The revolution will apparently be livestreamed, and Hasan Piker is planning to make bank off it while other people do the revolutioning.

Oh, you thought this champagne socialist would actually do the DIRTY work of the revolution? No, he only cosplays as a revolutionary while wearing designer clothes and jewelry and shocking the dog he uses as a prop. It turns out that it is much easier to tell other people to go be revolutionaries while sitting in an air-conditioned hotel in Cuba. The heaviest things Hasan Piker has ever lifted are weights, and designer shopping bags.

So it is little wonder that when the news about the Supreme Court of Virginia declaring the referendum vote null and void for state consititutional violations, Hasan Piker was big mad. So mad, in fact, that he… drumroll please… TWEETED ABOUT IT. He probably needed a sparkling water and fresh batteries for the dog shock collar after all that effort.

the va supreme court denied the results of the redistricting referendum. scotus gutted the voting rights act and tennessee carved up the last dem district destroying black voter power in the state.

those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable https://t.co/Ul1nW2oz29

— hasanabi (@hasanthehun) May 8, 2026

In the words of Golde from “Fiddler on the Roof” – “I’m very frightened of you. After we finish supper, I’ll faint.”

Well, Hasan Piker got the mocking he deserved from the internet.

Oh, he has no intention of suiting up personally. That’s for the dumbasses who listened to him.

But of course, we understand that command and control is a key target, even if he doesn’t.

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) May 8, 2026

Oh, but how DARE people mock him for his empty threats of violence! He’s totally super serious because he’s an intellectual who can produce a JFK quote! Understand what JFK was talking about? That’s above his pay grade.

"No, you idiot, you see it's a JFK quote about stopping all of the historical leftist leaders in Latin America I idolize from gaining power." https://t.co/p5IjaOrAUS

— Carl Paulus (@CarlPaulus) May 8, 2026

Well, nobody claimed that the geniuses were going to be in charge of the revolution. And in the end, it’s really about the clicks for ol’ Hasan. After all, those designer threads don’t buy themselves. Get on that Twitch stream of his to listen to him rant about the struggle of the proletariat while he cashes in!

Fucking dork pic.twitter.com/pAIVHOM9VA

— Andy (@no_rain_checks) May 9, 2026

You see, the communist nepo baby has no intention of getting his hands dirty. Hasan Piker will agitate and encourage other people to do the violence, but he won’t be out there himself to actually do it. The dry cleaning bill alone would be horrendous. He’ll go to Cuba to encourage the Cubans to stick to their communist roots, but he won’t stick around to actually help out. He will rally with Democrats and go on podcasts to complain about the rich and Republicans and whatever else he feels is oppressing him at any given moment, but then he retreats back to his mansion to torment the dog and rant at a camera, instead of rubbing elbows with the peasantry.

And the reason we have to pay attention to this commie dweeb is because he does have a large audience full of fools and sheep, and one of them might someday take up arms and do something violent because Hasan Piker encouraged it (even if he can never be pinned with actually calling for it), and because the Democrat party is busy embracing him as the next “big thing” that will totally allow them to win the radical youth vote, or something. Even Vox – yes, VOX – is asking the left what the hell they are doing in sucking up to Hasan Piker.

For the last month, some moderate Democrats have called on their party to shun Piker in light of his “antisemitic” and “hateful” remarks — among them, that “America deserved 9/11,” that “Hamas is 1,000 times better than Israel,” and that ultra-Orthodox Jews are “inbred.”

This ostracism campaign has gained little traction. In recent weeks, the center-left columnist Ezra Klein (a Vox co-founder) defended Piker against charges of antisemitism, while the flagship podcast of Resistance liberalism — Pod Save America — had the streamer on its show. And even resolutely pro-Israel Democratic politicians, such as Rahm Emmanuel and Gavin Newsom, have suggested they would appear on Piker’s livestream.

From a political perspective, that makes sense. Piker’s audience is formidable and comprised of people who share at least some of the Democratic Party’s basic goals. But the merits of the streamer’s own politics are another question — and one that doesn’t merely concern the legitimacy of anti-Zionism, as much commentary has suggested. Piker may be worthy of engagement. But his worldview does not deserve any enlightened person’s admiration.

The author, Eric Levitz, glosses over Piker’s anti-Semitism with excuses (mostly on the grounds that Israel is so very bad for responding after October 7th), but then admits that the circle cannot be squared.

In one broadcast, Piker vowed that he would never make fun of Mao Zedong, since the CCP founder was “one of the great leaders of this world, a man who changed the entire universe.” After receiving some pushback on this stance from viewers, Piker conceded, “There was a lot of fucking excesses, let’s be real. But the People’s Republic of China would not exist without Mao Zedong.”

Suffice to say, it is difficult to reconcile Piker’s moral horror at Israel’s human rights abuses with his cavalier attitude toward Mao’s.

With the Great Leap Forward — a campaign to rapidly industrialize China through forced collectivization — Mao orchestrated the deaths of up to 45 million people, most from famine.

This carnage was not merely the result of Mao’s economic illiteracy. Rather, when the flaws of his agricultural system became apparent, Mao’s regime lashed out against its starving people. According to the historian Frank Dikötter, the CCP summarily killed or tortured to death between 2 and 3 million people during the Great Leap Forward.

The author points out Piker’s other “questionable” positions on Hezbollah, the Houthis, and Russia, and addresses why the left must examine their newfound attraction to Hasan Piker.

The human mind gravitates toward tribalism. The impulse to excuse our allies’ moral errors in light of our enemies’ greater ones is universal. Which is unfortunate, since its consequences can be catastrophic, as Netanyahu’s Israel and Mao’s China grimly illustrate. All factions must therefore guard against such tribalism — by engaging with their adversaries and critiquing their confederates.

And yet, those who present themselves as “mainstream” Democrats are attempting to coddle the commie and shove him in all of our faces. Hard pass. We should have no use for a grown-ass man who sits on his butt playing video games while other people watch, and listen to his entitled rationale for demanding that the revolution happen on his terms and without cutting off his wi-fi. Hasan Piker, in his tantruming about Virginia, is demonstrating his total ignorance of the law, while promoting actual violence. He is dangerous only for what he encourages others to do, not for what he himself would do. After all, he might break a nail.

Featured image: Hasan Piker via Wikimedia Commons, cropped, CC BY 4.0