Yale student OUTSMARTS radical-left Hasan Piker! - TORCHES his Communist BS in front of the class

Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:00]So, a few weeks ago, Hassan [ __ ] debated Yale University students on campus at Yale, and a young conservative student gave him a run for his money and actually, I would say, humiliated him in front of the entire room. Why are we talking about Hassan Per right now? He just got subpoenaed by the Trump administration for going to Cuba to do propaganda on the regime's behalf. He's a communist. He is the fastest growing and largest voice on the left, enticing young Americans to embrace Marxism wholeheartedly. Watch what happened when this very intelligent, very brave student absolutely whooped his ass.

[00:00:34]Let's take a look. Because if the current economic organization of uh the American society persists, then the income inequality that we're facing is only going to worsen.

[00:00:50]um as wealth just stays at the top of society and people who are from a working-class background have a horrible end of that bargain and uh and and their material conditions deteriorate even further also accelerated by climate change too. So what I want to do is try to organize against that and to to ensure that we have the most peaceful transition possible so that we don't um so that we stop starving the potential of the masses here in the United States of America as well as elsewhere around the world.

[00:01:46]All right, here he comes.

[00:01:55]>> Take down this.

[00:01:56]>> Um, first I I'll just outline three reasons why. The first is that America has no homeland. Mr. [ __ ] will assert that America has been an empire since the Spanishame War. I say it started much earlier than that. It started with the establishment of yes the 13 original colonies.

[00:02:14]America has been an empire since its inception. In fact, the land we're standing on today is formed by way of violent displacement of the Quinnipiac, Caseet, and the Winger peoples. Second, America is no ethnoist empire. Every other empire on in history has been ethnationalists with the exception of Rome.

[00:02:37]The British Empire was for white Brits.

[00:02:40]The Mughal Empire was for ethnically Indian people. The Chinese empires were for people who were ethnically Chinese.

[00:02:47]America is not an ethnationalist empire.

[00:02:50]Finally, America is an economic, not a territorial empire. Why is this so significant? I think Mr. Pikiper and I would would both agree that economics are the most important component of America's empire. It is capitalist incentives that draw us to this sort of downfall. And I'm really glad that he brought up the example of Guatemala. I agree that the deposition of Jakobo Arbenes that wasn't economic incentive, but not note the difference. It was not the case that it was a typical colonial extension where America made Guatemala a colony. It was commercial interests. So that's the first thing I'd like to establish. But then the second thing I'd like to say, and this is where I'm in the negative, is that an American empire is greatly preferable to any other type of empire.

[00:03:35]Now, my problem with Mr. Piker's speech, my problem with Mr. Piker's speech is that he lacks a theory of power. He lacks a theory of where power goes.

[00:03:45]Power does not evaporate. And I think it's telling that he would agree with me when he says that it was a tragedy that the USSR fell because suddenly there's a power vacuum and there were real big problems that sprouted from that. I would posit the fall of the American Empire will lead to a very similar situation. By the way, he did say that Hassan Biker said that the biggest tragedy of the 20th century was the fall of the Soviet Union. Just to paint a picture of how left-wing this guy really is.

[00:04:11]>> Why is that important? I thought that one of two things would happen. either we'd return to a system of spheres of influence and we saw how that turned out in early 20th century with World War I.

[00:04:21]It's a much bloodier world I'm sure we don't want to live in.

[00:04:25]And second, America could be supplanted. And I'm grateful to Miss Perry for bringing this up in a question. Mr. [ __ ] Mr. [ __ ] now claims he says that that would never happen. He says there would be no supplanting because the historical record doesn't reflect that. But his examples, the fact that power went back to the people in South Africa, it went away from from the apartheid state and towards the people shows that power does not evaporate. It changes hands. So it's not a question of empire or no empire.

[00:04:53]It's a question of where the power is.

[00:04:55]And I posit it's much better that it's in American hands which are covered in blood than it's in Chinese hands or at the hands of another great power. Why?

[00:05:04]>> Of course. But actually, Hassan [ __ ] I think, would prefer to have the power that the American sphere holds in China's hands. He just recently went to China to do a propaganda tour there as well as Cuba to try to show his Western young radical audience just how good communist China really is. And funny enough, on that trip too, he also got detained and a police officer had to go through his phone to make sure he wasn't sending anything that was illegal in China cuz obviously they don't have free speech there. Piper is somebody who frequently praises dictators like Nicholas Maduro, Fidel Castro, Xihinping of China and terrorist organizations.

[00:05:43]The guy, he's pro- Hamas. He's pro- Houthis. He said all this. If you watch his stream, he's not really closeted about it. I think he would much rather America's enemies holding the power.

