Leftist Hasan Piker detained and questioned about his anti Trump views on social media

@SatanBurger BTW... during work today, I went through Hassans' own account of what actually happened. And after listening to him, I can tell you that this is just a storm in a glass of water. His "detention", is actually just part of normal procedure. He used "Global Entry", ... I had to look up what that means and when you do you find the following in their description:


SOURCE: https://www.cbp.gov/travel/trusted-traveler-programs/global-entry

So a number of people are taken out for extra examination. 🤷‍♂

And then... his own personal account becomes sensationalised by his own biasses and opinions. Because Hassan thinks he's so special. I don't see a reason why this would have anything to do with his person at all. BUT even if it has something to do with his person, again, it's okay for national security to have him on the radar exactly because of his own content. Which he literally uses as a reason why they would do this to him. As a citizen of any country, I have no issues with this what so ever. When I first read this story, I thought he was randomly picked up for questioning or something, alas, I was ignorant. He was just traveling by airplane and routine investigation happened. Leave it to a provocateur to milk it like this and leave it up to a left wing echo chamber to blow the story out of proportion. It's sad, because I don't think it has a good image with people you want to convince but are intelligent enough to just listen to what is actually said and what the procedure actually is. But for these people, that doesn't matter, because they are looking for the emo targets that feel over reason anyway.

@Kwek00 They are going through people's phones at airports and asking people their opinion of Trump, it doesn't matter as it's not aganist the law to talk bad about Trump and even if it was, that would be wrong.

I'm not saying you believe that but there's more and more people being picked up for anti Trump views. Biden didn't do that to Trump voters

@SatanBurger I'm not agreeing with checking peoples phones. But, from what I got from Hassan, that's not what happened to him. There is a lot of stuff I don't agree with this administration, so I don't think we need to make stuff up or blow stuff up... it's bad enough already.

Well... no. Biden had a lot of flaws, but he wasn't an authoritarian. The most authoritarian and damning act he did, was use emergency powers to push through a ploy to forgive student debt. I believe he did that twice, and there is at least onel center left organisations that sued him for it. Because that broad center to the moderate left at least still has some selfreflection.

@DeWayfarer I'll have to watch this thanks.

@Northwest Yup, it only starts with immigrants. Soon it will be that his parents are immigrants, so he can't be a citizen.

@BohoBabe People think that if nothing physical happens to them everything is fine, those people only worry when something is happening in the moment. They're just as bad as the far right in my opinion.

@SatanBurger I want to be as fair as possible. While I do agree that some people are so selfish that they don't care as long as bad things aren't happening to them, I think there are also a lot of people who just can't imagine America becoming fascist. These are people who voted against Trump because he's bad on the economy, but they don't believe America could actually change that much. Certainly not to the point where journalists are arrested like in China and Russia, that only happens to "those other countries."

I guess going forward, our job is to spread awareness as much as we can. We need Liberals to understand that Fascism can happen anywhere.

@BohoBabe Agreed

@wrule Home of the traitors

@gol979 So says the person who legitimately thinks that a deadly virus which has claimed the lives of seven million humans worldwide and counting is a hoax.

@gol979 Declaring a pandemic a scam seems to be an opinion though.

@SatanBurger A drastically uneducated one.