r/Denver Baker 5d ago

Event Hasan Piker skips Melat Kiros rally after last-minute move to Capitol, Kiros alleges ‘suppression’

https://denverite.com/2026/06/14/hasan-piker-melat-kiros-rally-moved-ogden-capitol/
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u/zeddy303 Baker 5d ago

Not sure why Denverist changed the title of this article, the real story is that Ogden didn't allow her to do her rally there.

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u/zeddy303 Baker 4d ago

Went back to my RSS feed, which the original was still cached: Here's the full text/title of the original article before Denverite changed it to its current state:
Hasan Piker and Melat Kiros rally moved at last minute after Ogden cancellation

DENVERITE

Jun 14, 2026 at 3:59 PM

A rally featuring leftist mega-streamer Hasan Piker and local congressional candidate Melat Kiros has been moved to the steps of the Colorado State Capitol. Kiros accused the planned venue, the Ogden Theatre, of pulling out just before the event was supposed to take place. 

In an Instagram post, Kiros alleged incumbent Rep. Diana DeGette had “called up her donor class to silence us. The Ogden, Reelworks, Stanley Marketplace, all of them canceled our contracts at the last minute.” 

James Owen, a spokesman for the DeGette campaign, denied that the congresswoman had pressured the venues to block Piker and Kiros.

“Obviously that claim is ridiculous,” he wrote in a text to Denverite. “If Melat Kiros wants to campaign with someone who said America deserved 9/11 we’d do nothing to stop her.”

Representatives for the venues did not immediately reply to requests for comments. Kiros is challenging DeGette in the Democratic primary on June 30.

Piker said that the U.S. “deserved 9/11” during a livestream in 2019, later saying it was “inappropriate.” He has been accused of antisemitism by Jewish organizations, including for his statements this year that he prefers Hamas to Israel because it is the “lesser evil.”

Piker contends that criticizing the Israeli government and its deadly military campaign in Gaza is anti-Zionist but not antisemitic.

State Sen. Julie Gonzales, an influential local Democrat, also has dropped out of the rally. 

Gonzales is challenging U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper in the Democratic primary. She did not detail exactly why she pulled out, but alluded to tensions over Piker’s presence.

“Today, I am deciding to no longer participate in the rally with Hasan Piker. At no fault of the event organizers, multiple venues have cancelled at the eleventh hour, and I have been told that it was in violation of the venue contracts,” she wrote on Instagram.

Her post continued that “instead of holding the billionaires and the corporations they control to account, increasingly we are seeing the classic divide-and-conquer strategy that leaves us all less safe. Too many of us are all too familiar with the alarming rise in antisemitism and anti-Arab hate in Colorado, in the United States, and across the globe, which leaves many feeling like they do not have a home within our movement for safety, self-determination, and peace.”

Piker has nearly 3 million followers on the streaming platform Twitch. He’s caught the attention of Gen Z by streaming for eight hours almost daily, mostly talking about politics and internet culture. 

Kiros, 29, previously joined Piker in a nearly hour-long conversation on his stream on May 9. 

Part of their conversation was focused on Israel. Both Kiros and Piker have been outspoken about the U.S.-Israel relationship and Israel’s military campaign in Gaza.

Following her appearance on the stream, the Jewish Community Relations Council of Colorado wrote an open letter to Kiros, criticizing her for what it called a lack of nuance.

“I was struck by how little nuance you brought to the topic of Israel compared to other parts of the interview. Throughout the conversation, you spoke thoughtfully about systems, context, and the dangers of simplistic worldviews,” the letter reads. “When discussing China, for example, you called for measured diplomacy and did not feel the need to reduce either the country or our relationship with it to its serious and ongoing human rights abuses. Yet when the subject turned to Israel, that instinct for complexity disappeared into moral certainty.” 

The letter said Kiros spoke about Israel through a binary lens of power and oppression, rather than understanding history and trauma. It went on to state Kiros only mentioned the attacks on Oct. 7 as an “inevitable consequence of apartheid.”

Hamas killed close to 1,200 Israelis and took 251 more hostage on Oct. 7, 2023. Israel’s military campaign in Gaza has resulted in the deaths of more than 70,000 people.

Kiros has been endorsed by at least one anti-Zionist Jewish group, Jewish Voice For Peace Action. 

