This entire smear campaign is just an attempt at assigning guilt-by-association to progressives. A full-throated condemnation of Hasan Piker will only be taken as an admission of guilt for their prior association and the media will continue to use it as a line of attack, so it’s less than pointless to do so, it’s counterproductive because it would only alienate those who agree with Hasan while doing nothing to appease “moderates.”

Stop pretending you care about electability. It’s obvious you’re not doing this out of concern for Abdul’s chances of winning, but out of hatred for an online personality you have a weird parasocial vendetta against.

I keep tabs on political figures I don’t like as well. I don’t do it by watching their content regularly for years. Your online habits are abnormal and unhealthy.

I think you just outed yourself as a chronically online hate-watcher who should not be taken seriously. You realize it’s not normal to regularly watch content made by someone you hate for years, right?

The point is that you’re taking the bait set out by right-wing and Israel-backed smear campaigns and that you even care about Hasan wearing a Mao suit is a result of that. If Hillary came out and said free Palestine they would start non-stop accusing her of being a Chinese psy-op using her Mao suit preference as “evidence.” Most of the things listed in the last paragraph of your post are false such as Hasan denying the Uyghur genocide, supporting the invasion of Tibet, and lying about LGBTQ rights in China. You only believe these things about him because you have accepted the mainstream media lies about him at face value and refuse to think for yourself. As for the Houthis, characterizing them as terrorists and considering someone a terrorist supporter for reacting to their propaganda is hypocritical if you don’t apply the same logic to those reacting to US or Israeli military propaganda because they are also terrorists (and much more prolific ones at that).

None of you clowns care about Hillary Clinton wearing Mao suits, but act like it’s a problem when Hasan wears one.

Huh? Google is a corporation. Are they licking their own boots?

Intelligent people have an easier time convincing themselves of falsehoods because they can produce more complex rationalizations.

Those positions are racist, just not overtly so.

That’s just me being disorganized lol.

The stereotype is true, these are my open tabs on Wikipedia right now:

Kurzgesagt has a contract with Open Philanthropy (a reputation laundering vehicle for billionaires) to promote concepts related to Effective Altruism in their videos, essentially making them a propaganda outlet for billionaire egomaniacs who fancy themselves philosopher-kings. Effective Altruism is a philosophical movement that caught on in elite circles because it enables them to justify their selfishness by reframing it as focusing their philanthropy on specific causes they believe will have the greatest impact, which in recent years is mostly AI research. It gives them a rhetorical framework to pass off their passion projects as philanthropy and an excuse for not dedicating resources to things like stopping climate change, ending world hunger, or - god forbid - wealth inequality.

It’s not a good idea at all. The problems it creates are greater in both number and difficulty than the problems it solves.

It’s not either/or, it’s a self-reinforcing cycle, though it isn’t usually the drugs themselves that start it.

If you contribute to making it happen you won’t need anyone to clue you in when it does.

How the fuck do people don’t get radical or depressed?

Leaning into the former and channeling it into real world action with a community helps with the latter.

I agree that Zohran is not sufficiently naked to be swimming in a public pool. Zohran, shame on you! Take off your clothes!

You have friends that have made a therapeutic ritual out of using essential oils which helps them only because the placebo effect can be very powerful for pain. Literally anything could stand in for the essential oils. Swap their oil vials out with convincing fakes and they’ll never know the difference because it’s the ritual of smelling and/or applying the oils that’s helping them, not any real physical mechanism of the compounds in the oils interacting with their biology.

I think my desire for a small electric pickup truck might override my caution in this case, we’ll see if I get burned. At the very least I’m not going to preorder and will wait for real critical reviews after it’s released.

What I wonder is how exactly are they going to enshittify it? It’s extremely barebones and modular in a way that anyone can design add-ons and accessories for it. I can see them doing subscriptions and the like for various add-ons but you can always just get the base model and get add-ons elsewhere.

They’ve been promoting it recently and have several working prototypes that they’ve been driving influencers around in. There was one video with Marques Brownlee and they even let him drive it himself.