Wonder if my radlib boss will notice or if she will just stick to theo von
this post was submitted on 13 May 2025
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I wonder what your boss thinks about
- Theo Von's Hasan Piker episode a couple months ago
- Theo Von's Candace Owens episode the week before that
It's when I see people here say shit like "he's a fed" and thinking he may be "making this up" that I'm reminded a lot of people here need to touch grass and do a bit of a reality check lmao.
Hasan is good. This is not surprising. He's doing well to talk about it and make noise about it.
Hasan is a slightly-left-of-AOC streamer doing the "we can push them left" thing, where the "them" is imperialist social democrats/left liberals. The place at which his followers arrive is, "I will only reluctantly vote for Kamala Harris" and, "I wish I could vote for AOC 2028". He occasionally arrives aa socialist positions and language like a toddler finding a new toy. He learns the toy, plays with it for a while, talks about it on stream, and then discards it. He wants to be on the edge of mainstream. Can't let the toy get in the way of that.
This is only good and useful in the same fashion that Bernie could be thought of as useful: some will be inspired by the toy, the appeal of possibility and pointing to (mostly) correct culprits of oppression, and then their disappointment at nothing changing may help radicalize. But many, probably the vast majority, will be led back to the Democratic party and liberalism, as Hasan neither offers them an onramp himself nor points anyone to next steps. He just returns to stream about electoral politics, Trump, the next elections, etc. And his audience follows him there.
Hasan should be considered situationally useful. We should be there to pick up the disaffected, as he is not pointing them to us. And doing it through our organizations. If we are not, then he is not part of any pipeline to developing more socialists, but just creating more Bernie-adjascent electoralists that sit at home and will be susceptible to most propaganda.
They literally pulled me aside at TSA to inspect the blunt stakes in my tent bag that I was taking as carry on because it was way smaller than my big duffel bag. Funnily enough they only did this on my way BACK from going to Pine Ridge to meet with a bunch of former AIM elders. 
the people who need to touch grass are those who are on a first-name basis in their parasocial relationship with a streamer
The only really dumb take I've seen is him saying that owning a credit card would make him bourgeois
Hasan is criticized for advocating for leading baby leftists back into the fold of the Democratic Party. And its not just “hexbear” who says this. We already had a similar situation where an obvious British agent was victimized due the genocidal policies of the empire.
Hopefully hasan can grow from that injustice, but that suddenly doesn’t make him lenin 2.0.
I don't think he's lenin at all. I think he does a good job agitating and educating, that's it. That's much more than most people can claim to do. I disagree that he leads leftists back into the democratic party, then again i'm not american, but that sounds nonsensical to me.
I like him okay. I just don't really find his stream that interesting. Plenty fan of his message, enjoy that he watches One Piece, sometimes he hangs out with Valkyrae's group. But I'm there to watch video games personally. I don't feel any extra love for the Dems because I follow him
same, i sometimes put on his stream if there's something interesting going on but mostly that type of content and the constant derailment by chat annoys me. His message is good and i'm glad he gets people on the right track.
The chat stuff pisses me off. A firehouse of liberalism and trolls to the face would probably drive me insane though so props
Yeah, too many on Hexbear got that "Too cool for school" ass energy that needs to be dispensed with asap
Offshoot of the Western leftist mantra of nothing ever being holy enough.
Hasan does good shit within the confines of the parameters he can exist within, and is a net positive for us, even if he doesn't share our views one-to-one.
yeah someone who watches hasan and learns about the world and takes what he says seriously is a lot more likely to then be receptive to going further, learning more and coming to understand hasan's limitations and bad/mid takes. But on the whole he's a positive, even if he's got a ton of fans who are oblivious or don't fully take his points/logic to heart, let alone go further, they are at least not instinctively anticommunist and generally vibe with us.
He makes calls and has takes that i don't agree with, often in the interest of "optics",, but just covering the shit that he does is a huge boost to the level of discourse happening in a lot of corners of the internet. Just getting people talking about ansarallah and their blockade in a positive light and with context is a huge boost against the "they're just terrorists attacking civilian shipping vessels" people
They don't like it that a guy can be both 'on the right side of history' and handsome, probably, lol.
That is silly. All hexbears are remarkably good-looking and I refuse to believe otherwise.
Incorrect, the reason I don't like him is because of this rod-polishing parasocial relationship people have with him for scraping the literal bare minimum, which isn't unique to him but part of a larger critique of the alienation that is inherent to streamer media.
I mean for Christ's sake, this is the exact same argument as 'You just criticize capitalism and want communism because you are jealous of other's success' level of breadtube argument slop.
You don't like him because people e-fellate him? That can't be on him. Sure, I understand if you want someone as popular and 'on our side' to be deeper, more intellectual, more politically engaged, but I won't let perfect be the enemy of good. In a world of Ethans and Musk fanboys, Hasan is a breath of fresh air, and that is enough for me.
I never said it was 'on him'. I'm not even mad that he is surface level. Don't put words in my mouth, please.
I said that it was part of a larger critique. Streaming culture is bad for us, politically, as leftists. It is inherently bad because it creates a simulacra of community, without even a hint of theoretical will to power. It is the ultimate liberal simulation of politics without actually being politics. You feel 'politically engaged' without actually engaging with the polity. How can you? The community only exists if you are actively online supporting it, which means you are actively disengaged from the polity. You are engaging with a petite bourgeois capitalist influencer on a capitalist rentier platform. At least recognize it.
As such, even the best part of it, which Hasan absolutely is, is still bad. Therefore, I don't like him, because I don't have to like him.
Fantastic comment, saving it for the next time I need to articulate one of the reasons why I don't watch streamer media
Ethan is so incompetent, he can't even sic the US government on a middle eastern guy named Hasan with leftist tendencies lol
Hasan is blowing up—
Not beating the terrorism allegations, Mr. Piker!
now you say that but i saw
Hasan is blowing
and stopped there 
Volcelisopsec. 
Now hold on a moment there, officer! I never said what he was blowing, he could be blowing balloons for the May Day parade! 
Man with middle eastern/turkish origins detained in America over his politics. And they are left leaning. I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner tbh. If you wanna be a turkish man in the spotlight you need to sniff American war criminal butt like that enes freedom nerd.
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