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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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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Hogg won’t be old enough to be VP in 2028!

But he’s old enough to run for Congress in 2026! Phooey!


41 posted on 02/19/2025 10:48:46 AM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: yesthatjallen
Obama came out of nowhere.

A lot of people laughed at Jon Ossoff. He became a Georgia Senator.

True. Same with AOC. You have a point.

42 posted on 02/19/2025 10:49:25 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Vermont Lt
We already did a Hussein. I don’t think it worked out that well.

A feckless America-hating muslim POS. Who would have thought Americans would be so stupid as to elect him? Twice!

43 posted on 02/19/2025 10:50:54 AM PST by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Just like “Air America” and Al Franken are “the Rush Limbaugh of the left.”


44 posted on 02/19/2025 10:56:32 AM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: yesthatjallen

Just another modern priest of Baal.


45 posted on 02/19/2025 10:58:21 AM PST by fso301
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To: yesthatjallen
LOL...

Slate refers to this Muslim as "Piker" through the whole article.

Piker - himself - streams as "HasanAbi."

The Hard Left Media camouflages EVERYTHING that might generate criticism or aversion!

46 posted on 02/19/2025 10:59:52 AM PST by zeestephen (Trump Landslide? Kamala lost the election by 230,000 votes, in WI, MI, and PA.)
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To: yesthatjallen

No thanks. I prefer to follow the political direction set for us by AOC, Pelousy, Mad Maxine Waters, chuckle Schumer, and Michael Moore. And Oprah. And CAIR. And anny known enemy agents and traitors. Before listening to some totally unknown kiddo probably streaming his unintelligible leftist garbage from his mama’s basement


47 posted on 02/19/2025 11:03:12 AM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: yesthatjallen

They are a dime a dozen. The reason Limbaugh caught on so quickly is that no one else was saying that stuff. This clown is competing with MSNBC, CNN, CNBC, etc for the same small audience.


48 posted on 02/19/2025 11:04:20 AM PST by AppyPappy (If Hitler were alive today and criticized Trump, would he still be Hitler?)
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To: yesthatjallen

Muslim sounding name. Endorsed by The SLUT. Tells us all we need to know


49 posted on 02/19/2025 11:05:26 AM PST by Impala64ssa (Laiken Riley is my daughter!)
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To: captmar-vell

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

Well, Slate, for one.


50 posted on 02/19/2025 11:06:37 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alteration; The acronym defines the science.)
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To: iamgalt
Re: "...the Woke cancer that has all but destroyed the video game industry..."

I do not follow v-games - at all.

Woke video games?

That is a completely amazing statement!

51 posted on 02/19/2025 11:08:16 AM PST by zeestephen (Trump Landslide? Kamala lost the election by 230,000 votes, in WI, MI, and PA.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Democrats are always looking for a new way to package their lie.


52 posted on 02/19/2025 11:20:55 AM PST by Samurai_Jack (This is not about hypocrisy, this is about hierarchy!)
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To: Rummyfan

Same here. We live in a very fractured society now, communications-wise, and a person can have a huge audience with one demographic while remaining unknown in another. We are coming to live in separate worlds.


53 posted on 02/19/2025 11:22:14 AM PST by EnderWiggin1970
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To: PGR88

2+2 is obviously 22.


54 posted on 02/19/2025 11:23:00 AM PST by pas
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Exactly, and I almost wrote and ‘then who’s going to pimp Slate,’ I mean nobody is actually reading this garbage with any brain cells even the advertisers are only throwing money at them for DNC woke favors.

Of course that then brings up yet another demographic, or democrat graphic take your pick lol.


55 posted on 02/19/2025 11:24:10 AM PST by captmar-vell
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To: yesthatjallen

He’s a Jew-hating scumbag.


56 posted on 02/19/2025 11:27:54 AM PST by montag813
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To: Rummyfan

Yeah?

Well my son tells me Moslims are crawling all over the male game site on the net making converts.

They seem to be paid.

Moslims are not stupid. They see the fraying g of America.

They will wedge whites via white males


57 posted on 02/19/2025 11:35:34 AM PST by Chickensoup
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To: Rummyfan

Yeah?

Well my son tells me Moslims are crawling all over the male game site on the net making converts.

They seem to be paid.

Moslims are not stupid. They see the fraying g of America.

They will wedge whites via white males


58 posted on 02/19/2025 11:35:35 AM PST by Chickensoup
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To: Rummyfan

Yeah?

Well my son tells me Moslims are crawling all over the male game site on the net making converts.

They seem to be paid.

Moslims are not stupid. They see the fraying g of America.

They will wedge whites via white males


59 posted on 02/19/2025 11:35:35 AM PST by Chickensoup
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To: Rummyfan

Yeah?

Well my son tells me Moslims are crawling all over the male game site on the net making converts.

They seem to be paid.

Moslims are not stupid. They see the fraying g of America.

They will wedge whites via white males


60 posted on 02/19/2025 11:35:37 AM PST by Chickensoup
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