Mo Tater

Everything Is Potato

[barbarism critic @barbarismcrit]

Per @LaraFriedmanDC it’s actually worse. It essentially *forces* universities to invest in Israel or risk being accused of boycotting which could put them in legal jeopardy. This is a forced allegiance to Israel bill.

[Pastor Ben @BenjaminPDixon]

We say we hate genocide.

You translate into "we hate Jews".

That's a you problem.

[Akilah Hughes @AkilahObviously]

So the last remaining foods will give you cancer. Again, voting for republicans was the stupid choice.

[Brian Tashman @briantashman]

Horrific statements from Hasan Piker today in the New York Times comparing Israeli actions to Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler, and the Holocaust that’ll surely be covered by CNN and condemned by every Democratic leader

Oh wait they’re from Israeli generals and officials

[Mo Tater @mo_tater]

@AngieNixon @BenjaminPDixon @LauraLoomer Donated!

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Serious question to every mainstream news network and newspaper in this country: how can you justify crazy obsessive coverage of Hasan Piker and just totally ignore much worse stuff like this from an actual presidential adviser?

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

So, having repeatedly sworn you wouldn’t engage with me and asked me not to tweet at you, you’re now attacking me and lying about me again. Your dishonesty is brazen, Fred.

Every time you and I ‘engage’ someone calls for me and my family’s deportation but I don’t blame you personally. If I said who was secretly funding you and your side’s attacks on me, you’d accuse me of antisemitism! But you happily push anti-Muslim, anti-Palestinian smears.

You are a truly despicable and dishonest individual. You could just have been a champion of gun safety and the protection of kids after the tragic murder of your beloved daughter but you decided to become an apologist for the massacre of 20,000 Palestinian children who also have grieving parents left behind; you chose to accuse every Muslim opponent of yours online - me, Waj, AES - of being a terrorist and/or antisemite.

You really are living proof of ‘scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds’.

[maddy catgirlprostate @catgirlprostate]

How the hell are you supposed to talk about the two illegal Israeli run bio labs in the US that both had COVID samples without sounding like a psychotic conspiracy brained nazi

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

STOP FLOCK. STOP AI MASS SURVEILLANCE.

Totalitarianism is when a government or another entity with overwhelming power seeks to know, control and influence everything you do, say and even think. I fear very much that if we don't act aggressively, that is where we’re heading.

You may not know it, but you may already be being tracked by artificial intelligence.

Flock, a surveillance company backed by Big Tech oligarchs like Marc Andreessen and Peter Thiel, has installed more than 120,000 AI-powered surveillance cameras across America.

These AI cameras scan and record 20 BILLION vehicles every month across more than 6,000 communities.

What does that mean for you? It means that if Flock is in your community, every time you leave your house, a Flock camera records and tracks you.

If you are dropping your kids off at school, Flock knows.

If you are going to a doctor, Flock knows.

If you are going out on a date, Flock knows.

And that’s not all.

Newer Flock cameras do not just record vehicles. They record people. Flock’s AI system can combine images of you and your vehicle with databases of phone numbers, relatives and court records to find out who you are, where you're going and why.

In my view, this raises some very fundamental questions. Do we want to live in an America where AI companies like Flock can work with the government to track our every movement? Do we want to live in an America where our privacy rights and civil liberties — enshrined in the Constitution — are traded away so that AI oligarchs can collect more information, and increase their profits even more?

The answer must be NO. We cannot allow America to become a surveillance state where a handful of AI oligarchs profit by giving the government the power to track our every movement.

We must come together to stop Flock and AI mass surveillance. That is why I will soon be introducing legislation to do just that.

[Chris Rabb @chrisrabb]

This is what the institutionalists are focusing their efforts on now: Disavowing #HasanPiker.

Not white Christian nationalists? Not the broligarchs? Not the AI overlords?

Nope, the guy encouraging young people to use their collective political power for good.

F*ck that noise.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Hasan Piker has now been condemned by dozens of Democratic senators and members of Congress, which must mean that his comments were so horrifying they would shock anyone with a conscience.

According to these fairly scripted denunciations, Piker said that American Jews “deserve” or “bear responsibility” for rising antisemitism. Here’s how Sen. Cory Booker put it: “Suggesting that Jewish Americans bear responsibility for hatred or violence directed against them is wrong, dangerous, and antisemitic.”

Rep. Jimmy Panetta edited it slightly, saying: “The suggestion that Jewish Americans who publicly support Israel bear responsibility for violence against the broader Jewish community is wrong, reckless, and antisemitic.”

