Well that backfired on Ethan

  • Inui [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    17 hours ago

    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.

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      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?

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        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.

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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

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        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?

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          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.