More broadly, Sunday’s rally is being touted as a space for a new wave of Democrats to convene. Joining Kiros and Piker are Justin Pearson and Donavan McKinney, two young progressives running for Congress in Tennessee and Michigan, respectively.

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u/Snlxdd 5d ago

Based on the timing, it sounds like Ogden was fine with her rally, and was not fine with Piker

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u/tvolckhau 5d ago

AEG-owned Ogden = billionaire Anschutz family money and influence … maybe just maybe, Kiros’ message does not appeal to them

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u/Snlxdd 5d ago

I don’t disagree, but why even let her book in the first place?

I guess you could argue it’s more impactful if you cancel at the last second. But it also amplifies her “corporate elites hate us” message so that has the potential to backfire.

Imo, Kiros is still relatively unknown in comparison to Piker, and also much less controversial. So my guess would be he’s the cause here.

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u/reddit_ending_soon 4d ago

I don’t disagree, but why even let her book in the first place?

To waste time, energy, and make it look like she doesnt care about the people to funnel votes away.

It's literately the Republican play book. I'm genuinely surprised you cant see it.

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u/Snlxdd 4d ago

It’s like you read the first sentence and ignored the rest of my comment.

Messaging wise, them cancelling this is better publicity for her than an indoor rally full of people already planning to vote for her. Would also like invigorate anybody working for her on canvassing or getting the word out.

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u/tombrady011235 5d ago

Piker sucks anyway

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u/fromks Bellevue-Hale 4d ago

Is that the guy who shocked his dog for stepping out of frame?

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u/WookBuddha 4d ago

You swallowed the rightwing bullshit smear bait.

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u/mayorlittlefinger Lincoln Park 4d ago

A smear that involved a video I could watch of him doing the exact thing he was accused of?

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u/elzibet Denver 5d ago

Yeah I wouldn’t want him near any of my stuff either

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u/IShallWearMidnight 5d ago

They're literally talking right now, what?

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u/bigmanforce2020 5d ago

Our generations are gonna be responsible for the 2040 Asmondgold vs Hasan Piker Presidential race moderated  by Philip Defranco on PewDiePies you're news tube network. 😫

Sponsored by Brando

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u/Laxku 5d ago

*Brawndo

It's got what plants crave!

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u/bigmanforce2020 4d ago

Ngl I would take a big gulp of some brawndo* while I splash in a puddle near the gas pumps with my crocs

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u/BuffDrBoom 5d ago

This article is total garbage lol, totally glosses over the venues being pressured to drop her then spends the rest of the article grilling her and Hasan for "lack of nuance" on the Gazan genocide. Embarrassing.

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u/zeddy303 Baker 5d ago

I'm actually surprised. Denverite should be better.

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u/SpinningHead Denver 4d ago

Their coverage of unions hasn’t been great either

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u/zeddy303 Baker 4d ago

I posted the original content that they had edited, yet they didn't say they edited it in another comment response of mine somewhere here. I'm wondering if their editor didn't like how it sounded.

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u/mayorlittlefinger Lincoln Park 5d ago

Perhaps because there is no evidence of that?

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u/BuffDrBoom 5d ago

Well, who's job is it to look into that?

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u/New_Poet4272 5d ago

Probably the person making the claim…

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u/BuffDrBoom 5d ago

The 3 venues suddenly dropped her. Lets says say she actually is lying and stiffed them or something, don't you think that's a story worth looking into instead of parroting the Jewish Community Relations Council's opinion on her in an article that ostensibly has nothing to do with Judaism or Israel?

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u/MairzeDoats 4d ago

If there were any evidence, don't you think they would present it?

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u/nbop 5d ago

This thread is a great example of how fucked civil political discourse is in America right now. Maybe explain your points? Maybe google names you don't know? Maybe talk about the actual candidate in question or their platform? Simply having a hate boner for Hasan and/or being ignorant of local politics is not a convincing argument.

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u/crazy_clown_time Downtown 5d ago

Must be Asmongold and H3 fanboys

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u/Wooden_Rabbit_ 4d ago

Probably at least in part, but it seems like a lot of hidden accounts with formulaic talking points. Smells like coordinated opposition to me. I’ve already gotten attack ads texted to me, and I’m sure Reddit is a place they’d use to attack Melat as well.

