• Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    Host Hasan Piker exclaims, “And that’s how we tie this neatly back to the QAnon Conspiracy. There you go.” “Which is 100 percent correct,” Belden jokes. “No,” Liz and Hasan say. “It’s 50 percent correct,” says Christman, more seriously. “It’s like, 30, 40... 30 percent,” says Belden.

    Lol not only are they using TrueAnon (a podcast ostensibly about Jeffrey Epstein's pedophile cabal) as the lefty Qanon podcast (instead of the vastly superior and WAY-more-easily-percieved-as-problematic QanonAnonymous) but they also (wrongly) claim Hasan Piker is a co-host?

    Who wrote this dogshit article?

    • evilgiraffemonkey [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Who wrote this dogshit article?

      A guy who's been trying to write red brown alliance pieces for at least four years. A guy who wrote a red brown alliance piece for SPLC that got retracted. And then there's this

    • CarlTheRedditor [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I feel like they're confusing the podcast with one of Hasan's streams. I may be misremembering, but I could swear like spring last year Hasan had all three of them as guests one evening. I could be wrong though.

      • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        A quick google search of "Brace and Liz on hasanabi" brings up a tweet from Mehmet

        https://twitter.com/trueanonpod/status/1278838354742665216?lang=en

        I think you figured it out!

    • hauntingspectre [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      QAA has only over the past year really gone mask off on the socialism, though. Before then, I'd have them down as "generic lefties".

      • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        By "problematic" I meant you could make a better case they are crypto-fash by virtue of them getting caught up in the Q bans, going to Trump rallies, "promoting Q content," etc. but what you say is very true.

        Also the fact Travis and Julian have gone on "reputable" MSM outlets like CNN probably tamp down on any accusations levied against them.

        • hauntingspectre [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Yeah, I've seen some folks try to use the photo of Julian with the Qanon shaman against them, but...they've taken Qanon seriously since the beginning. They've absolutely earned those appearances and reps as experts, and I think you're absolutely correct that they've got too much "mainstream cred" for that article to come for.

          Oh! I just realized, the writer can't come for QAA cuz Will Sommer is buddies with them.