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    I for one endorse stealing The Atlantic. Either by bypassing paywalls, or by just running off with a physical copy from a news stand!

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    Corporations: steal tens-of-billions from employees who’re just barely scraping by

    Me/you: shoplifts can of soda/bag of chips which should be priced at $2-3 according to inflation, rather than it’s listed price of $4-7

    Atlantic Magazine: [hand on hip wagging finger in face] “How dare you? There are rules that govern society, young man/lady, this is simply unacceptable.”

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      There is missing an area even biger than wage theft. Tax evasion. When cooperations and rich people steal from the gouvernment.

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      Everyone from .ml, grad and hexbear must be so jealous that he got the coveted title of Extreme Communist before them.

      And then he is not even that extreme, so it’s watering down the title.

      /J

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        How does Hasan Piker get the title communist?
        Has he even ever advocated for a socialist revolution?

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    I blocked everything from the Atlantic a year ago. Deeply unserious, unprofessional, and untrustworthy. They are clearly propaganda for the class that needs to be guillotined.

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      I’ve been convinced the primary purpose of The Atlantic, for at least 15 years, has been to literally craft the mindscape by which rich liberals maintain their wholly undeserved sense of moral and intellectual superiority.

      You could just call it ‘Hoity Toity Tut-Tut Tutorials For Your Next Social Outing’.

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    Atlantic Op-Ed next month:

    Ignore the reports of Israelis using dogs to rape prisoners: Loud Internet Communist Electrocuted His Dog!

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        Haha the “smear campaign”. This guy can do no wrong. It’s a cult. Explain the difference between Hassan fans and Maga? They’re the same. It’s the same.

        Remember: this the guy that said “Crimea, more like cry me a river” and that “Ukraine deserved to be invaded because they speak the same language”. What a sociopathic dumbass. He really is the “Joe Rogan of the left”

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          1. You’re shifting the goalpost because the initial claim about him shocking his dog is not true.
          2. When do you think Crimea will be reunified with Ukraine? It’s a realpolitik reality, not an endorsement.
          3. He’s never been pro Russia in this conflict, but has given the Russian perspective and is very anti nato despite that.

          You don’t care though, you’ve been fed the most controversial clips, usually out of context, shown to get you worked up against a leftist perspective.

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            The dog has been picked apart to death. I don’t care about it. There is mountains of evidence he shocked Kaya.

            He may not be pro Russia, but his takes are so superficial and ignorant. The way he demeans the struggle of Ukrainians is also sociopathic and callous. But again, he’s just a rage bait farmer. He and Joe Rogan are part of the same club. You don’t like that someone is calling him out. Some day you’ll grow out of Hassans dropout frat boy college takes. He’s an imbecile

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          Ukraine deserved to be invaded because they speak the same language”

          This sounds like one of those “filtered through an alternate reality” type accusations and I’d love to see the origin

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              lol really cuz I’ve watched a lot of him saying straight up he doesn’t support Russian invasion of Ukraine he just also has further political analysis that’s not just “Putin is an evil commie that wants to kill every Ukrainian”. I’m not gonna link anything cuz I’m lazy today but you can’t lie to me about that shit dawg.

              sidebar: I used to work in the dog grooming business, the amount of people who keep shockingly (pun intended) poor levels of care of their dogs & think it’s normal aren’t even half the standard Hasan has for that dog. That dog is pampered like old money. I can tell. You can see the health in a dog like that just by looking at it. Ppl keep doodles and huskies un-brushed in their 2nd floor / tiny ass apartments, literal dog shit all over the floor, & then say this rich dude abuses his dog 😂😂

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                Yes, he pivoted on Russia. His takes are still superficial. That’s my point. I don’t care who he supports. He’s just an imbecile and speaks callously about entire people.

                So if I pamper my dog, I can shock him too? What even is this logic?? Yea, rich man can pamper dog. Wow.

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                  I mean, people say he speaks callously and then come at people like me about his dog. lol. There’s a huge difference between shocking and vibrating. You’d be shocked to see how many people have those prong collars on their dogs and they are too tight. That’s straight up abuse. When you talk like that it shows you don’t know anything about these tools, and you also care way too much about Hasan.

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          I don’t see what people see in him tbh. He’s kinda meh as a political commentator for the celebrity status he has. It’s interesting how the left will circle the wagons around him like no other. But collargate did seem signal boosted.

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            He’s accessible, I’m not into his content but I see the appeal. As for the parasociality many people have with him, it’s possible he was the beginning of their radicalization. I don’t know enough about Hasan to engage one way or another.

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            The bar is really low. I mean, Joe Rogan is also an imbecile but he has the biggest podcast in the world

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      No you have that mixed up. He is the anti-zionist leftist in a MAGA body that gets smeared by elite libs and fash (also libs) for his ML political views. Really good propagandist imo

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            I don’t need to cope because I don’t make my living rage baiting and pumping for Jeff Bezos.

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                I work as an independent contractor. But I don’t relish in extreme opulence, frivolous designer brand products, while espousing to speak about socialism for the common man. It doesn’t have to be all or nothing. Yes, we all participate in capitalism. No one compelled Hassan to buy a Porsche, or designer brand clothes. There’s the necessity of participating in capitalism… Then there’s Hassan and extreme opulence and decadence. The fact that you can’t understand this distinction is all I need to know about Hassan followers

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                  As someone who makes less than 20k a year, why do you care so much about someone else’s opulence? Follow up, if you don’t like him, Why do you comment about Hasan in general? Does it really matter that much?

                  I feel the same way about some of my favorite musicians, rappers especially, but at the end of the day it doesn’t do shit for me to pay mind to Trent Reznors paychecks. I like the media that he provides for me, I listen to it for free and that’s that.

                  Same with Hasan. It’s just entertainment. Getting your panties in such a twist over rich YouTubers being libbed up isn’t entertaining to me so I chose to listen to the media I like. Same goes for any lefty podcaster, deprogram, brace Belsen, empanada. They arent revolutionaries, they’re podcasters. Entertainment, media, and I treat them as such.

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    i suspect that this guy doesn’t have the discipline nor the disposition needed to withstand these attacks upon him like others do (ie madeline pendelton) so i fully expect him to crash & burn and then checkout of the social spotlight and retreat w his millions into his hollywood mansion.

    i also sincerely hope that he proves me wrong.