I think everyone who has been paying attention saw this coming. Now so-called “socialist” Hasan Piker is putting out CNN level liberal propaganda. Even western polling had to admit that Putin enjoyed an approval rating above 80% just prior to the election, but of course when you have demonized Russia to this degree you have to resort to reality denial to explain what you see.
We need to start using the term “red liberal” to describe these “leftist” political streamers and YouTubers who mimick the aesthetics and language of leftism while feeding into imperialist dogma and liberal assumptions about the world. Hasan also continues to deny the Donbass genocide that had been taking place since 2014 before Russia finally intervened, refuses to accept that Russia had legitimate reason to take action to stop NATO eastward expansion, and downplays the Nazi nature of the Kiev regime.
Now after he made fun of all the dumbass chuds who insisted in 2020 that the US election was stolen and made up all kinds of conspiracy theories to try and justify it, Hasan himself engages in the same kind of behavior when it comes to Russian elections. This is the kind of “socialist” who will act like they are not Democrat shills by superficially criticizing Genocide Joe yet continue to advocate that you vote for Democrats as the “lesser evil”.
It is good though that since 2022 all of these sheepdogs for liberal imperialism have been exposing themselves. Now we know where the lines are drawn. Once again Lenin’s words ring true:
“We are marching in a compact group along a precipitous and difficult path, firmly holding each other by the hand. We are surrounded on all sides by enemies, and we have to advance almost constantly under their fire. We have combined, by a freely adopted decision, for the purpose of fighting the enemy, and not of retreating into the neighbouring marsh, the inhabitants of which, from the very outset, have reproached us with having separated ourselves into an exclusive group and with having chosen the path of struggle instead of the path of conciliation. And now some among us begin to cry out: Let us go into the marsh! And when we begin to shame them, they retort: What backward people you are! Are you not ashamed to deny us the liberty to invite you to take a better road! Oh, yes, gentlemen! You are free not only to invite us, but to go yourselves wherever you will, even into the marsh. In fact, we think that the marsh is your proper place, and we are prepared to render you every assistance to get there. Only let go of our hands, don’t clutch at us and don’t besmirch the grand word freedom, for we too are “free” to go where we please, free to fight not only against the marsh, but also against those who are turning towards the marsh!”
By that same logic you could argue we all should have stayed on Reddit and continued to self-censor our opinions.
There are alternative streaming platforms you know…
… like what?
Don’t get me wrong, I do agree there’s plenty to criticize Hasan over, but what’s the alternative streaming platform besides YouTube?
You mean an alternative to Twitch? Because on YouTube at least there are still channels that are being allowed to be “pro-Russian” (or at least what Ukraine supporters would call pro-Russian which most of the time just means still living in reality instead of delusional fantasies).
Of course we don’t know how long that will last so it’s good to start finding alternatives now. For videos there’s platforms like Odysee, and i’m sure similar alternatives for streaming will pop up eventually too if enough people are forced to move away from the mainstream platforms.
YouTube is not that different than twitch, if anything they tend to be much more restrictive, so it’s not really a good alternative. And yeah, I meant live streaming. There are no real alternatives atm besides shit like kick/rumble which are basically infested by nazis.
Well there you go, you mentioned Rumble, that’s an alternative platform. Rokfin is another one that comes to mind. And yes many of these alternatives are infested by nazis because they’ve been kind of forced out of the mainstream platforms, and when that happens to anti-imperialists and communists then we’re likely going to have to move to platforms like that too, even if they do have less moderation and are kind of cess pools filled with all kinds of reactionary low lifes and idiots. It’s either that or be censored/banned by the liberal dominated big tech platforms. Unless leftists create their own platforms like we have done with Lemmy (although by now it’s already sadly been infected with liberals) we’re probably going to end up sharing platforms with people that we despise. It’s just something we have to live with. It’s not like that doesn’t happen on YouTube and Twitch already.
But if these alternative platforms suddenly saw an influx of some really big content creators like Hasan then they could start to change for the better and push the more unsavory types into the background. Content creators who do make the move would bring with them a good chunk of their sizeable audiences