Hasan Piker explains himself
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Last week, we at Today Explained brought you an episode titled The Joe Rogan of the Left. The Joe Rogan of the Left was in quotations. It was mostly about a guy named Hassan Piker, who some say is the Joe Rogan of the Left. But enough about Joe. We made an episode about Hassan because the Democrats are really courting this dude. So Hasan Piker is really the only major prominent leftist on Twitch, at least the only one who talks about politics all day.
What's going on, everybody? I hope everyone's having a fantastic evening, afternoon, pre-noon, no matter where you are.
They want his co-sign. They want his endorsement because he's young and he reaches millions of young people streaming on YouTube, TikTok, and especially Twitch. But last week he was streaming us.
Yeah, I was listening on stream and you guys were like, hey, you should come on the show if you're listening. I was like, oops, caught. You're a listener. Yeah. Oh, yeah, I am. Yeah.
Thank you for listening. Hasan Piker, coming up on the show today.
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I'm Hasan Piker, also known as Hasanabi online. I go by many names, Hasan the Hun on Twitter, Hasan D. Piker on TikTok, but Hasanabi primarily on Twitch. I'm live on Twitch every day from 11 a.m. Pacific time, usually around 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Pacific time, every single day, seven days a week. No matter where I am around the world, I try to hit that same time frame. And yeah, I'm a political commentator. People call me many different things. Radical, sometimes even a terrorism lover. Just, you know, slander to, I think... Designations that I would not see fit for myself, such as activist, organizer, or even journalist, really.
You are doing a lot of stuff and spending an enormous part of your day making yourself available to people on live streams, on social media. What do you think, what's your sense of what people come to you for?
I think a lot of people see me as talk radio that's always on, but with a Zoomer slash millennial focus rather than anything else. It's not that unique. I'm not necessarily reinventing the wheel here. I think it's just like a guy that you can have in the background while you're doing your chores and you stay up to date. Maybe also sharing the feeling of catharsis Or anger that you feel as well that is being channeled from – channeled by the guy that you're getting your news from.
And the guy they're getting their news from has some strong political opinions, beliefs, and he talks about them often but not exclusively. What would you say are your politics? How would you describe them?
I mean, I call myself a leftist, definitely an anti-imperialist. I think I am, I mean, I'm anti-war. I believe that we should not spend so much money on 800 military bases overseas and constantly bombing some of the poorest countries on the planet. And we should instead spend it on infrastructure, jobs programs, and expansion of the welfare state. with the ultimate goal of creating a new way of organizing our economy and our society in general, an evolution from the existing form that is more egalitarian and has more benefits for as many people as possible. Because I think we're the wealthiest country on the planet. We are in the post-abundance universe. And I don't mean that in an Ezra Klein way.
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