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 :’(
You are falling into the trap that conservatives set for you.
people told me the same thing in 2023/4 when i asked joe biden to drop out earlier and look where that got us
Bruh you aren’t even falling for the trap. You are the trap.
So it was you he finally listened to? Huh. How about that.
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.
you kinda JUST told me that this whole smear is huge part of Project 2025 (over 300 mentions etc), now you’re telling me it’s a waste of time to attack Project 2025?
im sorry but what?
Hasan Piker is a distraction. Stop paying attention to the jingling keys.
precisely the point of this whole post, upvoted
Hasan is a crypto tankie who might become a liability for the left as China gains more power over America, but right now the commenter is right. Hasan is 100% a wedge issue that corporatists want to leverage to suppress the left. Like it or not, Marxists like Hasan are a significant part of the political left, as are people less "red"pilled who have positive views of Hasan. Throwing Hasan under the bus is a bad idea, as the people up in arms about him will not stop at just him. It will alienate a ton of highly motivated allies while earning nothing from the right. In short, “They came first for the communists…”
We are dealing with full blown fascism right now, and it will only mutate into something more unhinged after Trump. Left wing liberals simply cannot afford to lose Marxists at the polls or on the campaign trail. Anarchists and queers are officially considered terrorists by the administration, and considering how the establishment Democrats have little desire to come to our rescue, we can’t really complain about it either.
Tankies might be bastards, but right now conservative liberals are worse, and often in the exact same ways as Tankies. Mass surveillance? Genocide? Authoritarianism? Demanding you uncritically support their obviously flawed system? Ever since the 2024 election, faith in liberalism has been shaken. Rather than interrogate why or how to rectify it they instead act increasingly reactionary, trying to claw back the good ole days when everything was “normal.” Just like with tankies, they’re insults to the ideals they claim to stand for.
I do share your frustration about Hasan though. I don’t look forward to a generation influenced by him, but I guess we can’t have nice things. The big thing to remember is that Hasan is not the left, just a prominent voice in one corner of it. Continue to affirm your values and stand up for what’s right, but don’t fall for red baiting bullshit.
I don’t have the time to respond today but please accept my thanks for the thoughtful response. 🙏
You don’t get to decide who is the face of the left. Like it or not Hasan is very recognizable as a left influencer.
i can’t decide, but i can advocate, which is what i’m doing
the guy who restream videos of houthi pirates landing a helicopter on a ship and taking the crew hostage while cheering them on like he’s watching football does not represent me as a leftist and i advocate for other leftists to consider why i would think that.
This entire smear campaign is just an attempt at assigning guilt-by-association to progressives. A full-throated condemnation of Hasan Piker will only be taken as an admission of guilt for their prior association and the media will continue to use it as a line of attack, so it’s less than pointless to do so, it’s counterproductive because it would only alienate those who agree with Hasan while doing nothing to appease “moderates.”
Stop pretending you care about electability. It’s obvious you’re not doing this out of concern for Abdul’s chances of winning, but out of hatred for an online personality you have a weird parasocial vendetta against.
Hasan continues to be an incredible litmus test. His existence has this uncanny ability to get anti-leftists and wreckers to out themselves.
Like, the people obsessing about Hasan specifically kinda just sound like Ethan Klein at this point.
I think you nailed it.
As someone who has been watching Hasan for many years, its frustrating seeing “leftists” take clips out of context without the decency of checking the full video.
I used to consider myself conservative (thanks mom and dad!) until I discovered Hasan, so he played a big part in my development.
Yes he is brash and I will disagree with some things he says, but we agree on an overwhelming amount of topics. I honestly don’t know how he handles the amount of unjustified heat he gets. I would go crazy…
girl it’s not his existence i have a problem with its the things he says
and if it’s a leftist requirement to parrot the things he says I don’t want to be a leftist anymore and me and my leftist progressive homies fighting for basic human rights gotta pick a new name
I don’t want to be a leftist anymore
pick a new name
You know, I think that covers it.
- “it’s better for rich white women to be sexually assaulted”
- “China’s goverment is like super gay friendly actually”
- “I don’t have a problem with the Houthis, let’s just say”
(guy you’re asking me to defend btw)
At least post the links to him saying it!
hasan is awesome; they’re not attacking abdul because of hasan, they’re attacking him because they’re fucking racist assholes who love aipac money.
and abdul is still winning <3
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.
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
