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@DerpFlarp

Former imperialist, 379th EMXS. Free Palestine. Professional reply guy. Bad leftist and tweets RIP.

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DSA Emerge
DSA Emerge@DSAEmerge·
Solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for liberation is at the heart of our socialist movement. We welcome AOC’s new commitment to opposing all military funding to Israel. But given her inconsistencies, we are not confident in her alignment with our anti-Zionist principles.
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upstatetrash
upstatetrash@brokenesttoy·
@DerpFlarp @Reereelmao @Dwilliamss94 @SarahLongwell25 Retard can't even condemn it lmfao... Retards like you get to own everything Trump does since you enabled him... I look forward to bludgeoning leftoids with this point at every turn... Because it's literally just true haha! Failure!
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Sarah Longwell
Sarah Longwell@SarahLongwell25·
One of the funny things about kicking the DSA hornets nest is how much I’ve learned about my own role in formulating the game plan for Kamala’s 24 campaign. Apparently I was in charge! I organized the Cheney event! Dude, there’s hours of tape on this, go back to 2024 and it’s
Sean@demsocsean

My main takeaway from this was the revelation that Sarah has a book coming out on how to defeat MAGA when Kamala lost following her exact game plan (down to campaigning with Liz Cheney). Tim Miller is only Never Trumper who has actually truly thought about what happened in 24.

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Drop Site
Drop Site@DropSiteNews·
“She’s worried that she might not have space in the party. She’s worried that a party that has me in the tent is going to not cater to her – it’s going to cater to us.” — Hasan Piker on anti-Trump Republican strategist Sarah Longwell, who has backed Democratic candidates in recent elections and argued on The Bulwark podcast that Democrats should shun Piker, reacting with outsized alarm to some of his standard progressive foreign policy positions.
gato fumador@KweenInYellow

I just don't think there's a whole lot of appetite among Democratic voters to be nagged and wokescolded by a GOP lobbyist using quotes that she herself admits were taken out of context when they aren't simply 100% true. 🥴

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GenitivisArchive
GenitivisArchive@GenitivisArch·
@GenericName37 @DropSiteNews The left and the right scare America, because you are two opposing forces in a reality that demands compromise. You will lose, in the end. The extremists always do, your victories are only ever temporary, and at the cost of millions of lives, but temporary still.
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Mike Three
Mike Three@mikethree·
@NateSilver538 that’s just what you get when the worldview is more popular than the one you have, more people engaging with it and more diversity, unlike that on the left, which is a hopeless echo chamber of lies and bad ideas cope harder
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Nate Silver
Nate Silver@NateSilver538·
These are the Twitter/X accounts with the most engagement so far in 2026. I suppose I had some intuition for how bad it was, but jeez, this is what you get when the ecosystem is broken.
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Armed Liberal
Armed Liberal@TheArmedLiberal·
@andrewperezdc No, because there’s finally a countervailing position to progressivism in the party.
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Andrew Perez
Andrew Perez@andrewperezdc·
You said Democrats are focused on Piker "because he's making their life harder." The only reason Dems are talking about him is because a centrist think tank is campaigning against him as part of its $30-50M effort to crush the left.
Sarah Longwell@SarahLongwell25

Look, the dumbest thing about all this is that I didn’t and don’t care about Piker. Piker never comes up in focus groups with voters as someone they’re following—the way a Rogan or Tucker or Candance does. I don’t think he’s singularly making an impact on politics in any way commensurate with the attention he’s getting. But I care about Tim. I agreed with @Timodc’s original point that using Piker as a litmus test is dumb. Calling up Jon Ossoff to ask what he thinks about Piker is dumb. It is an unnecessary distraction. But I felt like Tim’s discussion of Piker was too dismissive of some of Pikers more toxic positions. And that was the part I wanted to react to. There’s nothing I can do about the fact that the internet distortion field has overtaken the whole thing. And that people are debating my views in a way that is totally divorced from my actual, very-well documented views. That’s just part of what happens when doing this work. The only thing I can do is keep saying what I actually believe. And what I hear voters saying they believe. But politicians can reach voters who are angry about the Iran war and even about America’s relationship to Israel without going on the stream of a guy who said America deserved 9/11. But, it’s also no doubt true that he’s being elevated by the whole conversation and the right answer to questions about him should probably be “Piker, who?” Because that’s what most voters would say if you asked them.

