Hasan is blowing up—
Not beating the terrorism allegations, Mr. Piker!
this post was submitted on 13 May 2025
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okay but he was obviously only taken aside because he kept triggering the metal detector with all his goofy ass thumb rings and pukashells and other assorted accessory bullshit.
Feels like an Eric Andre bit. Going though TSA looking as Arab as you can and then having just a shitload if really white people stuff under a turban and robe. Setting of the metal detector cause of your roller blade wheels and tattoo equipment while looking super brown
Man with middle eastern/turkish origins detained in America over his politics. And they are left leaning. I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner tbh. If you wanna be a turkish man in the spotlight you need to sniff American war criminal butt like that enes freedom nerd.
He's so handsome 🤩
You can say he's "Glowing up" to
Non tracking link:
https://www.tiktok.com/@hasandpiker/video/7503700225798819103
https://f-droid.org/packages/com.trianguloy.urlchecker/
if youre in android, the URLchecker app is really helpful for cleaning links, it acts as your default browser so links are opened in an editable form, and you jump into a regular browser from there. Ihighly recommend it
not sure about the security of it though 🤷♀️
Appreciate it
No problem. In the future copy and open the link in a browser (I use Firefox on Android), then copy that link and delete everything after the question mark. You doxxed your tiktok account to anyone who opened the original tracking link fyi
Do you happen to know if any privacy frontends work for tiktok like invidious does for youtube? I use LibRedirect for everything I can, but it only displays proxitok, which hasn't worked for well over a year, and offtiktok, which doesn't seem to have any public instances listed. So I'm guessing there just is no frontend landscape for tiktok like there is for youtube, reddit, etc.?
Sorry to ask you out of the blue, but it sounds like you might be well versed in this kind of thing.
The extension Lib Redirect you set this king of thing up for all kinds of websites, including tiktok
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@CyborgMarx@hexbear.net you can disable that "feature" somewhere in the settings under Privacy > Suggest your account to others > People who open or send links to you, but the tracking links do a lot more than just reveal the account
Thanks for the info, I'll definitely do that for my main account
Thanks for the heads up, it was a burner account anyway that's been linked to a dozen times already, but it's good I can now disable the tracker
Wait. Hold on. Do we know this actually happened? Were there other witnesses? He is, first and foremost, a celebrity and entertainer. He is a man in show business. And a left wing commentator being detained? That's an obvious ratings booster. How do we know this isn't just the stunt of an entertainer?
Just doing due diligence. How do we know this actually happened?
Even if he did, good for him. That's funny as hell and, dare I say... le good!
He did call other people to let them know what was happening while he was being lead away, so unless you think they're all in on the conspiracy. He's already rich and extremely well known. He just interviewed Jean-Luc Mélenchon of the French parliament. There's no incentive.
How would they know he's not just calling them and lying to them? He could have easily called or messaged people and said he was being lead away.
Celebrities of his stature have performed stunts before. The incentive would be the very ratings explosion that he's getting now. A ratings explosions means a revenue explosion. More ad revenue. More interview opportunities. More sponsors and donations. He's making money off of this. And I would not try to argue that he's already so well-off he's above wanting more money. When has that ever actually worked?
They detain journalists who talk about eroding freedoms. They detain activists that protest growing surveillance.
It's their way of reminding people they are being watched and that they should back off if they don't want trouble.
it's just way way more likely that he's not lying. he doesn't have a history of bullshit stuntmaking, the government is doing this, and it's just not a big enough boost to his attention that it would be enticing enough to lie. Looking at this tikok, it has 1.9 million views, and his channel has 44.2 million likes and TikTok almost always stays very close to 10 views per Like, meaning he has half a billion views on just his tikok. Making a huge, risky demonstrable lie to get half a percent across this and a couple other platforms just doesn't make sense. Just flying out of the country and missing 2 days of streaming probably lost more money than this story brought
What would constitute proof? We can't rely on Hasan's word. We can't rely on the word of the people around him because he may be deceiving them. What would prove it to you? He couldn't film it. He wasn't arrested so there's no public log. We can't get the video footage from the airport. He wasn't cited, so no paper trail there.
It's okay to be skeptical but you have to think further than just asking questions. You want proof but how do you get it? How do you validate the proof? If it's too difficult to get the evidence you need, then what do you do about it?
They just need to convince the feds to admit it since due to the logic presented anyone who is a witness could just be paid off by Hasan so the only trustworthy witnesses would be the feds themself.
Edit: Just saw an article on it below, saying they at least admitted to an inspection but again, that doesn't verify the majority of his claims so they would be looking for the feds to admit to political intimidation to prove it.
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He did show the pamphlet DHS provided mentioning dhs.gov/dhs-trip on the stream.
Edit :
DHS themselves admitted there was an "inspection" but not much beyond that.
When asked for comment about Piker, a Department of Homeland Security official called his account “nothing but lying for likes.”
“Claims that his political beliefs triggered the inspection are baseless,” Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement. “Our officers are following the law, not agendas. Upon entering the country, this individual was referred for further inspection — a routine, lawful process that occurs daily, and can apply for any traveler. Once his inspection was complete, he was promptly released.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/hasan-piker-twitch-streamer-questioned-us-customs-rcna206406
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Nah he wouldn't lie about this and does not need the boost. They would absolutely do this, and if he made it up it's actually very likely that some groyper in the administration would reveal that it never happened
Right, hypothetically, could someone lie brazenly to the public about being questioned by TSA? Wouldn't there be a significant risk of being revealed to be a liar? And for what?
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