Progressive Twitch streamer Hasan Piker filed a defamation lawsuit against conservative CNN commentator Scott Jennings on Tuesday, accusing him of falsely claiming Piker advocated for lynching Blac…
Because he’s providing real political and moral leadership while the “leadership” internal to the Democratic party are cuckold failures.
Hasan backed candidates have basically wiped the floor throughout both the Democratic primaries and now general elections. As people have recognized the failures of both centrism and bipartisanship, explicitly socialist views expressed through a relatable, non academic, non corporate views have real purchase. Expect them to continue to grow into a household name. You better get comfortable in this new reality.
He actually agrees with you, he’s just a twitch streamer who does political commentary and occasional activism when it aligns with his ideology. He would happily stay in his lane. But the democrats and republicans have turned him into a big deal and gone out of their way to slander him.
He’s been a political commentator even before he became a streamer. He probably still reacts to content on the account that political commentary largely depends on reacting to interviews, news clips, articles etc. I’m sure he probably does non-political reactions, such as the recent H3H3 implosion, but as with political commentary he adds a lot of commentary ontop the content. There was even a viral clip of casuallyexplained calling out Hasan for constantly pausing videos to add his own commentary.
The idea that he mostly stole content from others is one of the multitude of lies his haters have told over the years. He’s a far cry from the react streamers who consume content in its entirety and add only “uh-uh, yeah, right.”
All I’ve seen from him is watching a video and offering nothing but the occasional laugh, then rushing to stop it before any self promotion from the creator can play.
He has something like over 20 000 hours streamed. I’m sure you’re going to run into that as well, but if that’s all you’ve ever seen… I guess you must be the worlds unluckiest viewer to always find him doing just that.
I mean you can literally open his stream right at this very moment, he’s not just sitting there “reacting” like a houseplant. He’s not even watching a video others made.
Weird that you think interviewing, fundraising, and getting out volunteers to doorknock/phonebank for DSA endorsed candidates nationwide isn’t anything important
That’s your opinion mang thats fine. And just like the failure of the Biden administration to do anything to stop a genocide , you can choose to see or not see whatever you like.
Hasan is a political commentator who reads and responds to the news outloud. And they do it in a way which most people under the age of 40 would do it, in a mocking, casual sometimes cynical view. And people can relate to that; they aren’t just reenforcing establishment views.
Here’s what its going to come down to: Hasan picked the winners. The canddiates they endorsed and supported, they made it through their primaries, and after making it through the primaries, they are winning their elections. They are more ideologically similar to Hasan and most of the people here, than you or other centrist/ rightwing politics. But more importantly, they picked winners, and supported them early when early support makes the difference. That makes them a king maker.
I mean no you are not. Centrism has lost every election where its been tried. You don’t represent anyone. Socialism/ Social Democracy is far more popular with voters.
How’s the genocides doing now?
Its your genocide bruh, you own it, so you tell me.
Registered voters are abandoning bOtH pArTiEs, now down to 28% each; independents are up to 44% of voters. That’s gone up like 5% since Biden was in office, mang
Pew research. You better call them and tell them that you disagree so that they can fix it!
He literally canvases and makes appearances at rallies for the candidates he’s supporting. Maybe do more research than none at all next time?
Also you seem to be ignoring the answer to this question you were already given, deliberately i have to imagine. Hasan gets views, gets attention. Views and attention are power, they’re influence. If Hasan has 100k viewers that’s 100k potential votes for a candidate.
What are you not understanding about that? It seems really straightforward that views and influence = power.
I don’t know who he is.
But if I do know who he is, he’s not very famous.
But if he is famous, he’s not doing anything newsworthy.
But if he is doing something newsworthy, it’s not very important.
But if he is doing something important, I didn’t do any research about him.
My first comment was ‘who gives a shit about a twitch streamer’ so obviously I know a bit about him I’ve just never wasted time in my life watch any twitch streamer.
And I’m definitely not going to research them either.
Why the fuck would anyone give a fuck about you? You are literally a bot who works for the Jeffrey Epstein Class to whitewash America’s crimes. You are always doing American Exceptionalism propaganda so your shit ass country can continue killing minorities like you do in my country, Mexico, through the Iron River you fund with your taxes.
You are fucking garbage. Get a fucking life already, you terrorist.
I don’t care about him personally, but the story is about a bad faith news commentator removing the “he said” nesting from a quote to make it sound like he was claiming precisely the viewpoint that he was criticizing. And that shit shouldn’t fly.
Also they’re trying to run that story to smear not only him but also a progressive political candidate currently running a tight race. So yeah we should absolutely be calling it out.
Like I don’t have any particular interest, love or hate for Piker. I haven’t ever watched more than a few clips of him. But he does matter, both as a person and a political influencer. And your question is bullshit elitism. Saying “Why does anyone give a shit about [blank]?” and then filling that blank with any type of person you find frivolous, not for the content of their character or their opinions voiced, but for something like their chosen job or hobby, is fucking dumb. Particularly in relation to a politically active person in what is ostensibly a democracy. Everyone matters in a democracy. That is the actual point.
