Shakah Slams

just a guy that loves pro wrestling. Might find me talking about some other things - NYK, Politics, or whatever stands out to me on a particular day.

[WrestlePurists @WrestlePurists]

Darby Allin has no regrets with his AEW World Championship reign, wouldn’t change anything about it:

“I have no regrets with that. I was burning the candle at both ends, but I have no regrets at all because you live by the sword, you die by the sword.

So a short and sweet championship run, that’s my motto in life. You just got to bring it, man. But I honestly have no regrets. I would not change a single thing.”

(@MarkHokeShow)

[Swerve Eliteland @IamAllElite]

Behind the scenes of Jon moxley historic AEW debut 🔥

[Shakah Slams @ShakahSlam]

Word around WWE Town is that Solo is back with the Bloodline?

Every clip that I've seen him during his babyface run has been actually entertaining af... now they need to add that entertainment to Roman for what? Let that man cook and maybe establish other stories?

[Shakah Slams @ShakahSlam]

@BiggySpurs Awwwww, you mad? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[🥇𝙽𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚝𝚢ˣ𝚂𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚗 ᴹᵒⁿᵗᵉ 🚀 @NinetySvn97]

3 IWC conversations that should have expired already:

- “Is AEW competition to WWE”

- “Does AEW make stars?”

- “Dean Ambrose vs Jon Moxley”

[Wiz Fajita @trillary_banks_]

“I don’t care if you’re white, black, green, or purple” -someone who definitely cares that you’re black

[Speedball Mike Bailey @SpeedballBailey]

Do not mention the bad-faith grifters by name if there's even a chance they will profit off it somehow. Save it for the Group Chats, Discords, and Streams.

They only exist because of social media outrage, like some temu babadooks.

[Shakah Slams @ShakahSlam]

@PollTracker2024 Hasan definitely doesn't deliver "Young Men" -- now this is an example of politicians losing touch of reality. Literally read the room on this, the information is literally in front of you. Wow.

[Alice Poole @shesrightshow]

Destiny is good.
Testing something.

[Shakah Slams @ShakahSlam]

@ZachMAnalytics No lol. Stop.

IT was great and peaked that year but absolutely not in the same category.

Let's stop with these ragebait hypotheticals for engagement, okay?

[The okayest poster there is @ok_post_guy]

Love to be a Marxist living in a Los Angeles mansion, photographed in my dad's suit next to a dirt bike I've never ridden, standing over top of the dog I abuse

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

Why do I feel so strongly about Hasan Piker’s rise in the Dem party? I started Moms Demand Action the day after the Sandy Hook School shooting in 2012. Simultaneous to the success of the org I started, I watched right wing extremism rise in opposition.

Alex Jones had been running InfoWars and broadcasting conspiracy theories for years. He had a substantial but relatively niche audience. But that changed after the mass shooting, which he used to promote the false claim that the massacre was a hoax or “false flag” operation.

Clips of Jones lying about Sandy Hook circulated widely, including among people who weren't regular InfoWars viewers. His confrontational style made him go viral. Then, InfoWars began selling supplements and other products alongside Jones's political/conspiracy programming. Free Speech Systems, the company behind InfoWars, generated more than $500 million in revenue from 2012–2022.

By 2016, Jones was one of the most recognizable figures in the broader American right-wing media ecosystem.

Extremists on the left are now following the same virulent, highly profitable model:

Normalize extreme rhetoric by repeating inflammatory claims.

Encourage an “us vs. them” worldview by leading audiences to believe “others” are fundamentally bad, dishonest, or threatening.

Turn outrage into engagement.

Foment anger and mistrust via provocative content.

Mobilize an audience against people they criticize, resulting in harassment and harm.

Spread questionable or misleading information at enormous scale.

I don’t believe we should silence, deplatform, or socially destroy demagogues on either side of the political spectrum. Conversations are not the same as campaigning. But if Democrats can condemn harassment, misinformation, and dehumanizing rhetoric from the right, they should call it out it when it comes from demagogues on their own side, too.

The difference between the left and the right (until now) has been our willingness to think independently and recognize right from wrong, rather than blindly defend our own side. If we embrace Piker, we risk sacrificing our common ground, our credibility, and ultimately the base of our own party.

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

“He talks 10 hours a day. Of course he’s going to say horrific things.”

“The clips are taken out of context.”

“But he has so many supporters and so much reach.”

“It’s just a persona.”

If you wouldn’t make excuses like this for Alex Jones, don’t make them for Hasan Piker...

[Shakah Slams @ShakahSlam]

@HasanabiProd The truth of the matter is: the idea that so many big names on the left continues to prop up Hasan as some sort of freedom fighter, new age kingmaker is exactly why we're going to have a tough time in November. Truly sad.

He's not a good rep for the democratic movement. At all.

[Alyssa Farah Griffin @Alyssafarah]

The Hasan Piker phenomena is best understood as a desperate desire on the Left to find its own Joe Rogan/ Manosphere powerhouse. The problem is, on substance, Piker is much closer to the Nick Fuentes (with a sprinkling of Candace Owens) of the Left than Theo Von or Rogan. The glowing profiles will continue because Hasan has the aesthetic of the old school revolutionary vibe of the Left that inspired movements in the 60s and 70s. But his ideas are comically bad, and as @JonahDispatch rightly pointed out: old and failed.

[Mystic Mac @M05tlyWr35le1ng]

So did Hunter fumble Ricky or is that only something that applies to Tony Khan for not booking a midcarder in the main event?

[Kraut @The_Davos_Man]

The funniest thing about Hasan Piker in the last few days was that he tried to strike conciliatory tones toward the people he spent years harassing, but he had conditioned his audience into being such vicious attack dogs that they wouldn't stop harassing people.

[Devo @Devo662]

This were the days where I started to turn on Punk. This was pre-brawl out, but between the Hangman feud, the Kingston feud, and this, it really felt like Punk was being exposed pretty regularly on the mic, and it seemed to bug him

I thought that was his character, like that’s the role he was playing, but looking back it really feels more now that these guys were just showing that Punk wasn’t head and shoulders above them like the perception was, and I don’t think he liked it

[Lily @onewingedlily]

WAIT A MINUTE

[Shakah Slams @ShakahSlam]

@CeeHawk Exactly - turn off the doc atp, everything you need to know about how his mind works is in that statement smh