1 sure looks like him activating a shock collar because he doesn't want her allowed to do anything other than sit in one designated spot while he's doing his stream

2 is self-explanatory

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[–] 49 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Kaia wasn’t even making any noise over the mic, she just took a few steps. What a dick.

When you’re filming there’s two things that can cause a shoot to go sideways every time… kids and animals. This prick thinks he can control an animal as a prop.

How much support would he have garnered if he suddenly dropped out of whatever angry rant he was in and was like “who’s good girl!? You’re a good girl, yes you are, smooches, now go lay down and let papa cook, ok?” And then went back to whatever it was he was on about.

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  • [–] [S] 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

    Literally every streamer I have ever seen just interacts socially with their animals when they interrupt the stream, and then whether they were irritated or happy to have them involved right at that moment, they just remove them and just get back to what they were doing. It is okay.

    I can't even fathom being such a piece of shit as is on display in these videos. It's not just the physical action (although yes that too), it's how annoyed he sounds that there is another being involved in this equation and now he has to deal with the inconvenience of their needs and actions. And he doesn't even register that it's weird to express that annoyance in such a cruel and entitled fashion on stream. Look at the woman's face glancing at him right at the end of the "collar too tight" stream.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Your comment reminded me of William Osman (YouTube). He has a toddler and animals roaming in and out of his shots and always stops to talk to them. If it gets to be too much, he always has a friend or family to take care of them off screen.

    This Piker person should be forced to wear that collar himself and give his community control. It would be the first and last episode I’d ever watch.

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    If I ever turn into a supervillain, my shtick is going to be kidnapping people and then putting them in little Dante's Inferno scenarios like that.

    • Hasan has to wear his dog's shock collar and sit in the corner, and someone else is streaming and explaining all the good things that USAID used to do around the world and the Armenian genocide, and if he says anything or gets out off his spot, he gets shocked.
    • Dmitri Lavrov goes on an interview program, and every time he tries to say that use of physical military munitions against civilians is justified if Russia says it is, someone off camera shoots him with a 40mm non lethal round in the abdomen.
    • Stephen Miller gets to have a pair of handcuffs and a baton, and his task is to subdue and detain an actual vigorously healthy undocumented immigrant one on one, while the clip of him saying "we are so much more hardcore than they are" plays on repeat in the background.

    And so on

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Link me your Kickstarter when it all gets to be too much and you go off the deep end. I want to be in early.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 1 year ago

    We can dress up like ICE, and probably just kidnap literally whoever we want and whisk them away. Maybe even bust our way into Hasan's studio so we can literally take Kaya's collar and remote to strap onto him for the show. Here, take a look at the business plan...

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    this scumbag treats women the same way

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 1 year ago (19 children)

    Yeah. The behavior of people in this comments section really blows my mind. Just listening to the guy talk about his dog, or watching them interact, it is very clear that he's a POS. Also, the whole thing of "she's the most spoiled dog in the world" and how angry he is about that, instead of something like "and she deserves it because she is the best" or something, is so disgusting. Bro why the fuck do you even have a dog. Just get a little statue to be in frame for you on the platform, and let this dog go live its life away from your stress inducing stream.

    I think it for real is very similar to MAGA. The whole concept of watching the video and coming to their own conclusion is alien to them. They need a tribe to be part of, and so anything bad someone says about the tribe needs somebody to motivate to say some stuff in defense. They're barely paying attention to the evidence, just trying to figure out how to muster the best counterpoint they can about whatever it is they've decided in advance is "the right side."

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I've yet to see anyone "out of their fucking minds" despite you saying it.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 year ago

    I realized something interesting: Sometime yesterday, the almost unanimous majority of the pro-Hasan commenters shifted over into accusing people of being fans of some other streamer who I have barely heard of, or of being taken in by random streamer drama. They're all pretty familiar with streamer drama and all of the personalities at work in this weird little space.

    That means that more or less every single one of the normies who just happened to run across this clip without being deep into streamer lore, had the same logical horrified reaction to it. The only people defending Hasan (with maybe like 1-2 exceptions, people who watched the clip and decided it didn't look like a big deal to them) are people with some kind of parasocial thing going on, who are assuming that everyone else in the thread obviously has some alternate parasocial thing going on also.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    He has admitted to owning a shock collar

    I mean, what he said was that his roommate owned a shock collar, and that he was against them. It was a little unclear to me but it didn't exactly sound like he was admitting much of anything in that clip (if the one you have in mind is also the one I'm thinking of).

