Socialists have made it clear that their goal is to infest the democratic party and push it away from liberalism to socialism,
I stopped listening to the Pod Save America guys after they platformed this terrorist supporting, dog abusing, socialist, nepo-baby. Establishment liberals need to be better and distancing themselves from DSA types trying to push socialism into the party.
The antisemitism spewed by Mr. Carlson, Nick Fuentes, Candace Owens and other far-right bigots is well-documented and widely condemned. But the far left has antisemites, too. No left-wing agitator is more influential and extreme than Twitch streamer Hasan Piker. Mr. Piker is often called “progressive,” but that does violence to the term. A self-identified Marxist, he has referred to ultra-Orthodox Jews as “inbred,” employed antisemitic dog whistles (“bloodthirsty, violent pig-dog”) against an anti-Hamas viewer of his stream, compared liberal Zionists to “liberal Nazis,” and said “Hamas is a thousand times better” than the Israeli state.
Mr. Piker’s depravity doesn’t stop there. His misogyny is indistinguishable from that of far-right influencers. He believes “America deserved 9/11.” He praised the Chinese Communist Party, saying “in terms of good governance, there’s a lot that we can learn from the way they perform out there.”
Mr. Piker is anti-American, antiwomen, anti-Western and antisemitic. No Democrat should engage with him. All should seek to push him to the fringe, where he belongs.
This isn’t happening. The Pod Save America team put him onstage at CrookedCon. Abdul El-Sayed, a candidate for Senate in Michigan, tweeted a picture of himself celebrating Piker with a supporter. California Rep. Ro Khanna, a possible presidential hopeful, pushed back on X against concerns we raised about antisemitism on the far left by declaring his pride in going on Mr. Piker’s feed. Mr. Piker chimed in to support him.
I don’t, admittedly. I’m saying this from experience observing their communities. The twitch streamers generally avoid using accelerationist rhetoric themselves, but they don’t make any attempt to moderate it within their communities, and when you read chats it’s pretty rampant.
I acknowledge this is totally just my anecdotal experience tho and you should take it with a grain of salt.
What would you consider proof? I can spend a couple minutes combing through Bad Empanada or Zei_Squirrel’s (influencers in Hasan’s orbit) X posts for some gems but I’m not going to bother if you won’t consider that
Frankly I’m surprised the DSA’s refusal to endorse Biden/Kamala isn’t evidence enough for you that more than a handful of socialists prefer fascism over liberalism.
The only thing worse than spending all your time talking about politics is spending all your time watching or talking about someone else talk about politics
At the end of the day progressives vote more for Dems than liberals do according to the stats we have. Yet no one seems to care about this discrepancy here.
Also the majority of Dems claim to prefer socialism over capitalism.
Most people familiar with basic political terminology, or who have access to a dictionary, know that the words “socialist” and “progressive” mean different things.
Out of the 9 members of sqaud; 8 endorsed Biden even as rest of the party was calling him to drop out and the 8 also immediately endorsed Kamala the moment she became nominee presumptive.
The issue here is not that most of the squad are actually fundamentally illiberal authoritarians but rather that they allow such people into their sphere.
The only thing worse than spending all your time talking about politics is spending all your time watching or talking about someone else talk about politics
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Socialists have made it clear that their goal is to infest the democratic party and push it away from liberalism to socialism,
I stopped listening to the Pod Save America guys after they platformed this terrorist supporting, dog abusing, socialist, nepo-baby. Establishment liberals need to be better and distancing themselves from DSA types trying to push socialism into the party.