Federal investigators have issued subpoenas to political streamer Hasan Piker and activist Susan Medea Benjamin amid an inquiry into alleged violations of US sanctions related to Cuba’s government.

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    Isn’t that the same guy who had the controversy about using shock collar on his dog? And more recently a meltdown over gamers wanting to be fathers after playing Pragmata? Maybe he should be deplatformed if that’s the reputation he gives the “left side of centre”.

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      Just in case this isn’t trolling, the shock collar thing was a complete hoax. He doesn’t own a shock collar. He literally showed the collar on stream. The Pragmata thing was him responding to incels using the game to push narratives that the game is going to “save white birthrates”. When he says “capital G Gamers” he’s not referring to just anyone who plays video games, he’s specifically talking about the same folks who think any minority representation in games as being “woke mindvirus” and also who immediately sexualized the child character in the game. In both cases it’s mostly Destiny (pedophile/sexpest) fans and other folks who already hate Hasan pushing an agenda.

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        With the Pragmata thing, that sure didn’t sound like that from his own words. Sounded more like farming engagement through ragebait. Which is typical for streamers, but also not very left wing.

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          I mean you can take it whatever way it makes sense to you; it’s definitely not a take that’s easy to understand his POV without more context but if you watch enough of his stream you start to get what he’s actually taking about. Plus even if not, the dude streams 8 hours a day almost everyday; there’s going to occasionally be some boneheaded takes.

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            I would rather watch a streamer that doesn’t call majority of his audience hopeless incels in any context, but I guess we can agree to disagree

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              No matter who you watch, you will still be someone who will never have even a quarter of what the average baby boomer had at your age, like 7+ children, a home at 19 years old, economic stability, or at least a happy family of four without a college degree.

              You fell for the bullshit they say about Hasan. You are not smart enough to opine on anything. You are either a Zionist, a blue MAGA who still thinks the USA is redeemable (American Exceptionalism / Imperialist), you hate China with the same passion as Trump and you still call yourself a democrat, or simply a fool who says things like “I would rather watch a different streamer” when you have yourself never watched Hasan’s stream. You are already opining about who he is, what should people do regarding him, trying to imply nobody should watch him because he “calls his audience hopeless incels” when he literally does not do that, no one ever said he did that either. Right wing MAGA morons are not his audience. You suck. It’s always the same type of people. Same patterns.

              You are either a MAGA or a Jeffrey Class supporter if you still blindly attack or hate Hasan. Especially if you always attack his persona, not his ideals. It’s so obvious, whenever people focus on the dog or some niche drama, what they are truly about.

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                Oh, this is for sure making me like him more. If his community is this hateful and gatekeeping, I’ll make sure to stay as far away from you people as possible.

                And you’ve brought up China out of nowhere, too, like I’ve attacked it in any way. Well, I don’t want to have anything in common with someone that defends authoritarian dictatorships while considering themselves leftist.

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                    a single emoji response

                    What could they have meant by that? Maybe if I check some of their last posts, I’ll have a better idea of their thought process!

                    a post defending Putin

                    a post praising PRC

                    a post claiming Ukrainians are Nazi

                    Ah, I have no further questions.

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                  And I don’t want to be around someone who benefits the pedophiles and Jeffrey Epstein Class like you.

                  Go on and keep attacking the few voices we still have that spread class consciousness. This is the exact reason you will never have even a quarter of the joyful life baby boomers had, you moral purist demon. You are morally inferior to everyone in Hasan’s community for this crappy ass behavior. You generalized them all based on me, and I am literally one of their biggest outliers. I got permabanned in Twitch because I told an Asmongold viewer to go fuck themselves after they were publicly making fuck of Palestinians getting bombed.

                  You are literally someone who is benefiting people like Asmongold, when you say shit like this, so, fuck off. The time for stupid people like you is over. We don’t have to appease or appeal you. Stay behind in the darkness if that is what you want.

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                    23 hours ago

                    I guess you don’t actually care about Hasan, his community or the Palestinians. You’re just desperate for an excuse to insult people and project your own brand of moral purism. I am really sorry for Hasan that his streams attract people like you.