You may as well have said, “Why does anyone give a shit about a janitor?” Well if that janitor has a lot of political influence, good or bad, you should give a shit. What the fuck does it matter if he is a janitor, a twitch streamer, or any other role? If they are talking and people are listening and it is effecting people’s political insights and mindset and vote, it doesn’t matter what they do for work or how they got their audience. It matters that others are listening. And it also matters that he is the object of political ire from his ideological opponents. No matter how dumb any of it is, these things have real tangible effects on our world. You don’t have to pay him any mind or grant his opinions any credence or like him or hate him or feel anything at all about him to acknowledge that he objectively does matter to the political sphere.
A decade ago, people where dismissive of Trump because he was (and is) a fucking caricature of a wealthy womanizing narcissist with a big mouth. “Who gives a shit about some rich real-estate playboy?”, one might have asked. But his big mouth runs and millions of voters eat up every word. Do you think Trump’s bullshit matters now?
What the fuck is Ucla? One of those flyover states?
Edit bc I wasn’t hostile enough: take your papermill degree and shove it up your ass, you obviously didn’t learn anything. Your little CC certificate won’t save you when the revolution comes
Then you should be able to deduce that Americans listening to someone educated on these topics isn’t proof that being smart is not acceptable in America.
Seriously why does anyone give a shit about a twitch streamer?
Because he’s providing real political and moral leadership while the “leadership” internal to the Democratic party are cuckold failures.
Hasan backed candidates have basically wiped the floor throughout both the Democratic primaries and now general elections. As people have recognized the failures of both centrism and bipartisanship, explicitly socialist views expressed through a relatable, non academic, non corporate views have real purchase. Expect them to continue to grow into a household name. You better get comfortable in this new reality.
Hasan isn’t doing anything important he’s literally just a twitch streamer.
He actually agrees with you, he’s just a twitch streamer who does political commentary and occasional activism when it aligns with his ideology. He would happily stay in his lane. But the democrats and republicans have turned him into a big deal and gone out of their way to slander him.
Did he switch to mostly political stuff now? Last I heard he was a “reaction” streamer that mostly stole others content.
He’s been a political commentator even before he became a streamer. He probably still reacts to content on the account that political commentary largely depends on reacting to interviews, news clips, articles etc. I’m sure he probably does non-political reactions, such as the recent H3H3 implosion, but as with political commentary he adds a lot of commentary ontop the content. There was even a viral clip of casuallyexplained calling out Hasan for constantly pausing videos to add his own commentary.
The idea that he mostly stole content from others is one of the multitude of lies his haters have told over the years. He’s a far cry from the react streamers who consume content in its entirety and add only “uh-uh, yeah, right.”
All I’ve seen from him is watching a video and offering nothing but the occasional laugh, then rushing to stop it before any self promotion from the creator can play.
He has something like over 20 000 hours streamed. I’m sure you’re going to run into that as well, but if that’s all you’ve ever seen… I guess you must be the worlds unluckiest viewer to always find him doing just that.
I mean you can literally open his stream right at this very moment, he’s not just sitting there “reacting” like a houseplant. He’s not even watching a video others made.
If you only fuck one sheep…
Weird that you think interviewing, fundraising, and getting out volunteers to doorknock/phonebank for DSA endorsed candidates nationwide isn’t anything important
That’s your opinion mang thats fine. And just like the failure of the Biden administration to do anything to stop a genocide , you can choose to see or not see whatever you like.
Hasan is a political commentator who reads and responds to the news outloud. And they do it in a way which most people under the age of 40 would do it, in a mocking, casual sometimes cynical view. And people can relate to that; they aren’t just reenforcing establishment views.
Here’s what its going to come down to: Hasan picked the winners. The canddiates they endorsed and supported, they made it through their primaries, and after making it through the primaries, they are winning their elections. They are more ideologically similar to Hasan and most of the people here, than you or other centrist/ rightwing politics. But more importantly, they picked winners, and supported them early when early support makes the difference. That makes them a king maker.
Lemmy hates centrists but we’re a better representation of the majority of the voters.
How’s the genocides doing now?
I know Biden supported Ukraine much more and I’m also thinking there was a reason why that cunt Netanyahu wanted Biden gone and Trump in.
I mean no you are not. Centrism has lost every election where its been tried. You don’t represent anyone. Socialism/ Social Democracy is far more popular with voters.
Its your genocide bruh, you own it, so you tell me.
Registered voters are abandoning bOtH pArTiEs, now down to 28% each; independents are up to 44% of voters. That’s gone up like 5% since Biden was in office, mang
Pew research. You better call them and tell them that you disagree so that they can fix it!
Independents are not centrists. That’s not how this works. Its not how any of this works.
It’s worked well when the candidates hasn’t been women because America, the democrats and leftists seem to have a big problem with women in power.
I dislike Harris for many, many reasons and being a woman is not one of them.
That may be true but add people’s disdain for Clinton in there and a pattern emerges.
