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Hasan Piker detained at the border and questioned for hours over politics (www.usermag.co)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I don't think that we should teach toddlers, or anyone, really, that anyone ever deserves violence.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

If you go around punching people for kicks, you deserve to be punched back. Especially when you refuse to listen to others who tell you that you shouldn't punch.

Sometimes, people deserve what they directly cause. They reap what they sew. It's the nature of the world.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Are you willfully ignorant in order to be argumentative?

We teach toddlers to have manners and act politely and treat others with respect.

The reason we have all those things is to prevent an emotional lash out from those others. We do it because we don’t know what kind of control they might have at that moment and we do our best to maintain calm. We keep the peace.

THAT is the point. Go back and read it again.