Hasan Piker, the biggest progressive political streamer in America, was detained by Customs and Border Protection for hours of questioning upon returning to the U.S. from a trip to France this weekend. Piker posted about the incident on X and later talked about it on stream.
He was detained in Chiago and questioned for two hours about protected journalistic activities like who he’s interviewed and his political beliefs. He was asked whether or not he’d interviewed Hamas, Houthis, or Hezbollah members. He was questioned about his opinions on Trump and Israel and asked about his history of bans on Twitch. His phone and laptop were not confiscated.
Any comment that has to point out his politics or “concerns with him” is completely missing the point.
Yeah, it’s disgusting that people’s first reaction to someone being unjustly detained is that.
progressive
Pretty sure dude is a leftist. Capitalist media has never encountered this before.
Borderline tankie. Remember him being best buds with putin before russia attacked Ukraine? Dude probably still blames NATO for that.
I can’t find any evidence for this? I only found a source of him saying Putin wouldn’t invade Ukraine.
Hasan Piker: I said Russia will never invade Ukraine, because Putin is a bad person, but he’s not a mad person.
Here’s a summary in a meme format.
I don’t care enough to sift through millions of hasan clips from 3 years ago to provide one person source.
I used to watch him before the invasion. But when he started banning pro-NATO people from his chat, and saying that putin is just being defensive, because of NATO’s imperialistic nature.
Dude’s an american idiot.
This is the reason I am extremely cautious with anyone of this ilk. There seems to be too many people who happen to be leftist. Socialist. Whatever. And then out of nowhere… whitewashing of putin/russia/soviets. … because america / nato / West bad.
Which I won’t abide for. Ever
I have a like/dislike perspective on Hasan Piker.
Hes tankie-lite. Critical support for him in this case though, fuck ICE.
Its probably an indicator that I really need to touch grass that I’m primarily curious what Ethan Klein and Lonerbox think of this.
Man, I liked some of Klein’s videos from way back ( idubbbz as well) but when YouTubers shift from whatever content they were making to making content about the platform or others on it I usually check out real quick.
I also can’t do 3 hour podcasts where people talk over each other and yell either so maybe I’m just not the target demo anymore.
Its further an indication that I need to touch grass that when I read your name I think of Vaush’s editor.
It’s too bad they didn’t let him stream it. That would’ve been peak content.
The questioning (though harmless) is often a stepping stone to more drastic measures. In the place where I live (not the US), my local religious police does questioning to make sure that activists are not posting their status online. This sort of measure helps them evade accountability and keeps the general public in ignorance.
The questioning (though harmless)
There’s nothing “harmless” about kidnapping people and coercing them into an interrogation.
This sort of measure helps them evade accountability and keeps the general public in ignorance.
Yep, that’s some of the harm.
In the place where I live (not the US), my local religious police does questioning to make sure that activists are not posting their status online.
Careful. Depending on which not-the-US country you’re in, this could be flagged as anti-semitism.
It would suck if Hasan is getting harassed by the government. I bet if kamala won he wouldn’t have, though.
Yeah, but what has Kamala done to prevent them from harrasing him today? It’s the democrats’ fault he got detained!!1one
Never heard of this guy but must have hit a nerve if a whole Hasbara brigade is showing up here to trash talk him.
That being said, it’s an interesting turn of events that apparently units around immigration take the role of Gestapo. Makes a lot of sense given what types of people would even want to do such a job but it’s still not what I expected when they said fascism is coming back.
Right wing groups have been targeting him for his support of Palestine and being critical of Israel.
It should be a surprise to no one that government goons are totally on board with fascism. Did anyone think for a second that they would have objections? A person that chose to be in a position of authority is going to complain when an authoritarian leader gives them more power? Yeah right. It’s all about the power trip for those thugs.
I find it crazy to hear this coming from the US. It was all over the news when Serbia detained a Croatian singer trying to cross the border or trying to deport people with Croatian citizenship, crazy to see the same thing happening in the US.
Completely normal for USA. There are plenty of people who have been hiding from imperial violence. Snowden, Assange, et al. Always has been.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/abdulrahman-al-awlaki-us-drone-strike-10-years
The US is like that now, under Trump, not just led by Trump.
