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Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Its not only MAGA, though.

Its been so discouraging watching what happened with Hasan (twitch streamer). Hasan is blatantly abusing his dog on stream solely to bolster his image. Everything related to the event has been swept under the rug and the will continue on.

In the future Hasan viewers will accept that a little bit of dog abuse is acceptable because they rather continue following Hasan then accept Hasan is a bad person.

The frustrating part is people will hand wave Hasans behavior saying, “he can never admit fault because of his ideology.” When it’s really an act of control against his viewers. They allow him to shape their reality and giving him power. It doesnt matter if its Kaya being abused or Hasan stabbed someone in the eye. He will continue to inch his following into full devotion because at a certain people it will become impossible for them to admit they were wrong because that is admitting they enabled an abuser.

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