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.
Pathetic, and for the record Hasan would interview Hamas, because interviewing someone is not an endorsement of someone if you aren’t a piece of shit fraud like the members of the Trump administration who treat interviews as theater to spread propaganda with no evidence are.
Assuming someone interviewing someone you consider a threat is thus by association a threat of the same kind is a shockingly dangerous precendent to set and basically spells out the extinction of a free press in no uncertain terms.
That may be true but he also does explicitly support hamas.
Show us a video clip or you’re a pathetic liar
He explicitly supports Palestinian resistance
What’s wrong with supporting Hamas?
Palestinians have a legal right to armed struggle
Palestinian right of armed resistance
UN top court says Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories is illegal
Then again if this how many US liberals feel, I am glad I left the US.
Fuck Hamas.
Edit: …and everyone who supports them.
Is anyone surprised? This isn’t a jab at Hasan, it’s just a reminder that fascists will crack down on opponents. The likes of Hasan will be deliberately targeted until they’ve been silenced one way or another, and then they’ll come for you.
I’m actually surprised it didn’t happen sooner, but it’s still newsworthy.
This is basically a warning to him to get out of dodge.
Probably a warning to others like him, too.
Trump has been openly talking about persecuting his political opponents, so this is just an extension of that.
Is “are you surprised?” the measure we use now to determine if something is worth reporting on?
They can’t really tell the difference between Hasan Piker, Mahmoud Khalil, and Yahya Sinwar. They literally don’t know there is a difference, and don’t particularly care to investigate. It’s all just “terrorist,” just some of them live in the US and are allowed on the internet. For some reason. Temporarily.
It would suck if Hasan is getting harassed by the government. I bet if kamala won he wouldn’t have, though.
Brown people being harmed, neoliberals: “How can I make this about who i voted for?”
How can you talk about Hasan at a time like this. There is a GENOCIDE happening. Disgraceful.
Yeah, but what has Kamala done to prevent them from harrasing him today? It’s the democrats’ fault he got detained!!1one
She did nothing. Shame kamala.
I’m glad he was released, this shouldn’t have happened. Meanwhile, a random Iraqi who was legally, iirc, here was sent to Rwanda. We know nothing else about that afaik.
Hopefully the border agents learned something.
Brain rot and no accountability 🤷
Border agents aren’t capable of learning anything but new laws to punish brown people with. Smart people aren’t good strongmen for fascism.
Fox version, if they even cover it:
“A known terrorist supporter was questioned about his pro-hamas stances and his hatred of America, hatred of our great president especially, and the left naturally are losing their minds over this! Of course they would because they also hate America and hate freedom. They want hamas to run America into the ground and they want transgender Communism forced down your childrens throats! Thank God for the great job border protection and customs does, he’s just lucky he got to leave outside of a casket! More than he deserves!”
MAGA: mhmm mmhmm, sound right. Good thing border patrol and customs protects us! We need to give ICE more money! There’s nothing wrong at all with this picture!
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How exactly is this good?
Remember folks, it starts with the leftists, then it doesn’t stop until we lose for good. Every 80 years.
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.
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.
no, it started with leftists. It just started a lot longer ago than you think.
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.
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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.
They are going after white-passing US citizens now?
If they’re known left-wingers, yes.
Hasan is not a very pale-skin name. If his name was Bob, it might be different.
this isn’t about his skin or name. they knew who he was, and they already had questions for him about his views and even interviews he’s done. this is 100% trying to suppress 1A
Should he be detained like that, no.
He’s an absolute scumbag though
No fan of Hasan, but this shouldn’t be happening to anyone.
He literally supports terrorism on stream - no wonder he got in trouble
That is nonsense, cite your sources
Here are my sources, Sam Seder dismantling Ethan Klein while Hasan gives context to all the lazy slander y’all are leveling at him.
“America deserved 9/11”
https://drive.google.com/file/d/15uuk6hXOmFWT96QzdoCtPZLylOPjHoVa/view
His own words, from his own stream. Your argument is invalid
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The 5 dancing Isralies would agree america deserved 9/11.
We did, tho.
We literally murdered 100s of thousands prior to 9/11 and then we proceeded to murder millions of innocents after. We still deserve it.
That and we had intel that such an attack was imminent and the Bush administration was okay with it bc they wanted to kill millions more.
I wouldn’t say deserve, but I’m not surprised it happened.
