Mehdi will pearl clutch about being called a terrorist after endorsing Islamic terrorism...
And then call anyone who's slightly uncomfortable with protests a day after a mass-killing event a "de-facto supporter of murderers".
Can't make this shit up. Mehdi Hasan is an Islamist masquerading as a leftist. He is on record stating that gay people are "degenerates".
@Arilyn_Moon_@hasanthehun Yeah so you're brainwashed. No point in continuing this when you're defending calling the police on an ex because they won't talk to you lmao
I don't have to go that far back.
From 2018 and 2020: https://t.co/7tGg5fWZzA
Bragging about showing people's nudes to his friends and calling a wellness check in on his ex-girlfriend who dumped him for being controlling isn't "growth".
Post-COVID, he also said that sexual assault was better if it happened to rich people! https://t.co/2eLQDdH2eM
The paper trail is there. You are choosing not to follow it. Hasan Piker hates women.
No, but I do think you're running defense for a person who implicitly admitted in a blog post to being a predator because he likely shares some political opinions with you.
I also think it's emblematic of the way people massively lower their moral standards for public figures that are effective in amplifying their perspectives. That's exactly when you should RAISE them.
It's objectively true that, if Al Qaeda had the military might, influence, and funding of the United States, the United States would still be worse? Because that's what pound for pound means.
If you hold that position, it's because you do not see LGBTQ+ people or women (among the other groups Al Qaeda would brutalize en masse) as human beings.
@Arilyn_Moon_@hasanthehun So it's an "edgelord tweet" when there are women who could've been assaulted as a direct result of his prescriptions?
Just say you hate women.
There is legitimately nothing Hasan Piker loves to use to boost his career more than:
a) innocent people in the Middle East dying
and
b) a falsified moral highground that degrades American patriotism.
Good thing he said the quiet part out loud and made himself politically radioactive. Liberalism wins the day!
AI is making 4 year degrees that were ALREADY IRRELEVANT, irrelevant. The only people who think AI will replace college degrees en masse are people who have either experienced higher-ed or never worked a job that required actual expertise.
Expertise requires HARD SKILLS: AI can only replicate SOFT SKILLS, and even then anyone with expertise can tell the difference. AI can write a Basket Weaving essay, but it cannot, functionally or legally, be your doctor or lawyer or fiduciary.
Additionally, it's AI replacing the work, not the human. Studies have regularly shown that AI actively makes nearly all of your cognitive processes weaker (aka makes you dumber). So yeah, you have a robot doing your administrative job, which is fine if you take zero pride or pleasure out of your own strengths and abilities. But in the meantime, you actively get stupider.
I don't think you realize how sad the life you are pitching is. No skills, no usefulness, no ambition, just paying an AI to do your job for you.
And not even a consideration of the fact that they have no need to pay a random person with no education to work the AI when they can just automate the process and eliminate jobs/save money. You will never be chosen over someone WITH A DEGREE that knows how to use AI, because they are definitionally more capable.
If your goal is to do nothing and make 50k a year at a mind-burningly boring data entry job while dulling your brain with a sizeable risk of becoming homeless due to economic redundancies, AI is a good bet for you.
Most people have higher goals.
"Anti-college" in the context of this post is "Let's cheer on the failure of a university that we know nothing about purely because we have a visceral distaste for higher education". That is not a rational position.
If you agree with that sentiment, your position isn't based in empiricism or data, it's based on emotion.
Higher education is the single greatest economic equalizer that has ever existed in society for non-Elites. This isn't an opinion, it is a fact with nearly a century of hard data to back up.
As follows, if you are anti-higher education, you are serving as the mechanism through which elitism, and the Elite Class, flourishes and keeps the lower classes down. So just keep that in mind next time you call yourself "anti-college".
Anti-college is pro-serfdom, plain and simple. There's room for reform, but you're just cheering on the failure of a college you don't even know the name of purely because it's a college. That's irrational.
Insane projection. Mehdi Hasan is doing the internet version of "Why should we care about Hitler when FDR is having phone calls with Stalin?!"
Unlike your ilk, no liberal feels the need to defend Laura Loomer because no liberal supports, agrees, or identifies with her. She is a fascist ghoul and is only involved in this conversation because Mehdi is throwing anything at the wall to deflect from the fact that he, among other things:
-Downplayed the Charlie Hebdo massacre
-Called gay people "sexual deviants"
-Called atheists "cattle"
-Published a (plagiarzied) article openly defending child abuse in parenting
-Openly argued against a woman's right to choose what to do with her body.
All at the ripe age of 35, long after any "developing brain" excuse holds any water. And then you fell for it.
The fact that you feel the need to rabidly defend someone who, after all of that, implicitly induces harrassment campaigns against the parents of school shooting victims tells me you agree with all of the positions stated above. So.... Yikes.
Thomas Massie claimed that Assad never used chemical weapons on the people of Syria.
He has not done a single meaningful thing to actually advance any of the policy points listed above besides the Epstein Transparency Act, which was quite literally the easiest piece of legislation to pass in the last 50 years because voting against it meant you were supporting Jeffrey Epstein.
He is betting that you are dumb enough to think he cares about you OR America because he managed to 'write' his name on a single piece of legislation that was universally supported and guaranteed to pass. I put write in quotes because i'm not even convinced Massie is literate.
He is a Russian asset; a conservative mirror of Jill Stein. And his 'career' is a joke. Just look at his ideological cabal, filled with the dumbest rejects in the history of modern politics.
@Polymarket The Trump Administration is "defeating obesity" by starving American citizens through price-gouged groceries.
We have a Third World Government.
Andrew Yang's once-laughed at UBI proposition is slowly going to become the route to future economic prosperity.
AI is coming whether we like it or not. If our goal is the highest possible Felicity Calculus (see Bentham) then this is quite literally a no-brainer.
We need to outlaw AI-based economic redundancies that don't go hand in hand with a payout to some equivalent of a distributive welfare fund. If Starbucks is going to replace their baristas with kiosks, 50% of their saved cost basis on each employee should go DIRECTLY to American citizens.
When do we get the plan though, Andrew? The longer that establishment gatekeepers like yourself keep making populist tweets instead of working to enact actual policy, the less of a chance we have to keep the Corporatist genie in the bottle.
We support you Shannon!! And even those of us who may disagree with you sometimes would never use that as an excuse to harrass, demean, insult, or belittle you.
THAT is the line that separates liberal thinking from fascist thinking.
The people who are sending you this stuff are modern-day Brownshirts. Truly despicable.