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Hasan is blowing up on TikTok over the detainment
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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?
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?
How do I know that you're actually posting this?
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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.
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.
Go collect your paycheck, you've done enough harm here, your work is done.
I think skepticism is great in general but this is a very strange topic to suddenly become a philosopher over.