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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(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
𝙋𝙞𝙠𝙚𝙧 𝙞𝙨 𝙥𝙧𝙤–𝙋𝙖𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙖𝙣 𝙡𝙞𝙗𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣, 𝙥𝙧𝙤-𝙞𝙢𝙢𝙞𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙩, 𝙥𝙧𝙤-𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙨, 𝙥𝙧𝙤-𝙘𝙝𝙤𝙞𝙘𝙚
Translation: he’s anti Semitic, wants to flood the country with illegals, wants to surgically and chemically mutilate mentally ill people and commit infanticide.
IOW more of the same except he has some testosterone so Slate is creaming over his “rippling muscles”
He's no Harry Sisson.
what a piker.
he can have a podcast, but not many will listen for long.
Would that make him a younger, dumber Turk?
I’d say cucks.
I like to point out to my woke idiot relatives and co-workers that Trump, Gabbard, RFK and Musk were all Democrats. Now Democrats are expected to mindlessly hate them.
Also, I remind them that here in NY State, just 10 years ago, another leftist saint, Andrew Cuomo, gifted Elon Musk with a state-funded $900 million Tesla factory. Crony-capitalism at its finest! Leftists nonetheless rejoiced that smart, central-planning would turn Western NY into a model of environmentalism and green-energy manufacturing.
10 years on, the Left have turned Cuomo into an anti-woman sex-pest, and Musk into a Nazi.
As Orwell pointed out, American leftists always need to be ready to believe that 2+2=5
Think it would be Piker-Hogg give the likely sexual orientation of both sides. Their slogan can be “Squeal like a pig America”
Piker is just another commie traitor.
So famous, no one’s heard of him. 🙄
It WOULD, that’s correct.
Interesting thing to note is that Trump is a populist, Musk is a libertarian, Gabbard and RFK Jr are disgruntled Democrats.
Sounds like a colossal waste of time.
Ditto.
Double ditto.
Vance vs the little piker.
Me, either.
And, after reading that article, I know I’ll never, ever listen to him or run across him. There isn’t much online that sounds less appetizing that when I just read about him.
Cenk Uygur
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Cenk Uygur from en.wikipedia.org
Cenk Kadir Uygur is an American political commentator, media host, and attorney. He is the co-creator of The Young Turks, a progressive and left-wing
A lot of people laughed at Jon Ossoff. He became a Georgia Senator.
Democrats are so desperate...
If you have never heard of Twitch you will not know this guy.
Twitch is Amazon owned streaming service. People stream themselves doing things or saying things. The audience pays them directly for the entertainment, with Twitch/Amazon taking a cut.
It’s mostly a product of Covid stay at home.
He has high viewcount for each stream. 35,000+ on dreary days and much higher for big events. Podcasts are considered bigger money, but Twitch is not small.
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