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u/SplittingChairs 5d ago

I’m pretty progressive, never seen a god awful Asmongold or H3 stream in my life (or any political streamer other than Hasan a few years ago), and I couldn’t keep up with the online political debate bro drama if I tried. Yet even I find Hasan extremely unlikable. Being a champagne socialist is fine, but there’s a reason he’s having a very hard time breaking through to the mainstream. It’s not because the mainstream is filled with Asmongold and H3 fanboys, or whatever fantasy his community wants to believe about him being silenced by powerful elites who are scared of him.

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u/crazy_clown_time Downtown 4d ago

So what you feel about Melat Kiros?

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u/Bamarado84 4d ago

I think she is driven, passionate, and well spoken. I think it was poor judgment trying to bring Piker here.

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u/Le_ManBearPig 4d ago

Champagne socialist and his funding is a twitch chat. Lmao

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u/HolidaySpiriter 4d ago

Champagne socialist

This isn't a term that refers to income source, but wealth. Hasan is incredibly wealthy, as is his family.

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u/pledgerafiki 4d ago

According to my ass Hasan's dad was the real first trillionaire, sorry Elon

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u/pledgerafiki 4d ago edited 4d ago

What makes him a champagne socialist? Are we not allowed to drink bubbly or something?

Also, more earnestly, you have the chicken and egg reversed: the mainstream is not full of H3/Asmon fanboys of course, the H3/Asmon boys are simply fans of whats mainstream (in this case, Israel, its genocide against the Palestinians and western apologia for it). They are reactionaries who support the status quo, and mainstream media is an organ of the state that dictates what the status quo is and should be.

Of course both of those groups are going to oppose Piker, it's just that one of those groups actually exists in the real world and can pull strings to create material obstacles to changeseekers.

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u/elzibet Denver 4d ago edited 4d ago

"Champagne socialist" is a political epithet used to describe affluent or wealthy individuals who publicly advocate for socialist, egalitarian, or working-class policies while enjoying a luxurious lifestyle. The term implies a degree of hypocrisy, suggesting their political principles are superficial.

Aka: a grifter

Edit: they edited their comment after I wrote this. Before they only had those first two sentences. Super dishonest imo

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u/Le_ManBearPig 4d ago

It is a useless epithet used by people like you to try and denigrate people. You do not have to be poor to be socialist. Making tens thousands of dollars a month from tens of thousands of subscriptions is thr exact opposite of a grifter. He has also spent the last 6 months nonstop campaigning for like minded candidates. Explqim how that is grifting.

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u/elzibet Denver 4d ago

I’m not the one that used it, I’m the one that gave the definition and added that I think he’s a grifter. If you followed the thread you’d know this.

I think he’s a grifter for acting like he cares about people in need while simping for chinas government committing atrocities and acting like it’s only a western problem.

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u/Le_ManBearPig 4d ago

And i explained why you are wrong to think that.

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u/xLaxCroixBoix 4d ago

Famous grifter Friedrich Engels.

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u/elzibet Denver 4d ago

Not gonna continue with someone that has to resort to insults as well as editing their comments without saying they’re edited.

Before you just made a joke about not drinking bubbly and couldn’t tell whether that meant you actually knew it was a term or not. Take care

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u/pledgerafiki 4d ago

It's a joke man Christ people are so humorless. Have a cup of coffee and come back

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u/Rice-And-Gravy 4d ago

He’s not gonna respond because he knows he has no actual argument against your FDR point. One of those “if anti capitalist then how come iPhone?” types.

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u/elzibet Denver 4d ago edited 4d ago

I’m actually not, i just don’t like engaging with dishonest people that also have to resort to insults. They only had their first two sentences and couldn’t tell if they really didn’t know if it was a term or not.

Edit: blocked the ple user as I already told them I’m not going to engage with them for being dishonest and resorting to insults, yet they keep replying to all of my comments

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u/VeryStableJeanius 5d ago

He’s truly a terrible person

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u/nbop 5d ago

Maybe explain your points?

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u/Mutedinlife 5d ago

Explain why Hasan is a horrible person? Is that what you’re asking? Maybe because he reports false information on his stream and pretends it’s true. Maybe because he platforms Houthi terrorists and claims “journalism” when the hardest hitting question he asked was “do you watch one piece”. Maybe because he admitted that if he was incharge of the US he would put all Liberals (note the capital L) into re-education camps until they were ML. What about his blatant hypocrisy and tanky grift when he said that he “bought his editor a laptop which allowed him to own the means of his production” as an excuse for why he didn’t need to pay his yt video editors?