These people get to ask Hasan head-empty questions for hours and get paid. To think his entire fanbase has been doing it for free this entire time
Ive been stopped and questioned by border patrol for hours at least 3 times over the last 15 years. Apparently I’m an asshole and this is how they “get their revenge” on you. This guy was only stopped once… amateur.
Crazy that in his stream with FD a few weeks ago he was adamant that he’d be one of the last people impacted by the immigration/border control nonsense.
I think it just goes to show how, even otherwise well informed people, can underestimate how much fascism will impact them personally. It can be easy to distance yourself until it is in your face, placing you in cuffs, or forcible removing you from your home. I hope he learns a lesson from this experience.
Remember folks, it starts with the leftists, then it doesn’t stop until we lose for good. Every 80 years.
Is this a reference to some cycle I’m not aware of?
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It didn’t start with leftists. It started with immigrants, but we didn’t do anything, because both parties are united in bigotry and vile hatred against immigrants.
we didn’t do anything,
Who is “we”? Please don’t include me in your nationalist cult.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_religion
The reality is that leftists have constantly been fighting for refugees, while libs/dems have been doing worse than nothing by supporting fascism.
no, it started with leftists. It just started a lot longer ago than you think.
Idk guys, I feel like I’m not going to just let them win. I think we can dish out more than they can.
Haven’t yet. Feelings and thoughts need to become words and actions.
But here’s the thing most leftists are pseudo-leftists (AKA controlled opposition)
So deal with that first.
I’m starting to feel like a lot of the takes against Hasan are in bad faith. I watched a little recap and I felt it was both clear and obvious that YOU (normal person) shouldn’t do what he did.
But being a notable person of interest who was already (questionably?) illegally caught up in a bad system, there’s reason to believe things wouldn’t take a turn for the better just because he asked to lawyer up. So he took a calculated risk and engaged with the situation enough to gather a first hand experience he could report on. Concrete evidence, there’s value in that. It was his decision to make.
To reiterate, obvious YOU don’t do that. Stay silent, lawyer up.
EDIT: Timestamped.
Yeah you don’t have to watch Hasan for too long to realize that most objections against him are empty / bad faith. If he’s guilty of anything at all it’s getting distracted by / yelling at his chat too much. But I chalk that up to general Twitch culture. The reality is that he’s politically activating and engaging tens or perhaps hundreds of thousands of people who wouldn’t be otherwise, or would have been watching slop / right wing pipeline content instead. I wish there were more people like him in streaming, but obviously it’s a difficult niche to exist in.
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They are in bad faith. If you watch a full argument from Hasan, it’s really difficult to not agree with him. The American centric view of the world is distorting everything. Step back, watch events from a different prospective, many things will be clearer.
They are going after white-passing US citizens now?
Hasan is not a very pale-skin name. If his name was Bob, it might be different.
If they’re known left-wingers, yes.
Wow this is bad. Even if you deem questioning necessary, it being done by border protection is a bad sign. There are other mechanisms in place for that.
The US is spiraling fast.
Question
When do who exactly deem that “questioning” journalists is a good idea? Who? Can anyone deem anyone else for “questioning”?
What are the wrong answers? What is the questions about? What do they question about and why?
Hasan is on tape saying his goal is to radicalise his audience. Calling him a journalist mightve sound plausible four years ago.
Sorry, you’re right. He’s an influencer. He will say anything that appeals to his clan. But these types are so incapable of engineering anything that doesn’t funnel into building an audience
If there were legitimate questions about someone’s affiliation with terrorist organisations it does make sense to question them regardless of if they are a journalist or not.
Edit: to clarify I don’t agree with what happened in this case and I would expect a warrant
That’s totalitarian mentality.
But… Is this the case with this guy? He can be investigated by watching and concluding that he says what he thinks is a cool leftist guy would say and don’t hold any beliefs at all to rival his need for an audience that can prove his worth to himself which quickly becomes a desperate way to live
Oh almost certainly not. I’ve clarified my comment
