“Trump, you had trouble with my name. Now you can just call me senator”
i stood up out of bed to cheer that when i saw it lol, i am loving this guy
His speech last night crushed it! So excited to see him with authority of the office.
Every time I hear him speak I think he has crushed it. This dude is going places.
The only things I have seen from his speeches or debates that I absolutely do not care for and cringe at is his “beta/alpha” usage. I don’t really want a serious person using those words, but I guess it reaches the younger men/boys so whatever I guess…
Not if the oligarchs push harder than the public, and they’ll be pushing hard after these results. Never grow remotely complacent.
If the can kill a prisedent, kidnap head of state, publicly support a pedo, and ignore a continuous genocide of Palestinians, I wouldn’t be surprised if they kill him as soon as he pose a threat. And if it happens most likely they will blame a Palestinian Muslim.
I’m really excited about his guy. He comes off sincere and reasonable while expertly shutting down culture war nonsense. I think he has a promising future in politics.
He appears like someone who knew exactly what he was getting into and had a battleplan before he even spoke the first word.
Very good on policy, and speaking about policy.
Fucking love this man! I’m hoping this is our new Bernie. Congrats!
We need about 200 new Bernies. This is a decent sign, but we have a long ways to go to actually make America great again (as if it ever was).
I like “Make America Great for Everyone” because that would be a first by any measure.
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White Mage Black Mage Red Mage Chrono Mage oh god what am I’m talking about
Yea it would. I would LOVE for this country to be even 5% as cool as it thinks it is.
Actually, I gotta disagree. America is cool as shit. We don’t lack in coolness lol we lack in decency and empathy. Hell American black culture basically defines “coo” in the modern era, and before that Hollywood and Rock n Roll did the same. I would personally amend it to “I would LOVE for this country to be even 5% as great as it thinks it is.” Because my fellow Americans are convinced we’re the greatest society in human history, so 5% of that would be an immense improvement lol.
Also, even though they’ve been co-opted by MAGAts and the right, guns are cool as shit, and we fuckin love guns here.
Eh… You’re right, cool is highly subjective and debatable. There is a lot of great shit here, but we NEED to get rid of all the capitalists that take anything remotely ‘great’ and turn it into a pay to win scheme from hell.
Proud of you Michiganders!
oh Senator my senator
Lots of medical professionals elected last night. People with energy.
This guy should give that brainworm Bobby something to think about. Like resigning.
Fuck that they goimg hopefully impeach and prosecute.
He can have my first born child
Mmph. Yes. It feels so good.
But remember, half of these Democratic victories wouldnt have happened without the support of a California streamer and their dedicated community of donors and volunteers.
I don’t think Piker was that instrumental in how good the Democrat campaigns were this time…
But I do credit him for getting into Republican media talking heads’ heads and living rent-free, to the point that they put out a thirst-trap photo from his IG on the jumbotron at the RNC Trumpapalooza.
I don’t think Piker was that instrumental in how good the Democrat campaigns were this time…
By the time the general came around, the flywheel was already going. But if this is the extend of your understanding or thinking, youʻve missed almost entirely the whole story and point.
The point is that Hasan backed and supported candidates months ago who were willing to break with establishment Democrat ties in a manner which actually got people excited and involved. Without Hasan, there is no Abdul El Sayed. They simply donʻt make it through the primary. And without a candidate on the table as exciting and directly confrontational to establishment democrats, there is no Blue-nami. You donʻt get a Blue-nami when its Stevens or Janet Mills across the board: those kinds of candidates decrease turnout.
I was talking with awareness of the context of the primaries. Stevens was the DNC favourite but she was still evidently an Israel bootlicker and didn’t perform well at the debate. El-Sayed got pre-primary endorsements from UAW and has had strong individual and collective support from labour union members. Not to say Piker didn’t help signal boost the campaign a lot, just to say Senator-elect El-Sayed would have never gotten through the primary without him is not necessarily true, there were many axes of support that converged and primary voters also compared the quality of candidates directly. And El Sayed used the fact that gobs of cash were being lobbed into the race to defeat him to his benefit.
I’m just tempering the argument that Piker is the primary or sole reason why we got the result we did, it’s a whole bunch of factors, a bunch of rural faces got eaten between the ICE raids, more new wars and gas prices, Republicans primaried particularly shitty candidates because they were measured by their fealty to Trump. It’s a bit of No Kings rallies driving people to vote as tangible action against this admin, and finally it’s the Mamdani effect where sewer socialism, left-wing populism that purports to go beyond ideology to focus on making a tangible difference for everyone while enshrining rights for the underprivileged.
