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Should We Be Afraid Of Hasan Piker? No, that gives the Twitch streamer too much power. But would I rather share a cave with a colony of rabid bats than share a room with him? Absolutely. Every single time.

Last week Rolling Stone dropped a pure fluff soufflé on Hasan Piker, the China-smitten communist creature who despises this country and everything capitalism built. No surprise, given the magazine’s track record. It’s spent years glazing up characters like Sean “Puffy” Combs, the alleged sex trafficker; Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon Bomber; and Charles Manson, the cult leader. At this point, you can trust anyone Rolling Stone tarnishes. The second they run a glowing profile? Run.

The title: “Why Is Everyone Scared of Hasan Piker?”

Subtitle: His incendiary clips about Israel have drawn fire from both sides of the aisle. But what he wants, he insists, is simply to make people listen.

Aww. He just wants to be heard. Like a loud little boy on the playground demanding the other kids stop playing and admire his tantrum.

Right at the top sits this gem of subtext: “Piker is a matinee-handsome progressive icon who’s uniquely talented at translating radical-left politics for Gen Z bros.”

Matinee-handsome? Like Cary Grant or Rock Hudson — the golden-age heartthrobs? Curious choice of photo, then. The one they ran looks more like a graying, hirsute Scooby-Doo villain whose glasses somehow managed to stay crooked through the entire photoshoot. But perhaps “matinee” now just means “owns a ring light.” I digress.

What’s unnerving is not the male author’s thirsty prose about Piker’s jawline. It’s how the broader Left has stopped merely tolerating his anti-American rhetoric, destructive policies, and would-be dictator cosplay, and started glamorizing them.

Hasan Piker is a poison that progressives and their pet Politburos are happily chugging by the gallon.

We came so close to an America-free Hasan. He’s the textbook anchor-baby product. Neither parent was a citizen when he was born in New Jersey, and after his birth the family immediately packed up and returned to Turkey, where he grew up. Summers brought him back to visit non-citizen grandparents, where the only things that impressed him about the United States were the Oreo flavors and free refills. He “f*cking hates the government,” yet happily enrolled at the University of Miami to party, club, and tank his grades before transferring to Rutgers. Then the family connection came in clutch, securing him a job at uncle Cenk’s radical outfit “The Young Turks.” Talking into a camera for 14 hours a day turned into a multi-million-dollar annual haul, a lavish L.A. townhouse, a Mercedes, and a full-time career dedicated to dismantling the very country that handed him the keys.

Consider this a living refutation of birthright tourism. Look what it let in the door.

Hasan Piker’s favorite flag is Hezbollah’s — the terrorist group responsible for the brutal deaths of hundreds of American service members. He has declared Hamas — the Sunni terrorists who murdered more than 1,200 Israeli civilians and over 40 Americans on October 7 and have killed U.S. citizens in multiple bombings — “a thousand times better than Israel.” Both groups view America as the Great Satan. So, apparently, does Piker, who once announced that America “deserved” 9/11 and that American soldiers are simply cattle to Iran, who deserve to be shot at.

Remember, this clown campaigns with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Sen. Bernie Sanders, and Mayor Zohran Mamdani. The Avengers, if the Avengers hated the good guys and loved the villains.

Speaking of which, this self-described Marxist is in love with China and one of its most murderous tyrants, Mao Zedong — a man responsible for tens of millions of deaths. Piker calls his deadly idol “one of the great leaders of this world” who “changed the entire universe,” cosplays the look in identical Zhongshan suits, and pays tribute to his cherished dictator by hanging the CCP flag, samurai swords, and revolutionary art in his recording studio.

I hear China is lovely this time of year. He should go. Permanently.

He will not, of course, because the capitalist in him is doing too well. Behold the delicious paradox of the self-proclaimed Marxist who loathes America and capitalism yet runs a wildly profitable one-man content empire built entirely on private platforms, voluntary subscriptions, and the exact surplus extraction he spends every stream denouncing. He owns the cameras, the brand, the schedule, and the equity. His mostly young audience funds the lifestyle.

What a bigoted oligarch!

Piker has said, on this content empire, that he would love to see “capitalist motherf*ckers bleed out in the streets” — yet somehow that revolutionary bloodlust never reaches his own father, a former vice president of a multi-billion-dollar Turkish conglomerate, or himself. He excuses their wealth because he “advocates for the poor.” Does he? He has written checks for Turkish-Syrian earthquake relief and Palestinian fundraisers, of course, but America’s own impoverished? That would be silly.

Classic Marxist millionaire. Endlessly eager to tell the government how to spend your money, allergic to practicing any of it himself.

He could liquidate the $5,000 designer fits, the $10,000 dual-sport motorcycle, the Cartier frames, or the multi-million-dollar gated L.A. mansion he bragged about in the Rolling Stone piece. Instead, he preaches revolution from behind the high shrubs, daydreaming aloud about “impoverishing the white middle class” (which his Marxist policies would accomplish with ruthless efficiency).

He won’t discriminate on class alone; he’s targeting race as well. He has voiced a desire to “destroy the white race, b*tch.” And black Americans fare no better in his worldview; he has declared he “doesn’t give a f*ck what black people care about” and suggested they should “suck” him where the sun don’t shine. He also cheered that “we want more immigrants to come into your countries and then they’re gonna f*ck your sisters and then your daughters.”

Sheesh. A real peach, isn’t he? The kind we should priority ship overnight to Cuba so he can finally live out the revolutionary he masquerades as.

All this dirtbag offers is performative virtue. A pathetic nerd who has never built anything except a personal brand, pays almost no one beyond a lone producer, supports no dependents, or has never created any real jobs. He simply harvests America’s free markets, complains about America nonstop, and helps elevate candidates who share the same contempt. From each according to his ability. Right Marxy? Well, his ability is limited. His capacity for damage is not.

Though he imagines himself a brilliant trailblazer finally cracking the socialist code, he is neither unique nor special. He is the latest iteration of the young, privileged, rich socialist idealist who has helped midwife communist disasters for a century. Like the privileged students and intellectuals of 1917 Petrograd or the campus-bred Red Guards of Mao’s Cultural Revolution, he grew up with family advantages, enjoyed the consumer abundance and educational opportunities of a free-market society, then turned that platform into a lucrative personal brand while preaching the abolition of the very system that made him wealthy.

He controls his own means of production yet spends his days radicalizing Gen Z listeners against private property, capitalism, and America itself. And he’s gaining popularity, just like the Bolsheviks did with their lies. History is unambiguous about what follows: once the romantic phase demoralizes the existing order and captures the institutions, the hard men take over, the purges begin, and the gulags fill with both the original class enemies and plenty of the useful idealists who thought they were constructing utopia.

Piker’s mansion, nicotine pouches, and multi-million-dollar streams offer no immunity. They are merely the modern comforts of the useful idiot who opens the door and discovers the revolution has no further need of him or his dog.

This is the man Rolling Stone is platforming.

This is the man Democrats are campaigning alongside.

This is the awkward, foul-mouthed terrorist sympathizer the Left is now calling “Eugene Debs who deadlifts.” Barf.

This is why birth tourism should be ended. 

Piker is “pushing towards his vision” for the future “with a little pickaxe,” “Mining away in his cave.” Democrats are supplying him with TNT. When the whole mountain collapses on them, at least the rest of us will get to say we told you so.