you live in the clown-world with me, idiot
Channel: Apostle of Azathoth
Date: 2022-07-24

This video was cut from a longer one that the curator of HasanAbi Industries clipped from Hasan Piker's live-stream on twitch.tv/hasanabi
Hasan Piker's channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/HasanAbi
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Despite having good reason to take this one personally, I actually still like Joe Rogan, and his podcast, and I don't want him to be "canceled" (whatever the hell that means these days). I am genuinely grateful that his podcast convinced me to give Sam Kinison and Richard Prior's comedy a second chance, that it introduced me to the work of Dr Hart Hart, AND I even think if you listen carefully to earlier episodes you can discern that Rogan actually knows a bit more about American deep politics than he lets on.

The essential point raised by Piker is this: the "eye-sores" that so many love to complain about are not just "eye-sores". They are the fruits of a gross abdication of responsibility by the government on every level, which--I would add--is itself the result of a creeping, insidious (and often coerced) abandonment of civic life by well-intentioned, politically educated, and working class American people. Like it or not, we are all stuck in clown world together. If the bi-partisan status quo in Washington of neoconservative imperialism wedded to neoliberal austerity is not dismantled, we will continue seeing more violence in our streets. The sort of rhetoric Rogan is using in this clip ironically is going to become more and more appealing to the average person.

To the advanced and resolute among you--please remember: the party of Jackson is not your friend, even when it does something you like. Christopher Wray is also not your friend, even when he jails someone you don't. The only way out of this quagmire is to build independent working class institutions with presence and autonomy in every area of civic life. Be weary of tailism, movementism, and other leftist deviations. Do not neglect your theoretical training, for it is essential, regardless of the disdain it may provoke. Do not underestimate the task before us: the combined might of the 14 eyes is no mere Guard Department.