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.

    • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      17 hours ago

      I’m an anarchist on the same instance as you are, I agree with the idea that US’s geopolitical games had to have a blowback at some point.

      Should the 3000+ died? Probably not. Would someone at some point have died due to the blowback at some point? Most likely. Can’t say when or where, or how many.

      But people were (understandably) seething with hatred for what America did to their nations and cultures. Removing elected leaders for autocratic dictators, assassinating people to help aid in anti-communist efforts, and so on. America was not innocent in the region pre-9/11.

      The people in the towers probably had nothing to do even tangentially related to the reasons for 9/11 to be done in the eyes of the Al Queda, beyond “they are in the buildings tied to American capitalism, valid target in our eyes.”

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      24 hours ago

      I’m not a tankie, so I wouldn’t be on a tankie instance. Other radical views exist outside Maoism and Marxist-Leninism.

      I’m not saying those 3000 people deserved to die. It is sad that they died. The US as a whole had it coming, and it would have been better if only the government or combatants were targeted. But to act like the US citizens who died on 9/11 were completely innocent bystanders is also unrealistic. It’s sad that settler families were slaughtered by native Americans, but I’m not going to act like it was completely evil that they were targeted, especially after we were slaughtering tribes en masse with our military.

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      22 hours ago

      Ye the Palestinians should just die already and let the last of their land be stolen by Jizzrael and the Ussa