    Twitter is now saying they figured out what collar he has, and that it's the shock version of it that he took the prongs out of and then put black tape on the back of the box, and that's why he was so incredibly hesitant to show it for more than 0.2 seconds or move his hand away from that weird sort of cardshark grip he had the collar in the entire time. I thought about making a separate post with the quick overview video which is all I've seen so far, but I'm honestly mostly done with dealing with this shit at least for tonight and I don't really want to post it and start another kerfuffle until I can look at the details a decent amount myself. Here's that video though (with some irritatingly quick scrolls through a document which lays out some of the details, you'll have to pause to really be able to see anything, but it does make sense if you pause it and look):

    https://files.catbox.moe/x0kbh4.mp4

    And yes, I agree. The main thing that makes me think he's a POS is his overall tone and emotional affect, and the dog's reactions to him. If she just yelped on stream right after he reached for something, but then his overall way of interacting with her was normal and caring instead of exactly the opposite of that, then I probably wouldn't think twice about it.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Maybe. Like I said, the overall body language from the dog, and his tone of voice when he talks about her, and also him lying about objectively verifiable things, mean more to me on the topic than a lot of these clips that people are talking about.

    (For example, the fact that back then he was saying that shock collars are mean and he doesn't believe in them, and he's bringing that up now as a defense of himself, but then saying simultaneously that shock collars don't even hurt anyway so even if she was wearing one it wouldn't be a big deal. That's... well, you know.)

    But anyway, like I say, I have never seen someone's dog who is less happy to interact with them. She just seems defeated. She doesn't lick him, she doesn't perk up when he pays attention to her, she just sits there quietly while he's rubbing her head or whatever, and then slowly obeys his commands to come here or go sit on her bed or whatever, with her head down. I realize that's subjective but that is definitely my take on it.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    You have no credibility and no evidence

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Did Hasan teach you this trick, of just repeating over and over again the same statement (after someone provides a video of the abuse, has a lengthy discussion about the plausibility of theories like "it's a GPS collar" and goes through individual frames to show what they're talking about or timelapses of a longer amount of the stream), as if whoever simply refuses to shut up for the longest automatically wins the disagreement? Obviously you're not trying to make a factual point, since this whole thread is basically me providing evidence. I think the thing you are trying to do doesn't really work in a format like this, I'm sure it is better if you can say "You have no credibility and no evidence. Goodbye." and then kick the person from your stream or something, but that's not what we are doing.

    I honestly don't have much more to say. Like I said, I thought about showing some of the freeze frames blown up from the video, showing that she definitely didn't catch her dewclaw on the metal bar next to her for example, but what would be the point. Anyone who cares enough can put the clip through mpv and see it for themselves (and being able to watch in context and flip around is better than the freeze frames anyway). Honestly as a broader point if you don't have the emotional intelligence to see what is clearly present in Hasan's and Kaya's behavior just in the original clips, I don't know what to tell you, and I don't really feel like you and me talking further to each other about it is productive in any way at this point.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    after someone provides a video of the abuse, has a lengthy discussion about the plausibility of theories like "it's a GPS collar" and goes through individual frames to show what they're talking about or timelapses of a longer amount of the stream

    This is an awful lot of effort for someone to go to just to convince me of how i should feel about a political commentator interacting with his dog.

    As soon as you stop yourself to ask "is this really worth thinking this hard about," it becomes pretty clear that you're talking to someone a little too invested with the life of this public figure.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 year ago* (7 children)

    I care about what is true and often I want to dig to the bottom of it.

    You could say it's not a good way to be, and depending on the triviality of the subject matter you might be right. But I definitely don't think it's the worst thing in the world to have that mindset.

    Also, just because everyone talked to me about Ethan Klein and he showed up in my YouTube anyway, I am now watching him for the first time, talking about this controversy.

    Edit: WHAT THE FUCK HAVE I DONE now half my YouTube recommendations is streamer bullshit

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    The topics and people we choose to spend time and effort on speak quite a bit about what matters to us. It means something that this story captured this much of your attention, it isn't neutral truth seeking.

    I dont think it's healthy to be this invested in a stranger's relationship with their dog. That it involves a public figure you've had strong reactions to before makes me think this is just parasocial indulgence.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Fyi, this is called concern trolling.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Didn't you just post a bunch of pure bullying videos about Ethan Kline?

