Look, Hasan Piker is kinda cringe at times. I certainly dont support his most extreme statements, but that's the thing, his comments are taken out of context and made worse than they actually are. And even worse, he's not antisemitic. Even more so, I watched a video with him responding to this recently and I agree with his point. You do away with him, and youre gonna get ACTUALLY antisemitic people long term who take his place. Like, the whole antisemitism moral panic is just so overdone. Many people caught up in it arent even antisemitic, they just dont support Israel doing a genocide in the middle east. As I've stated many times, there is a difference. But if anything, we are seeing genuinely anti semitic people like Nick Fuentes ride these kinds of waves where actual anti semites take cover behind more honest actors, and if you start knocking out the honest actors and deplatforming them, the ones that will replace them are going to be the bad faih actors.
But that's beside the point. The point is, congress should not be wasting a second condemning some internet streamer. And even then, this streamer isn't that bad. Like again, I'm reminded of the McMorrow/El Sayed situation again. Policy wise, I'd be fine with mcmorrow on paper, but if you're gonna condemn el sayed for wanting to do good things for the American people, that makes me wonder where McMorrow is on those issues. Is she gonna be for good things? Are the democrats gonna be for good things? And that's the problem with democrats that I've had since becoming one. They arent for good things. Their literal ideological worldview is closer to what mine was in 2008ish when I was still a conservative. They're just the moderate wing of conservative at this point. They have the same values as the right, they're just not insane about it.
And on that subject, if we want a resolution condemning anyone, why not Donald Trump, for building concentration camps, deporting people simply for speaking out against Israel (oh wait, you frickers are probably for that), violating the constitution in so many ways, and basically trying to be a dictator? And I'm not even getting into the pedo island thing. Yeah, he was almost certainly involved with that. But no, let's go after some streamer who says controversial things about Israel! Because AIPAC is paying our bills, baby!
It's so ridiculous. This is why i have a visceral hatred of centrist democrats. Not only do they not do anything, but when they do grow a spine and throw down, it's with the more progressive wing of their own party. They HATE us. They hate us more than the republicans. If anything has been shown to me over the past 10 years, it's that. They DESPISE us. They see us as the real enemy, not the republicans. Again, it's a big club, and we ain't in it, as George Carlin would say. And that's why I hate them. You treat me or people like me with such disdain and such dishonestly, can yall see why I'd wanna vote third party or not vote?! Like really, I feel like Im in an abusive relationship with these frickers and I can't leave. I mean, under normal circumstances, I WOULD walk out the door, take my pride with me, and let them fail. But....Donald Trump really is a fascist and we really do need to band together in the short term to stop him and the republicans. So I'm stuck, I guess.
Still, this is why Trump won in 2016 and 2024. And this is why, even with Trump's approval in the toilet, democrats dont have strong approval themselves and people call the party "lost." because we've been watching this for a decade, and these people dont wanna learn, they dont wanna improve. They just keep forcing this caustic brand of politics that the vast majority of the country hates on us, and when they are incumbents, they lose elections to republicans. Because people are thinking "well this sucks, let's try the other party again." And then they vote for republicans, the leopards eat their faces, they come crawling back to the democrats, and the cycle continues.
Even worse, this brand of sheerly incompetent and unlikable democrats are likely driving people TO the maga coalition. I mean, we really have to wonder what drove us to this point, and why are people so willing to give MAGA a chance, no matter how bad they are. Well, it's because these people are the competition. And the American people HATE them. For good reason too. It's like they try to be the most insufferable, unlikable people ever. No one likes you, centrist democrats, NO ONE LIKES YOU, except that weird 20% of the country that has politics similar to 2008 me. And keep in mind, that worldview was so unstable and full of contradictions I eventually had an existential crisis and became a real progressive.
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