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This probably hits so hard if you don't know that the US has had more people in prison continuously for the last 40 years than ever were in the gulags at their peak (even as a percentage of the population).
Hasan Piker hits a wall when he tries to tell a man born in the Soviet Union that Americans are just as controlled as people under communism.
Konstantin Kisin shuts down the comparison and lays out the difference.
When he’s done, even Piker admits he’s right.
HASAN PIKER: “A lot of people think, well, as long as I can eat a Big Mac, you know, as long as I can watch TV, as long as I can consume porn [...] then, you know, things are probably fine.”
“It’s a different mechanism of control that makes you think that you are actually an active participant in this.”
Kisin isn’t buying it.
KONSTANTIN KISIN: “The difference between those countries is not that they can’t eat a Big Mac.”
“The difference is that if they criticize the government, in Russia today even, but of course in the Soviet Union previously, you’re going to get killed, right? In America, that’s not what happens, right? In America, you don’t get put in jail.”
HASAN PIKER: “We don’t know yet.”
That’s his whole defense: what MIGHT happen in America.
So Kisin makes it personal.
KONSTANTIN KISIN: “You in China or in the Soviet Union would be killed if you were critical of that regime.”
HASAN PIKER: “I would definitely be jailed, for sure.”
And there it is. Piker makes Kisin’s argument for him.
KONSTANTIN KISIN: “So that’s the difference between these countries and America. It’s not a Big Mac, it’s freedom.”
Only in a free country can you build a career telling people they aren’t free.
CONTEXT: Communist regimes don’t just jail their critics.
Under Stalin, the Soviet secret police executed 681,692 people in two years, by the regime’s own records. That’s more than 900 a day.
Under Mao, the Great Leap Forward killed at least 45 million people in four years, per historian Frank Dikötter.
Under Pol Pot, nearly a quarter of Cambodia’s population was dead within four years.
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As Zohran goes on Fox to say this, his administration is pushing through a plan to “combat antisemitism” that increases school programming at a museum that held a pro-Israel event where a speaker called the Palestine movement a Trojan horse for the Islamization of the West
Zohran Mamdani is defending his decision to attend an October 7 vigil, arguing that politics should never determine whose deaths deserve to be mourned.
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"There must be room in our politics to mourn everyone who has been killed," Mamdani says, calling for universal compassion and opposition to all war crimes.
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He insists that recognizing human suffering means refusing to pick and choose which lives deserve sympathy.
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Happy 109th anniversary of the Great Socialist October Revolution. On this day, 1 year ago, I started my ongoing October Revolution series which got almost 1 million views.
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Yes, Democrats are choosing leaders with LOWER favorability than Trump:
🔴 DONALD TRUMP = 38.5
🔵 HAKEEM JEFFRIES = 28.0
🔵 CHUCK SCHUMER = 24.7
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said that his party is “ready, willing and able to find bipartisan common ground” in order to work with Republicans on the ongoing affordability crisis. abcnews.visitlink.me/ymEF7Q
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I wonder if people like this will genuinely change when the Democrats inevitably do next to nothing.
Okay, this is good. Now. And this part is a lil tricky. We’ve had trouble with it before, so listen closely: You need to fucking do something with this power IMMEDIATELY when you get sworn in. Day one. No more letters. Use this power day one or your asses will never get it again.
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If you missed out on this one, don't worry, the next election will also be the most important election in your lifetime.
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The Democratic Party and Biden are responsible for the Gaza genocide perpetrated by Israel.
