@VigilantFox Funny how the guy who actually grew up under communism never seems to lose this argument. Lived experience matters, right up until it doesn't fit the narrative?
Hasan Piker hits a wall when he tries to tell a man born in the Soviet Union that Americans are just as controlled as people under communism.
Konstantin Kisin shuts down the comparison and lays out the difference.
When he’s done, even Piker admits he’s right.
HASAN PIKER: “A lot of people think, well, as long as I can eat a Big Mac, you know, as long as I can watch TV, as long as I can consume porn [...] then, you know, things are probably fine.”
“It’s a different mechanism of control that makes you think that you are actually an active participant in this.”
Kisin isn’t buying it.
KONSTANTIN KISIN: “The difference between those countries is not that they can’t eat a Big Mac.”
“The difference is that if they criticize the government, in Russia today even, but of course in the Soviet Union previously, you’re going to get killed, right? In America, that’s not what happens, right? In America, you don’t get put in jail.”
HASAN PIKER: “We don’t know yet.”
That’s his whole defense: what MIGHT happen in America.
So Kisin makes it personal.
KONSTANTIN KISIN: “You in China or in the Soviet Union would be killed if you were critical of that regime.”
HASAN PIKER: “I would definitely be jailed, for sure.”
And there it is. Piker makes Kisin’s argument for him.
KONSTANTIN KISIN: “So that’s the difference between these countries and America. It’s not a Big Mac, it’s freedom.”
Only in a free country can you build a career telling people they aren’t free.
CONTEXT: Communist regimes don’t just jail their critics.
Under Stalin, the Soviet secret police executed 681,692 people in two years, by the regime’s own records. That’s more than 900 a day.
Under Mao, the Great Leap Forward killed at least 45 million people in four years, per historian Frank Dikötter.
Under Pol Pot, nearly a quarter of Cambodia’s population was dead within four years.
you’re allowed to be disappointed if your favorite content creator isn’t going to play the newest game releases but you shouldn’t start guilt tripping them to change their mind to play it on stream 😐
Its funny really. The nazi party was founded by a failed artist. A real shitty one to the trained eye. Couldn't handle the criticism and threw a temper tantrum. Acted like a child that resulted a 2nd world war and genocide many lives. That failed artist would be against AI
Do marxists even read their books, im pretty sure making healthcare a human right is against marxist principles because it requires surplus value extraction
Hasan Piker has come to the defense of Geoff after I exposed him for being a communist and a terrorist supporter. Instead of addressing my points he attacks me personally
The man that wants Americans to die is buddies with Geoff that works with Crunchyroll and Kadokawa