So if Hasan Piker’s remarks were severe enough to warrant this extensive round of condemnation, it should be easy to pick them out. See if you can find his below. (The answer is in the reply.)

“You can’t have the kind of policies the government of Israel is engaged in and not expect that there’s gonna be pushback and backlash. The people that say that people that disagree with the policies of the government of Israel are antisemites are frankly full of shit and they need to be told that.” 1

“Anti-Zionism is rising as a response to what Israel is doing. It will simply not be possible to treat it as a marginal viewpoint that can be shamed or shunned into invisibility. Yes, antisemitism often cloaks itself in anti-Zionism. So don’t do the antisemites’ work for them. If you keep telling people that if they oppose the Jewish state then they must hate the Jewish people, eventually, they will believe you.” 2

“Look, the anti-Zionist Jews in my community, you have a very tough job ahead of you, where you have to go back to your communities and try to get your elderly relatives to understand that this connection between Israel and Zionism that is expressed over and over again through a lot of these Jewish institutions . . . is teaching people the idea that Jews are monolithic. And this is a dangerous…mode of propaganda…If Jews in America keep putting this idea out there that they are singularly invested in Israel, eventually someone’s going to come around and take action. Not against the State of Israel, mind you, but against American Jews…I don’t know how many different ways I can explain this. I don’t know how people don’t recognize how dangerous this predicament is, how dangerous this is for Jews.” 3

“A lot of the actions by [Netanyahu and his] government are making Jews in the United States unsafe.” 4

“Benjamin Netanyahu has made us less safe. He has frankly put Jews in an uncomfortable position across the country.” 5

It is an “obvious fact that Netanyahu is making Jews in America and the world less safe.” 6

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

This is almost word-for-word what Hasan Piker is being denounced for saying.

[Elise Joshi @EliseJoshi]

feel like a broken record but smearing chappell roan, hasan piker, hannah einbinder, the hulk, etc won't change the fact that young people are broke and fed up with our tax dollars funding genocide instead of healthcare and schools.

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

Too many demotivated Democrats stayed home in 2016 and 2024. We can’t repeat past mistakes. In this upcoming election, we need to:

Quit calling @BernieSanders an “antisemite.”

Stop wasting time attacking Hasan Piker instead of Trump’s robber baron corruption.

Don't put Israel hawks out of touch with our voters in charge of our Middle East policy.

It is time for a reckoning: are we a party that represents corporate interests and super PACs, or will we represent the American people?

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

This point about Hasan Piker is exactly right. This joint Dem/GOP/media campaign to vilify and destroy Hasan Piker (including with outright lies) isn't about him as a person.

He's just their most convenient vehicle at the moment to re-establish the long-standing bipartisan rule that going too far with criticisms of the US/Israel relationship (or being too successful with criticisms/activism against Israel) guarantees mainstream personal destruction by being widely branded a bigot, racist and anti-Semite over and over.

(Establishment Dems are most enthusiastic in these Hasan attacks because they have a separate motive: fear that they are losing control of their party to this insurgent anti-Israel and left-populist faction whom Hasan symbolizes, so destroying Hasan (and guaranteeing El-Sayed's loss for good measure) is an added bonus for them: similar to how the UK Labour Party preferred to lose to Boris Johnson in 2019 than win with Jeremy Corbyn, and Blairite Labour factions actually worked to help defeat their own leader).

I've had and voiced countless criticisms of Hasan over the years and he's done the same to me. They don't matter at all because, as @lliveandalive astutely notes here, none of this is really about Hasan himself but about re-equating Israel opposition with anti-Semitism. They've done it to countless other people before him (just look at Thomas Massie). Defending Hasan from the lies being told about him isn't about defending Hasan the person (although where lies are involved, such as the false claims about his most recent comments, he should be defended), but far more important are the broader policy issues at stake.

[Ben Rhodes @brhodes]

Democratic voters are expected to knock on doors donate, make phone calls, vote, and deliver a majority. And then have their views completely ignored.

[Mohammad @MargBarAmerica]

The long term consequences of the failed Iran War are beginning to reveal as we hear about crop yields being down from fertilizer shortages, diesel increasing, etc. but Democrats refuse to campaign on the looming crisis bc they fundamentally support the Iran War. So they decide to talk about a Twitch streamer every day instead.

[jordan @JordanUhl]

A few more tweets from members of Congress condemning a streamer in defense of Israel and then Americans will be able to afford groceries. Keep posting. You're so close.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

aipac boss call was made. they are unanimous in their hatred of me, and i welcome their hatred. if you’re a defender of israel’s genocide, of its occupation, of its child killing spree - then your boos mean nothing to me