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@MadamSavvy @Awk20000 🧵Because it's projection. The Piker is entirely performative in his manner of being. It's why the multi-faceted designation sits within the category of lolcow But it goes just a bit beyond that

@MadamSavvy @Awk20000 The Piker Projection™ and The Piker Projection Rule™ are jokes but they carry a truth to them that you have to take seriously: Whether he performs for being emotive or he's expressing accusation towards someone of something he actually has or is doing, are heuristics.

@MadamSavvy @Awk20000 Consider from the very start of his birth (New Brunswick, N.J. because he's an anchor babe), reared (Istanbul, Turkey), his higher education history (poli-sci + comms; all non-STEM degrees), and the financial class he was born into.

@MadamSavvy @Awk20000 He has no real challenges, he has no real purpose, and he's got advantages that are substantial to the point possible envy to someone who would care. But he still is quite insecure about himself.

@MadamSavvy @Awk20000 It's known by The Piker's admission that he is self-conscious about his personal image and the perception of his appearance: body order, body weight and fat, sexual attractiveness, and being seen as an American even though, arguably, he's only assimilated American aesthetics.

@MadamSavvy @Awk20000 I know the term "skin walker" may seem extreme but it's an apt despcription to, not who, but what, The Piker is: he's a Turkish man, who just happens to be legally a 14th amendment protected natural born citizen of the United States, who acts American.

@MadamSavvy @Awk20000 This is no different from @ZohranKMamdani: an ethnic Gujarati and Punjabi Ugandan national of Islamic faith, attaining his American accent since moving to NYC at seven years old in 1998. Consider that for a second.

@MadamSavvy @Awk20000 @ZohranKMamdani The idea that he is, arguably, a New Yorker, but the truth is that given his class birth (upper class or upper middle class in some contexts and circumstances) he was insulated from the riff-raff of the commons and commoners that make New York City what it was and is.

@MadamSavvy @Awk20000 @ZohranKMamdani Because if you look at Islamic communities (no matter how orthodox or unorthodox, as with the Nation of Islam) in NYC or Chicago (or elsewhere), insular enclave formation or enclave membership self-perception keeps individuals in a state of "natural taqiyaa."

@MadamSavvy @Awk20000 @ZohranKMamdani "natural taqiyaa", unlike the typical class insulations due to wealth, where it's a question of classic Marxist, or just merely wealthy class members, self-perception of inadequacy and wants to enjoy the aesthetics of working class mobility sans the dangers,...

@MadamSavvy @Awk20000 @ZohranKMamdani ...you have an insularity that driven by a theological, allegedly moral and ethical, and even more so, alleged spiritual, code of conduct. The result? A very good method actor that is no different from members of the Italian Mafia pretending to be respectable family men in public

@MadamSavvy @Awk20000 @ZohranKMamdani So The Piker, like Zohran, is a natural method actor that will adapt, project, with a strong focus on survivability whilst making himself as convincingly American (or Canadian) to everyone around when their internal psychology and self-image is fundamentally anything but.

@MadamSavvy @Awk20000 @ZohranKMamdani The Piker is more interesting given the fact that his views are a blend of Eurasianism, Turkish supremacist views, Islamic-socialism (Islamic supremacy wrapped in Marxist language and aesthetics), Third Worldism and some sprinkle of Alexander Duginisms.

@MadamSavvy @Awk20000 @ZohranKMamdani but at the surface, in the most pedistrian: The Piker is just a pretentious faggot.

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