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Hasan Piker is at it again, and this time he’s calling the killing of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson something people can “understand,” using a made-up term he calls “social murder.”
What in the hell?
I know some people will brush him off as just a loudmouth punk. But this isn’t nothing. This kind of talk has a way of creeping in and sticking around.
And of course, Hasan Piker, professional outrage merchant, gets handed a megaphone by the New York Times. No surprise there.
In a new NYT interview, Hasan Piker says that many “understand” Luigi Mangione killing United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson because Thompson himself was guilty of “social murder” pic.twitter.com/4f9bPdsxU5
— Pirate Wires (@PirateWires) April 22, 2026
Criticizing the healthcare system doesn’t make you a socialist or a Marxist. A lot of people think it’s broken. That still doesn’t give anyone a pass to pick up a gun and shoot someone.
Calling this “social murder” is dangerous. And Hasan Piker knows exactly what he’s doing.
And no, Hasan, no one “understands” this murder. What we understand is that a disturbed young man chose to commit a heinous act. And when you, Hasan, keep talking like this to a massive audience, don’t act like it doesn’t land somewhere.
We’ve seen this before, the changing of language to soften things up. Change the wording, and suddenly the whole thing feels different. Illegal becomes undocumented. Riots become mostly peaceful. Sex becomes gender. Abortion becomes reproductive healthcare. Crime gets turned into a symptom.
Hasan thinks he’s being cute by trying the same thing here. I wonder how long it took him to draft it out on a whiteboard – social murder.
Using that term obviously lessens the cruelty and finality of what happened, an actual crime that we all watched on video. A cold-blooded murder.
I keep coming back to this. What came first? Hasan’s “social murder” take, or all the young people fawning over Luigi Mangione?
Because for someone trying to sound clever, this feels a lot more like following than leading.
Which tells you he doesn’t have to come up with the idea. He just has to push it further.
And then you’ve got this little ankle biter, Leeja Miller, a YouTube lawyer lady with a running grudge against Ronald Reagan.
Which, by the way, she wasn’t even around for when he was president.
And she likes to read fast off a teleprompter, because apparently that’s supposed to make it sound smarter.
Now, to be fair, she does make one point that’s worth paying attention to.
She admits he’s abrasive, off-putting, and says things he probably shouldn’t. No kidding. But she also points out that he’s reaching young men in a way most of the left hasn’t figured out how to do.
And she’s not wrong about that. And that’s the dangerous part. Influential.
“Social murder” isn’t just an outrageous phrase. It’s doing a job. It shifts the blame from the murderer and onto something else. The person who did it stops being the focus, and suddently it sounds justified, expected, something the “system” had coming.
And that’s the move Hasan Piker is leaning right into.
Obviously, Hasan Piker isn’t making some serious arguement about healthcare. He’s hiding behind it. This is about taking something ugly and making it just palatable enough so people don’t react the way they should. We now call it influence.
And this is where it stops being just a bad take.
Because when you’ve got a massive audience and you keep pushing language like this, it’s not harmless. It starts to shape how people see things they shouldn’t be shrugging off.
The Twitch Streamer also goes on to tell the New York Times that he’s pro-stealing and pro-piracy when it comes to corporations. Of course he does, that’s what proud little socialists do.
And in case you missed it, he’s also called communism the “honorable end goal” of socialism.
I can’t decide if he’s just an assclown or something more dangerous. Maybe both. But I’m leaning towards something more dangerous.
Left-wing Twitch streamer Hasan Piker defended communism as the “honorable end goal” of socialism and the redistribution of goods to the working class on Wednesday.
Piker sat down with comedian Hasan Minhaj on his podcast where the two discussed progressive issues, including the definition of socialism.
“Socialism is redefining and reorienting the classist politics that we currently have away from the capital-owning class, owning both the means of production and virtually every facet of power and redistributing it in a democratic fashion back to the largest class, the working class,” Piker said.
“How is socialism different than communism?” Minhaj asked.
“Communism is supposed to be the end stage,” Piker said. “It’s like the final goal. It’s like the final evolution, a stateless, moneyless, classless society. A borderless society. We’ve never really had communism. I know people will just jokingly sometimes say, ‘Real communism has never been tried.’ But that literally has never existed.”
Piker acknowledged that communist parties have existed in places like China and Cuba, but he insisted that there has never been a “communist formation.”
He added that he doesn’t consider being called a “communist” an insult, since he believes communism is an admirable goal. – Fox News
And right there is the mindset behind all of this.
When you hear someone say communism is the “honorable end goal,” and in the same breath say they are “pro-stealing” from corporations, this isnt’ hard to figure out. Of course a phrase like “social murder” follows. It call comes from the same place.
No, that doesn’t make it insightful. It just makes it easier to say things that shouldn’t sit right.
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rbj1 says: Lenin, Mussolini, and that Austrian corporal weren’t harmless.
And Democrats embrace him.
Bruce Gentner says: “Pure” communism?
Not ever achieved or even tried?
Pol Pot (real name Saloth Sar) actually did it in the 1970s, heavily backed by China, naturally.
I got there in 1990 to work on a documentary of the events and the K R were STILL violently active outside the bigger cities; blowing up trains and buses, kidnapping, especially children. The usual “revolutionary” stuff. At the height of their ‘reign”, their preferred “executioners” were children aged between eight and thirteen. The preferred methods of execution? Bashing to death with rocks or sticks. or very symbolically, slashing throats with a trimmed frond of a sugar palm.
The HUMAN / REAL face of socialism.
Historically they slaughtered a higher proportion of their own population than anybody before or since (so far). There seems to always be a “contender” in the wings.(right or left; it is all the same intention; only the sequencing varies..
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