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bipartisan asymmetry principle
@neeratanden @theinfradev since we know you're so online, i hope you see everyone pointing out your hypocrisy. having blinken on your think tank when he help facilitate this genocide allows you no room to criticize
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Neera Tanden🌻
Neera Tanden🌻@neeratanden·
@theinfradev I think what the people of Gaza endured was a humanitarian nightmare. Take your genocide supporter shit to someone else.
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Sarah Longwell
Sarah Longwell@SarahLongwell25·
@barbarismcrit That’s just how Tim and I fight. We’ve been doing it for decades. Welcome.
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Sarah Longwell
Sarah Longwell@SarahLongwell25·
Look, the dumbest thing about all this is that I didn’t and don’t care about Piker. Piker never comes up in focus groups with voters as someone they’re following—the way a Rogan or Tucker or Candance does. I don’t think he’s singularly making an impact on politics in any way commensurate with the attention he’s getting. But I care about Tim. I agreed with @Timodc’s original point that using Piker as a litmus test is dumb. Calling up Jon Ossoff to ask what he thinks about Piker is dumb. It is an unnecessary distraction. But I felt like Tim’s discussion of Piker was too dismissive of some of Pikers more toxic positions. And that was the part I wanted to react to. There’s nothing I can do about the fact that the internet distortion field has overtaken the whole thing. And that people are debating my views in a way that is totally divorced from my actual, very-well documented views. That’s just part of what happens when doing this work. The only thing I can do is keep saying what I actually believe. And what I hear voters saying they believe. But politicians can reach voters who are angry about the Iran war and even about America’s relationship to Israel without going on the stream of a guy who said America deserved 9/11. But, it’s also no doubt true that he’s being elevated by the whole conversation and the right answer to questions about him should probably be “Piker, who?” Because that’s what most voters would say if you asked them.
Shannon Watts@shannonrwatts

Anyone who listened to this fair, thorough and nuanced discussion on the Bulwark knows that @SarahLongwell25 cares much more about the survival of democracy and the Democratic Party than herself. Listen for yourself instead of taking the bait.

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Reeree
Reeree@Reereelmao·
@DerpFlarp @Dwilliamss94 @SarahLongwell25 No I know it’s insignificant. But this is definitely the predominant sentiment on x from lefties. Normal people in real life that actually cared wouldn’t tell you to sit it out. There’s much at stake.
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Ethan Wolf 🇺🇸
Ethan Wolf 🇺🇸@ethanmwolf·
Hasan Piker is like a locker room cancer. Few actually like him and the negativity he brings is detrimental to the team’s overall success. It might not be good for your bottom line to say it, but if you’re in the business of helping Democrats win, you know it’s true.
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Steve Milloy
Steve Milloy@JunkScience·
We don't need government researchers to study wildfire risk. We need to privatize forests (which, alone, will reduce wildfire risk) and start logging. Create wealth and prevent out-of-control forest fires. nytimes.com/2026/04/03/cli…
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Shaun Maguire
Shaun Maguire@shaunmmaguire·
How did we get to the point Where so many Americans are rooting against America?
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Bushra Shaikh
Bushra Shaikh@Bushra1Shaikh·
FUCK DONALD TRUMP, THE BRAIN DEAD MORON.
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The Bulwark
The Bulwark@BulwarkOnline·
"I could think of 1000 other things I would rather Democrats pick fights about now. Like, why him right now?" "Because he's making their life harder." @Timodc and @SarahLongwell25 spar over one of the biggest questions facing Democrats right now: what to do about Hasan Piker?
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Joe Walsh
Joe Walsh@WalshFreedom·
Nope @Timodc. I’ll continue to do all I can to defeat my former party and defend democracy WITHOUT embracing a bigoted, misogynistic, America-hating, Jew-hating, Communist-loving antisemite like Hasan Piker. Otherwise, I’m no better than Trump. I’ll happily defeat Trump without becoming Trump. Look, @BulwarkOnline, you’re free to push whatever you want, but, sheesh, you’ve lost your way. Or maybe this is your way. Which would be a real shame.
Tim Miller@Timodc

“If people really are arguing that the price of winning is becoming like a bigoted misogynist like Hasan Piker, then I’ll take not winning,” Jonathan Cowan told @Lauren_V_Egan. This seems like a bad message to me given the state of things. thebulwark.com/p/how-big-is-t…

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JuliansRum
JuliansRum@ItsJuliansRum·
“bUt ThEO vOn VoTeD fOr tHeSe pEoPle” Yea exactly that’s why he’s pissed. It’s why we’re all pissed. We thought we voted for America First but we got more of the same bullshit.
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Mike Lawler
Mike Lawler@lawler4ny·
Effie Phillips-Staley standing shoulder to shoulder with an antisemite who praised the 9/11 attacks and glorified Hezbollah and Hamas is utterly disqualifying, and so is the refusal of Cait Conley, Beth Davidson, Peter Chatzky, and all of my Democratic opponents to loudly and publicly rebuke it as well.
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