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Democrats spent the last year asking where their Joe Rogan was. Hasan Piker is one of the few left-wing figures with the audience they covet — but the party is deeply hostile to the spontaneity and independence that make figures like him appealing.

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[-] mokus 137 points 4 months ago

The party wants a “Joe Rogan of the left” so they can focus on controlling one person to drag millions of people along into whatever fresh hell their billionaire donors are cooking up. Just like the Joe Rogan of the right.

I do not want there to be a Joe Rogan of the left.

[-] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 46 points 4 months ago

The problem is that what they actually want is "Joe Rogan of the middle" and they already have that in the form of basically every single newscaster that isn't a magatard.

[-] grimpy@lemmy.myserv.one 16 points 4 months ago

magaturd, please

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 33 points 4 months ago

Just like the preferred establishment candidates, they want an empty vessel with no political ideology they can fill with money and operate like a puppet to sheepdog for their own purposes.

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[-] Loce@lemmy.world 43 points 4 months ago

The thing is the Democrats today are nowhere near the left, more like right center, while MAGA is far right.

[-] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

I just don't think "Dems" really exist. People left of MAGA just vote for Democrats because it is what they have to choose from. People who want communism or socialism or social programs or just more fallbacks all want them in varying ways. People say "corporate Democrats" which is basically the majority of what the democratic party has represented for the last decade. A lot of people want to reform what the democratic party is because it is the only structure that exists so that's why people want to primary everyone. In the end though that means that a corporate Democrat, and all those other groups are voting to replace the same people, but they don't have the same views/wants. So there is no one person that would be an agreeable spokesperson for all of the various beliefs. Someone who believes the means of production should be owned by the people will never agree with someone who believes the means of production should be own by private entities. So they would be shitting all over each other's "spokesperson" or whatever.

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[-] null@piefed.nullspace.lol 39 points 4 months ago

Pretending Democrats wanted a Hasan Piker is a neat way to spin things.

Democrats never wanted Hasan. They are a liberal party, and Hasan is a staunch anti-liberal. Why pretend like he was ever wanted by them?

[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 29 points 4 months ago

Democrats spent the last year asking where their Joe Rogan was.

I have never once heard anyone say that before reading it here. Rogan is an ill-informed person that uses his significant audience to spread misinformation and modern day mysticism against actual science while at the same time gives a platform to some truly horrible people.

Why on Earth would Democrats want that for themselves?

[-] Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 4 months ago

Maybe we should not want the tankie, dog torturer?

[-] criscodisco@lemmy.world 26 points 4 months ago

Point on your Destiny waifu pillow where Hasan touched you.

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[-] Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

But he exposes people who believe anything they read so easily.

[-] TemplaerDude@sh.itjust.works 21 points 4 months ago

Democrats want a moron?

[-] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 4 months ago

Yeah they already have a Hasan Piker, his name is Hasan Piker

[-] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 19 points 4 months ago
[-] harambe69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 4 months ago

Puppy killers on one side and dog torturers on the other. Canines can't catch a break.

[-] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 8 points 4 months ago

Ah yes, the shady and shitty democratic party is refusing to endorse a shady and shitty person. Missed opportunity. Tho i see why because the democratix party is trying to appeal to centrists while hasan is trying to appeal to more left leaning audiences while people who actually want change and take sacrifices for it dont get a voice. Last time i commented something like this i got downvoted to onlivion cause people refuse to believe hasan is not an actual leftist just a china shill(china being a very much capitalist country).

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[-] INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 8 points 4 months ago

Hasan is uncontrollably brain broken from the roid rage.

[-] anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 4 months ago

You're thinking of actual Joe Rogan

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[-] itistime@infosec.pub 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Piker is an act of a conservative’s idea of a leftest

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