Not that I would know, but I’ve heard it feels a lot more like sucking dick than it does having your dick sucked.

Because Congress isn’t already neutered enough…

Bruh save that shit for Byron Noem.

I’m an atheist and I celebrate all kinds of holidays. Because campy traditions are silly and fun.

People are going to do the laziest thing possible. More at 11.

Should probably post advocacy links elsewhere.

What is more, Saudi Arabia has 68 years of reserves at 2024’s production rate. The world will probably have stopped using hydrocarbons long before those run out. So any crude it does not pump today could be money lost forever.

I dont understand this logic. If they don’t pump it, we might not ever use it? And by reserves, I’m assuming they mean unpumped reserves?

a money spinner

I’m sorry. What the fuck is a money spinner?

dork stop.

Ring of Fire is still going isn’t it?

All they talk about is eachother lol

Its insufferable. There is no thing I could possibly care less about than the navel gazing drama internal to a particular social media platform.

Well now it goes brrrrrrn’t

In the megaman II manual, the section where it explains how to enter save codes (its like a matrix where you fill in the bubbles), it had an example code, which gave you all the boss items.

Just like the preferred establishment candidates, they want an empty vessel with no political ideology they can fill with money and operate like a puppet to sheepdog for their own purposes.

Oh that will be fun. Thanks .

He’s certainly a character. I find him somewhat insufferable, at least in mannerisms, but it’s probably because I’m older. Chewing into the microphone, eating on camera, China glazing, arguing with chat. But clearly as media and taste’s have changed, enough people like Hasan enough to build him up as the bugfest leftwing content creator.

But if you want to know where things are going and what people believe, how they get to those beliefs, you gotta at least recognize them as a political agent. And I do like their focus on media analysis (similar to Majority Report in this regard). They aren’t covering the news if the day, they are covering how the news if the day is presented. Same as watching Meidas Touch to get an idea for what that audience is thinking, or Jim Acosta for understanding that crowd, or Don Lemon or Sabby Sabs, or TYT or dropsite or zeteo and on and on. If you want to know what audiences are being exposed to you gotta go to where that exposure is happening and watch and listen.

And in that landscape, well, Hasan is kinda a gorilla. Just, no left of center anyone is putting up numbers like Hasan does; not even by 10x. Outside of billionaire funded astroturfed RW channels, no one else has the numbers.

Like it’s not about if I like Hasan or not, like, if they are to my taste. It’s about whose got the numbers then trying to understand why. And Hasan speaks to a pretty unrepresented coalition of people who are far from rightwing, and also, far from naively supportive of Democrats. And I think it’s because they are willing to be say the quiet parts out loud, like “US deserved 9/11”.

I have no idea who those other streamers are

I think this is a good take from the Sam Seder crew regarding how new media operates:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BACFyzIjehQ

Because of media fragmentation, two things. First, the vast majority of people do not know who Hasan Piker is. It’s a big fragmented media landscape, so most people don’t know who “everyone” else is in the media landscape. If you listen to Meidas Touch or Don Lemon, you probably have no clue who Hassan is.

Second… People get whatever content they are going to get from whichever podcasts or news programs they like, and in general, they like the personality of the people they’ve developed trust in to give them the news or media analysis. People who know who Hassan is, they like him.

It’s a form of positive selection bias. People like who they know and they know who they are because they like them. It’s why they’ve come to know them.

The Hassan derangement syndrome thing is real and it brings no one to the table. It only serves to appease a small group of donors and only hurts the Democrats.