PhilipTheBucket
@PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social
- Comment on My 16 year old cousin is being stalked by a very obsessive 26 year old man online who keeps trying to mass-report her to get her banned. What can she do? 5 hours ago:
Yeah, I would take it seriously. Another alternative would be getting a protective order from a judge, so that he’s not allowed to do anything like this in the future. But it sounds like he has maybe broken the law already, so maybe do both. Bottom line, fuck him up.
- Comment on My 16 year old cousin is being stalked by a very obsessive 26 year old man online who keeps trying to mass-report her to get her banned. What can she do? 5 hours ago:
Call the cops. Harassment online is illegal, and depending on the nature of the pics that part may be very illegal. Even if he somehow doesn’t have any legal consequences from anything he’s done so far, having police reports in place for stuff now will make it easier for him to potentially face consequences later.
Talk to a lawyer if it’s complicated, a few hundred dollars may get a consultation that can set you up for how to frame things in a way that makes it more likely that the cops will do something. But even just calling the cops and laying it out (read up on the laws, stay focused on stuff that’s specifically banned by statute in a provable way as much as possible, sometimes people want to “give context” too much) may be pretty productive.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
How are you coming to the conclusion that they are “someone qualified”?
Someone who is trans is automatically qualified, to a certain extent, to speak about trans issues. It doesn’t mean they’re always right or anything, but it means they start from a baseline of being worth listening to. If you are cis and just derisively shutting them down as far as trans issues, and giving these wild insults (I can’t even remember the context from the video but I remember it was bad) that have very little to do with anything they were saying, and just serve to try to tear them down and punish them so they won’t try to speak up again, then yes, you’re a piece of shit. To me there’s not a lot of context that could somehow “save” that.
Maybe there’s more to that interaction that you clipped out of the video - i have no idea
You haven’t watched it, have you…
For one of these, I actually did dig up the context. Stuff like that is important to me. So for the “I think you’re choking her” clip, I dug up the context and posted it. A couple of the Hasan stans actually swore to me that the likely outcome after that clip was that he would loosen the collar and all would be well. Because of course you would. Any reasonable person would, and is Hasan not a reasonable person?
Turns out the answer was no, he did not loosen it. He blamed the issue on her NECK. MEAT. and there was an awkward silence, and then the guest who has raised the issue wisely redirected away from the looming confrontation, and just dropped the issue and went back to what she’d been talking about, as if they hadn’t discovered an active issue of suffering in Hasan’s favorite animal.
You know, a normal interaction and normal behavior for a pet owner.
Interesting you list Chomsky as an example because he’s made exactly the same arguments about the Ukraine war as Piker was in that video.
What? These are totally different arguments. Chomsky says, more or less:
- The US in Iraq was far worse and more brutal than Russia in Ukraine (true)
- Particular countries want into NATO for economic reasons, not reasons of safety (I’m not qualified to judge, I have no idea, but it sounds plausible)
- The West doesn’t actually care about Ukraine, they actually want to draw out the conflict to bleed Russia for their own reasons which increases the suffering (100% agree, I actually frequently raise this point when it comes up, I think I’ve said it a couple of times on Lemmy) (and also I have additional elements to add to that which come from people who know a lot about the inner workings of US diplomacy, ask me what Dan Ellsberg has to say about it.)
That all makes sense. I might agree with it or disagree but it’s fine. What Hasan says is:
- The “rest of the countries of the world” or something like that, see Russia’s war in Ukraine as a strike against Western and US imperialism
*That*, in contrast, is a big bunch of horseshit.
Like I said, this is what I don’t like about Hasan. He’s just an idiot. He just says weird stuff, whatever comes to mind ("vibration collars are good for calling your dog back when she can’t hear you…") but it lines up generally speaking with the geopolitical battle lines that some people like to draw, and so they support him even though a lot of times what he’s saying is just nonsense. He blames world events on CIA/Mossad the instant he hears of them, he waves around his shock collar with tape over it swearing it’s something else, he just kind of says stuff that’s on the right performative side, and to some people that’s enough.
I have no idea why you guys are taken in by this guy. You’re welcome to it, I guess, but he’s a pretty fucking bad standard bearer if you’re looking for leftist podcast people. What happened to chapotraphouse? Behind the Bastards? I haven’t seen them, I don’t know… like I say I just am not involved in this space, so I have no idea who to vouch for in it, but there has to be better out there than this fucking guy.
