• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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      18 hours ago

      Every single headline about him could be about a progressive candidate.

      That’s why neoliberals and Republicans live him. He takes up valuable real estate in people’s minds so they’re not talking about progressive candidate.

      It’s hard to tell who’s doing it intentionally and who has twitch brainrot.

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        15 hours ago

        He’s a proxy. They can use him no matter what, if a candidate they feared the most drops out or is defeated in primaries or dies or is removed they can just connect the next one to Hassan like he’s kevin bacon.

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          They literally just had Logan and Jake Paul give a speech at the Pentagon, at a time when Trump is posturing like he’s going to escalate the Iran War.

          You may not care about a bunch of Twitch streamers but the fucking Executive Office of the United States does. These are very stupid times.

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        18 hours ago

        He’s literally just some twitch streamer

        Pretty sure algorithms are pushing him to make democrats look stupid

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          17 hours ago

          And Tucker Carlson is just some youtube streamer.

          Joe Rogan is some spotify streamer.

          Your point is a point without a point.

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          18 hours ago

          Many twitch streamers are influencial. That’s why many progressive candidate talked to him and that’s why establishment are going to fox news the media wing of the fascists to trash him. Establishment Democrats makes Democrats stupid

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          14 hours ago

          I don’t know… I will admit the reason he’s fair game and relevant is because he has gone on campaign tours with el sayed and gotten interviews with other DSA candidates. I’d say he’s not relevant to the democrats as a whole, but individuals who bring him to campaign events… are liable in the same way that any republican candidate that invites Kanye or Fuentes is accepting some baggage from them.

          That being said, I’d also point out Pikers baggage is just plain stupidly overblown as well. The guy streams for like 8 hours a day. The main “ammunition” against him, is one statement he made 8 years ago along the lines of “America deserved 9/11”. which he admitted he admitted was more of a misphrasing, and meant it as “america is responsible for the conditions that made 9/11 an inevitability”.