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It also doesn't make the conclusion of abuse any less spurious.

Yes, your well-documented interest in dogs, and not your woefully underrepresented distaste for a specific type of leftist commentary that piker happens to advocate for.

I dont think anyone invested in this actually cares about the specifics of training collars, they're just excited to have a reason to be angry with this person.

I don't care

Yes i think that's pretty emblematic of the situation

You're parasocially obsessing over a political streamer who has primarily been covering the Palestinian genocide, alongside streamers who have primarily defended it while mercilessly attacking streamers and artists speaking against Israel. Either you don't know you're stepping into two years worth of streamer drama slop, or you're opportunistically jumping on because of your own distaste for his politics.

Either way, the situation you've dedicated the last three days to on this account is certainly not worth yours or anyone else's time unless you happen to be personally invested in the relative influence of this specific political commentator.

No, I mean the guy in this video.

Nono, I mean the guy presenting you this evidence in the video. Lonerbox is a genocide denying zionist and has had a two-year-long feud against piker.

It should be a red flag that all the creators dedicating resources to covering this slop are outspoken zionists.

You should know that this guy is a Palestinian genocide denier.

"This is NAZI shit!!"

Watching a video passively is one thing, it's another thing to do all this:

!after someone provides a video of the abuse, has a lengthy discussion about the plausibility of theories like "it's a GPS collar" and goes through individual frames to show what they're talking about or timelapses of a longer amount of the stream!<

Ultimately idgaf, im just telling you what it looks like to see someone go to this amount of trouble, especially for a public figure they've already shown distaste for, and especially since you've also previously elaborated at length about how you think about your contributions to online spaces through a political lense.

I agree.

The topics and people we choose to spend time and effort on speak quite a bit about what matters to us. It means something that this story captured this much of your attention, it isn't neutral truth seeking.

I dont think it's healthy to be this invested in a stranger's relationship with their dog. That it involves a public figure you've had strong reactions to before makes me think this is just parasocial indulgence.