He’s suing Scott Jennings. That’s pretty important in my book.
He literally canvases and makes appearances at rallies for the candidates he’s supporting. Maybe do more research than none at all next time?
Also you seem to be ignoring the answer to this question you were already given, deliberately i have to imagine. Hasan gets views, gets attention. Views and attention are power, they’re influence. If Hasan has 100k viewers that’s 100k potential votes for a candidate.
What are you not understanding about that? It seems really straightforward that views and influence = power.
I’m not going to spend time researching a twitch streamer dude.
I don’t know who he is.
But if I do know who he is, he’s not very famous.
But if he is famous, he’s not doing anything newsworthy.
But if he is doing something newsworthy, it’s not very important.
But if he is doing something important, I didn’t do any research about him.
Lots of words to put in my mouth.
My first comment was ‘who gives a shit about a twitch streamer’ so obviously I know a bit about him I’ve just never wasted time in my life watch any twitch streamer.
And I’m definitely not going to research them either.
Sorry, I forgot the last line:
And if I didn’t do any research, it’s because i already know I’m right and everyone else is wrong.
He’s more important than you, you’re literally just a Lemmy poster, come on now
I don’t pretend to be anything but so I don’t know what that has to do with anything.
Sue Scott Jennings already maggoty. Shit or get off the pot.
He hasn’t defamed me.
Has that ever stopped you before?
I’ve been trying to figure out this comment for two hours now.
Why the fuck would anyone give a fuck about you? You are literally a bot who works for the Jeffrey Epstein Class to whitewash America’s crimes. You are always doing American Exceptionalism propaganda so your shit ass country can continue killing minorities like you do in my country, Mexico, through the Iron River you fund with your taxes.
You are fucking garbage. Get a fucking life already, you terrorist.
I don’t care about him personally, but the story is about a bad faith news commentator removing the “he said” nesting from a quote to make it sound like he was claiming precisely the viewpoint that he was criticizing. And that shit shouldn’t fly.
Also they’re trying to run that story to smear not only him but also a progressive political candidate currently running a tight race. So yeah we should absolutely be calling it out.
Because they want to believe he is not a piece of shit.
And hope.
And boy, are there bad news about that.
You are a piece of shit for attacking him. The only people you benefit doing that is the Jeffrey Epstein Class. You are garbage.
Ah. Yes. The Hassan way.
Unrelated factoids to question someone’s morals. Then calling names.
It is childish behavior he was exposed for MULTIPLE times.
But keep believing Hassan is not a piece of shit and this is a correct behavior for an adult.
Like I don’t have any particular interest, love or hate for Piker. I haven’t ever watched more than a few clips of him. But he does matter, both as a person and a political influencer. And your question is bullshit elitism. Saying “Why does anyone give a shit about [blank]?” and then filling that blank with any type of person you find frivolous, not for the content of their character or their opinions voiced, but for something like their chosen job or hobby, is fucking dumb. Particularly in relation to a politically active person in what is ostensibly a democracy. Everyone matters in a democracy. That is the actual point.
You may as well have said, “Why does anyone give a shit about a janitor?” Well if that janitor has a lot of political influence, good or bad, you should give a shit. What the fuck does it matter if he is a janitor, a twitch streamer, or any other role? If they are talking and people are listening and it is effecting people’s political insights and mindset and vote, it doesn’t matter what they do for work or how they got their audience. It matters that others are listening. And it also matters that he is the object of political ire from his ideological opponents. No matter how dumb any of it is, these things have real tangible effects on our world. You don’t have to pay him any mind or grant his opinions any credence or like him or hate him or feel anything at all about him to acknowledge that he objectively does matter to the political sphere.
A decade ago, people where dismissive of Trump because he was (and is) a fucking caricature of a wealthy womanizing narcissist with a big mouth. “Who gives a shit about some rich real-estate playboy?”, one might have asked. But his big mouth runs and millions of voters eat up every word. Do you think Trump’s bullshit matters now?
Janitors aren’t typically known for their narcissism like twitch streamers are.
Narcissists fixate on people. The right is full of those, so this happens. Happened with Clinton, AOC, now Piker.
Left too.
They fixated on Clinton, Sanders and Harris.
Because being smart is not acceptable in America.
Piker has a degree in communications and political sci from Rutgers. What do you got?
I have a Masters from UCLA lmao.
What the fuck is Ucla? One of those flyover states?
Edit bc I wasn’t hostile enough: take your papermill degree and shove it up your ass, you obviously didn’t learn anything. Your little CC certificate won’t save you when the revolution comes
Then you should be able to deduce that Americans listening to someone educated on these topics isn’t proof that being smart is not acceptable in America.
It’s more of a broad truism than an attack on Piker per se. The fact is, we have a culture that rewards stupidity.
I agree generally with you, this just isn’t relevant to this particular conversation.
I mean, for a smart guy - Hasan has said some really stupid shit in the past. That’s what gets views though.
I’m sure you’ve never said stupid shit I the past, if that’s the bar you’re setting, right?
Haven’t we all?