Hassan believes in nothing but clicks and views. He's a sociopath. Fuck him and the rest of the political streamers.
Fuck Elon, too, though. They both suck ass.
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It’s fucking crazy how well the “shocked dog”bullshit has stuck.
Explain this then pal… bet you can’t
Do not believe your own eyes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cL__lbQL6g
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.
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.
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.
So he uses a training collar to train his dog to behave while he's busy? The horror.
Is that the point though? Isn't the point that he has done far less to endanger the UK population than Elon, and yet he is banned and Elon isn't? Surely that's worth discussing?
You are the hasbara
I don't even know what that means.
Nobody who stood with Palestinians at the start of the genocide only believes in clicks and views.
I would evaluate if you have reasonable beliefs here. Like do you have enough information to accurately describe someone as a sociopath? To claim what they "only care about"...?
In this case I doubt you do, so it's then strange to be so virulent and adamant.
I’d never heard of him until I listened to him on the Trevor Noah podcast. He sounded normal enough there, granted, that’s just a tiny slice of info.
That and he mostly talked about everything the Dem party was doing wrong.
If I had to guess, because he’s anti Israel, and both our countries are keenly invested in no one having a negative opinion of anything done by Israel. Ever.
Edit: He did shock his dog and I'm laughing at the number of people trying to defend or deny it.
100% exact same people who defend corporations and politicians. Brains completely ground from all the propaganda. Sad to see.
What’s he done?
He’s a bit of a tankie-lite talking piece, but iirc he went on a boat to deliver aid to Cuba so he’s done some good.
The UK is only banning him because he’s anti-Zionist tho.
Cuba is a "tankie" state and the most principled groups in support of it against the genocidal American blockade are "tankies". You are advancing US imperialism by chatting nonsense about so-called tankies, doing the hard work of the red scare for your supposed enemies.
He's also a bit of a show boater, showing up to protests and getting all the attention because of his star power.
I'd also say he tends to soften his critiques in person, where he might get something right, he'll not stick to his guns when confronted.
None of if that makes him wrong per se. But the people who have eaten the anti-hasan hasbara.. well they are indeed a special breed of hog
Or rather, he’s bringing attention to the protests using his star power that they wouldn’t otherwise get from mainstream media.
Also, didn’t most or all of the socialist-leaning anti-Zionist candidates he campaigned with win their primaries?
If you have a platform, use it. Dude’s meeting people where they are, not sure how that’s for “clout” now that real change is being made. Why do you think Fox News is constantly up his ass now?
Yeah I fully agree, and I don't agree with the critics. I'm just giving voice to concerns I've heard levied from people who make organizing protests and streaming protests what they do. Hasan shows up and suddenly it's about them not what they were protesting. And Hasan has acknowledged this and been explicit about not wanting to do that, but it's an unfortunate artifact that comes from their star power. So they don't do it very often.
suddenly it's about them not what they were protesting.
That's only how it is being framed by his critics and their fans, who still think there's something in trying to scrutinize the dog collar.
Every case that I have seen of Hasan, be it showing up at rallies, supporting a candidate, or joining the convoy: his presence is welcomed, seen as valuable and benedicial to the protest, politician, or cause.
Only time I can think where his presence was treated as a liability was the 2024 DNC.
Every case that I have seen of Hasan, be it showing up at rallies, supporting a candidate, or joining the convoy: his presence is welcomed, seen as valuable and benedicial to the protest, politician, or cause.
I mean 99/100 times yes. The one exception I can note was when they went down to the street at the LA protests. And like, there were already plenty of protest streamers there, which is like, thats what they do. And yeah, like, all of a sudden all the protesters were like "Oh holy shit its Hasan!" And wanted autographs etc.. which like, is legitimately distracting from a protest. And so some other live streamers did make comment on their streams (like Merc, a few others who do that kind of streaming. THey make a point to not make it about themselves.
Called out Israeli spying and interfering with American politics through AIPAC and dark money. Israel was also found to be spying on the president and his administration - why would such a close ally spy on their friends? Because they aren't friends. Israel is invading America.
Israel is not invading America lol. The president isn't the boss of America, the oligarchs are, and they're perfectly fine with their friends spying on the government for them.
He may or may not have used a shock collar on his dog while livestreaming. I didn't care about him enough to follow the story to its conclusion, but some people identified the collar as a shock collar while he claimed he removed the metal probes.
He did not shock his dog, but there is a clip where he reaches off screen and then the dog, who was moving at the time, yelps.
Circumstantial evidence at best, but of course the haters RAN with it. No one wants the anti-gambling, anti-zionist, anti-capitalist streamer to be popular. It’s incredible the bullshit they spread about this guy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cL__lbQL6g
The dog also does exactly what a punished dog does, droopy ears and moving slowly to the spot they think you want them at, and the dog sitting in 1 spot for 10 hours a day. Granted I haven't had or seen every dog breed in existance, but I have never seen a dog do any of the things in the video without being shocked yelled at hit or scolded.
He extremely obviously didn't
I said "may or may not" and yall clarified the outcome of the allegations. Most people here said it was right-wing pundits being inflammatory shitheads, so good‐-the dog wasn't hurt.
This has always been baseless conjecture and was promoted by Israeli media.
The only people who believe it are hogs.