Also, I asked you a couple times: What should I watch from Hasan to get a good idea about him? I’m going to stop asking soon, but I am genuinely curious what his supporters would want me to watch as a good introduction. If someone asked me that about James Baldwin, Noam Chomsky, whatever, I would have something that I would want to share. You are not obligated to of course I guess.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
To what end?
Okay, so I’m going to take that as you’re not going to try to argue with the idea that there’s strong evidence that he shocked his dog and then lied about it.
I have no idea why that would not be pertinent information for you to know about this man you seem to take seriously, but it’s up to you of course.
Anyone who watches this person regularly aren’t going to judge his character on the one clip
If I hang out with a friend every day, and then one day I see him punch a baby, then yes I’m going to judge his character based on that one interaction.
That’s separate from the issue that literally every clip I have seen of this guy makes him look like a piece of shit in some way or another. Like I say, I actually look more at the totality of what I’ve seen him do while interacting with Kaya in these clips and the overall emotional interplay at work, than I do indict him specifically for shocking her and lying about it. But yes, shocking her and then lying about it (which you suddenly don’t want to litigate… wonder why…) is very significant to me.
I fully acknowledged that it’s probably a one-sided picture created by his enemies, and invited you to send me a clip showing the other side of his character where he’s providing something insightful or valuable that I should be able to take on and make some use of, and you keep not doing it. So yeah that also makes me feel pretty settled in the conclusion about him.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
No, i’m looking for literally anyone you think is a good representation of your geopolitical perspective that might better inform what you consider “someone who knows what they’re talking about”.
Oh, so a different thing from someone qualified coming in and trying to help Hasan understand and him treating them as the enemy and him and all his chat going on a wild tear of insulting them and tearing them down instead of spending even a moment hearing out what they have to say.
Got it. You should have said you were interested in that totally separate question. On geopolitics I like Noam Chomsky, Rachel Maddow, Al Jazeera, Bellingcat, Tim Snyder… kind of hard to list out individual people on the spot, but those are some random ones that come to mind who deal with global issues who I generally will trust their judgement because I’ve seen them be right a lot in the past. Almost any perspective I can appreciate as long as it seems like it’s coming from an honest place, but those are some where I actually feel pretty firmly aligned with the person’s viewpoint or the overall editorial viewpoint. Then there are specific people (Dan Ellsberg, John Perkins) who have some kind of unique insight into a specific element of geopolitics that I think is valuable to include in my overall picture.
I strongly dislike the reaction slop. This stuff is that, sure, and I’m only reacting to it because they seem like they’re bringing receipts, the topic is important, and the counterargument from Hasan’s side is so transparently dishonest that it doesn’t really convince me that he’s not guilty. But I’m limited to those people for my picture of Hasan, I think, because that’s the only ecosystem where he is really active and so those are the only people in a position to criticize him. That’s why I asked you for some of his exemplary work on geopolitics so I can take a look at it, and judge it in the same light that I would those names I listed earlier.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
You’re welcome to, if you would like to. I would actually really like for someone from Hasan’s followers to try to explain why this post is not factually solid.
I wasn’t specifically talking about you. I just noticed that the initial narrative was dew claws and airtags, and then it was vibrating collars, and now it’s shifted over to 100% attacking the messenger and they’re not at all interested in talking about how it’s obviously an airtag collar and anyone who can’t see that is stupid.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I posted a video a little while back, of a trans person who came in Hasan’s stream and said that they disagreed with his handling of trans issues. He booted them from the chat and started these wild personal insults against them (as did a lot of his chat).
You know, like a perfectly reasonable person.
It’s somewhere in here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdCFycPw3fI
Like I say, the source of the information means nothing to me. It’s all untrustworthy. I would want to look and double-check a lot of the information first regardless (unless it was a highly trusted source somehow). Actually, for a lot of this Kaya stuff, I made sure to grab the source video where I could directly from Hasan’s pages, so I could look around and see more of the context (and be sure it’s not some kind of deepfake, although that seems highly unlikely.)
