Hasan Piker makes good points most Americans don't want to face in NYT op-ed
[quote]Americans inhabit a culture of violence to which we have become habitually desensitized. There’s a connection between our culture of violence and American foreign policy. Over time, our culture of violence has targeted people around the world — anywhere from Cuba to Iraq — people who serve as literal targets for American weapons and bombs, absorbing what I think of as Americans’ excess capacity for violence.
[quote]A foreign policy organized around punishing and killing our supposedly sworn enemies, diplomacy be damned, conveys the terrible message that we can only kill and maim our way to achieving the world we want to live in.
[quote]It suggests that, merely because we designate them as such, American enemies can be marked for death. Whether such rivals pose a legitimate threat, the “fire and fury” of our military and our allies have clearly become the default answer for how we deal with a world whose interests don’t align with our own. Pulling a gun or launching a missile has become part of our national character, a sad reduction of morality to the time it takes for fingers to pull triggers.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | September 17, 2025 5:38 PM
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un-paywalled link, option 2 should work
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | September 16, 2025 3:40 PM
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He’s a grifter like Candace Owens. Next.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | September 16, 2025 4:41 PM
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Meh article. Things most Americans don’t want to face? Uh, we have no choice but to face all this shit on a daily basis whether we want to or not.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | September 16, 2025 5:15 PM
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R2 Leftist grifting is not even a thing ye retard. There's no money on the left, only impossible expectations and endless death threats.
Meanwhile any charisma vaccum with the IQ of Rose Nylund and the attractiveness of Hunchback can make a killing grifting the right - just look at literally any alt right influencer. Or the entire Republican party.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | September 16, 2025 5:47 PM
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Hasan Piker said the US deserved 9-11.
Ok.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | September 17, 2025 5:55 AM
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Yeah, nobody cares, take off your shirt.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | September 17, 2025 10:50 AM
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The try-hard NY Times promoted a vapid influencer who makes incoherent and inflammatory statements, which gain traction from the terminally online.
He suggested Republicans “kill Rick Scott” if they want to fix Medicaid.
While this shit sells to progressive idiots, it feeds into the picture that it’s Democrats, not Republucans, who are the unhinged extremists.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | September 17, 2025 11:17 AM
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Fuck this guy. This dude is a deranged Bernie Bro who supports the Houthis. Screw him.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | September 17, 2025 1:02 PM
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Another "Free Palestine", Mamdani-loving, Democrat-hating, fauxgressive fart sniffer. Of course a huge Berner.
It amazes me what kind of clowns gain such traction.
What I'm saying is, "No."
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | September 17, 2025 5:38 PM
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