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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[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 month ago

I'm an anarchist on the same instance as you are, I agree with the idea that US's geopolitical games had to have a blowback at some point.

Should the 3000+ died? Probably not. Would someone at some point have died due to the blowback at some point? Most likely. Can't say when or where, or how many.

But people were (understandably) seething with hatred for what America did to their nations and cultures. Removing elected leaders for autocratic dictators, assassinating people to help aid in anti-communist efforts, and so on. America was not innocent in the region pre-9/11.

The people in the towers probably had nothing to do even tangentially related to the reasons for 9/11 to be done in the eyes of the Al Queda, beyond "they are in the buildings tied to American capitalism, valid target in our eyes."