He somehow seems to think, still, that he can shape the Democrats. "If I thought there was a viable 3rd party do you think I would be voting for them? Fuck no" he says, after scolding someone in his chat, calling them an ultra, for calling him out for his continued connection to the democrats.
But lets think about this for a second...
how the fuck
do you build
a fucking party
do you do it by voting for, another party
do you do it by telling people to vote for another party
or do you do it by building A FUCKING WORKING CLASS PARTY
LIKE FUCKING LENIN SAID
I don't really understand what Hasan thinks these Democrats are supposed to "DO" in this situation. "They're not DOING it!" he yells. What is "IT"? Go against their class interests, defy the fundamental laws of capital and somehow break free of their social relations through pure force of will? His proximity to the Democratic Party is what breeds this weird fucking obsession he has.
"These guys are mad because they talk to ME and not their Pedo sex cult leader, that's why they're mad". What if they didn't talk to you, though? What if tomorrow they just stopped talking to you at all? What if the only reason they talk to you AT ALL is that they know that you have a huge fucking audience, and you are actually effective at moving people to the left? So instead, they give you cookies and treats, they give you access and interviews, they let you into the DNC, they give you access to candidates, like Zoran.
I really do think at this point, that he is being catfished by the Democratic Party. That they understand that he is an effective communicator, and they have somehow convinced him that if he just keeps at it, he can one day kick that football for real.
as i understand it, he engages with the electoral politics because it's where most of the people are with their political consciousness. he also talks positively of PSL and its hundred millionaire benefactor. if his goal is to stand at the entry of socialist politics, then he is indeed somewhat obligated to engage within the context of electoralist politics that the vast majority of lib brained amerikkkans occupy. he can't magically move entryism to the gates of PSL cadres. i am uninterested in defending his project as such, i don't know if his socialist entryist political commentary will ultimately help result in a proletarian revolution, i just don't think he's contradicting himself in the context of an entryist ML agitator when amerikkkan brains are still, in the big '26, "like that."
I don't know that he has ever admitted to being an ML. He quotes Lenin's What Is To Be Done selectively, and I feel deceptively, to support this tactic of entryism which has clearly not born fruit. Democrat support is dropping along side Trump support. It's clear, and has been clear, by his own analysis, for years, that the Dems are not the opposition party. Because of the way the DNC is structured party loyalists and legacy Democrats have outsized power. If there was ever a time to challenge their position now seems like the moment leading into midterms. Not hitching your wagon for another ride, but actually building a working class party. The pressure can't come from within, that's their home turf, they control all the forces in that space. The pressure has to come from outside. They have to be forced to respond to actual political pressure. I don't think he's going to get what he wants out of this. Preserving capitalism is more important then winning elections.
i think it would be fair to describe his average articulated political position to be a non-aligned ML.
but that's what i mean, why do you think the news himbo should be the singular guy to do that? he was in support of a break from the democratic party led by bernie, and bernie is a coward who didn't do it. i don't think it's a fair read or accurate read of his commentary to see him as hitched to the democratic party in a substantive way. are you in a revolutionary org in the u.s., are you familiar with how ignorant and completely unconscious almost every single person here is? he's doing political commentary in a country that is still predominantly obsessed with VOTEing as the end all be all of political action - what would be the benefit of not covering it? again, i'm not without my own criticisms of the guy, i just don't understand what yours actually is. do you think he has a communism button that he's not pressing?
As far as I remember, he mostly he quote-mines Left Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder but is explicitly resistant about "labels" for himself beyond that he's a socialist.
if he claimed a label he'd get drowned in sectarian nonsense instead of just streamer drama nonsense.
i think it makes sense for his position and wouldn't work as well for somebody doing what Cowbee does and vice versa.
I have not verified this, but apparently in an interview with Hasan Minaj, Hasan Piker rejects the label of communist and says he's some sort of ill-defined socialist.
He has said repeatedly "I don't really care of people call me a communist or whatever" which doesn't strongly conflict with what you said.
I actiually agree though cause I personally would not take the label of "communist" unless I were the official member of a party (I am not).
A few days ago he said something to the effect of "I'm even fine with people calling me a communist," i.e. it's not a label that he uses but he doesn't reject it. He might be inconsistent about this, though.
I see messages like this from people who don't have real life experience with Democrats at their events. We absolutely can, must, start crashing their party meetings and gatherings and bullying these dorks into taking our positions. They are weak and spineless and will break with a tiny bit of pressure. We need a Tea Party of the left.
Seriously so face Dems IRL. Some of them are literally cops. Yell at them. It works better than complaining to the void here!
When has he talked directly about PSL?
many times, most recently a few days ago while discussing attempted legislative targeting of neville roy singham, the amerikkkan class traitor that lives in china and funds PSL and its media affiliates like Breakthrough News and Code Pink. he's also pretty enthusiastic about Code Pink in particular when something of theirs goes across his coverage.
The Nuestra América Flotilla that Hasan plans to participate in is organized in part by Code Pink
he's been to numerous of their rallies and even spoken at some
His support is inadequate but he mentions them like every third streams.
He often speaks about PSL and when he was at an LA protest last week, he was like "yeah PSL invited me to speak but I don't think the timing is going to work out cause I need to be there (at the front of the march) in like 15 minutes" (it didn't work out iirc).
He spoke at a big PSL match for Palestine in DC I think last spring