CBS’s Gayle King Floored By DSA Candidate’s Claim She Isn’t Familiar With Hasan Piker: ‘You Don’t Know Who He is?’
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Jesus fuck the caliber of our journalists these days is so fucking embarrassing
Gayle King is just trying to do her job: tying candidates to someone her bosses know how to demonize.
been absolute dogshit for a longtime now tbf
Stellar response. Florida candidate says is focused on Florida. 🙌
I mean he's a leftwing streamer. Not like he wrote the book on Democratic Socialism. 🤷
These headlines are a psychological propaganda that is meant to add doubt to candidates or make people question democratic socialism off petty bs like knowing who a streamer is
I love how the conservative press is trying to make all DSA candidates out to be Piker clones.
In 2024, Harris actually did campaign with Liz Cheney. Should we assume Harris' oinions are identical to Cheney's?
Or even that every political moderate knows Liz Cheney? And she was in Congress. Like, relative to other streamers on the left Piker is a big deal, but he's still just a guy who talks politics online.
Next shocking revelation for Gayle: most people also don't know what the latest drama on Twitter is.
Ok, I'll ask: Who or what is a Hasan Piker? Why is it relevant?
He's a twitch streamer with media training and leftist politics. He's been stepping up with his community to promote progressive challengers to the democratic establishment for the past 7-8 years, really making headway in the last 2-4. He's also Rupert Murdoch's current obsession, so every right leaning network in the English speaking world is obsessed with him right now.
He's a commentator and he's on the left. He has said nice things about China and calls himself a Marxist. He also has a scary foreign name, so he's basically the perfect bogeyman to tie the entire left to.
He's Cenk's nephew and used to work at The Young Turks. I genuinely don't think he's a good dude and I don't think we should be giving a perpetually online streamer influencer any more attention.
First time I saw him was about 5-6 years ago. He was role playing on Nopixel. He now does political stuff.
Thanks, that wasn't helpful
He started out on he Young Turks. He was doing political stuff before No pixel
He was doing political stuff back then, too. He just also used to play video games sometimes.
He tortures his dog with a shock device to enforce compliance without regard for the dogs mental or emotional wellbeing. Pure trash of a human
Just another asshat social media celebrity. I think he tried to seduce kids by playing minecraft or something. Most of them seem to do that.
I'm not a Hasan Piker follower but what the fuck kind of comment is this? "I think I heard he's a pedophile because he played the most popular game ever and also most streamers seem to be pedophiles"
Don't you think that's an accusation that necessitates a source?
Wait, he actually played it? I was just making fun of streamers in general.
Why would I know that?
Idk, you're the one who said it?
Oh, I see. Sorry for assuming any part of your comment was honest, won't happen again
She about to find out
Literally the only thing I know about Hasan Piker is that he pisses off all the worst people in politics. And I am terminally online.
Most people don't. He's a weird and offputting perpetually online guy with shit politics that doesn't treat his dog well and I don't like that some people on the left are trying to push him down everyone's throats. No thanks.
He's also very politically influencial to a non-insignificant demographic whether you like it or not. Feels pretty important to be aware of people like that as a politician.
But this headline is bullshit clickbait. They DO know who he is, they said they don't know him personally.
I genuinely don't think the demographic that watches a weirdo dog zapper 10 hours a day gets out much or is politically or socially active. Most people don't know who Piker is and that's OK. If you don't believe me go to your local place where people are and ask a number of them if they know who he is. Politicians don't have to be in the know about every online streamer or even any of them. That's all Piker is.
Should I reply to this comment or should I save my thoughts for when you move the goalposts again?
I didn't move goalposts and no Reddit snark is necessary. I just don't think his political influence over constantly online children and man children counts for shit and politicians don't need to acknowledge his existence or even their opinions on somebody like him. I suspect that very few of his fan base votes or is politically or socially active offline.
People keep trying to make Hasan relevant to the real world and he just isn't. People outside don't know about him.
You sound like the DNC. Dismissing young voters is how we got Harris.
Sick burn, Redditor. Young voters not being politically active and instead being abscent is in part how we got Harris.
How did this turn from me saying a politician should be aware of people who are talking about politics to their prospective voters to you running out of insults?
You've just been stringing together things that sound related but don't actually go against what I said.
Floored! I can't take it serious past that point.