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.

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    7 hours ago

    You said that terrorism is their only reasons for existing, it’s clearly not as I’ve already demonstrated.

    If they invented suicide bombing or drone bombing, I don’t give a shit. It doesn’t change the fact that they are very clearly more than simply “terrorism” as you believe.

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      5 hours ago

      Terrorism is always for a purpose. You listed several purposes, all of which are pursued via terrorism.

      They only exist because of their willingness to use terrorism.

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          53 minutes ago

          One example. I already revealed another example: The first suicide attacks were on US military occupying Lebanon .

          That is two examples vs countless suicide attacks on civilians and daily rocket attacks which were not military targeted, starting the day after Oct 7 (ie before Israel even retaliated).

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            52 minutes ago

            I can give you thousands of examples of US indiscriminate bombings on civilians in the Middle East, will you start to say America is a terrorist state?

            Shock and Awe is a terror strategy designed to frighten the public with extreme displays of violence.

            Collateral Damage is a term invented to normalise American killings of innocent civilians.

            And finally Israel didn’t retaliate, Israel started it a century ago.