Feel this is a good accompanying piece for all the folk insisting on caping for a Blackwater merc wth a nazi tattoo because he said something they liked.

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    6 hours ago

    I’m trying to follow the conversation here but I am unsure who Hasan is. The only person I’m aware of that’s famous enough to be recognized by that name is the comedian. Has he become more involved in politics or is it someome else?

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      5 hours ago

      Hasan Piker is basically the left wing joe rogan. He got his start working for family at The Young Turks and pivoted to twitch where he does a mix of playing video games, rebroadcasting other people’s content while he goes to the bathroom, and provide Baby’s First Leftist Thought to a large amount of the internet.

      When he is good (like going outdoors to interview people at protests), he is really good and a force to be reckoned with. When he is bad (sitting in his mansion talking about The Struggle while attacking any leftwing politician who fails his purity tests), he is deeply obnoxious. And he is very blatantly every single tankie you ever rolled your eyes at on reddit and has a bad habit of parroting putin/xi talking points until he realizes his chat is getting angry at him. But, at all times, he is influential.