• TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    JFC. Last week, my therapist asked me if I knew who Hasan Piker was… it was surrreal… like the internet broke containment and entered real life.

    I’m in therapy for stress and anger management… sometimes politics comes up. My therapist is a middle aged wine mom from the suburbs who literally has one of those “Coexist” bump stickers on her Toyota Prius. I told her I disagreed with him on some stuff, but that I’m probably not his audience. She told me she was watching more of his clips on YouTube. I didn’t know what to say to that.

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    I remember when Trump first came onto the scene and one of the things he was really good at was monopolizing all the attention. I really wonder if all this attention on figures like Hassan is just playing into their hands. After all, they do say that there is no such thing as bad publicity

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      just like with luigi, zohran, el-sayad and others. thats why the MSMs had to quickly shut that down to avoid giving them too much exposure.

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          Do you know how downdetector works? It’s not actually detecting anything, it’s 100% based on user reports.

          People are making false reports to troll, and you’re taking the bait hook, line, and sinker.

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              Yes, I have been denying downdetector’s bullshit for coming on 20 years now because it’s been misleading people for that entire time.

              Also, do you regularly use calling people gay as an insult? It’s a real shitbag homophobic move.

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                To be clear, I think you’re in denial about the GOP conventions regularly causing issues with Grindr and the level of closetted man-on-man action in the famously hypocritical and deflecting Republican party. I have no idea about your sexuality, don’t care what it is, and can’t deduce that from what you’re saying, but I’m concerned about your political affiliation.

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                Sure, buddy. GOP definitely doesn’t have lots of repressed gay and bi people in it, because no right wing person would ever act hypocritically. You go ahead and believe whatever you want to believe about the RNC and grindr. Sorry to have upset you.

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                  You’re completely missing what I’m ranting about. Don’t use downdetector, it’s worse than useless.

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                No one claimed it went down globally. It is possible to have a regional issue with access. Could be the CDN or some DNS service got a bit overloaded and the GOP guys didn’t get the dick they were seeking, but it’s resolved now, so not to worry. They can always check later in the evening from their hotel room.

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                  I would expect something to have recorded downtime at least, but none is reported. Just saying that down detector isn’t as reliable as the official logger

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    I’ve only ever heard of this guy because of people trying to backlash him.

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      I discovered him when they tried to pretend he was zapping his dog on stream. It was an interesting sequence because apparently they targeted people engaged enough to believe a wall of text on Reddit or a video compilation on YouTube, but not engaged enough to actually watch his channel to check anything.

      Obviously they found a large audience, but hey Hasan gained a follower I guess.

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        That’s how their entire canceled culture works.

        The book bans are just lists of books that none of them have read too.

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        This is the type of shit that makes the left looks ridiculous. He does zap his dog. He has literally shown the collar on cam (days after) but showing it has tape over it. He has literally been caught lying multiple times. You can see him, multiple times, reach for something off screen and his dog suddenly going back into place. There is a video of it happening and his dog suddenly yelping, which is what started this. “Her claw got caught”: 1. Do you wish to buy a bridge? 2. He still barely gave a fuck, which is condemnable regardless. He also used to complain about his dog moving around before the “incident”, instead of just laying in one spot.

        Just because someone is a leftist it does not mean you should cover for them. That is cult like behaviour. Fuck Hasan, fuck animal abusers, and fuck people covering for animal abusers just because they are aligned politically.

        Edit: There’s also this older moment:

        https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FT8ucadGCVc

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          There is a video of it happening and his dog suddenly yelping, which is what started this. “Her claw got caught”: 1. Do you wish to buy a bridge?

          It was her dew claw. Honest question: have you ever had a large dog?

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            My small dog does the exact same thing, probably a couple of times a week (he has all 4 dew claws).

            It’s just so clear to me from the video (even the clip-chimped ones) that it’s a yelp of surpise, and the offending body part is the paw she lifts up after.

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            Yes, I’ve had dogs all my life including large ones. I don’t have time to keep writing the same thing, so here’s a copy paste from another comment of mine:

            So we know she’s wearing an electrical collar, we know he is lying about it, we know there are more similar moments on stream, and we have the past history of Hasan pulling a dogs tail… So why would you believe him about the claw? The only reason to believe it’s the claw is because he said so. But we already know he is a liar, and showed complete disregard for her and didn’t even check on her.

