Current affairs magazine Slate reports on the Leftist movement’s political equivalent of Joe Rogan: Hasan “Abi” Piker. Slate elaborates on Piker’s origins to the political commentary space, substantiates his trials and tribulations with becoming one of the most well known, well paid, hottest socialists, and proposes Piker’s no holds barred approach to advocating for the working class American as the Democratic Party’s new platform in wake of the humiliating 2024 General Election.
Consider reading if you aren’t familiar with Hasan! He’s opened my eyes to a world outside of Capitalism that has helped me better understand open source technologies like FOSS software, and the kinds of systems that inevitably lead to closed source technologies falling apart that serve no one, charging a fortune in return.
The thing Joe Rogan has going for him is that he is friends with funny people and has them on his show. Just scrolling through this guy’s stuff it seems like it will just be depressing political news.
It’s good that a leftist podcast is getting attention, but unless it is occasionally entertaining I can’t do it right now. Oliver and Stewart do a good job of making me laugh at depressing topics… maybe my elder millennial is showing.
Ha. Now that’s funny.