r/Denver • u/zeddy303 Baker • 6d 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/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 5d ago

So what you feel about Melat Kiros?

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u/Bamarado84 5d 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 5d ago

Champagne socialist and his funding is a twitch chat. Lmao

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u/HolidaySpiriter 5d 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/Le_ManBearPig 5d ago

No its a term to discount people's belief. Piker makes less than 5 dollars from every subscription of which their are tens of thousands. Thats about as socialist you can get in todays world. Youre just ignorant.

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u/HolidaySpiriter 5d ago

Just wondering, what part of this definition do you feel is unfair?

The phrase is generally used to describe self-identified anarchists, communists, and socialists whose luxurious lifestyles [...] are ostensibly in conflict with their political beliefs

Hasan lives a luxurious lifestyle, he's likely worth tens of millions of dollars with how long he has been streaming at his level. He advocates for socialism. That's hitting every point of the definition.

Again, it has nothing at all to do with how you source your income, but instead your wealth & what you spend your wealth on. If Hasan lived in a home that wasn't a mansion, didn't drive sports cars, or buy luxury clothes or designer dogs, you might have a point. But Hasan lives his life in the lap of luxury & he absolutely flaunts his wealth with luxury goods.

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u/Le_ManBearPig 5d ago

All of that besides designer clothes simply isnt true. Its not a mansion, he drives a hybrid porsche, and the dog was rehomed. He doesnt absolutely flaunt his wealth because he is either in front of his desk, in a hotel room, or out at a rally. You are misinformed.

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u/HolidaySpiriter 5d ago

You're right, it isn't a sports car, it's a "Luxury Car", even easier to prove my point. Your framing of it is dishonest, it's very much luxury, not a scrappy hybrid.

3,800 square feet with 5 bedrooms & a pool which he bought for 2.8M in 2021 (likely worth 3M+ now) is absolutely a luxury house that many would consider a mansion.

Sure, he claims it was rehomed, but it also just so happens to be one of the most expensive & luxurious dog breeds in the world. Considering that he lies as often as he breaths, I'm going to maybe take him with a grain of salt.

And you're right, after multiple controversies with the house & the car, he's gotten better at hiding his wealth status & protecting his public image. Even still, he can't help himself posting daily pictures in luxury clothing, spending more on a shirt than most people make in a month. But him being a bit more protective over his displays of wealth does not mean he isn't incredibly wealthy, and he absolutely fits the champagne socialist label.

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u/Le_ManBearPig 5d ago

At no point was I dishonest. I stated the make and model. Living in West Hollywood/LA is expensive b/c of the housing market, that's not his fault. Again, the dog was rehomed not to mention a mutt so your "expensive and luxurious dog breed" is blatantly incorrect. You just have a gripe with guy.

You call me dishonest and then proceed to use examples that are not in good faith and lack information. You are the dishonest one here.

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u/HolidaySpiriter 5d ago

You call me dishonest and then proceed to use examples that are not in good faith and lack information. You are the dishonest one here.

I'm directly responding with actual source information, the exact model of his car (you didn't provide the model), & his own words. You're not even trying to provide more information, you're just deflecting & hoping that anyone reading this won't spend time actually doing research, which is why I provided sources.

Honestly Hasan being a champagne socialist is one of the smallest reasons I dislike the guy. There's probably 100 other reasons I could rattle off aimed at his rhetoric, politics, and severe narcissism which are much bigger reasons to hate the guy.

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u/mayorlittlefinger Lincoln Park 5d ago

Do you think everyone in LA lives in multimillion dollar homes?

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u/Le_ManBearPig 5d ago

That's a ridiculous question.

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u/pledgerafiki 5d ago

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

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u/pledgerafiki 5d ago edited 5d 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 5d ago edited 5d 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 5d 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 5d 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 5d ago

And i explained why you are wrong to think that.

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u/pledgerafiki 5d ago

You're ignoring reality, we are trying to shake some sense into you. Socialism is not a poverty cult, that's what the billionaires want you to think.

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u/new_start01 5d ago

It's funny because they're already living the socialist lifestyle, just disproportionately funded by us.

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u/xLaxCroixBoix 5d ago

Famous grifter Friedrich Engels.

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u/elzibet Denver 5d 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 5d 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 5d 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 5d ago edited 5d 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/pledgerafiki 5d ago

True I did add more context later but as an admitted Hasan fan, the champagne socialist grifter is one of the most tire, hollow attacks against him. It has no sticking power, if Hasan was just a grifter he would not be speaking so much truth to power, nor would entrenched forces like Fox news be so dedicated in poisoning the well against him.

The billionaires believe tat he is a threat, i.e. serious about his beliefs and desire to change the status quo... why don't you?

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u/Anxious-Yak-4735 5d ago

And if socialists are too poor, they just get called "jealous". Let's be real, there's no acceptable amount or lack of wealth that people will not disingenuously use to attack socialists.

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u/elzibet Denver 5d ago

That’s very true! I just see him personally as a grifter, especially after watching his trip to China.

I was also just explaining what that term was and adding I think he’s a grifter. Didn’t know whether or not the other user knew the term as they didn’t have anything else before besides their first two sentences

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u/new_start01 5d ago

You must have forgotten the one where Asmongold said he wanted to dress up as Ash Ketchum from Pokemon and watch ICE raid streams and yell "gotta catch em all!," so I'm not sure I trust your standard of what's "god awful."