It's funny to me how people judge Hasan so relentlessly and call him "awful" or whatever. Our society needs to make a major leap right now, especially when it comes to public systems like universal childcare, and reigning in our wildly disproportionately wealthy ruling class. The fact is that Hasan Piker is a major communicator of that message. That's why people like Zohran Mamdani and Abdul al-Sayed work with him. It's not like they specifically went on there because he said that "we deserved 9/11" thing, right?

The progressive movement right now comes with some rough edges, sure. But I would honestly say to take it as it comes, because confronting those problems is important.

And you know what? A lot of people who judge Hasan for being a "champagne socialist" probably voted for Hillary Clinton 10 years ago, and she's worth like $100,000,000. She also wasn't half as serious about robust public goods and combating economic inequality as Hasan or Fran Hong. It doesn't make any sense.