"Political Speech For Human Dingleberries Has Never Been More Robust"

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

https://www.thebulwark.com/political-speech-for-human-dingleberries-has-never-been-more-robust/


When considering the inescapable “free speech” debate there is an important maxim I want everyone to keep at the top of mind:

Never in the history of the world have more human dingleberries had larger platforms to spew deranged nonsense about politics than they do right now, at this moment. We are in a golden age for fools with political views outside the mainstream.

If you bookmark this page and come back to it in a week, or a month, or a year, the dingleberry maxim will be as true then as it is today. There seems to be a Moore’s Law for the dispersion of idiotic content and no matter what the cEnSorS do to slow it down, the takes transistors still find a way to double capacity every year.

The breadth and depth of this speech is so vast that someone who hasn’t engrossed themselves in internet political culture might have no idea of its reach. If you are over the age of 35, there are people on YouTube and Twitch and TikTok that you have never heard of who have significantly larger audiences for their radical political ravings than the most preeminent policy journals had during your formative years.

Example: Hasan Piker or “Hasanabi” is a 30-year-old smokeshow socialist gamer who once complimented the Mujahideen heroes for fucking Dan Crenshaw in the eyehole. He makes over $200,000 per month to share his political insights with his 1.5 million followers in between binge sessions of Grand Theft Auto V. I promise you that even in the heyday of Henry Luce’s Time, no political writer, anywhere, ever brought in that kind of cheddar.

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[Wild blueberry]

1. Well written

Thank you.

[Moebym]

2. Hasan is a Twitch streamer

Who happens to be a multi-millionaire with a $2.7 million home in LA.

He is a "socialist" for whom advertising and sponsorships on his streams have provided a lavish lifestyle inaccessible to the masses for whom he claims to fight and free from the financial pressures they so often face.

Bonus: He used to be a producer of The Young Turks and is a nephew of Cenk Uygur.

When called out for the incongruence between earning millions from ads and sponsorships from big corporations while simultaneously bashing capitalism in his political rants, he claimed he wished he were taxed more.

Not a bad gig if you can get it...

[Grasswire2]

3. the word "dingleberry" makes me laugh.

If I recall correctly from urban dictionary, a dingleberry is the little piece of poo that sticks on an animal's hairy rear long after defecation.

It is possibly the most ignominious object a person could be called.

Thanks for this piece. I have seen Tim on TV, of course, and like him. But I have never read his writing previously.

[Nevilledog]

4. I try to catch all of his stuff....he's enjoyable to read.