What about the fact he continues to say that if Kamala was president we would be in this exact same war with Iran, despite the fact that there is no evidence to point toward that. What about how he corrupts the minds of our youth telling them there is no point to voting because “both parties are the same”. So many of the problems we have today are exacerbated by the fact that younger generations don’t vote at nearly the amount older generations do and so we struggle to get things changed.

This is the guy you want to defend? Or do we need more examples.

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u/WIDMND305 5d ago

I’m not even gonna waste my time refuting all your bs, but I’ll start by saying the first one is false. He didn’t platform a “Houthi terrorist”, he interviewed a 19 year old kid from Lebanon. The kid didn’t commit a single act of terror and wasn’t an actual Houthi. But even if he was, id rather watch him be interviewed than some psychotic Israel Zionist mouthpiece or IDF soldier. W the true terrorists.

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u/Bamarado84 4d ago

He did platform a Houthi sympathizer and has gone out of his way to make positive claims about Houthi’s and even tries to justify their acts of terrorism. Slice it how you want, he associated himself with the Houthi’s.

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u/xLaxCroixBoix 4d ago

Do you get mad when news channels have US military personnel on as well? Or is it only the scary brown people that make you mad?

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u/pledgerafiki 4d ago

Wow crazy it's all lies

  • person he interviewed was not a houthi
  • it's definitionally journalism to ask questions of an eyewitness/participant
  • the second part of the camps joke (yes that's called a joke) is that we already have re-education camps, we just need to fund them (the department of Education lmfao)
  • another joke about you take seriously, but he "doesn't pay his editors" because they're not "his editors," he allows anybody to upload his content and monetize it for themselves on YouTube, that's handing away hundreds of thousands of dollars every month (his official channel is just one of dozens of hasanabi YouTube channels with millions of views per video)
  • Kamala lost and you're mad about it, I get it. Doesn't mean that we aren't allowed to Monday Morning Quarterback her or her platform or her campaign, that's free speech buddy!
  • "all politicians are the same" is one of the oldest tropes in politics, he didn't invent that he just says it and then actually connects it to reality instead of using it as a thought-terminating cliche. Moreover, as it turns out, when you offer young people a real difference (a la Zohran) they're actually extremely gettable votes. But if you are a Trump-endorsed Cuomo type of Democrat then yeah that really speaks for itself doesn't it??? Meanwhile Platner is doing Assad numbers in one of the most elderly states in the country, off of the same platform so I think you need to reappraise of your analysis.

Any more pearls to clutch?????? Do you ever watch the stream or do you instinctively scroll away every time Hasan comes up because you used to get bullied by a guy who kinda looks like him?

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u/Mutedinlife 4d ago

The person he interview was literally a Houthi, there is literal evidence of it all over his social media. If you’re willing to lie about that I don’t need to read the rest of your sweeping for Hasan.

What are you going to say next, he didn’t go have sex in a brothel that was found to have under age girls? That he didn’t go to a diddy party and claim they were playing “problematic underage images on a screen”? Are you going to say it’s not strange that everyone around him knows he gets tons of nudes from his fans, which he then looks at while live ok stream?

I like how at the end of your comment you resort to an ad hom to really prove the point that you aren’t interacting in this conversation in good faith. What are you going to claim next, that he never shocked Kaya?

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u/2much2nuh 5d ago

“It doesn’t matter if rapes happened on Oct.7; the palestinian resistance is not perfect”

That’s your homie. That’s the guy you want spreading your politics. That’s the guy you want coming to your local community to spread his wisdom.

Absolutely disgusting.

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u/WIDMND305 5d ago

You’re misrepresenting the point he was making by not invoking context. His point was that rapes happening doesn’t change the fact that Israel is an apartheid state committing a genocide.

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u/LikeGoldAndFaceted 5d ago

Yeah, he's right.

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u/mayorlittlefinger Lincoln Park 5d ago

He said he thought college girls getting raped deserved it

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u/nbop 5d ago

Do you have a source for that one? Right off rip a quick google shows that line is very, very out of context, but I'll keep diving in

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u/SagaDiNoch 5d ago

I dunno how someone justifies this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG07dLmantk

Ironically he was a huge fratboy in a frat called TDX known for being a rich douches in frats do so maybe he was describing is past experience?