Its not even close. This is for a podcast Iʻll be doing later this week:
If we assume a random prior, Chuck Schumer and Democratic establishment support was a net negative in the primary, where-as association with Hasan Piker was a net positive. And not by a little. Association with Hasan in the primary resulted in a 50% better result in regards to winning their primaries than association with Chuck Schumer. Hasan picks also outperformed Schumer picks in the general by a significant margin. Their ability to convert from primary picks, to won races makes Hasan Piker definitionally a king maker. Their primary picks won their elections.
You can have different opinions on the particulars of why it may be this way, but you do not have space to have your own facts on the matter. And the fact of the matter is that Hasans involvement, especially early, in these primaries won candidates their elections.
I mean, I don’t know a ton about Hasan, my fav internet leftist is someone else, but like, would he want you antagonizing and trying to start shit with people in spaces that are generally pretty leftist if they dont give him personally all the credit for Sayed’s election?
That seems like really childish behavior and maybe more importantly, bad praxis.
Fucking miss me. I dont give a shit what you want to project onto someone you donʻt know. I could really give a shit for a disciplining effort from people who in bad faith have been sabotaging any kind of leftward movement in this country for decades.
The people sabotaging leftward movement for decades really aren’t the people you’re talking to right now.
It might be a good idea to step away for a minute- I cannot stress enough that starting inane fights about the electoral importance of hassan piker with people who are also happy to see Sayed win is bad praxis. This does not serve any productive end, it just increases infighting and anger among the people you’re in community with.
Take care.
No it is. Its exactly those people who said that we needed to vote for a genocide instead of demanding that candidate do better who today’s victory is a vindication against. That we need to moderate our positions. That we need to police our tone when it comes to equality for all.
This is a vindication against moderation
It might be a good idea to step away for a minute-
Its not a train station bruddah. No need to announce your departure.
That’s quite a strawman you’ve built there
No one you’re talking to is advocating for genocide or wants moderate democrats, we’re celebrating Sayed’s win. Thats what everyone in this thread is doing.
Literally the entire thread is people being happy Sayed won
I do agree Hasan deserves to be on the long list of people centrist Democrats apologize to, along with Sayed himself and mamdani (what a crazy coincidence, they’re all brown, wonder what that has to do with anything). But starting fights over whether Hasan gave him the election with other people who are happy Sayed won and calling them liberals for not being Hasan fans, even though we’re all here celebrating, is a bleak way to engage with the people around you and makes you look like a psyop trying to sow discord.
What does this mean?
The colloquial name for that is just “bullshit”
They are just trying to plug Hasan Piker and glue him to El-Sayed
El Sayed doesnʻt get through the primary without the support of Hasan and the Hasan-adjacent community. This isnʻt a debate. Its in the permanent record. Hasan builds up good candidates early on when the level of volunteering and donations from a community of that size can make a difference. Those candidates that Hasan supported, by and large, won across the board last night, and have been winning across the board since 2025.
Without Hasan, Michigan gets sleeper fascist Haley Stevens.
Without Hasan, NYC gets Andrew Cuomo instead of the, currently, most popular Mayor in US history.
You donʻt have to agree. But you not agreeing doesnʻt change the truth of it that, in part because corporate and zionist Democrats and Republican tried to make Hasan a boogey man, and then because Hasanʻs candidates WIPED THE FUCKING FLOOR and were INTEGRAL to the most signficiant election (perhaps?) in the past 60 years. Like, pretending Hasan doesnʻt matter doesnʻt change how much Hasan matters: it just makes you look like a increasingly irrelevant apologist for a form of politics the US doesnʻt want anything to do with.
Dog, I watch Hasan everyday and even he says he doesn’t matter. You need to chill
Iʻm not asking Hasanʻs opinion. Iʻm making a statement that I donʻt think can be argued with, which is that in several primary races from 2025-2026, Hasan Pikers early involvement brought visibility, volunteers, and legitimacy to candidates who otherwise would have been boxed out as a result of our existing corporate media landscape. Hasan is engaging with candidates who poll are polling at 1%, and getting them the funding and volunteer base to get them to the 10-20% range where a campaign becomes self sufficient the fly wheel process takes a life of its own.
Hasan has downplayed his influence in the past because if they didnʻt, they would become the target and it could hurt that influence. Its a strategic comment to try and extend the runway they did materially have. Its now undeniable. Hasanʻs name was in the mouth of some of the most powerful peoples mouths in the world the past 3 months. They elevated his profile to this level. And if it had been a shellacking for left wing democrats, that would be the end of it for Hasan. But its the opposite of that. Hasanʻs picks whooped ass.
Conservative Democrats and “moderates” have been bullying the left for decades. Its turn tables now.
… that I don’t think can be argued with…
… lol you live in a bubble and it’s full of your own farts. Stop sniffing your own farts.
Then argue with it. Actually engage.
