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Who’s Afraid of Hasan Piker? He’s hot. He’s “dangerous.” Young men actually listen to him. Is he what Democrats are looking for?
Slate ^ | 02 08 2025 | Luke Winkie

Posted on 02/19/2025 10:09:40 AM PST by yesthatjallen

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For nearly a decade now, Piker, who streams under the name HasanAbi, has been one of the most famous political commentators in America. If you’re a certain type of mainstream liberal—or a not-very-online moderate or conservative, for that matter—you may not have heard of him. His precise class of celebrity is difficult to describe, but in some respects, he has inherited the role of the agenda-setting television pundit for a generation that ditched the traditional medium long ago, if it ever knew it at all. Piker streams every day, weekends and holidays included. Outside of a few bathroom breaks, he’s typically on-camera, by himself, for eight hours uninterrupted. Tens of thousands, sometimes many more, follow along.

Other channels on Twitch, the Amazon-owned livestreaming platform, tend to focus on Fortnite stunts and other video game feeds. Piker doesn’t play too many video games live. Instead, for the most part, his broadcasts consist of him clicking around the huge number of tabs compressed at the top of his Chrome browser. Piker ping-pongs between them, offering mordant insights on irritating New York Times columns, Elon Musk tweets, and Jesse Watters meltdowns. His style is open-ended and rich with digressions—nothing canned, no artifice—and regardless of what he’s currently roasting, Piker is assertively unscripted. Like many of us, he reacts to the bamboozling deterioration of 21st-century life in real time. Unlike most of us, he does it in front of an enormous audience, every day, with a chronic exasperation perfectly tuned for the moment.

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And a mooselimb youtube influencer shall lead them.

Hassan Piker

1 posted on 02/19/2025 10:09:40 AM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

He is Cenk Uygur’s nephew


2 posted on 02/19/2025 10:11:22 AM PST by paudio (NEW MATH: 45=47)
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To: yesthatjallen
For nearly a decade now, Piker, who streams under the name HasanAbi, has been one of the most famous political commentators in America.

Really? I consider myself politically aware and active and I have never heard of him.

3 posted on 02/19/2025 10:11:38 AM PST by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Who’s going to pimp these leftist invented psyop tools without USAID dollars flowing?


4 posted on 02/19/2025 10:13:30 AM PST by captmar-vell
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To: yesthatjallen

How likely would someone named Tojo win national office in 1950?

We already did a Hussein. I don’t think it worked out that well.


5 posted on 02/19/2025 10:14:08 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: yesthatjallen

Yeah it not the message it how they package it. /s

The Alt Left Democrats still live in denial about what happened in 2024


6 posted on 02/19/2025 10:14:54 AM PST by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
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To: Rummyfan
Really? I consider myself politically aware and active and I have never heard of him.

Ditto.
7 posted on 02/19/2025 10:15:16 AM PST by rockvillem
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To: yesthatjallen; FRiends

Something to keep an eye on, actually. He’ll be an easy sell to the virtue signaling ‘We’re Not Racist’ Socialist Democrats.

0bama 2.0? That NOBODY Commie came out of the woodwork and even took down ‘She Who Shall Not Be Named!’

Piker/Hogg 2028? It could happen.


8 posted on 02/19/2025 10:16:59 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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>> Young men actually listen to him.

prison gangs or cucks?


9 posted on 02/19/2025 10:17:31 AM PST by Gene Eric
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To: captmar-vell

Good one!
Same old “progressive” message, different voice. Can this guy gin up enough bitterness, envy, jealousy, resentment and vengeance to be useful?


10 posted on 02/19/2025 10:19:25 AM PST by griswold3 (Truth Beauty and Goodness)
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To: Rummyfan

“Really? I consider myself politically aware and active and I have never heard of him.”
Ditto, he’s a wannabe attention seeker who knows some reporter at “slate”, another useless garbage dump.


11 posted on 02/19/2025 10:20:00 AM PST by brookwood (If I confuse Tom Cotton and Josh Hawley does that mean I'm racist?)
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To: paudio

He is pretty we known in the v gaming world. He’s famous for being a lying marxist a-hole who constantly defends the woke cancer that has all but destroyed the v game industry.


12 posted on 02/19/2025 10:20:11 AM PST by iamgalt
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To: Rummyfan

Beat me to it. Never heard of the guy.


13 posted on 02/19/2025 10:20:18 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
"Something to keep an eye on, actually"

I agree. They're all dangerous and need to be monitored. We shouldn't be surprised again by someone worming their way behind the scene.

14 posted on 02/19/2025 10:22:15 AM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

Who?


15 posted on 02/19/2025 10:23:06 AM PST by Kevin in California (EP)
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To: Rummyfan

I’m looking for that Fox Sports radio drop of the guy saying “Never heard of him” because I’ve never heard of this guy till this article. You would think during the 2024 campaign when young people were in play that one of the most famous political commentators in America would have been part of it to save things for the Harris campaign.


16 posted on 02/19/2025 10:23:10 AM PST by Dahoser (Liz Cheney needs to work on her soccer skills so she fits in when she transfers to Guantanamo High.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I would thing “Hogg-Piker” would appeal more to what’s left of the democrat base.


17 posted on 02/19/2025 10:24:57 AM PST by happyathome
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To: Kevin in California

Some raghead apparently. Calling ICE.


18 posted on 02/19/2025 10:25:16 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: yesthatjallen
Remember when the whole MSM was saying Michael Avenatti was going to be the big anti-Trump savior of the Democrats?

That turned out in kind of an amusing way.

19 posted on 02/19/2025 10:26:37 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: yesthatjallen

Because they don’t have much else left in their quiver of racial narrative and power-blocs, expect the radical left to double-down on promotion and worship of Islam, to the point where there is a exponential growth of pink-haired lesbians sharing their conversion stories on Tik Tok


20 posted on 02/19/2025 10:27:29 AM PST by PGR88
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