Twitch streamer Hassan Piker confirms he's in the process of pursuing litigation against Kentucky lobbyist Scott Jennings

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• roserose56@lemmy.zip ⁨31⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Read the fucking rules! No politics!

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• supersquirrel@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What I love most about Hasan Piker is how incomprehensibly liberals, empty centrists and conservatives absolutely panic when they see his name when in actuality Hasan Piker has very moderate and rationale beliefs.

  No Hasan isn’t a moderate according to the definition of a moderate being completely unreflective of how their beliefs and ideals connect to reality, but Hasan is actually very much a moderate in terms of wanting systematic change in the most boring, broadly beneficial and policy focused way possible. There is nothing “radical” about Hasan Piker’s personality or politics when viewed from a rationale perspective, the beliefs of centrists are far more radical given the incredible unexamined hypocrises at the heart of them.

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• ooliiu@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is what Jennings posted

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  • Schmoo@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    This is textbook defamation. Hasan’s chat is constantly telling him he should sue whenever he watches mainstream media making shit up about him on stream but he has always declined, but recently they’ve escalated the defamation and are making increasingly serious allegations against him, so IMO he’s shown remarkable restraint thus far and he absolutely has the right to sue over this.

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  • Yuccagnocchiyaki@lemmy.world ⁨41⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    It’s only going to get worse without repurcussions for Jennings too. He is probably going to be the new press secretary so he will committ all kinds of horrific acts that lead to death and misery for the working class on his way to a huge payday at Fox News.

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  • Botzo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    In case anyone is interested in the video and doesn’t want to give X any clicks:

    nitter.net/ScottJenningsKY/…/2087342051503300787#…

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• Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  5 or 6 years ago this guy was a GTA role-player on Nopixel. Now he does this?

  Yikes.

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• absquatulate@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Isn’t this the guy who zapped his dog? Why the fuck are people still giving him attention?

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  • sem@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Allegedly. Others say the collar was non-shocking. As far as scandals go, probably is somewhat more believable than Al Franken’s allegations (who was canceled for less), but less believable than a lot of other scandals today.

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  • kat_angstrom@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Because he streams for 8+ hrs a day to an audience of tens (if not hundreds) of thousands while espousing rational political views that run contrary to the narratives of America’s two political parties. Many people in their teens and twenties love him, for whatever it’s worth.

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    • absquatulate@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      We should judge him by what he does not what he says, but I get it. He speaks to us so we ignore potential issues.

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  • CardboardDecoy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Find the proof he zapped his dog.

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• givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I wish people cared as much about what politicians had to say as nepo twitch streamers who claim to be communist while streaming from a literal West Hollywood mansion…

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  • CardboardDecoy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What’s funny is that his house has actually been leaked and it’s not a mansion so much a product of insane runaway housing costs making relatively simple houses insanely expensive in specific locations.

    Raise your standards.

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    • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Raise your standards.

      I’d love for my standards to be a “normal house” worth over a million dollars…

      But my uncle didn’t start a giant media company and name it after genocide a to hand me a platform…

      But to be honest I probably would have turned it down and wouldn’t have been interning for him in the first place

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