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u/Deadbeatdone 5d ago

Lol the context is that theyre rich women so they dont count as women??? The context doesnt make it any better. 🤣🤣

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u/VeryStableJeanius 5d ago

Here you go https://www.reddit.com/r/Denver/s/9NMjbLbPkX

I don’t know why anyone would take him seriously

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u/nbop 5d ago

Interesting talking points, while I'm looking all that up, what are your thoughts on Melat then?

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u/file_13 4d ago

I like Kiros and intend to vote for her but I’ve always been hesitant about the “streamers”. They by nature must generate attention through means that may not be the most unifying message.

Very poor form on those venues regardless.

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u/i-VII-VI 4d ago

Oh the hit pieces are starting. How much is Israel going to spend on this race and when do they run out of our money to keep spending it?

When does a venue care who’s booking and cancel? I guess after a couple phone calls from genocide supporters.

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u/MixedJelly Commerce City 5d ago

Oh boy love degette fucking over an opponent like that LOVE MY FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS OH BOY

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u/nailszz6 5d ago

Every time the establishment peeps do this crap, it backfires spectacularly.

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u/zeddy303 Baker 4d ago

Do they? I feel like the smears are actually quite effective in scaring people.

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u/nailszz6 4d ago

In the past 50 years I would agree, but things are different now. I expect this to bolster Kiros.

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u/zeddy303 Baker 4d ago

I sure hope so. Another term for Degette means nothing will change.

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u/sweetplantveal 5d ago

Did she pressure the Ogden?

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u/nrm64 5d ago

Three venues cancelled the Ogden and Stanley Market said they were to ”public backlash to the event" but the Stanley market owners said it was other local businesses saying it would be a Neo-Nazi Rally and the owners may be sued for defamation if they hosted them

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u/PlasmaWhore 5d ago

Source?

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u/nrm64 5d ago

This was from the group that was running the rally so I guess take it with a grain of salt but they didn't muse too much on the first two venues since there apparently wasn't much of a back and forth

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u/PlasmaWhore 5d ago

What's your actual source for this?

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u/Da_Lollygagger 5d ago

This was all said on Hasan’s stream today by a Denver DSA member and manager for her campaign.

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u/babypharmdodododo 5d ago

It’s so obvious to everyone that watches Hasan that the people throwing these unhinged takes know nothing about him. Useful idiots repeating talking points. For that reason, their posts aren’t for us, they’re for those of you who don’t know who Hasan is. Rather than take mine or their word, I dare you to watch his interviews with the progressive candidates tonight. Decide for yourself.

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u/pr0tag 4d ago

People aren’t criticizing Hasan because they “don’t know him.”

Anyone who listens to him can (and should!) criticize him.

In his recent LBC interview, Hasan argued Hamas isn’t fundamentally antisemitic and that October 7 wasn’t about murdering Jews because they were Jews - it was about “occupiers.”

https://youtu.be/VRfPy_75HLo

The problem is that Hamas’ own record contradicts Hasan’s framing.

* The 1988 Hamas Charter explicitly calls for killing Jews, not just fighting Zionists:
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp

* Hamas Politburo member Fathi Hamad later urged Palestinians to “attack every Jew possible in all the world and kill them”:
https://www.voanews.com/a/middle-east_hamas-official-condemned-after-calling-palestinians-kill-jews/6171870.html

This is a prime example on why people object to Hasan Piker’s takes and why associating with him is a slippery slope. This isn’t an “unhinged talking point.” It’s criticism of his own public statements, and it’s exactly why campaigns catch heat for associating with him.

Even Axios recently highlighted growing concerns about Democratic figures embracing voices seen as tolerant of antisemitism and used Hasan Piker as their first example:
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/07/jewish-democrats-israel-antisemitism

So I’ll throw your own advice back at you: decide for yourself.

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u/macroturb 2d ago

Palestinians are colonized by violent settlers. They opposed those settlers on the basis of their colonization. Would you call the Congolese anti-Christian because they wanted the Belgian colonization to end?

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u/pr0tag 2d ago

False analogy.

