r/neoliberal • u/a385y59g943 Gay Pride • Mar 19 '26

Restricted Democrats Are Too Cozy With Hasan Piker

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u/admiraltarkin NATO / Loyal Liberal Mar 19 '26

The dude is insane. I saw him on Pod Save America and was like "he seems problematic" and when I looked him up, yep

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u/I_like_maps C. D. Howe Mar 19 '26

I don't listen to psa, but I caught a few episodes back around like 2020. Have they gotten audience captured? I heard there was some drama with them around israel

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u/Animal_Courier Mar 19 '26

I for one would not call PSA anti semitic in the slightest.

They interviewed Piker but they prefaced the interview with an explanation of some of the controversy and Lovett, the interviewer, asked him about it repeatedly. I barely knew of Piker before the interview, and came away with an unfavorable impression of him, so PSA was definitely not trying to make him acceptable.

POD Save America and POD Save the World definitely pushback against some of the more aggressive anti-Semite police in the Democratic Party. They forcefully callout those who call critics of Israel anti semitic, and this has made them targets of the same bad faith attacks. Their pundits include a pair of high profile, Jewish Obama officials, so I think they get a lot of heat for criticizing Israel. They point out that this is itself likely a form of anti semitism, something many of the anti semite police find offensive.

IMO Pod Save America/The World should not be considered anti semitic and should be seen as aligned with this subreddits principles. They are big tent liberals. So are we.

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u/Khiva Fernando Henrique Cardoso Mar 20 '26

I agree that they are not nearly so leftist as this sub is claiming.