    I tried to watch Ethan Kline today for the first time, and it was too much bullshit for me to even want to be a part of for more than a few minutes. The man looks like a sickly Victorian orphan. A video about Ethan Kline and what a big poopy head he is, is not something I would ever consider watching let along posting. I tried to watch your video and all I can say is, I don't think you should be giving advice to anyone along this particular axis.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Watching a video passively is one thing, it's another thing to do all this:

    !after someone provides a video of the abuse, has a lengthy discussion about the plausibility of theories like "it's a GPS collar" and goes through individual frames to show what they're talking about or timelapses of a longer amount of the stream!<

    Ultimately idgaf, im just telling you what it looks like to see someone go to this amount of trouble, especially for a public figure they've already shown distaste for, and especially since you've also previously elaborated at length about how you think about your contributions to online spaces through a political lense.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    Being annoyed at all means you're a dickhead? Reach

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  • [–] [S] 11 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Being annoyed at your dog for literally just tentatively putting one paw down onto the floor quietly, and then jerking to a halt from what you were doing and glaring at her until she adopts a heartbreakingly submissive posture and gets back on her platform, yes 100% means you're a dickhead. It's a little dick headed to get annoyed at your dog for just quietly walking in the first place, yes, but maybe that could be excused if he's amped up because of what he's talking about and loses his cool a little bit for no reason. Not instantly walking it back and going over and comforting the dog once she gets scared like that, because it wasn't her fault, makes you a massive asshole. I don't even have words for how much of a self centered cock Hasan is showing himself to be in these clips. What's he going to do when he has kids? What if they do something actually misbehavior, and he's irritated by it but still has to keep his cool?

    Like I say, it is mind blowing to me that you guys can watch these clips and you're okay with it. I probably won't continue to reiterate it for too much longer, but you keep reiterating "doesn't look like anything to me," so sure, let's keep talking about it I guess.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Your obvious agenda is not helping your credibility, and my explanations throughout this thread have more than adequately answered your inane questions

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Why do you think Hasan said she "clipped herself" when he wasn't looking and had no idea why she might have suddenly yelped? Do you think he's in the habit of coming up with glib explanations on the spot for why his dog suddenly yelped in pain, that explain them away, while using a condescending and dismissive tone of voice towards the entire type of the question?

    Or is he maybe linked to the dog, like a twin, so that he felt her pain at the instant she felt it no matter the distance between them, in space or time?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    You have an obvious agenda and nothing presented here supports your accusations, cope

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    How do you think he knew that she "clipped herself"?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Having ears+guessing would make sense, especially if this isn't the first time its happened

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    I know in my house growing up, whenever one of our dogs suddenly yelped in pain for no known reason, we got mad at the dog and "guessed" that she "clipped herself" and told other people that that's what happened. It's honestly the only normal and logical thing you would even do in that situation.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Cool story, you still have no credibility and no evidence though

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Actually, I do know precisely what I would do in that situation, because it happened to me. I was sleeping, and my cat made a noise of distress and pain, and I shot out of bed and ran to check on her, and she was tangled up in this wire shelving she had been climbing on in a way that was clearly causing her pain because she fucked up and fell into it. So then I helped her out of it and made sure she was okay.

    Little did I know, I should have just told her "Stop!" in a really petulant tone of voice and then told people she "clipped herself." That cat actually was clumsy and tended to bump into things (probably related to the reason she managed to fuck up climbing on the shelves in the first place), so I could probably just rely on that and feel fully justified in being mad at her for being a living thing when I was busy with something.

    Please teach me more about being a perfectly normal pet owner

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    I see the same thing. It is really unclear what happened, but OP is... Quite interested in this? It's unfortunate because there are legitimate criticisms to level at Hassan, but there are dedicated people that will take anything that makes Hassan look bad and use it as some kind of indictment on everything he represents.

    Like, assuming the dog was shocked, that is bad, but... It's not really that bad? Like he would be a bad dog owner, and potentially abusive to some, but I would guess the kind of people acting the most upset about this probably don't really care about animal welfare. We do much worse to the animals we eat. Is it that much different for the animals we don't?

    Is it even different from how we allow parents to treat children?

    And that's assuming the worst. To me, Hassan scolded the dog, then looked potentially annoyed that the dog yelped about nothing. I get it, not a good dog owner thing to do, but I have seen parents do the same thing to their kids. It's a generally shitty thing to do, but... We kinda do shitty things sometimes, and I kinda understand that.

    You can criticize him as a dog owner, but it just feels like this is a hit piece and drama farm.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Wow, Hasan's dedicated hate subreddit that constantly falsely smears him, is now saying he is abusing his dog.

    Shocking.

    Meanwhile, the leader of these brigades is literally currently in court for being a PDF file.

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    If only we could look for ourselves and see what actually happened frame by frame, instead of having to rely on personalities and the source or authority in order to make sense of what had happened.

