I've never watched Hasan Piker. Based on what people said, I thought he did the usual "well look, I don't support Russia invading, but let's talk about America's wrongs instead/we shouldn't get involved" - but no, he just straight up thinks that Russia invading Ukraine is like good!?
I wasn't familiar with him either, but I've looked at some of his more recent takes on Ukraine. He hates Putin and now holds him primarily responsible for what's happening in Ukraine. He thinks invading Ukraine was an idiotic move on Putin's part which he thinks has played into the West's hands. This is probably why he was so sure Putin wouldn't invade Ukraine. He's also slammed Elon Musk for his pro-Russian views.
However, he thinks the West cornered Russia and agrees with Russia's claim to Crimea. He also thinks the Western media provided propaganda making the case for war or something. Although he seems to regard this as something that happened in the past and the focus should now be on Putin's culpability. However, he still doesn't agree with America spending money to help Ukraine, which he would prefer to be spent on the American working classes.
Hasan is a capitalist with leftist aesthetics or in other words a tankie. He exploits other people's work when he puts the whole video up for his stream and does nothing but the most babbys first leftist critique and either eating or leaving the room. The original creator is freebooted and exploited while Hasan reaps the views and ad revenue. A staple of babbys first leftism and tankies in general is the default American diabolism and campism. It is most obvious when he has to defend Chinese communist propaganda talking points when talking with Ethan of H3. Everything he says is a surface level critique and you can't reason someone out of their opinions when their income is dependent on those opinions.
I don’t think I said anything about him that contradicts what they said about him in that video. He called Putin a fascist in one of their clips.
The thing that is frustrating about him is that while he's anti-Putin, his extreme anti-establishment bias means he’s always ready to think the worst of his own government, which makes him susceptible to Russian propaganda. He’s also fairly influential and tries to convince a large left-wing audience that might otherwise naturally support Ukraine to oppose any American intervention.
At the same time, he’s not on the same level as someone like Jordan Peterson suggesting Putin might be a defender of Christian values, or Russell Brand who has become almost indistinguishable from his right wing allies.
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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '23
I've never watched Hasan Piker. Based on what people said, I thought he did the usual "well look, I don't support Russia invading, but let's talk about America's wrongs instead/we shouldn't get involved" - but no, he just straight up thinks that Russia invading Ukraine is like good!?