If you actively do something to someone, and have the prior knowledge to know what their response will be, you deserve that obvious response. If you antagonize another perpetually, you deserve their strike back. It’s not hard to follow, we literally teach this to toddlers. Violence and hate begets violence and hate, and people can only take so much before snapping.
The only people who don’t get it are maladjusted humans who were sheltered from consequences in the past.
I don’t think that we should teach toddlers, or anyone, really, that anyone ever deserves violence.
Here is a simple question, if Hasan did say the U.S. “deserved” 9/11 like the fear mongers in this thread are trying to twist his words into and he meant it the way y’all claim he did, wouldn’t he still be calling for more terrorism against the U.S.?
If Hasan isn’t actively calling for terrorism… what made him stop? Does he think the score was settled and it is back to U.S.-50 points vs Radical Islam -50 points on the scoreboard?
No, Hasan is clearly making a point about how blowback from brutal imperial practices becomes nearly inveitable after a certain point, the use of “deserve” he is to denote how in a system where people act as political representatives of groups and derive power from publicly representing them, the more one group commits violence against another group the more likely the group of victims are to retaliate with force.
To make the logical jump that this must mean that Hasan wants more 9/11s to happen to the U.S. where random U.S. citizens are indiscriminately killed as a symbol for something they do not control is disengenous to the extreme, and I have said elsewhere in this thread, a step in an extremely dangerous direction for the health and free speech of our society.
Hi, I was in New York for 9/11. I was a young teen and I remember the whole day very clearly. Two adults who were positive influences in my life died when those towers collapsed.
As a country, we did deserve it. We had it coming. It’s still tragic, but it was a tragedy of our own making.
And people like you who abuse the truth of that tragedy to try and invalidate or silence the people who devote their lives to trying to get this country fixed, are scum.
I agree (except for the “scum” part) but would not complain if border security singled me out like they did him.
He wasn’t beaten up or thrown into prison.
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Well the only new point I made by posting that reply is that someone who abuses 9/11 to silence others is scum, so it doesn’t seem like you actually agree with me at all. It seems like you’re just piggybacking on my personal experience and conviction to smuggle in the laughable notion that you’d happily submit to needless hours of federal interrogation about your personal political views as some kind of virtue, in a limp-wristed attempt to normalize fascistic creep.
You look just as transparent to me at the first guy I replied to.
Ethan Klein, known piece of internet trash.
Ethan Klein, notorious ignoramus
“America Deserved 9/11”
-Hassan Piker
Add also a solid bunch of antisemitism to that. Dude, is a god damn lunatic.
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This has to be troll
I don’t think so.
Many people have been calling anything speaking against Israel and its actions (genocide) in Palestine antisemitic, when it’s not saying anything about Jewish people or Judaism. Criticism against the existence of or actions of Israel is, more accurately, anti-Zionism, which isn’t racism and doesn’t deserve any special protection, just like criticism of American hegemony isn’t racism.
Ironically, conflating antisemitism with antizionism is antisemitic.
The state of Israel is the largest scapegoating of Judaism in history.
Lol your most solid source is a random post from some politician’s web page?
He opposes terrorism. Which is why he opposes Israel. Which is what gets him in trouble.
He may also have said some things in support of terrorism by Hamas, which would be fucked up in my opinion. I don’t know and I have no plans to take this web page seriously about it. He is still allowed to go on the internet and say those things, according to the first amendment, and this attempt to threaten him about it is horrifying whatever his opinions are. What part of “I get to say whatever the fuck I want because those are my opinions” doesn’t make sense here?
Lol your most solid source is a random post from some politician’s web page?
Dude, you have a PDF there with ALL THE RELEVANT CITATIONS AND CLIPS from his streams in second paragraph. This is the primary source. You can’t bring anything better to the table.
He is still allowed to go on the internet and say those things, according to the first amendment, and this attempt to threaten him about it is horrifying whatever his opinions are. What part of “I get to say whatever the fuck I want because those are my opinions” doesn’t make sense here?
What part of “I get to say whatever the fuck I want because those are my opinions” doesn’t make sense here?
Promoting terrorism isn’t protected by free speech laws. Never was, never will be
Also, you don’t have to watch Hasan Piker for long to see that this characterization of him is totally absurd, I don’t know whether it is more embarassing that people actually believe Hasan Piker is like this or that they are willing to lie so boldfacedly about it.
Hasan doesn’t advocate for violence like this, I am sure he has said some spicey shit but trying to frame his as a terrorist is a dangerous road to walk and these people are doing it gleefully.