    So when he says, "Kaya! Please!", what misbehavior do you think he's upset about? He brags about how well-trained this dog is (as, somehow, a defense against people saying that he is abusing her), so clearly she knows exactly what the boundary is that she just crossed with her behavior and he's just helping to reinforce it. So what did she do?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I looked for myself and I still think you're reaching

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    What misbehavior do you think he's upset about? Or what misbehavior could he be upset about? I won't ask you to read his mind, just asking for what a reasonable explanation could be about what she did that caused him to yell at her and then get all exasperated and sigh, like she's a lost cause as a dog and he can't even.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    It sounds like he’s annoyed at the dog and scolded it, which happens and is not in any way indicative of abuse. I work remote and I’ve got a 2yo german shepherd who likes to interrupt my client calls by harassing the cats or climbing into my lap or galloping loudly into the room, occasionally I have to raise my voice and make her go lay down in her time-out corner even though she clearly would prefer not to. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if his dog were similarly in time-out for shenanigans that occured prior to this very short clip, perfectly normal non-abuse explanation for why he would be annoyed and why the dog would be expected to stay on the bed at least temporarily.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (15 children)

    I find it strange this story seems to be getting so much traction in the media. I first saw it on a Forbes article, and now PETA has made a statement.

    Idk if it was a shock collar, vibration collar, or if the dog got a claw stuck or whatever. In the clip, he does seem over-agitated in the moment, and possibly too strict/controlling/micromanaging of his dog (unless he just recently gave the dog a command to stay there before the clip started). But, that's not really strong evidence of a pattern of animal abuse. Neither is having a collar too tight one time.

    Some people think shock collars/e-collars are valid training tools. I don't, but it seems strange the media is giving so much attention to a couple of clips showing possible questionable dog training/care practices of a Twitch streamer.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    I find it strange this story seems to be getting so much traction in the media. I first saw it on a Forbes article, and now PETA has made a statement.

    Honestly, that part is almost certainly because he's pro-Palestinian, I think.

    Oh well dude. This still looks horrible to me. I might tune into his stream at some completely random time, just to look into it and see what kinds of stuff he does when it's not being cherry picked to be the most easy-to-misconstrue-as-horrible things he's ever done in a full career of full time streaming, but this is honestly pretty cut and dried to me, and the impossible or self-contradictory things that his fans have been saying to try to justify it are not helping me to see it any different.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Honestly, that part is almost certainly because he's pro-Palestinian, I think.

    So you do understand how and why the hard right streamers and stans have a vested interest in killing his character?
    Maybe that was "abuse", but clearly overblown when you see hardrighters advocating violence on leftists. Hell you even see fascist president deploying the military to oppress their political opponents...
    I don't see the same mob mentality pushing back on them, or pushing back to a litteral elected official boasting about shooting their dog

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (7 children)

    Yes it's not acceptable, if it's proven true (which is a debate in of itself). Of all the things to get outraged for, this ranks low in my priorities though.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (6 children)

    There's no fucking debate, dude. It sickens me to see so many people try to defend this, and that the dude is so popular in leftist circles. That's why it should be an outrage. I'm sick of seeing leftists prop up this dude and ignore/defend any bad he does, especially now with animal abuse.

    The dog moved out of bed, he got annoyed at her, reached out of screen, and she yelped. Since then people have found other clips of similar stuff happening: his dog staying in the same spot for hours, and when she tries to leave or reposition he reaches out of screen and she goes back. And the remote can even be spotted in some streams before he hides it.

    Even if you don't think shock collars themselves are bad, forcing a dog to stay in such a small place for hours without even a water bowl amounts to abuse. And his constant lies and contradictions show that knows what he is doing is fucked.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (5 children)

    All of these streamers suck anyway. I don't care about their personal life but I care about the views they are peddling and the impact their word has on their communities.
    The Right streaming sphere also has a few despicable characters, but I don't see the same witch hunt for them as for Hasan. iirc some also have abused animals if that's your specific trigger.
    This is simply identity politics and why political discourse is untenable nowadays.

    For the dog part, I think it's horrible to use a shock collar, and on the same level, police dogs and horses are also abused in the same way. Western culture sees eating dog meat as immoral, but some see eating any animal as immoral. Everybody has their own moral compass for this and I don't go policing others for their views.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    In answer to what you're saying, firstly, I find it fucked up to call it identity politics. People don't want animals to be abused, and so they call it out and post about it like they do for other news.

    Anyway, I'm a leftist. I don't really consume right wing media and I don't engage with those communities. And as a leftist it hurts me to see other leftists give a pass to someone like Hasan because it's just giving ammo to people on the right, and when it's such a large community it can make a big stain and push new people out. Not to mention no one should be given a pass. Like, Hasan fans will literally bend over backwards to defend it and act like a cult. Dude has already made several excuses and finally landed on "she wasn't even wearing a collar", even though you can see it in the vod; but if you post screenshots his fans will say it's photoshopped. I'm not good enough with words to convey my feelings on this phenomenon and my distaste for those people. There's more to mention, but this comment is large enough.

