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Is this a "no true Scotsman" thing where only poor people with a blue collar work history are worthy of being listened to?
No. It's a "tired of the dropping standards" thing where I'm dissatisfied with the fact that the biggest voice of our political movement is a loud condescending nepo baby who sits in his bedroom playing video games, watching youtube, and reading Reddit posts for a living, and can't realistically claim to have any idea about the lives of the oppressed classes he claims to champion.
I guess you want political and social "activists" to have a pathetic life and can't have fun and do fun activities like playing games. What make you think that he doesn't read interesting book etc to educate himself about certain issues? Your use of personal attacks remove all your credibility.
Is Hasan Piker really the biggest voice on the political left?
Depends on what you define left, but if it's left of the DNC and corporate media than he's one of the biggest no doubt about it.
Maybe Iβm the one thatβs out of the loop, but Iβd consider myself fairly informed and on the left, and I only think Iβve heard him speak once or twice. I donβt watch any streams though, so it could just be that Iβm not part of that community
Hasan's follower gain for November - December alone is roughly the size of the entire Lemmy fediverse MAU, ~60k.
Yep, sounds like Iβm the odd one out then. Although Lemmy is far from my only source of news and information
TBH, I don't know much about him and read the first few paragraphs of his Wikipedia page. It says while born in New Jersey, he grew up in Turkey under Erdogan, then back to the US to study poli sci. Seems like growing up under a democracy sliding back into authoritarianism would be relevant experience. Your description of him as a "nepo baby" seems quite incomplete and makes me wonder if your perception of him is charged by emotion rather than fact.
His uncle is the owner and founder of TYT Media, and he got his start in media at... TYT. He comes from an immensely wealthy and politically connected family. He has chosen to live in Hollywood, an epicenter of capitalism at its worst.
And thanks for your edit, I think I agree that my perception of him is charged by emotion, but in addition to fact.
How about a loud condescending poor who sits in their bedroom playing video games, watching YouTube, reading reddit posts for a living but is super right wing?
Not like there's a litany of journalists, professors and former finance ministers with their work available online to watch or anything
There plenty of them, both in the U.K. and USA.
The ones that spout right wing shit purely for division do my head in the most.
Holy shit what a lib response
I suggest maybe watching the stream, then
I'm basically forced to, daily, thanks for your suggestion tho