Don’t take this the wrong way, I hate terrorism and nothing justifies it but the American government didn’t care about American or non white people dying while forming an alliance with Pakistan to train terrorists in Afghanistan. They knew full well how dangerous these people were. What the American government basically did was hit a hornet’s nest violently in hopes that they will attack your neighbour, and act surprised when some of them came to bite your own face. If a person did that, they he would be a fool. If the American government does that, it’s ‘a mistake’ at best.
“America Deserved 9/11”
Let’s phrase this a different way. “America reaped what it sowed,” or “America made its bed and is now lying in it.” This is a pretty solid “yup” from me. We armed, trained, and funded the leaders of the group that carried out the attack, among many other things
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Hey now, I’ve met some pretty goddam intelligent rocks in my time.
No one is arguing whether America or Israel is bad.
No one deserved to be killed or lose their loved ones on 9/11 or any other event. Thinking that civilians deserve to die because a government is bad is terrorist mentality.
When someone says “America,” it seems obvious they’re talking about the country as a whole or its leadership, and not individual people. He very clearly is not saying “Americans deserved to die.”
That is not as obvious as you think it is. I would argue that the first thing most people would think it meant is “americans deserved to die”, not “the Bush administration deserved the scrutiny and criticism it brought”
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Which part is nonsense? The part where he said the houthis actions were a good thing, the part in the full debate you linked where he quadrupled down on it, or the fact that the houthis are registered as a terrorist organization and have kidnapped and held innocent civilians hostage for a year?
I saw the full unedited Ethan and Hasan debate, and Hasan’s context and excuses just made me disgusted.
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lol someone from programmingdev would have different political views they never see political posts
You’re doing the thing.
Hasan explained why he supports the Houthis actions, why are you leaving out that context? Is it because most people might actually sympathize with it as well? Y’all just can’t help yourselves with your outrage, can you? lmfao
No one sympathizes with the houthis.
Also I’m not leaving out any context. There is no universe where anything the houthis did was excusable. Hasan did explain it, and it made him look worse. He tries to justify the kidnapping of innocent civilians (some Asian workers who had nothing to do with it, who were working on a brittish vessel only partially owned by some Jewish person.) and holding them hostage for a year in that debate. “What else were they supposed to do?” How about not terrorism? How about going to Palestine? How about activism, propaganda, anything other than terrorism?
While you scrutinize the finer points of morality relating to the detainment of sailors as part of an economic blockade, Israel is intentionally starving millions of children. Your priorities are so out of whack it’s absurd that you don’t recognize it. You don’t have to support the Houthis to acknowledge that their economic blockade of Israel is justified. If engaging in that level of nuance makes me a terrorist in your eyes, you’ve completely lost the plot.
Besides, the word terrorist has always been used by the US as a propaganda tool to paint specific militant groups that are enemies of US empire as barbaric and inhuman. If the basic definition of terrorism were applied fairly across the board then the IDF and US military would be considered the most prolific terrorists and the US and Israel the largest state sponsors of terror. The standard of violence is set by the oppressors.
I wish I was as articulate as you. You explain things very well. I just go 😡
Lemmy is truly a leftist hivemind.
You are vaguely referencing a bunch of stuff and simultaneously being angry I am not being specific enough.
Be specific, what are you claiming Hasan has done illegally or wrongly? You claim he “supports” a “terrorist” organization but the onus is on you to prove in exhaustive and specific terms why I should believe you when you say the words “support” and '“terrorist” that you aren’t just moving empty hot air and hate around with your mouth.
I saw the full unedited Ethan and Hasan debate, and Hasan’s context and excuses just made me disgusted.
Nobody is surprised by this, your behavior makes it crystal clear this is the kind of position you would have.
You’re trying to delegitimize what I’m saying by saying I’m emotional and unspecific, and attacking my character. You’re purposefully playing dumb to avoid the actual point I’m making. Then you try to move the goalpost by asking what he’s done that is illegal or wrong, which is not what I’m talking about.
Here are the direct quotes so there is no mistaking it. Both points were reiterated in the video you linked.
“I think what the houthis are doing is a good thing” -Hasan
“We support you” -Hasan when interviewing a houthi terrorist.
Hasan is a terrorist supporter as evident by the above direct quotes.
As for what I found disgusting was when he excused his claims about the rape allegations being false and saying there was no evidence. Also in the video you linked.
Nobody is surprised by this, your behavior makes it crystal clear this is the kind of position you would have.
