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To have Left Twitter pulsate under the heavy influence of yet another prominent leftist figure being scrutinized for something completely benign isn’t an uncommon occurrence, and if BreadTubers were mostly the victims of prior installments in this saga, now it’s streamers’ turn to pay penance–on Thursday, all hell broke loose as news of Hasan Piker buying a $2.74 million house in West Hollywood made the rounds, and it predictably devolved into a whole discourse on just how much are self-avowed socialists allowed to own before they’re considered defectors and agents of the bourgeoisie.
Some of you may already be puzzled by this notion–why in the hell would someone with socialist ideals not be allowed to own a nice house, especially if the amount they make is exactly proportionate to their aspirational standards of living? Well this is essentially a spiritual succession of the case levied against Bernie Sanders, one where his decades of slowly accumulating wealth and a moderately-successful book rollout saw himself comfortably propelled to millionaire status, much to liberals’ dismay.
Discarding the ridiculous nature of suggesting someone can’t advocate for socialist policies if they hit a…
