Piker is only a grifter if you're of the mind that doing political commentary at all is a grift. I genuinely don't understand where this weird accusation comes from. The guy essentially advocates the hexbear party line: pro China, pro Cuba, pro DPRK, pro Palestine and Palestinian resistance movements, pro Ansar Allah anti-Zionist action, etc. He's one of the primary voices that effectively never goes along with state department narratives, and that's to an audience of baby leftists who have heads full of brain worms. I'm not saying he's perfect or something, but he's about as good as you can get without him joining PSL. Maybe someone can explain to me how his project is a grift.

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 9 points 9 hours ago

If you are wealthy and a socialist, you are a hypocrite. If you are poor and a socialist, you are just jealous. /s

[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 15 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

It's largely fruitless to try and make sense of Hasan slander, it's purely parasocial and personality based, 4 years ago a large cohort of online socdems and crytpo-chuds decided they hated his guts and were smart enough to cloak their critiques in leftist sounding language, unfortunately it fooled alot of leftists online, who were already negatively polarized against the very concept of streaming

Hasan consciously talks at the level of newly minted leftists, which to many of us sounds either obnoxious, simple-minded, or for those of us who take themselves a little too seriously, Liberalish

[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 3 points 11 hours ago

That's the only possibility that makes sense to me really.