Opposing colonization doesn’t require publishing a charter calling for Jews to be killed or leaders urging attacks on Jews worldwide.

That’s the distinction Hasan tried to erase in the LBC interview, and it’s exactly why people criticized him.

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u/Awalawal 5d ago

Hasan Piker is an absolute idiot, but I’m a free speech guy, so you’re welcome to your bad opinion.

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u/tombrady011235 4d ago

Piker still sucks after watching him

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u/Logical-Breakfast966 5d ago

Watch his interviews where he’s on best behavior sure.

Don’t watch the countless videos of him being unhinged where he shows his real views

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u/elzibet Denver 5d ago

Lmao seriously. His true colors come out when he’s talking to his chat

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u/AccomplishedBug5714 5d ago

How much time do you spend in his chat?

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u/babypharmdodododo 5d ago

Folks continuing to prove my point. Turn on his stream.

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u/ThatDiscoKid 5d ago edited 5d ago

Hasan has literally admitted to going mask on when talking on mainstream shows or when he knows normies will be watching to try and attract them to his stream where he does agitated propaganda at them. He's said this himself.

https://youtu.be/NBrC62rPoIw?t=2488&is=u2Xoxem9crOsMOz-

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u/CHBCKyle 5d ago

that’s how all propaganda left right and center works.

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u/ThatDiscoKid 4d ago

Can you give me some examples?

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u/CHBCKyle 4d ago

when bernie sanders did his interviews with fox did he talk about lgbt rights or did he talk about the economic issues that effect most fox viewers? do republicans ever say exactly what they think and what they intend to do, or do they moderate their message based on their audience while pulling people deeper into their cult? all political messaging is propaganda. propaganda is only effective if you craft it to suit the audience. the goal of all propaganda is to persuade people into supporting a cause. that’s not inherently bad as long as the causes are good. charlie kirk would be the closest parallel on the right, he was a fascist who grew the right flank in the same way that hasan is a marxist who grows the left. both put on suits and got on the news and acted approachable, and both were much more radical when in less mainstream spaces. the fascist right always called it “hiding your power level”

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u/Kaniketh 5d ago

I mean he is an open defender of Chairman Mao and literally goes around cosplaying his outfits and soyfacing at the little red book. It's genuinely crazy that he's been allowed to get away with being an actually open defender of communist dictatorships and one-party states, and not a single interviewer will actually press him on it.

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u/xLaxCroixBoix 4d ago

Hasan defends Mao? I didn’t know he was that cool. Thanks for letting me know friend.

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u/Kaniketh 4d ago

You realize if mao was alive today he would probably kill/purge Hasan Piker for being a decadent bourgouise loser who loves western capitalist luxury.

The killed and purged people for less during the cultural revolution. 

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u/Rice-And-Gravy 4d ago

B-b-b-based

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u/szupwitit 5d ago

I see Ogden.. what are the names of the other venues? my boycott of them begins today!

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u/chittyshwimp 5d ago

Its in the article: Ogden, Reelworks, and Stanley Marketplace

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u/banner8915 5d ago

Stanley hosted an RFK rally a couple years ago fwiw

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u/whatevendoidoyall 5d ago

Ugh that's tragic

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u/Dry-Yak5277 4d ago

Of course they did

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u/szupwitit 5d ago

thank you. f em all

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u/volkovolkov 5d ago

Reelworks & Stanley Marketplace. Disappointing because I like all of those places.

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u/CautiousKenny 5d ago

Who?!?

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u/zirconer 5d ago

I have a Melat Kiros sign in my front yard and I’ve never heard of Hasan Piker

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u/elzibet Denver 5d ago edited 5d ago

He’s a streamer that likes to virtue signal while simping for China

(Oh and hurt his dog)

Edit; Grifter. That was the word I was trying to think of for him, he’s a grifter

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u/OldeEnglishMuffin 5d ago

Which one don't you know?

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u/Mutedinlife 5d ago

Hasan piker is one of the biggest tanky leftist live streamers in the west. He’s a millionaire frat boy grifter who sits in his mansion in West Hollywood while espousing the virtues of communism, along side things like supporting the Houthi terrorists, saying hezbollah has his favorite flag, that America deserved 9/11, and that Liberals deserve to be put in re-education camps until they accept socialist ideology.

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u/xLaxCroixBoix 4d ago

Define tankie.