And yes, I’m probably getting a one-sided picture. Do you want to send me something which is Hasan making some really clear and important argument that I really need to hear? Or just his normal day-to-day coverage of the flotilla or the European Gaza protests that are going on right now? Happy to take a look at that stuff, too.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
They were doing that, super vigorously, up until about a day ago when it became pretty clear that Hasan was lying. Now, all of a sudden, the identity of the messenger is the only thing worth talking about (and also why you keep talking about this, bro, I think you’re taking streamer drama WAY too seriously…)
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Like this person his chat who made an incredibly succinct comparison to highlight the error of what he was saying, and then he (a) missed the point completely (b) lost his shit:
- Comment on 1 week ago:
not your woefully underrepresented distaste for a specific type of leftist commentary that piker happens to advocate for.
You’re actually 100% right about that. I actually forgot about this, but I talked about it here:
https://lemmy.world/search?q=hasan&type=All&listingType=All&creatorId=15951251&page=1&sort=Old
I completely forgot about that stuff. He was saying that basically every country in the world except America was backing Russia in Ukraine. Something like that. I don’t fully remember (and I guess the post got deleted?), but yes, I think he’s incredibly ignorant about world issues, and incredibly hostile to anyone who does know what they’re talking about who disagrees with him, and then cloaks in in this shield of performative leftist anti-Imperialism in a way that garners him supporters without him needing to be worth listening to.
And in particular there’s a huge following that sees that he’s pro-Palestinian, and then they start supporting him, and that becomes a shield for any kind of wrong or toxic thing he wants to do. I’m pro-Palestinian. You’re pro-Palestinian. Hasan is pro-Palestinian. Bernie Sanders is pro-Palestinian. It’s fine. It is the only moral viewpoint. But he understands that in the modern left it’s this kind of trump card where if someone convinces their idiot supporters (like you, right now) to attack everyone who’s “against” him by implying that they’re ANTI-Palestinian, because what other type of person would EVER attack a PRO-Palestinian, they can literally get away with torturing a dog on stream and everyone will look the other way for them.
That’s why I compare it to small town Christian communities. It’s 100% the same. It is to a T. He’s the people who go out to eat after church and tip fifty cents. He’s the people who torment their stepchildren without mercy, are just blowhard pieces of shit on a personal level, but no one will say a word against them, because they’re PRO-Christian in a huge way and big names in the community, and so… you get the idea.
So yes, I have distaste for “a specific type of leftist community.” I honestly didn’t pay enough attention to Hasan before this to see it in any level of detail, I just saw that one video 2 months ago. And sure, maybe it’s fair to say that I should watch some of his streams that haven’t been cherry-picked to look bad by someone with malicious intentions. That’s completely fair, I really will do that. But honestly everything I have seen, including stuff that was cherry-picked by his supporters as a “gotcha” against my POV (when he was showing the dog collar on stream and explaining himself), has made me think he is pro-Palestine’s TV evangelist preacher, and y’all are the suckers who keep sending your retirement money hoping he’ll bring Gaza to the promised land, when all he wants to do is buy more cars for himself with it or whatever. Has he been covering the flotilla? Has he been burning up about all the protests spreading in Europe now? What’s he been talking about? I haven’t seen, maybe he is, tell me.
Honestly I appreciate this whole interaction because now I can see more clearly I think. Whatever was burning me up to interact about the topic of the dog-shocking (to this, sure, a little excessive degree) is gone now, I think, because the thing I was wanting to know or wanting to understand is resolved for me now.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I just like dogs. I think if he’s shocking his dog and lying about it, he’s a piece of shit. That’s about the end of it.
I think i said this before, what you’re saying is precisely the logic that tight-knit Christian communities use to protect sexual abusers who are highly placed in the community. It is 100% the same. “How DARE you say this about this person, don’t you know how much good they do, look what bad people their enemies are, you’re probably just confused by all those rumors out there, but it’s BAD people starting those rumors, and look what an important role they play, now I question if YOU’RE one of the bad people…”
I notice also that we only pivoted to
"it’s all just drama from his enemies""why are you talking about this so much"“you’re ruining Palestine with all this posting” after it become extremely objectively clear what actually happened. Before that it was all dew claws, close-ups of freezes from the stream, waving around vibrating collars on stream, that kind of thing. Now we’re all of a sudden in a landscape where there are much bigger issues at play aside from, did he actually shock that dog or not.Either way, the situation you’ve dedicated the last three days to on this account is certainly not worth yours or anyone else’s time unless you happen to be personally invested in the relative influence of this specific political commentator.