What is your point with this? Are you shaming me for watching the full debate that was supposed to clear everything up on both sides? Also didn’t you just link an asmongold-style reaction video to that whole debate?
“I think what the houthis are doing is a good thing” -Hasan
That’s pretty vague. If I said I support what America does, that doesn’t necessarily mean I support the worst actions the state has ever taken.
Hasan is a terrorist supporter as evident by the above direct quotes.
Again, just because a group ends up on a terrorist list doesn’t really mean much besides that they’re currently unaligned with US interest. The “terrorist” dogma has really lost its bite since the war on terror began.
If the context was “America kidnapped civilians” and someone said “I think what the Americans are doing is a good thing”, then yes, that would paint a bad picture. And it was vague at first but after Hasan explained himself in the debate, it became clear that he was excusing the kidnappings.
Do you not think what they did was terrorism? Do you want to explain to the hostages that they were just overreacting and that their kidnappers actually aren’t that bad, and it’s just some dogma?
He literally supports terrorism on stream - no wonder he got in trouble
Defamatory accusations like this literally need a video source.
Hitchen’s razor: “What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.”- -
✍︎ arscyni.cc: modernity ∝ nature.His takes are pretty well known outside of the echo chambers like this one. It’s worth noting that I delivered the proof and it got downvoted to oblivion - people here specifically DO NOT want to hear the truth
Where’s this proof? All I see is you linking to a video of him saying America deserved retaliation from all the peoples it’s fucked over, over the years.
Insensitive and inflammatory sure, but it is not supporting terrorism.
I initially linked to open letter by congressman Torres that talks in detail about what Hasan said live on stream. That letter includes PDF with all the evidence - citations, and clips with all the shit Hasan said.
Thanks.
Okay, so I’ve had a bit of a read. First off there is nothing to directly ‘confirm’ he supports terrorists, at best/worst he ‘has “no issue” with Hezbollah’ and he interviewed someone labeled the ‘Yemeni Pirate’ who went viral on TikTok leading to the aforementioned interview. This figure says they are not part of the Houthi, but they were on a vessel seized by the Houthi, he could simply be a paid mercenary so we can’t confirm or deny if they actually are Houthi.
The Jewish stuff isn’t worth touching. It’s 100% going to be something critical of Israel/Zionism framed as antisemitism or terrorism.
Mocking a Republican congressman and thanking the opposing side of the US invasion of Afghanistan for injuring them isn’t terrorism, it’s just funny af. Fuck Republicans.
I’ve received a fair few reports for your posts tbh in regards to false accusations, but the Yemeni guy thing is a bit iffy, and he may have used his platform to promote a terrorist. So I’m going to leave it all up.
Thank you for small dose of sanity, even if I don’t agree with your interpretation of Hasans claims
Going out of his way to declare “No issue with Hezbollah” is the equivalent of support for terrorism IMO.
They started the whole suicide bombing thing with their killing of American soldiers in Lebanon. This went against Islam, but was given the green light by Ayatollah Khomeni and was weaponised by Assad.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr7T07WfIhM&t=32m32s
I Imagine you would not be defending someone if they were going around saying they have “no issue with pedos”.
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Seeing the downvotes on this moron makes me think I’m in the right community. Thanks lemmings. Rodents strong together. 🐁
Enjoy arguing with man children level arguments.
Hassan is as much of a leftist as Srump or The Dipshit are right wing.
Hasan has never supported terrorism on stream. Go back to drooling at the rat shaker
Lmao at the number of downvotes, another W for lemmy.
If you’re actually curious about why someone might see a group like the Houthis differently than the US state department does, here’s an excellent explanation by a well-known and respected Israeli political scientist on the matter. You’re free to disagree with him, but there’s good reason to be skeptical of the terror designation and more reason still why recognizing their support against a genocide certainly shouldn’t be viewed as an endorsement of their ideological perspective.
Found the genocide supporting zionazi
And fr0gan (part of his group) got a Twitch ban for literally wishing PTSD upon American soldiers.
Super based.
Based.
He literally supports terrorism on stream
No, whenever I see him talk about Gaza he always speaks against Israel; I don’t know where you’re getting that he supports them.
Who asked?
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here’s a summary of hasan not supporting terror groups
based?