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              So we know she’s wearing an electrical collar,

              Is this how you think arguments work? We don’t know that. That’s literally what the argument is about, you don’t magically win by default by just claiming it as truth.

              Go fuck yourself, she clipped her dew claw on her bed. Big dogs can be clumsy. Get a fucking life.

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                All of you are projecting so fucking hard LMAO. Second terminally online person that tells me to get a life.

                Look at your account age and your number of comments. Then look at mine. You have a problem, you fucking loser.

                Fuck you for defending an animal abuser. He literally showed the collar on stream – DAYS AFTER PEOPLE WERE CALLING HIM OUT - and it was an electrical collar with black tape over the prongs, which he claimed to be a “vibrating colar”.

                You are fucking scum. Fuck you and your cult of animal abusers and defenders.

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                  Yikes. Are you ok?

                  I’m kind of just at a loss for words… I’m in a cult of animal abusers and defenders? Because…?

                  Because all of the evidence that I saw showed a big dog getting her dew claw caught on her bed? But the way, something that literally happened to one of the dogs I had growing up. In front of me. Something that I’ve seen happen exactly right in front of my own fucking eyes.

                  For whatever reason, you’ve been convinced otherwise.

                  And this means that I’m scum, and I’m in a cult of animal abusers? Do you know how fucking offensive that is? Like honestly go fuck yourself.

                  I’m also not really sure what my comment count has to do with it. Not that I feel the need to defend myself, but Lemmy is the one and only form of social media that I use, so yeah I post a lot of comments.

                  Are you really gonna go on Lemmy and give others shit for being “terminally online”? Especially given the current topic of discussion… The fact that either of us is even aware of the situation means we’re both terminally online, my friend.

        • OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
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          He still barely gave a fuck, which is condemnable regardless.

          AHAHAHAHA! That’s hilarious! Could it possibly be more obvious that you’re acting in bad faith?

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                Oh, another deflection. How surprising.

                Do you have anything of value to say? I guess it’s not hard to get to 2.4k comments in 3 months when it’s all completely worthless and void of any substance. I guess we must all find meaning somewhere, but I hope you find s better place. And that you stop defending animal abusers.

                Edit: also .ml user LOL, I hadn’t even been looking at people instances until now, but not surprised.

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          Hey it’s cool man, i sure expected to see one of you people in the replies.

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              people engaged enough to believe a wall of text on Reddit or a video compilation on YouTube, but not engaged enough to actually watch his channel to check anything

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                My brother cultist in Christ, all the clips I mentioned were available on his channel as were the vods. Maybe they’ve been removed by now, but that is where I saw them. I literally used to be a Hasan viewer. You are in a cult.

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                  The whole thing is predicated upon him training her to sit still for hours on end on stream “like a prop”, which she barely ever does. Litterally you just have to watch the VODs , you’d be lucky to find more than 10 minutes of her on-screen on most streams. The whole scenario is pure brainrot and only believable if you don’t look critically at the evidence. So this guy used a shock collar to train a large dog to sit still for hours on end but there was only one (1) transgression ever recorded and she never sits still anyway. How do you square that up ?

                  You’re grasping at a few seconds of video (out of the 6+ hours he produces daily year in year out), edited out of context by people with a very specific agenda, and walls of concern-trolling prose that tugs at your emotional strings for some reason. It’s trivially easy to make up that kind of story and astro-turf it to death, with hundreds of inactive accounts coincidentally posting their first comment in the same week, which happens to be a copy-pasted list of pre-digested arguments and fact-free appeals to outrage. You’re getting QAnon’d in the worst way.

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          I can’t believe there are so many kanine zap deniers out there.

          I have seen that clip. I have seen evidence provided by accusation. Even collar company claimed that this was a shock collar. There is no denial that he did it. And yet people think cancel culture tries to cancel Hasan for no reason. Dude zaps his dog and we’re jaut gonna blame cancel culture for telling the world this is jot the person to preach to us. Okay then 🤷

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            Because unfortunately people are similar everywhere. People here think they are smarter than right wingers because they believe different things, but they only believe different things because that’s what they were taught/told to believe. A lot of them are also chronically online and desperately want somewhere to belong to; that’s how cults form as well.