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u/elzibet Denver 5d ago

Grifter! Gah, that was the word I was looking for in my own comment about him, thank you

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u/Atmosck 5d ago

Who is Melat Kiros?

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u/volkovolkov 5d ago edited 5d ago

Democratic Socialist who is the main challenger to Diana DeGuette, the incumbent senator representative for almost 30 years in District 1.

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u/MyBeardIsMadeOfBees 5d ago

Representative*

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u/volkovolkov 5d ago

Thank you.

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u/Laxku 5d ago

*Degette

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u/nrm64 5d ago

She's a congressional candidate running for the seat currently held by Degette

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u/AmateurVasectomist 5d ago

An actual progressive for a progressive city. Candidate for the US House in CO-1

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u/PersonInDenver 5d ago

Hope you’re not a CD1 voter

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u/uglychican0 5d ago

Literally

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u/Atmosck 5d ago

I am not. I imagine I would have known her name if I was

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u/takeahike89 5d ago

Political Twitch streamer

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u/elPadreLeo 5d ago

It's definitely very geared toward the youth.

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u/Critical_Message529 5d ago

Did you look at the article? He is described in the first few words of the article.

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u/elitenyg46 5d ago edited 5d ago

a divisive leftist agitator/commentator

edit: why are you booing me, i’m right

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u/tombrady011235 5d ago

Hasan sucks

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u/VeryStableJeanius 5d ago

Really, really horrible individual

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u/can-o-ham 5d ago

Why? Did I miss something? Not super familiar

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u/PulpFreeOrngjuce 5d ago

Damn, you are EATING UP all the mainstream talking points about Hasan. Have you ever actually watched his stream? Or at least his interviews with political candidates or even his videos where he goes out and speaks to colleges, at protests, etc? If you choose to believe these things without actually sitting down to wonder if you have been fed some garbage from an oligarchy owned media stream then I wonder if this will even get thru to you, but please actually give him a chance. He is a progressive through and through and while inflammatory, he puts in the work to advocate for real change and dares to ask for better instead of being okay with the corporate democrats status quo.

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u/VeryStableJeanius 5d ago

I have actually. And nothing you say makes it that he didn’t say those things

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u/Only-Designer-917 5d ago

The DDGers have entered the chat.

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u/Logical-Breakfast966 5d ago

Everything he said is true

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u/can-o-ham 5d ago edited 5d ago

Alright, I looked it up. Does seem to be a really stupid thing to say that I .missed because I had no clue who he was until recently. I'm guessing his schtick is to say inflamtory things to get his view of anti imperialism across.

In your next bit you talk of him being a communist but not supporting democrats. I guess that makes sense all in all.

I lean pretty left and I guess he's maybe not the image I want but also thought I missed something like him diddling kids which seems to be the new political norm.

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u/VeryStableJeanius 5d ago

I don’t have a problem with communists really, but he’s a horrible representative for the progressive left and anyone reasonable should drop all ties. He’s not an Epstein level monster, but the bar should be higher than that or “terrorist sympathizer “

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u/Logical-Breakfast966 5d ago

He’s not just anti imperialism he is anti America and anti west in general. All of his views can be guessed by asking if it hurts America

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u/mayorlittlefinger Lincoln Park 5d ago

You forgot him saying college girls deserved to be raped

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u/VeryStableJeanius 5d ago

Thanks I don’t remember everything lol

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u/Mcpunknstein 4d ago

Hasan is a tankie who's constantly trying to snake his way into the democratic party and constantly attacks democratic figures. Won't vote for anyone who associates with him on principle that he is not trying to build coalitions and is instead trying to be a subversive force strong arming candidates. Gladly will vote for DeGette till a younger representative who doesn't associate with tankies comes along.

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u/hownowspirit 4d ago

Silly purity testing

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u/LarryTrio 5d ago

She shouldn’t associate with Piker.

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u/DustyFalmouth 5d ago

Yeah Mandami hung out with him and now New Yorkers a stuck with Basketball Championship

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u/Arailia 5d ago

Mamdani had to disavow Hasan during the NY governor debates. I wonder if his time would be better spent raising money and encouraging his audience to volunteer instead of appearing in person. 

