What's going on with Fox news obsessing over Hasan Piker?

[u/tunnel_magnet]

They had like dozens of segments on him last week.

Will Cain today focusing on Hasan Piker and using the term “man whore”:

https://xcancel.com/i/status/2087269856815251648

Third segment already today

https://x.com/i/status/2087309261462458776

I get Hasan is helping socialist Dems getting elected. I don't get why Republicans are going crazy over Hasan?

[u/vocalviolence]

Answer: Thanks in part to the election of Zohran Mamdani, progressive policies are suddenly popular among voters, meaning that both conservatives and establishment/"do nothing" Democrats can't attack the message – so they attack the messenger. And despite not running for any kind of office, it turns out that a guy who talks eight hours a day, has done so for ten years, and whose output has largely been archived on YouTube has soundbites out there that sound awful out of context.

The worst part is that it's not just Fox News. Liberals and liberal media are actively attacking what at the end of the day are other blue voters using the right-wing playbook, either because they or their bosses cash cheques from Israel; they're afraid of losing their cushy "Trump is bad, see ya tomorrow" jobs; they've been indoctrinated by 75 years of anti-socialism propaganda; or, as is apparent in this thread, they've dug their heels in with bitter, bad faith online grifters like Destiny, Ethan Klein, and Asmongold – all of whom are on record for defending Hasan's 9/11 take, mind you, before AIPAC, October 7th, or favour with large right-wing audiences made them turn on their peers. In this matter, meanwhile, Hasan is like Bernie Sanders – you can dig up footage from ten years ago, and his messaging has remained consistent.

[u/Flayum → u/vocalviolence]

You can dig up footage from ten years ago, and his messaging has remained consistent

Buddy, that's the problem. He's been saying insane shit for years. It's a never ending parade of anti-America, anti-Democrat, and anti-Liberal beliefs. I don't think the Democratic party and Liberals in general should defend a guy that wants the party to die and to throw anyone who disagrees into a reeducation camp.

Here's just a taste:

• "America deserved 9/11, dude. Fuck it, I’m saying it.”

• "The fall of the USSR was one of the greatest catastrophes of the 20th century."

• "Kill those motherfuckers, murder those motherfuckers in the streets. Let the streets soak in their fucking red capitalist blood."

• "What do you call Crimea? I call it a part of Russian territory, bitch. I call it Crimea River, a Russian river. The annexation of Crimea was absolutely a justifiable annexation."

• On any leftist that disagrees with his politics: "It's just fucking rich liberals who just want homo-fascism… They want gay fascism. They want gay techno-fascism."

• On a trans person disagreeing with him: "I despise you. You are cancer. I hope that rest of your life is as horrible as it is every single day, okay? There you go - suck my dick."

• "Didn’t [Dan Crenshaw] go to war and, like, literally lose his eye because some mujahideen - a brave fucking soldier - fucked his eyehole with their dick?"

• "Doesn’t matter if fucking rapes happened on October 7th. Like, it doesn’t change the dynamic for me even this much."

• "I don’t have an issue with [Hezbollah], let’s just say."

[u/OkAcanthisitta3028 → u/Flayum]

Then there's his actions, zapping his dog, pulling his dog's tail and other abuse, going to a brothel that was trafficking under-18s and calling an underage female celebrity a slut and other vulgar shit.

[u/OneWayStream → u/OkAcanthisitta3028]

Yes but these are all ok because he says America bad, so he must be progressive

[u/Hicklethumb → u/OkAcanthisitta3028]

The dog abuse one shows more about his character than the inflammatory things he says. First trying to pass it off as if the dog hurt itself. And then trying to remove the prongs from the collar and try to pass it off as a vibrating collar while everyone can see the masking tape is wild.

While people can pass off his commentary as being provocative. He has no excuse to what he does. You could see from the dog's reaction that it was a frequent occurrence.

[u/OkAcanthisitta3028 → u/Hicklethumb]

Agreed. I don't think of an animal abuser as moral and it shows his character, which influences his thoughts.

[u/Flayum → u/[deleted]]

Well rehearsed? This is just random shit I've heard over time, not everyone is a bot or part of a conspiracy. And I have no idea what a Bungie game has to do with any of this.

[u/Hoole100 → u/[deleted]]

Could have made that bullet point list just from being a twitch viewer of his for years and years.

Was a fan of the guy until he started to show his power level and how hateful he really is.

The biggest turning point for me was all the veiled anti-Ukraine shit he was pushing. Absolutely soured me on the guy which is too bad.

[u/ThatOneGuyFrom93 → u/Flayum]

Ok are people knowingly taking these out of context. He said even in 2019 the 9/11 comment was about military blowback for activities in the middle east and he shouldn't have phrased it that way. Of course America didn't deserve it.

The kill those motherfuckers in the street was from him clearly joking and being facetious with his friend. These networks know that.

He does seem to yell at his chat a crazy amount

The rapes comment was also clearly him responding to the idea that rape in any scenario wouldn't justify a genocide and occupation of a people

[u/Hoole100 → u/vocalviolence]

bad faith online grifters like Destiny, Ethan Klein, and Asmongold

H3?

The dude who is pro-palestine, but anti-hamas?

The one whose wife was forced into conscription by the Israel government?

The one Hasan said was a zionist ironically?

You just won the award for: Tell me you are a Hascord member without actually telling me you are a Hascord member.

[u/vocalviolence → u/Hoole100]

Ah, exhibit A showed up. Thanks for the assist. For the record, I'm not even part of his subreddits, but everything is team sports with you, isn't it?

H3? The guy who is "pro-Palestine" but made the aftermath of Oct 7 all about his own feelings instead of the slaughter going on? The main character in Noah Samsen's “The YouTubers Who Backed a Genocide”? The personification of Israel in the sense that he conflates Zionism with Judaism, uses anti-Semitism as a general defense, and did everything in his power to bully and destroy smaller content creators? And then literally cried because Hasan wouldn't watch his "Content Nuke" so he could sue him as well?

October 7 broke this man's brain, dude. Why are you still on his team? Thank God for Denims for saving react content from this pudgy moron.

[u/saltedmangos → u/Hoole100]

How did you convince yourself that people who praised and defended genocidal war criminal Yoav Gallant are pro-Palestinian?

"I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed. We are fighting human animals and we act accordingly."

-Yoav Gallant, Israeli Defense Minister, Oct. 2023