[00:05:53]>> Why is this the case?

[00:05:56]>> I'll posit that America gets a lot right. When America gets free speech right, America gets capitalism right.

[00:06:02]America gets a lot right. The fact that we are motivated by competition above all else is the greatest virtue of this country. It means that we get an efficient economy. It has its problems and I'll be the first to admit those.

[00:06:14]But it works a whole lot better than the great leap forward where the state says we need to collectivize this land and 55 million people die. Now, Mr. [ __ ] recently made a trip to China and he commented that this is a nation that's brought 800 million people out of poverty. That was because of reform and opening up. Gener reform and opening up to what? Reform and opening up to the system, the postw World War II system that America created. The opening up to billions of dollars in Western loans from the IMF and the World Bank. American empire has enabled these things and while it's far from perfect by far preferable. And Mr. [ __ ] because you like Mao so much, I'll end with a quote of his that I think you would do well to study, which is Did you get that?

[00:07:02]Did you get that? It's political power grows out the barrel of a gun. We do not want a violent world due to a power struggle when American empire falls.

[00:07:10]America has blood on its hands, but it's better for power to be in American hands than any other.

[00:07:17]>> Absolutely. Now, Hassan is going to get a chance to respond to that, but this kid did a beautiful job basically making the case that America's not perfect. You can criticize it, but it is by far the best system provably. And actually, the the types of ideas and the economic models that Hassan Per and his supporters want to replace it with have provably failed throughout history, not just because they were bad or by by circumstance, but because the idea of a centralized economy is impossible. You remove the free market. You remove real economic forces, supply and demand from dictating prices and who's allowed to create business enterprises and all of that and you instead put a small group of elites, the government in charge of managing that. Many of these people are just revolutionaries or bureaucrats or people who don't even have private sector experience. That's why the Soviet Union failed. That's what China had to reconcile with. And the reason that they're doing well economically in many regards is because they've opened up to capitalism. They've opened up to the West in many ways. Think about all the off offshoring that we've done in our country doing business with China.

[00:08:26]That's who we offshored to. And you absolutely cannot have socialism without having successful capitalism first.

[00:08:33]Because who are you going to tax? Who are you going to redistribute the wealth from? You need the successful millionaires and billionaires who have built businesses, built jobs, and created wealth and value in order to then take that and steal that to spread it around to everyone else in society and to create this forced equality that Karl Marx wants. All right. Now, let's hear Hassan respond.

[00:08:54]>> For gentlemen, the guest >> um what do I what's the format? How do I say for the speaker? Is that how you >> just ask the question?

[00:09:03]>> Okay. All right. Never mind. Just wanted to abide by tradition. that's been around >> for the gentleman.

[00:09:14]>> You have somewhat of a deeply cynical I would say worldview about how power is supposed to continue. Um you did bring up an example in apartheid South Africa where the people were able to achieve liberal democracy to a certain degree.

[00:09:34]There were issues and there's still issues in South Africa.

[00:09:40]Why do you think that the abolition of US empire would create a power vacuum that creates a Chinese empire for example? And why do you think that that system would be far more violent as opposed to an evolution just like what we saw with the American Empire being a far better legacy than let's say um monarchies that existed?

[00:10:10]>> Obviously an easy one.

[00:10:14]>> That's an excellent question. And I'm not I don't believe that when American Empire falls, if it does, China will necessarily take over. But I do believe that apparently some people do.

[00:10:26]But but but I do believe that power doesn't evaporate. Power is something that doesn't simply disappear. It falls into different hands. And so I think as this applies to my speech, Mr. Piper, what I would say to you is that it has to go somewhere. And again, I think one of two things will happen. Either it'll be assumed by another great power. And unfortunately, there is no better great power than America. I really wish there were.

[00:10:48]And the other alternative is that we return to a system of geopolitics which is contingent on spheres of influence. I don't believe we should return to the time when it's kingdoms fighting each other. I think that's a much bloodier world. In an in an interview with Ezra Klein last week, Marakari made the comment uh former YP president. I will uh comment. uh he made the comment that we that like liberalism has become a victim of its own success which is to say that liberalism has succeeded to such an extent that we have forgotten Mr. of my generation, your generation, my parents' generation, your parents generation. Hi, mom and dad. I hope you're you're watching this. Uh, which they are. Uh, we don't remember what it was like before this liberal system. We don't remember what it was like before World War II. We don't remember how bad it was. And so, while I am right there with you that America has created such evil through its colonial empire, I also believe that it is far better than anything we've ever had. The reason why we have intellectuals like Fukuyama saying it's the end of history. It's because this is almost as nice as we've ever had it.

