doing marketing for AI companies again Bill?
What happens when the Palestinian Genocide becomes undeniable in the deluge of international media about how much more unimaginably worse it was than we even thought and politicians in the US desperately start running around looking for excuses for why they weren’t complicit and to rationalize why they didn’t do anything to stop it?
What happens when antisemitism is sitting there, the comfortable old reliable spectacle of attractively hateful simplicity to distract from a much more uncomfortable conversation and self-reflection?
I am not jewish and those questions scare me, they should scare everyone, this leads nowhere good and the current alliance between Israel and the rightwing of the US (and elsewhere) is not just a fickle relationship by nature of how unreliable rightwing groups are at refraining from turning on their allies for insane reasons… it is clearly much worse, it is the set up to a betrayal narrative.
Meanwhile centrist Democrats sit there having a tantrum about Hasan Piker being a popular streamer and DNC leadership openly condescends people who see the Palestinian Genocide as an existential issue.
Every single bit of energy centrists and rightwing people have put into policing leftists on their criticisms of Israel and trying to censor it from popular media discourse is effort done to increase the antisemitic blowback rightwing ideologies will inevitably adopt in order to not acknowledge how baby like and reductive their world views are… whether people realize that or not, that is the obvious reality.
Call me Cassandra, I don’t give a fuck, I want to be wrong here, I just don’t see how the chips fall any other way given the current trajectory, and it is one of the primary reasons I am so passionate about this issue. If we don’t loudly criticize Israel and ourselves (the US) with actual nuanced, rational criticisms than it leaves a cavernous void for people like Tucker Carlson to start something terrifying that will not only silence more nuanced conversation but worse… likely grow out of control…
I am not really making any great leap of logic here, when discourse about a phenomena is silenced with reductive shouting down as if any criticism is an endorsement of hateful ideologies… it creates the ideal space for dangerous conspiracy theories to spread like wildfire.
…the signal boost has been… weirdly obsessive around Hasan by establishment media there is no other way to describe it, if people watch his videos and listen to some of what he says and disagree… fine but this hysterical fear mongering around Hasan is bombastic bullshit, he streams constantly of course he is going to put his foot in his mouth every once in awhile but those moments are drowned out by hours and hours of basically Bernie Sanders style politics from a younger standpoint that is more “radical” I guess… but in spirit? Not really.
I will not stand for a villainization of Hasan Piker as someone who is antisemitic or embraces violent ideologies that are antihumanist, that doesn’t mean I think everyone needs to agree with Hasan Piker because I like what he says, but this attempt to project these attributes onto Hasan Piker is simply not supported by the evidence, glaringly so.
Yes, I know this is a tortured metaphor.
Waterboarded at most, don’t be too harsh on yourself.
You are so obsessed with Hasan Piker you can’t help but see him as the main character of the first Dune book?
…what?
Hasan is a twitch streamer get a damn grip on reality.
That isn’t a slip up, that phrasing does not imply or assert “all jews” grammatically in that context?
Terrifyingly this is also maybe the only strategy establishment democrats could take that seriously brings into play the possibility they will lose the midterms to conservatives.
Be specific or stop throwing accusations around about Hasan.
True, but Hasan Piker is a gifted speaker and he is definitely worth listening to.
He is just getting hyperboosted by the mainstream media’s pathetic attempt to take him down backfiring spectacularly to a point of absurdity, something Hasan regularly and explicitly recognizes.
I mean, Hasan is right, trying to flatten Israel and Judaism into one concept does place Jews in the US at far greater danger as it forces them into a story they weren’t necessarily a part of and if anything US Jews are very likely experiencing their soul recoil in horror from what is happening in the Palestinian Genocide same as anyone else with a heart.
The amount of immaturity the media has with grappling with Hasan’s point is stunning.
Sure, prove my point!
Some jackass twitch streamer keeps claiming to be speaking for anyone that’s progressive
When has he claimed he is speaking for “anyone that’s progressive”?
You are projecting shit onto Piker to make it easy to tear him down and it is obvious to everyone but you.
Your obsession with Hasan is sad.
Nobody cares, you are just trying to character assassinate someone you can’t come up with actually good cutdowns for.
The point of this article is that hyperfocusing on Hasan is absurd.
Dems 100% do not obsess over any twitch streamer…
Either you are in denial or you are oblivious, YES they do.
“While politicians and pundits try to make this race about a Twitch streamer, we’re going to be talking about gas, groceries, good schools, and healthcare,” El-Sayed said in a statement on Monday. “Because that’s what Michiganders keep asking about. It’s why I’m fighting to get money out of politics, money in your pocket, and Medicare for All.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/28/hasan-piker-democrats-midterms-2028-00849453
https://www.wsj.com/politics/hasan-piker-twitch-democrats-a5aa0cd6
No, the Democratic parties willingness to let those things stand in the way is what it comes back to.
I have never read this book but I am going to assume this is a biography about me!
Not disagreeing with the gist of what you are saying, but the concept of IQ is bullshit
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Also, why the fuck didn’t the Biden administration deal with the fucked up board that manages postal leadership? The national party has all the heat for progressive Democrats trying to displace incumbent dinosaurs but regularly fumbles the ball on important shit.
…because the only way things could have collapsed this badly was if a truly incompetent and illsuited status quo managing sunsetting old man who had a hand in creating all of the problems that are coming home to roost now was president right after and before a fascist was put in power.
I am not sure there is really any other way to let the fire get so damn out of control before the fire alarm was pulled.
South Carolina is a shithole government handout state drowning in conservatism and dysfunctional austerity politics.
https://wallethub.com/edu/states-most-least-dependent-on-the-federal-government/2700
Most Federally Dependent States
Alaska
Kentucky
West Virginia
Mississippi
Louisiana
South Carolina
Truthfully South Carolina is #5 because Alaska is a massive frontier and it is rational it receives so much federal funding.
https://www.thestate.com/news/state/south-carolina/article316059516.html