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

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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] 34 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

progressive

Pretty sure dude is a leftist. Capitalist media has never encountered this before.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

Borderline tankie. Remember him being best buds with putin before russia attacked Ukraine? Dude probably still blames NATO for that.

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

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

https://youtu.be/PKuojixnwHQ

Here's a summary in a meme format.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

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