[00:11:56]>> And with that, the gentleman is thank >> I don't know. I I thought he was going to go a different direction with that.

[00:12:02]But what I would say is the American economic system is marked by voluntary exchange of labor and resources. That's what capitalism is. So if I have an idea, I can collaborate with the people who I want to create a business. If I have resources, if I have a talent, I can sell those resources or my talent, my skills on the in the free market for a price that I negotiate with a partner, with a business partner or a customer or a client. Um, what is what it's not is the Chinese or the the Mauist or the Marxist economic system which is inherently violent because all economic activity is generated by and facilitated through the government which is violence. It's force. If you choose to to conduct economic out activity outside of the government of a communist country, you get put in prison. Your business gets shut down. You or you disappear. You get put up against a brick wall and shot. Everything that the government does really is a form of violence. If you don't pay your taxes, then you are going to go to jail. If you resist that and don't go to jail, then you're going to get, you know, the police are going to deal with you. I guess if you fight back, if you extrapolate that along what what would be the extreme scenario, you're eventually going to have a gun to your head. You have to pay your taxes. So free market capitalism is a system of voluntary exchange of peace. It's predicated on peace and and uh human free will rather than forced equality, government force, the the gun of the government being the bottom line to what economic activity can even occur. So if you're building an empire on one form of economy versus the other, the free market capitalist system is going to be inherently more peaceful and bitter. I think it's really interesting his idea about the kind of like the fluidity of power and how it goes from one paradigm to the next. When Rome fell, it was definitely the Catholic Church, the Holy Roman Empire, or I guess the Vatican really is what it would be at the time.

[00:14:06]Not the Holy Roman Empire. That was the German states. But it just I mean they were still within the Vatican sphere of influence and power. But all of the wealth and all the power extended was inherited from Rome to the Vatican and still today in many ways is held by the Vatican and uh the Catholic Church. And the power held by the British Empire was inherited when when they collapsed slowly in the 20th century. It was inherited by America. we took that that uh space at the top of the hierarchy of the world and now we're basically serving the same role that Britain once did that Rome did at one time before them. So I think it's natural to realize that if America ever collapsed that that power would be transferred in some way and the only person or the only entity that I see being able to inherit that or that would want to take it would be the other adversarial giants like Russia or China. And I mean it's not going to be Cuba or Latin America. It's not going to be Britain again or many of the Western European nations that are a shadow of what they once were. So, I I I don't know. I think that that's kind of a self-evident and obvious point that he's making. And of course, Hassan's idea is that it's going to be held in the power of the people, I guess, the proletariat class, the working class. But again, it's it's not theoretical. We have examples where exactly that has happened. And we see the downstream effects of that in Cuba, in Venezuela, in Zimbabwe or Rhdesia before that uh in China and in Russia and any of these Soviet or socialist countries rather. It always ends up in disaster when the power of the state is disseminated to the people. The people are actually unable to even hold that power. it ends right back into a the hands of a small group of elites that are even more bloodthirsty and less competent than the people who were there in power before.

[00:16:00]Really, the truth, and I'll end on this cuz this is this can go in a lot of different directions, but the truth of Marxism is that it's not an anti- elite or anti-establishment theory. It's a replacement of the elites. The Marxist think of themselves as being the people who will be in charge once we have the revolution. They envy the people at the top of the the current hierarchy of power and they themselves want to take their place. So they need to energize the masses and say, "Hey, if you put me in charge, if we take down this king or this monarch, this or this empire, then it'll be better for you and I'll I'll make sure it's better for you. Just trust me on that." And then what actually happens is those people get in charge, Vladimir Lenin, Maoadong in China, and they are not only unable to deliver on their promises, but they're not really interested in doing that.

[00:16:53]They're interested now in enjoying the the status and power that they got and they think of themselves like gods. They outlaw every other form of religious worship and traditional values. Mao did that with the four olds. He banned traditional culture, traditional architecture, traditional spiritual beliefs, and you replace that with this allegiance to the state. Russia did the same thing, killing and and destroying Orthodox priests and churches. So, we can't be ignorant to that history. If you guys aren't read up on the history of communist countries, I would encourage you to to be so because I think it's coming for America. Hassan [ __ ] is extremely popular. He's gaining a lot of momentum. He's really building his audience tremendously among the uh the under 30 left-wing people, people my age that are disenfranchised and they hate America and they're really being seduced by his dangerous ideas and uh we need to be equipped and prepared to deal with it in a rhetorical way like this.

[00:17:54]So, I thought this kid did a very good job sparring with Han [ __ ] taking him down a notch. Let me know what your thoughts are in the comments. If you guys like the video, please leave a like and subscribe to the channel. Thank you so much for watching and I'll see you next