I posted one video two days ago, then got a tide of incoming accusation and kerfuffle for a day and a half, and then earlier today I decided I would respond to a lot of the incoming hate-mail I was getting from Hasan stans by just posting a new video of something objectively illustrating that Hasan is actually a piece of shit to his dog, every time I got some kind of hate mail. This guy was the one that finally pushed me over the edge to do it:
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/16741177
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/16741569
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/16740783
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/16740913
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/16748637
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/16755963
And so on, there’s more, that’s about half of it. Anyway, I think about 75% of my posts today are in response to stuff like that. I decided it would be funnier to make a new post every time I got one of those, and respond to him with a link to the new post, instead of reporting him. And you know what? I stand by that decision.
(He’s also one of those “Kamala Harris would have been just as bad” people, if you want to aim some of that analyzing-political-motives around at anyone else. That’s one of the other comments he likes to copy-paste to people sometimes, check his profile.)
- Comment on Here's the full context for the "I think you're choking her" clip, where Hasan completely ignores the guest telling him the dog's collar is too tight, insults the dog, and then returns to the day's topic: Basic empathy. 1 week ago:
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t=instead - Comment on Here's the full context for the "I think you're choking her" clip, where Hasan completely ignores the guest telling him the dog's collar is too tight, insults the dog, and then returns to the day's topic: Basic empathy. 1 week ago:
The URL is linked to a specific timestamp, it’s at 5:45:25 if the embed didn’t pick it up or something.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Couldn’t care less. Just as “But he’s *Hasan*, he would never do that!” doesn’t really mean anything to me, “But he’s a *Zionist*, he’s obviously wrong!” doesn’t either.
I didn’t really say anything about this video until I had a chance to go through Hasan’s stream and check it out and this is definitely legit. He bought a shock collar and then covered it up with tape to pretend it was a vibration collar. As far as I’m concerned that makes it about 100% likely that he also shocked his dog and lied about that, too. If the other guy’s a Zionist, then sure, he’s a piece of shit too (as long as it’s not one of those “Bernie is a Zionist” clever wordplay constructions where as long as he doesn’t literally want Israel destroyed, he’s a Zionist). They can both be pieces of shit. Hasan still shocked his dog and lied about it, and fuck him for that, whatever else is happening with whatever else.
- Here's the full context for the "I think you're choking her" clip, where Hasan completely ignores the guest telling him the dog's collar is too tight, insults the dog, and then returns to the day's topic: Basic empathy.www.youtube.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to videos@lemmy.world | 3 comments
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I am not at all, but you all should know that this guy is willing to excuse and deflect away from animal abuse when it’s being done by his favorite streamer.
Honestly, one guy on Twitch who inflicts pain on his dog sometimes when he’s angry about his tech not working right isn’t the end of the world in the nonstop circus of horrors that is geopolitics. But this whole mentality “but he’s my guy, so he didn’t do anything wrong” is a dangerous enough pattern to be worth pushing back hard against, when it happens, I think. That’s part of why I am even taking all this streamer drama seriously in any respect in the first place. And, of course, someone who’s willing to lie to everyone’s face about what they literally watched happen on stream with their own two eyes probably isn’t a good person to put in your close and trusted circle of “influencers.”
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Not just that, but trying to cover for it in the most insultingly stupid and lazy possible way.
It honestly wouldn’t have been hard to do Amazon next-day delivery of an actual vibration version of the exact same model of collar, and then show it clearly on stream without all of these obvious shenanigans of holding it awkwardly and taking it out of view really quickly, and clearly and honestly illustrating that it’s the same general shape and configuration so that it would have been honestly pretty compelling. But he’s gotten accustomed to just being lord of his little streaming domain, feeding condescending forceful explanations to all his followers and having them lap it up eagerly, that he’s started to think that’s just how the world works and he doesn’t have to put effort into convincing anybody of anything, and can just order them what to believe.
