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[–] itsathursday@lemmy.world 82 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] king_comrade@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's like he's wearing nothing at all

[–] P1k1e@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Nothin at all

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Dental plan!

[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 65 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 13 points 1 week ago

Predictable.

[–] dumples@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago

Got to get everyone angry and horny.

[–] Kennystillalive@feddit.org 59 points 1 week ago (3 children)

You may like him or kot. But it's kinda funny how he became the new boogey man for "left" and right wing media in the US. I recently read his name was uswd more often than transgender in august.

https://www.them.us/politics/fox-news-hasan-piker-mentions

[–] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't like him all that much, but the obsession is VERY funny

[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

he's easy to make fun of. he's hyberbolic and hypocritical

and he's 'controversial'. the press can't get enough of building him up into this big figure, when he's anything but, but when they do they weirdly fixate on how 'hunky' he is, which is even more bizarre.

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

This is probably make him more popular

[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

I watched some of his show, he's SO cocky

[–] Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago

No wonder grindr crashed.

[–] greatbigmodernmess@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

“This better not awaken anything in me.” - GOP, probably

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 12 points 1 week ago

Ron Howard- "it did."

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 29 points 1 week ago

That’ll trigger those whose conservatism is a reaction to an aspect of themselves they are repressing

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 29 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I keep hearing this guy's name, but I have no idea who he is, and he has no influence on me, or anyone I know. I don't even know where to go to hear him. Social Media platforms, I guess. I'm not going to bother, I don't care.

I really wish we could stay focused on important issues, and stop letting MAGA decide the conversation. We need to dominate the media with the real issues, and refuse to engage with Trans and Hassan Piker nonsense, or whatever the conservative boogeyman of the day is.

Whenever we are talking about stuff other than Health Care, Data Centers, AI, Flock, the AmerIsraeli War®, Epstein Files, Sociopathic Oligarchs, CORRUPTION, etc., we are losing. Whenever they bring up their favorite nonsense, toss it aside, and shift the subject to anything from their LONG list of crimes.

[–] kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 week ago

Fascists and corporate shills desperately want you to not focus on anything that matters, hence this nonsense.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

He has no influence on you but he does for a ton of terminally online stream viewers who might otherwise become chuds

I'm not telling you to follow him (I sure don't) but the more he's demonized by the right in such a laughable manner, the more young people get exposed to him.

[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

Just enjoy the picture

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

If he had no influence they wouldn't be so obsessed with him. He is platforming dsa and progressives candidates. howwoh I is that not good against the far right facists?

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 1 points 1 week ago

How dare you have a healthy response to this garbage

[–] UniversalBasicJustice@quokk.au -5 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] funkycarrot@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They might be implying that it's nonsense to be having a conversation about whether trans people deserve equity, since they obviously do.

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

Exactly. You're letting the fascists control the discussion when all you do is react to whatever topic they want you to be focused on for the day. That's the nonsense part not the topic of discussion.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's also nonsense to suggest that it's ok to murder 100s of schoolgirls, or that trump didn't sexually abuse children, or that the private healthcare system is somehow better than universal, or that flock is not an invasion of privacy.

And yet for some reason only trans people were singled out as unworthy of protection somehow, even though their lives are currently being destroyed in the US.

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Abortion nonsense, trans nonsense - all the topics the fascists bring up to try and gain support from their bigoted supporters. The items are not nonsense, the fact that they are using them in this way is nonsense.

Abortion is a human right. People who are trans are humans, deserving of full human rights.

The fact that this is even up for debate is........... nonsense

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

love hasan but let's just think about that for a minute. an american political party at a conference which included the attorney general took a private citizens photos and put them on a television broadcast

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago

This is the same RNC that put up a banner saying “WE ARE ALL DOMESTIC TERRORISTS”. They are evil fascists who do not respect law and order.

[–] Heikki2@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For a party that claims to hate the guys. They sure do a lot of gay stuff

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Grindr was down again at the Republican convention.

[–] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago

I've heard of projection but this is way too on the nose. Or maybe it was on the wall. Not sure where they projected the image of him on, but I bet they only needed one hand to hold up the picture in the bathroom!

[–] P1k1e@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Gatdamn Hassan!! Brothers got BEEF!

[–] thagoat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago

Gotta get those conservatives excited. Probably a trigger for the grindr outages.

Conservatives really do love men more than anything.

[–] goodboyjojo@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Right wing people are weirdly obsessed with people on the left

[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

So he’s Hegseths ideal male then

[–] cenariodantesco@lemmy.world -4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

no hate, just a question: isn't this the person that shocked their/them dog on a stream?

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 4 points 1 week ago

No, but Milo threatened his friends to not defend him less they be a target of a harassment campaign.