•Punished Gainso ☮️🇵🇸☭•

Damn mouse stole my edibles and now I'm mad as hell

@SeitterSimora @magi_jay @cmichaelbelle How in the world does Ratboy turn Montana blue???

@magi_jay @cmichaelbelle Exactly. Dems have failed at reaching smaller communities in the last 20 years. Now! Peltola is doing a rural town run in Alaska. Pete Buttigieg has Kansas, Montana, Oklahoma teed up Kamala Harris is doing a south state sweep. This is the way.

I don't think that many of the consultants/pundits giving Democrats advice actually went out and canvassed in 2024. One woman told me, in Pittsburgh, "I don't want ANYTHING to do with ANY of it." The 2020 voters who slumped off in 2024 are essentially that woman.

@magi_jay Whoever let you tweet as long as you want should have been shot lmao

Okay, it's time to do an analysis of relative power, here. How does Joe Rogan derive his immense power and how does that differ from Piker? Specifically: thousands of different people appear on Rogan, including comedians, scientists, UFC fighters, conspiracy theorists, and, also, politicians. This means that Rogan works as a political influence vector BECAUSE people show up for MMA, or weed chat, or whatever Jordan Peterson is yammering about, and they get politics as a byproduct. Rogan ALSO has influence in other domains, not just politics. For example, there's been a long-running intra-hunter debate on whether or not he's had a positive/negative influence on the sport. So Rogan draws people in on one topic, then exposes them to a whole lot else, including politics. This gives him influencer-status *across the board*. Now contrast that with Piker. Piker's content is almost exclusively just one thing: talking about politics from a "far-left" perspective. Now, another, related comparison: Rogan is also politically ambiguous to the *general* public. We Democrats might see him as extremely right-wing, but that's not what draws all his listeners in. So, in Rogan's case, we have a macho dude whose reach is *sprawling* precisely b/c he has content diversity AND political ambiguity. In Piker's case, we have a dude ranting CCP propoganda at like-minded people and occasionally electrocuting his dog. That's it. The entire "Should Democrats accept Piker?" discussion assumes that Piker is bringing people IN, what we would call a "reach" asset. That's what Rogan is for MAGA, to some extent. But Piker is NOT a "reach" asset. He is talking to either 1) like-minded people or 2) people who hate him. And he is speaking on ONE topic (politics) from ONE perspective ("leftism."). He keeps the already converted engaged to what's essentially CCP/Russian style "Leftism." When you engage with him, THAT'S who you're engaging with. STOP comparing Hasan Piker to Joe Rogan. When you do this, you 1) OVERESTIMATE Piker's power and 2) MISUNDERSTAND Rogan's own influence. Personally, I think "Democrats must find their Joe Rogan" is a ridiculous rabbit-hole overall. Democrats should stand on their own two feet. They just look weak when they try to be something they're not. That said, if you DO endorse the white whale of the "Democratic Joe Rogan" it's most definitely NOT Hasan Piker. For that, you'd need someone with content diversity AND more ideological fluidity/ambiguity.

@peterawolf BIDEN 2028 LETS GOOOOOO

“Biden has dementia” was always a statement of faith rather than an empirical observation. Clinging to it in 2026 is closer to dementia than anything afflicting Biden.

@FreeBirdonX @souljagoyteller Check them files

@UncleJimmy548 @souljagoyteller Just making things up now I see

The Ayatollah Khamenei had more respect for Western Civilization than you do lmfao

@FreeBirdonX @souljagoyteller The president is likely one of the most prolific rapists in history

@UncleJimmy548 @souljagoyteller Epstein killed himself in jail, your precious Iranian regime legalized rape of children

@Kittycel66 I'm fish?

@girllafraidd Felt like I broke through when I saw that one

I think I have brain damage

@ingasneilevxson @Jonas_Ceika HOI4 is fascist but Vicky is undoubtedly communist.

@Jonas_Ceika VIC 3 and HOI4 have communist focus and cool mods that puts you in charge of basically everything

What are some video games that have vaguely communist/soviet/labor themes? The obvious highlight is Disco Elysium. There's Red Faction which is about a Martian workers' revolt. KGB (AKA Conspiracy) is a point-and-click adventure that might be the first game to be set in the USSR?