There have been a typhoon of his followers commenting things to me about this issue. Honestly the only reason I went to the trouble of doing little screenshots to so clearly show the issue is because they have been hounding me relentlessly insisting that it’s all completely made up and obviously false and I must only be talking about it because I’m a stan for some other streamer that is a supervillian in the extended cinematic Hasanaverse. I was at least a little bit unsure, now I am absolutely convinced that he shocked that dog and is now lying about it on purpose.
- Submitted 1 week ago to videos@lemmy.world | 38 comments
- Comment on JB Pritzker Has Had It With Democrats Who Won’t Stand Up to Trump 1 week ago:
At a time when Democrats are searching for leadership, Mr. Pritzker is trying to seize the moment to demonstrate it — to fuel opposition to Mr. Trump across the nation, and, perhaps, his future presidential ambitions.
Gotta get that in there, NYT, didn’t you. I’m sure the article is fine but they just can’t completely let go of the leader-cock with one hand, they’re just hanging on in case they need it later, keeping in practice every night with their favorite tricks to discredit somebody on command.
I halfway wish some of the fascism would come for these guys directly. It’s definitely got them in the sights, they just don’t seem to realize it, and maybe if something did happen the survivors would maybe wake the fuck up and start helping.
- For the First Time Ever, You Can See Stunning, Centuries-Old Murals at England's Oldest Hospitalwww.smithsonianmag.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 0 comments
- Comment on Generative design of novel bacteriophages with genome language models 1 week ago:
Bird flu is still out there, and it seems likely that by the time it figures out humans, the US public health apparatus will be basically destroyed.
Ever lived through a plague in the middle ages? Would you like to?
- Comment on Generative design of novel bacteriophages with genome language models 1 week ago:
What’s the worst that could happen
- Comment on The Big Bad Wolf Is Afraid of You | Researchers found that the predatory canines were far more likely to flee recordings of human voices than they were to run away from other sounds. 2 weeks ago:
Makes sense. Out of all the possible sounds a wolf can hear, a human voice is probably by far the most likely to kill you if you don’t GTFO.
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- Comment on From breadwinners to bystanders: The death spiral of the American working man 2 weeks ago:
Not to mention working on saving the oceans, cleaning up all the PFAS, reducing the impact of global warming, all this stuff. There is an absolute shitload of work that needs to be done that needs a massive amount of effort and manpower. This idea “well how are we going to create jobs when AI can do everything and we have enough web marketers I guess” is looking at the working world through the entirely wrong lens.
- Comment on From breadwinners to bystanders: The death spiral of the American working man 2 weeks ago:
Yeah. I kind of hesitated to post it for exactly that reason. It is not really exactly the take that I would have taken to any of what it is talking about. I do think some of the underlying facts are important and so I posted it anyway, but I do pretty much agree.
Specifically I think a lot more of what is happening is that “powerful” jobs are going away, and “underclass” jobs are becoming more common, and he’s interpreting that as “male” and “female” jobs respectively.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to workreform@lemmy.world | 13 comments
- Comment on Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such?? 2 weeks ago:
why the need to accuse me of re-editing a comment? (which never happened)
You edited this comment after I posted my reply to it which talked about archaeology. I thought you’d edited the comment to remove mention of archaeology, but I was wrong, that mention came from this comment of yours.
But then, I realized I’d been wrong, and retracted the wrong thing I’d said, and apologized about it. Not sure how you even managed to see my wrong accusation within the ~2 minutes or whatever that it was on Lemmy, but in any case, my bad.
What you are seemingly trying to tell me here, “PhilipTheBucket,” is that you’re not really able to countenance the actual arguments I’m making above.
Now would you say that’s a fair or unfair statement? If unfair, could you give me some facts & reality-based reasons as to why not?
I don’t know how to upload an image within a comment in Piefed. Presumably it’s not that hard and I’m just thick. Anyway, please in the meantime enjoy this ASCII art of a sea lion:
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Like I said, I have no interest in continuing a dispute with you about this.
- Comment on Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such?? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I realized after that you were talking about archaeology up in your original reply to me, not in the pre-editing version of some other comment. Sorry about that, I had already edited my comment to take out the accusation (within 5 minutes of originally posting it.)
I pretty much agree with this comment of yours. I have absolutely no reason why that would mean we have to continue to bicker. I do think that comment is pretty firmly in contradiction to your earlier statements ("King Arthur / Robin Hood"), but whatever, I see no profit at all in us having a dispute about that part of it.