            Put all that together and you have people defending an animal abuser just because he’s politically aligned and the figure head of a community they belong to - cult.

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              You don’t have to be it with me, but be intellectually honest with yourself for just a minute. Pretend we are talking about a right wing influencer.

              You can see him, multiple times, reach for something off screen and his dog suddenly going back into place. There is a video of it happening and his dog suddenly yelping, which is what started this. He has literally shown the collar on cam (days after) but with tape over it. He has literally been caught lying multiple times.

              Would you still defend the guy? Be honest with yourself.

              Even if you don’t want to believe he uses a shock collar, his treatment of her is still deplorable. He keeps the dog as a prop on Stream for hours on end. When she moves out of bed he will throw a hissy fit. He has even complained about her roaming around “like a cow”. He only started letting her be more free after the controversy started. His guests have even mentioned her collar being too tight in the past.

              Stop defending this dude.

              Edit: I’ll also add this (older) video of him with his dog Fish:

              https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FT8ucadGCVc

              That is something he did blatantly on camera.

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                Kya (I believe that’s her name) yelped because she clipped her paw on something, there was no shock.

                As for the Fish video, yeah he shouldn’t have pulled the dog’s tail, but he clearly didn’t hurt him since the dog didn’t yelp or anything.

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                  Just because a dog does not yelp that doesn’t make ok nor should we down play it. Excuse while I grab and pull my gf by the arm, slap her even maybe, as long as she doesn’t scream or cry it’s ok…

                  Also, the claw thing is absolute bs. There are multiple moments which play out the exact same as that one, but where she doesn’t yelp. She goes to move away/is standing off the bed; Hasan reaches behind the camera; she suddenly goes back to her spot. In some she moves as soon as she sees him moving his arm. What do you think is happening? Not to mention, after denying the use of an electric collar but refusing to show it, he later (on a different day) went on stream to show the collar and said it was “vibration only”, but you can clearly see there’s black tape on it over where the prongs would be.

                  So we know she’s wearing an electrical collar, we know he is lying about it, we know there are more similar moments on stream, and we have the past history of Hasan pulling a dogs tail… So why would you believe him about the claw? The only reason to believe it’s the claw is because he said so. But we already know he is a liar, and showed complete disregard for her and didn’t even check on her.

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    “Not only is he an evil socialist leftist, but he’s also in great physical shape and rather attractive.”

    Weird flex, but ok.

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      I’m guessing that’s why they are so hard on AOC. She is a woman, minority, smart and attractive. They are most upset about being attracted to her.

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        I think I figured this out years ago.

        So male Boomers became used to being catered to by a never ending parade of blonde Fox News hosts. Who would tell these spoiled bastards how they, the white men of the most economically priviledged generation in history, how they were the victims constantly. And how they should be outraged by that.

        So the dopamine reactors of them are now wired to that. Then comes AOC. She’s young, very pretty, and on the news - but she’s NOT telling them that they’re being discriminated against! In fact, her message is that they probably have MORE than their share.

        So their brains, wired to have the horny with the outrage, basically go batshit.

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    This is such a wild disconnect, it’s truly mind-blowing. Piker’s reaction is pretty much what I’d expect. We all know how far gone these people are, that they live in this weird archaic unreality bubble. They didn’t think this through, they sincerely thought this would be embarrassing for him. The right wing gerontocracy is so out of touch, its like they’re from another planet

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      Embarrassing for him? I am an old, straight male who has no idea who this person was but when I came across the post on BlueSky this morning talking about it my first thought was “well fuck, I wish I looked like this”.

      I can only presume that they secretly want to fuck him but don’t know how else to approach him. Dumb fucks.

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        I can only presume that they secretly want to fuck him but don’t know how else to approach him.

        yes, that’s why Grindr went down at the same time.

        Dumb fucks.

        yes, and yet so many voters

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      They didn’t think this through

      If he is controlled opposition then they are one step ahead.