February: Socialist buys a Porsche, people get big mad
Hasan Piker is rich, okay? He may espouse the benefits of democratic socialism and teach the kids about the horrors of late-stage capitalism, but he is also a pretty rich boy with expensive taste. Last year, when he bought an almost $3 million home in West Hollywood, California, the internet almost imploded with people calling him a hypocrite. “Everyone collectively needs to calm down,” Piker famously said on Twitter. Well guess what? They didn’t—especially not after Hasan bought a Porsche Taycan in February this year
Maybe people were mad that he bought what was, ostensibly, the same car an old, white plastic surgeon would buy to zip around Hollywood Boulevard in. Maybe they were mad that he livestreamed himself buying the $200,000 whip, which seems especially egregious if you believe that a socialist streamer shouldn’t be rich. We could have this argument until we’re as blue as Hasan’s Porsche in the face—I’m just happy daddy got his dream car.