Ew theres h3 fans on lemmy :(
what makes you think i’m an h3 fan? maybe i’m just critical of hasan
Doesn’t excuse linking to Zionists.
i was actually linking to hasan grooming his friends using terror group videos, just like his young audience
hasan has said on other podcasts that he is “just an entertainer” that is “a part of the radicalization funnel for ‘the cause’”
seems obvious what the destination of this funnel is
I’m not a H3 fan but Hasan and his followers are toxic shitbags that have been relentless harassing the Kleins by peddling false rumours of child abuse and maliciously calling CPS on them. And iDubbbz is frankly a hypocrite for how he handled his excuse of a Content Cop on H3.
maliciously calling CPS on them.
Hasan decries these acts btw.
And we don’t even know who’s making the call. Sure, Hasan represents a sizable community that on the whole is against H3, but there is still room for other actors in that balance equation. H3 has rubbed off a lot of their own fans. Could those people also be suspect? We don’t know for sure.
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There is literally video evidence of Denims (a streamer strongly associated with Hasan’s circle chatting to her viewers about calling CPS on the Kleins.) Unfortunately finding the footage itself was hard so I had to rely on a clip of Asmongold reacting to the drama. And before you tell me she isn’t… she’s collabed with Hasan a few times, defended him in this whole spat, and even appeared alongside him and fr0gan in the Content Cop H3 video. Apparently some of the disinformative tweets about Ethan were actually replied to/reposted by Anisa (Ian’s wife) too.
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iDubbbz didn’t even mention the CPS situation once in his Content Cop video (important for the context of the clips he was using to make Ethan look bad), and even in his Content Deputy response his whole response to this was just bad.
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Releasing that Content Cop in the first place made Ian look like a massive hypocrite, especially when he effectively apologized for his past series and some of the hurtful things he said. It’s clear he only dropped his latest CC out of desperation because he lost a lot of viewership from how badly he’s handled drama surrounding Creator Clash.
Denims
So not Hasan?
Where is your proof that Hasan personally told his chat to call in the CPS check?
I remember seeing a clip of the vapenation dude discussing at length and excessive detail the conditions his children were living in on his show. That clip alone likely warranted a check, no other content creators or their fanbases necessary.
Denims is not Hasan, nor is she “strongly associated” with him. I’ve been watching Hasan for years and only recently have heard of her.
Also she did not call, ask her viewers to call, or endorse the calling of cps in the video you linked or anywhere else I’ve seen people make the claim.
so all three of your stupid points are wrong and irrelevant.
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You desperately need to escape the bubble that you’re in as a member of Ethan’s community. He’s become a useful idiot for Israeli propagandists and now even the MAGA fascists - as evidenced by the details of Ethan’s false accusations against Hasan being brought up by the CBP agent who detained him. By attacking and slandering pro-Palestinian content creators and influencers he feels personally slighted by he is unwittingly doing the bidding of Netanyahu and Trump both.
he is doing it on purpose… this is part of hasbara operations. you can see clearly after the invasion started who shills what. it is not a coincidence
Answering as he did was irresponsible.
“I invoke my legal right to silence under the 5th amendment and will not answer any questions without legal council”
This is Trump speak.
Like, Trump literally (in the literal sense of literally) made this point.
Pigs aren’t an audience and aren’t there to be convinced. They are there to gather intel. There are Jan 6ers working for ICE. Don’t do their jobs for them.
I agree with you that the best thing to do to protect yourself is to remain silent and request to speak with your lawyer, but Hasan made a bet that his privilege would protect him and engaged with the CBP agent to get information he could report on later. He talks about it in his video about the incident.
It sets a terrible example towards his audience.
Wut. If you are being questioned by any form of law enforcement it is because they want you to tell them something that will put you or someone else in prison. They are trained to get you to say incriminating things. It is your constitutional right to not talk to them. Do not fucking talk to cops. Shut the fuck up.
Fash
what kinda glowie nonsense is “dont talk to cops” now fascism? dont talk to cops, get a lawyer.
Saying it’s “irresponsible” for someone with privilege to educate their audience only serves one purpose.
it is objectively true that it’s irresponsible to answer as he did, that doesnt mean he shouldnt have done it from a journalistic perspective, but certainly for anyone without the clear intent of potentially being arrested. Dont talk to cops.
It’s by definition responsible if he should do it from a journalistic perspective.
you have described how contextual authorial intent works, yes
Says the prick who appears to support Trump’s anti-trans scapegoating.
Saying that half of America voted for him isn’t supporting his views but I can see why someone like you, a bootlicker, might believe that.
Tell that to someone without a criminal record from not shutting the fuck up. Follow the Know Your Rights advice of the National Lawyers Guild.
So you should be applauding Piker educating his audience on what the boots are up to.
