The author of the article is a liberal grifter who writes self help books. He also wrote a book called "Canceled: Inside YouTube Cancel Culture" where he complains about cancel culture and defends people like "Jordan Peterson, Sam Harris, Andrew Doyle, JK Rowling and others"

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07VLND4R8

Here's a bunch of other essays he wrote whining about cancel culture
https://therewiredsoul.substack.com/p/cancel-culture-exists-and-so-does
https://therewiredsoul.substack.com/p/cancel-culture-and-the-myth-of-pure
https://therewiredsoul.substack.com/p/my-conspiracy-theory-about-andrew

Here's an essay he wrote in support of NFTs
https://therewiredsoul.substack.com/p/what-nobody-seems-to-understand-about

Here's an essay he wrote in support of means testing student loan forgiveness
https://therewiredsoul.substack.com/p/the-great-debate-over-student-loan

Here's an essay he wrote complaining about "defund the police"
https://therewiredsoul.substack.com/p/the-terrible-branding-of-defund-the

Here's an essay he wrote praising Andrew Yang and blaming workers for getting replaced by automation
https://therewiredsoul.substack.com/p/want-to-keep-your-job-be-better-than

Here's an essay he wrote saying that there's no true definition to socialism. Seriously this guy is a major liberal.
https://therewiredsoul.substack.com/p/how-to-be-a-bad-leftist-progressive

Here's articles he wrote promoting hustle culture, making a youtube channel and "flipping lego sets on ebay"
https://www.businessinsider.com/personal-finance/quiet-quit-make-thousands-side-hustles-2022-9
https://www.businessinsider.com/personal-finance/flipping-legos-ebay-side-hustle-2022-7
https://www.businessinsider.com/side-hustles-make-extra-income-holiday-season-buy-gifts-2021-12

Here's an article he wrote against providing safe injection sites
https://www.newsweek.com/safe-injection-sites-like-new-yorks-are-huge-mistake-opinion-1654525

Here's an article he wrote saying he lost money investing in stocks but he recommend people do it anyway. "you don't lose money if you don't sell"
https://www.businessinsider.com/personal-finance/reasons-not-worried-about-stock-market-drop-2022-5

Here's an article he wrote saying he lost $3000 on crypto and that people should still buy crypto
https://www.businessinsider.com/personal-finance/lost-money-following-bad-investing-advice-youtube-2022-6

I was going to ask how this was a dunk until I started reading it and saw that the author calls out Piker for saying he's not an academic while having a bachelor's degree lmao. I know multiple people with bachelor degrees who aren't academics and don't ever claim to be one, and I know people with bachelor degrees who claim they're academics when they're straight up not lol. fuck, I have a bachelor's degree and I'm just like a pretend academic when no one else is around. Then the whole Peter Singer thing and the fucking Maslow hierarchy of needs , what the fuck. I'm sorry but it's just "I'm a 19 year old college student and I understand how the world really is" vibes lmao. I used to be that college kid.

I do think Hasan probably wouldn't be as famous as he is if he wasn't pretty handsome and the nephew of the Young Turks guy, so yeah I guess nepotism, but I can't take this seriously. It absolutely fucking sucks that people can buy multimillion dollar houses in LA just making money as a streamer while people working actually necessary jobs are struggling to pay rent, and there's undoubtedly things you can criticize him for from the left. I don't get twitch and it does weird me out that (likely young) people think he's some sort of revolutionary just for streaming himself talking or reacting to other videos or whatever. But has he ever claimed to be a Marxist? Or a communist, or anything like that? You can just say you think he sucks without trying to shoehorn your undergrad ethics and sociology terms into it lol.

Suspicious article incoherently trashing one of the few genuine radicalizing pipelines of the western left

You don't write an article like this about Hasan, you write it about the likes of Vaush, Destiny or all the other actual faux-"leftists" out there

One the positive signs going for Hasan is that he naturally earns the ire and hatred of these backbiting LA and Seattle clickbait pseudo-left types, the kind of people who think writing an article about streamers is a worthwhile political exercise, people who are quite obviously poisonous to any real left organizing

I dunno, this is why we can have critical support. I am critical on some of his stances/behavior like being wealthy or engaging in reactionary behavior, but I do support his part in being a better access point to leftism than many other online figures. Do I think he's problematic sometimes? Yes. Do I think he's someone to criticize first? No.

most of his takes good
he regularly talks about nepotism and how he benefited from it
podcasts and youtube channel are cooperatively owned as far as i get it

splitting up the personal finances of one mid level e-celeb isnt going to bring about socialism if you really want to put him on the list of exploitative rich guys hes not going to be very far up
literally every small business owner is worse

Lmao, OP created his account 3 days ago and 2/3 of their posts are about randomly attacking socdems.

Totally not a purist wrecker.

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However this person is under some pretty big misunderstanding about what Marxism is about.

This is such a cop-out that allows wealthy, privileged people like Hasan Piker to get away with whatever he wants. The idea that as long as you’re not exploiting labor, all is well and good is ridiculous. Until people who believe in Marxism recognize this, we’ll never solve any of the problems we see with capitalism.

Somehow they created this strawman that thinks making money is fine as long as you don't exploit people and attributed that as some sort of Marxist basis.

Maybe it is not a strawman and some people actually think like this but the point is using the Marxist label to describe this goes against his whole argument as he keeps repeating this "Marxist morality problem", socialists and communists are more likely to read something like this and instantly look away in horror.

IMO it doesn't take much to correct this, the argument should be that it is not the act of making money itself that is bad, but how this is used to defend someone with other questionable background and character flaws. As they said there is plenty to argue about the morality and utility of 7 figure homes in questionable cities, sports cars.

For me there is a clear and obvious line where you cross between "normal" people and just scumbag capitalist behaviour even if you are not a capitalist. I think things like excessive air travel, owning too many properties/being a landlord, buying and using excessively wasteful products like private jets/yatchs/sports cars etc. These things IMO are clearly harmful to society and the environment and I don't give a shit if you earned your money in a lottery, found a 50 million blank check on the ground, or own a slave factory in South East Asia. The behavior is equally harmful no matter what.

But still the biggest argument in favor of Hasan is that despite everything we are not his audience and if you want to be strictly utilitarian then maybe having such a popular figure is slightly more beneficial than not. I don't consume his content so I'm not invested either way but it is sad this is the best we can do.

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Touch Grass.

This is some :LIB: shit, fuck outta here

Counter point: :hasan-ok-dude: good.

They posted the Make the rich pay photo from 2017, classic

Why is this in the dunk tank