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It’s fucking crazy how well the “shocked dog”bullshit has stuck.
Explain this then pal… bet you can’t
Responsible dog owners remember to switch off their tesla coils.
This is an excellent point that I had not previously considered.
Do not believe your own eyes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cL__lbQL6g
My friend's dog was traumatised because his wife opened a moisturiser tube too loudly. Watch any dog for any extended period of time and then armchair diagnose its trauma.
My eyes are telling me this is bullshit because they work, get yours checked
Must be a walkie talkie randomly placed on his streaming setup, and the dog reacted like it got shocked, and the dog just likes being in one spot for 10 hours a day and does the droopy ears like it was punished. Every sign points to it but you have to consider, hasan said he didn't do it.
If you look at it frame-by-frame, you can see the dog is kicking the bed. I had dogs accidentally kicking the stair, they also reacted like that.
Now please tell me about how other fascist misinformation campaigns are right too! Tell me that gamergate wasn't an astroturfed movement by Stormfront and Steve Bannon to make white people flinch at minorities, but a real consumer revolt! Tell me that the Holocaust never happened and that the Jews drank the blood of German aryan children and gave predatory loans to the average German citizen to push them into "debt slavery"!
It’s disappointing how well the “question my personal behavior, question the cause” narrative has taken root. Piker is human. He can have some great points, good intentions, and the charisma to become a voice in the moment. It doesn’t make him inviolable. He has his flaws, shortcomings, and blindspots like all of us. He treats his dog like property and a set piece. Want to make him a better candidate for leadership of the cause? Demand that he do better and remind him that just because he’s on the right track most of the time he’s not above reproach. If you just want a leftist version of Trump whose shortcomings we ignore because they get done what we want done; fuck you.
You speak like you have the luxury. This was years ago and the collapse of your country is imminent. Do you really want to start burning a leader at the stake with some flaws in favor of a gang of criminals? This is precisely why you're in this predicament. Look around you. Do better yourself. You have little choice but compromise at the moment. Burn him at the stake later when you're not actively dying as a country. So goddamn unbelievable and insufferable.
His dog lives a better life than most humans do and is well loved and taken care of. Source: Every single person who knows her in real life and interacts with them. Hell you can see it from their interactions on stream but you wouldn't know that since you don't watch clearly.
The dog is fine, get a job
I dunno, I agree with a lot of things he says but I watched that video with the dog and it looks pretty clear to me that he did have a shock collar on the dog.
He may not have actually pressed it on screen, but he moved his hand to it and the dog knew exactly what that meant and you could see it in the reaction.
The fact he seemingly wants to force an animal to sit in the corner like an ornament for his stream in the first place is also particularly problematic.
That all being said, I don't think he should be banned from the UK and Elon should be banned and his businesses banned.
Anything's possible when you make shit up
So he uses a training collar to train his dog to behave while he's busy? The horror.
- the Narcissist Prayer, written by Dayna Craig
Welcome to step 3, ye flying monkeys.