    Finally, in answer to your last paragraph, it's a fair point in general, but in my case I'm a vegan.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    I'm not giving him a pass. I just don't see how the outrage is proportional to the crime. There is a literal genocide going on, but we care more about his dog than children being starved.
    Like I said, other right wingers don't get the same scrutiny. Of course nobody likes animal abuse, so that's the easiest motive they can use to discredit his political stance.

    How is it not identity politics? Had it been a random guy sure, but this is overshadowing the political discourse to focus on the person and framing it as you vs us. The president wearing a tan suit? Scandal! An elected republican killing their dog? No problem.
    Associating views like mine as "giving him a pass" also plays into their hand to divide the left. Either I reject him or I accept him entirely, no middle ground, while I may agree on some stuff politically, as a person, I never met him and I don't care about him.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    I wasn't saying you specifically, but funny how "there is a genocide going on" is the same crap he says to deflect. I can give a shit about more than one thing at once.

    This is not overshadowing political discourse. We can talk and care about more than one thing at once. And who is the "you" and the "us" in this case? And who says I don't care if a right winger kills their dog? Everything you say is some version of whataboutism.

    What if instead of animal abuse, he assaulted someone? What if it was sexual assault? What if he murdered someone? Where is the line at which point we are allowed to talk about it and condemn it? When does it go so far you can't deflect it with "there's a genocide"?

    Let me turn that on you; you have comments on your account in the last month talking about tech and cars. How can you talk about that when there's a genocide going on?

    And yes, you should fully reject a fucking abuser, it has nothing to do with their politics. I already told I'm a leftist and I can do it, so you can to. Stop protecting a fucking abuser.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    I talk about the genocide because that's what is eclipsed by all the haters that started this witch hunt.
    The you and us is the out group and in group, can be anything; but in this case I'm labeled as an animal abuse defender because I don't immediately reject someone based on a 30s clip where a dog yelps. To the point where you doubt my moral line, suggesting I wouldn't care if he killed someone... Everything is black and white, either you agree entirely or you are the enemy.

    If you want to inspect me further I can provide my reddit and hacker news account. You would see there that I do in fact care about what's happening currently (Palestine and other issues, geopolitical or not). Maybe you want to know which protests I have attended too if that's not enough.

    Again I'm not advocating to defend Hasan as a pure no wrong doer, he's a rich asshole like every other. After more evidence has come to light, it seems true he's not a good dog owner, so yeah I'll give him the same level of attention as before: nearly zero. On the other hand it could as well have been a "we did it reddit" moment with someone being harassed by the usual hater group with free support because dog yelps.

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  • I never doubted you care about Palestine, I'm just pointing how you can care about other stuff at the same time - good or bad. It seemed you were implying I can't care it because I'm calling out animal abuse. All is not black or white, but animal abuse is a pretty large line to cross. I was mostly ok with the left not criticizing him and ignoring him when he acted like a douche because it wasn't worth the trouble I suppose, but animal abuse should be called out. And when he and his fans go around gaslighting people - and you even have "leftist" streamers (if they aren't just clout chasers) contradicting each other trying to defend him - it's even more important to call it out and not let it be swept under the rug. Especially since the right can also seize the opportunity to take the moral high ground. I've even seen "apolitical" people calling it out and mocking it, but the few leftists who even mention it do it with kid's gloves.

    Anyway, I don't remember exactly what my first comment here even was, but the gist of my point is: the dude abuses his dog and tries to gaslight people, we can care about multiple stuff, this shouldn't just be ignored, I think other leftists should at least condemn and call it out instead of looking away while others try to bury it. That's all.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    My theory is that once it got in the news, the right picked it up and are milking it for all it’s worth to bad mouth the left?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    This is pretty much it.

    Unfortunately, the left can only blame itself for it.

    This would be a non issue if people on the left actually called it out and didn't just constantly defend this guy. And they could have stepped ahead of the situation by calling it out themselves.

    The motto in Hasan's community seems to essentially be: "No Gods, no masters, yes daddy"; and the rest of the left kind of just looks away.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Unfortunately there is extremism on both side which fucks things up royally.

    I would like to form my own opinions without stuff shoved down my throat.

    Either way I never liked Hasan much. Used to watch a bunch of Nopixel RP and he hung around who I watched. Mid at best. I remember him saying he would rather get rich with politics than be an obscure role player.

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