@h3rodotus @souljagoyteller @AnalyticaCamil1 My man here has shoved his head so far up his own ass he's pulled himself inside out. Very impressive if it weren't for the fact that my two heroes were Spartacus followed closely by Otzi the Iceman

@souljagoyteller @AnalyticaCamil1 Wow he enjoyed reading Victor Hugo, what an ardent defender of the West! I’m sure he would have fought side by side with Charles Martel at the Battle of Tours!

@FreeBirdonX @souljagoyteller What is there left to save in a civilization run by Epsteinites? Should we even bother ourselves with such thoughts?

@souljagoyteller The Constitution of Iran has as its goal a one world government that forces the whole world to live under Islamic Law. He did not respect Western Civilization, he wanted to destroy it.

@InterviewMag @AdamFriedland First image is up there with the Adam Conover "Erm" shot. I don't know if that's good or bad but it's very bug.

Former Cum Town host @AdamFriedland has reinvented himself as a Dick Cavett-style interviewer, equal parts curious and chaotic. When we asked him who he’d like to speak to for our Spring issue, his only direction was it had to be a talk show legend. So we introduced him to Maury Povich.

@estherzelda0514 How orwellian. War is peace. Genocide for the sake of humanity... Barbaric.

There is a real documented effort by autocratic regimes that all support each other, all using back channels to evade sanctions, to dismantle Western power, especially when it comes to America, by dividing the West. These states have little in common other than an antipathy towards democracy and accountability, and their fervent hatred of America. Every time I see someone post yet another screed about how we have so many reasons to abandon Ukraine or Israel, defund USAID, or pull out of NATO, all I can think is "look at this stupid fuck. He drank the koolaid. They all did. Now they're the willing foot soldiers of China, Iran, Russia, and their cabal of minor criminal kleptocratic satellite states." None of these issues are truly about Israel or Ukraine. They're about keeping people like Putin in power forever, and making sure that anyone that poses a threat to his self-enrichment, or those like him, are silenced or dead, even if that includes the citizens of their own countries, and every living American. These autocracies will use anything they can think of to divide us and convince us that caring about decency and each other is a useless enterprise. They want us disempowered and nihilistic, shrugging our shoulders and saying, "not my problem," as they use UN intelligence to bomb hospitals, as Russia did in Syria. They will spread rumors about our politicians on TikTok, hack emails, and spend billions creating culture wars fueled by paid bots. We are fighting a battle for democracy, for the rule of law, the accountability of governments, and the soul of Western civilization. And we are losing.

@jae_____35 x.com/i/status/20394…

@UncleJimmy548 Yeah? Lmao 🤣 I’m sorry that someone is pointing out your dumb ideology?

has anyone seen the website who is hasan piker dot com yet bc someone put in a lot of time

@jae_____35 x.com/i/status/20394… doesn't care lmao

@UncleJimmy548 I don’t bc I’m not poor.

This new War on Empathy differs from the zen fascism @cushbomb pointed out from the first Trump admin. This chapter of the War is less about enjoying the bounty of empire and more about the coming scarcity at the end of empire and why you'd be a fool to share with your neighbors

@jae_____35 Sounds like you do care about Marx, actually.

@UncleJimmy548 Idc about Marx. I’m a capitalist. When communism can work without bending the knee to capitalism successfully, then I’ll care about what you have to say.

@jae_____35 @OGNAGBONE @honestlygfy I love when anti-communists expose that they know nothing about communism or Marx whatsoever lmao

@OGNAGBONE @honestlygfy Karl Marx was a dumb fuck the same way Hasan is. Both not following their own ideologies. Both coming from wealth, but preaching to you about how the rich need to die. Pretty fuckin retarded if you ask me.

@bdquinn @MattyBeRad Implementing a quarter-assed solution to a problem is right wing

@MattyBeRad Arguing that the Democratic Party is implementing right-wing policies is a pretty standard leftist critique and it's factually nonsense.

Arguing that Republicans would've passed the ACA, ARRA, Dodd-Frank, etc is certainly a thing you can say. One of my main problems with leftists is that they just lie... a lot.

@punishedlex It's on the fascist dogs of the IOF's incompetence that they were surprised by Mario Kart tactics. No one identifies with the flying go carts.

@UncleJimmy548 I thought their universally recognised symbol was this

pro-palis somehow convinced themselves keffiyeh is an arabic liberation symbol or whatever but it's just a popular item in all military fashion and utilitywear. even israelis wear them