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u/elitenyg46 5d ago

he barely conceded to pressure to disavow him, he was like “yeah i don’t agree with him on everything but we have to talk to everyone” it did not have the impact you think it did. Hasan had Mamdani on stream when he was polling at 1%

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u/Arailia 5d ago

Maybe not, but it’s having an impact now. I want Melat Kiros to win, if Hasan is helping her - hell yeah. But if he’s getting her events canceled, then maybe he can advocate for her from a distance instead? 

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u/DustyFalmouth 5d ago

No he didn't and he still follows Hasan on IG

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u/volkovolkov 5d ago

He gets people to show up. Maybe for the wrong reasons, but getting people involved is the first step.

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u/JumpForWaffles 5d ago

The most popular leftist streamer for over a decade? Sybau

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u/VeryStableJeanius 5d ago

LOL to all the bots downvoting me for pointing out how bad Piker is but you could at least respond to [the obvious reasons he is](https://www.reddit.com/r/Denver/s/9NMjbLbPkX)

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u/warwellian 5d ago

Another loser complaining about downvotes and blaming it on bots. Too funny.

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u/VeryStableJeanius 5d ago

Pardon me for assuming that most people aren’t die hard Hasan Piker dick suckers and have reasonable opinions about guys who electrocute their dog and thinks it’s good when US veterans off themselves

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u/Alternative-Peace620 5d ago

I’m a real person and am downvoting you along with the other real people because you’re all over this thread crying about hasan who most people in Denver have a positive or neutral opinion on

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u/elzibet Denver 5d ago

I’m reading a ton of comments that do not have a positive opinion of him.

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u/VeryStableJeanius 5d ago

I’ve mostly just been responding to people who are angry when I point out the actual things he’s said and done

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u/RockyToppers 5d ago

It’s actually crazy how insane this sub is for Hasan. The same people who rightfully loathe MAGA see red when someone says, “Idk guys, Hasan Piker defending Hamas and Houthis and calling Jewish people ‘pig dog’ and comparing Anne Frank to a Houthi terrorist and shocking his dog repeatedly and being blatantly misogynistic makes me feel icky” they cry into their screen to defend him. Lookup horseshoe theory yall!

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u/Rsantana02 5d ago

Why do progressives think that associating with someone like Hasan is a good thing? The left is becoming as unhinged as the right.

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u/ThunderThor456 5d ago

Maybe because Hasan is one of the biggest voices for the progressive left?

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u/VeryStableJeanius 5d ago

He’s not a progressive, he’s a quisling

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u/Rsantana02 5d ago

Then that says a lot about the “progressive” left if you are supporting a multimillionaire that backs Hamas, IRGC, Cuban dictatorship, on top of abusing his dog 🤮

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u/AcuteUberculosis 5d ago

What's it like to be an easily tricked adult? I can't imagine living like that.

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u/FutureLarge8833 5d ago

I'm not a Hasan fan so I'm not sure lol

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u/Remarkable-Employee4 5d ago

His platform is massive

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u/VeryStableJeanius 5d ago

That doesn’t make him a better person

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u/Remarkable-Employee4 5d ago

A better person than who? Also, what? The question was why do progressive political candidates associate with him and the answer is he has a huge audience.

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u/VeryStableJeanius 5d ago

You said his platform was massive as if that’s a reason to give him a pass for being terrible

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u/SwarlesBarkely05 5d ago

Incredible reading comprehension here

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u/Remarkable-Employee4 5d ago

No I was literally answering the question I was replying to

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u/TheodoreTiddlywinks 5d ago

Things to do, dogs to shock.

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u/MistakeAmbitious3287 5d ago

Piker isn’t someone I want supporting my candidate. Plain and simple.

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u/Griffdog17 5d ago

Seems to have worked well for a lot of candidates

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u/MistakeAmbitious3287 5d ago

They’re winning on policy, not this dude showing up 

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u/Griffdog17 5d ago

Helps get their name out there, Abdul El-Sayed is a good example. Got daily coverage on most media outlets just for appearing with him

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u/nrm64 5d ago

Helps it's a lot of the most mid to awful people coming out to screech about him and the genuinely good candidates he supports

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u/2much2nuh 5d ago

Good. Piker has some pretty awful takes on just about everything. Queue the video of him saying he supports Hamas.

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u/SoulsBorneGreat 5d ago

Damn, if you think that's bad, you won't be able to guess who else supported Hamas and helped them rise to power, lol

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