Do you think El Sayed makes it through the primary without out the support of Hasan and others like them on the left? Assuming Stevens could even win a general, we quite literally would have ended up with a second Fetterman.
Without Hasan, El Sayed doesnʻt leave the primary. McMorrough and Stevens consolidate and Stevens wins. Instead, McMorrough leans into the islamaphobia and lasers in on the Hasan connection and it loses her the election. El Sayed consolidates instead.
Literally, if not for Hasan, that seat stays red or at best is in the hands of an actual ziofascist.
El Sayed doesnʻt get through the primary without the support of Hasan and the Hasan-adjacent community. This isnʻt a debate. Its in the permanent record. Hasan builds up good candidates early on when the level of volunteering and donations from a community of that size can make a difference. Those candidates that Hasan supported, by and large, won across the board last night, and have been winning across the board since 2025.
The exact same thing can be said about MS Now, The Rational National, Democracy Now, Breaking points, etc (basically any left leaning outlet)… so I guess you should thank them as well?
Without Hasan, Michigan gets sleeper fascist Haley Stevens.
Without Hasan, NYC gets Andrew Cuomo instead of the, currently, most popular Mayor in US history.
Amazing that you can see the threads of the multiverse
You donʻt have to agree. But you not agreeing doesnʻt change the truth
It will definitely not changed YOUR mind which is already made without been able to provide a single shred of concrete evidence… but that’s OK, you can believe whatever you want. It just gets sad when you want to apply your religion to the rest
Iʻm watching you losers walk into the dustbins of history, and Iʻm here for it, and its glorious.
Americans prefer the politics of Hasan Piker to those of fascists.
Let me know when Hasan runs for office and is elected
Iʻve had to suffer through James Carville deciding who should and shouldn’t run and how for the past 40 years. You can suffer through Hasan for the next 40.
So you admit he’s a meaningless blowhard like Carville?
Not sure why you think Carville is meaningless, considering theyʻve dictated DNC strategy for the previous two years.
Yea, on stupid pundit coverage which 0.005% of the population even watch when they’re not stuck at the airport or DMV waiting room.
Nope. Never seen, heard or watched that tool except for fools comments and posts like yours.
Seriously last night watching Democracy Now was the very first time I’d ever bothered watching him.
The vast majority of us don’t even know wtf twitch is and give zero fucks about influencers.
Like all worthless centrists, youʻve missed the point.
Hasan, and people like ourselves: Weʻre why Democrats won. We put forward leftwing and socialist candidates across the board, and we won. No one give a fuck that you donʻt know who they are; you not knowing simply means you arenʻt steering ship. You a passenger.
Centrism is a dying cancer; a worthless skintag to be frozen off during an appointment with a dermatologist.
Wow I should be thank some dumb self-important asshole from Lemmy than than people who actually did the work.
Go fuck yourself kid.
Not even close to centrist you silly dumb fuck
Who won this election…
A. The people knocking on doors, organizers, grassroots volunteers and donors, the multiple household-name politicians who campaigned with El-Sayed, the actual 2.5 million people physically in Michigan who showed up to vote for him, El-Sayed himself keeping steadfast to his wildly popular platform…
B. Some random influencer that showed up for a photo-op and his 2 million parasocial parasites who might [generously, if we assume they’re all Americans] make up 0.05% of the voting population of Michigan
This guy has never left his echo chamber and it shows.
Also: “we [who…?] put forth these popular candidates”… My dude El-Sayed wasn’t endorsed by the DSA or any notable radical progressive bloc. The dude ran his campaign with charisma and easy to digest policy against ghoulish opposition. His main building blocks were traditional Michigan cohorts (unions) and the underrepresented Arab/immigrant population of SE Michigan.
The exit polls show basically no change in people shifting their label from conservative to progressive. He just ran a good campaign with wide support. This guy needs to get over himself and touch some grass.
I love these fucking clueless fucking cuckold lib accounts on their crashout. Its FUCKING GLORIOUS!!
Sport, you’re the only one crashing out. Take your influencer worship back to your middle school buddies. You clearly aren’t ready to sit at the grownups table.
You sound legit unhinged.
Jesus Christ get a grip dude. Most folks on Lemmy are Left as heck and are excited for the election results. You’re shitting in the punch bowl at the celebration party.
Really out here completely loosing it while everyone else ITT seems to be celebrating a collective win.
But not crediting your celeb dejour enough makes them lib cucks. Hmm, where have we heard that language before? Super weird.
Anyway, glad you like a streamer and are enjoying your first drink apparently. Cheers to an Al-Sayed victory and all who supported him along the way.
Half? Hell no. You could maybe argue El-Sayed would have lost the primary without his boost, and we should all be grateful Haley Stevens wasn’t the candidate.
The entire Democratic establishment and anyone who questioned them, owes Hasan an apology.
