Tangentially related, but s here should recognize that gacha slop like Uma Musume also funds horse racing (the franchise is basically PR for the Japan Racing Association) and is only a small separation from betting at the track. It was obnoxious seeing the wave of people talking about it at launch and seeing it plastered all over gaming sites, Steam, etc. Most people probably don't think twice about it because horse girls in anime just 'makes sense' in a vacuum, but I want to bring more attention to the cruel industry by using that franchise and Hasan as a springboard.

Objectively true and you're right to say it.

Horse racing is a great test for basic decency.

It's a "sport" where you watch horses get tortured to move quickly, and bet on which one you think will be the fastest. It is so obviously terrible and inhumane.

If you really wanted to target this, an effective approach would be to start with jumps. Last year in British horse racing for example 80% of all horse deaths were in jump racing. 156 total deaths were jumps. You'd cut that down to 30-40 if you just banned jump racing.

I agree horse racing isn’t good, but also I’m not going to cancel someone for going once with friends. Some crit on it is appropriate of course, but also it’s important to keep it in greater context.

delete this now i'm warning you you're gonna have 50 comments from Hexbears going "ok so you're saying you hate Hasan Piker and think he should be fired out of a cannon??" or "you say you condemn horse racing but i see you previously have supported Palestine which has many horse racing tracks"

He's also a lil weird about women. Paused the video he was watching once to call Karoline Leavitt hot

ITT: because Hasan gets disingenuous criticism, there’s no point in genuinely critiquing him because he treats everyone with the same reactive attitude.

Conclusion: that’s his problem, not mine. If he can’t help but lash out when people critique his lifestyle or the people he chooses to promote with his platform, that doesn’t mean that the left should stop critiquing him

Conundrum: Hasan is still 70% bro, but sometimes says good things and does help pipeline libs.

Discuss this forever.

I’m not very familiar with horse racing but is betting on it more morally repugnant than eating meat? I agree that animal rights are a weak point for Hasan. At least one of the restaurants he was at served foie gras to his party.

Do you have the same criticism of China for hosting the horse racing?

Umamase or whatever the fuck that gacha game is called >>>>> horse racing

mambo as the kids like to say

Hasan, because of his public life and the absurd amount of pressure and hatred directed at him, is going to keep doing ideologically incongruous things and he's going to continue struggling very hard to change. He's human and an american and a lib and anyone living that sort of life would need an extremely strong sense of self and powerful defense mechanisms just to keep showing up every day. I don't think it's possible for him to process criticism and properly assess it against all the trolling and sealioning he has to endure.

At a certain point it's counter productive to pick fights with him, just use the occasion of his transgression as a topical prompt to share educational stuff with people who consume his slop.

I read Donkey Kong at first and was wondering what the bit was.

😔 thats a shame, I guess I gotta stop hyping cinderella grey smh.

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I have a hard time accepting that horse racing and betting is still something people do, outside of England, Central Asia, and Louisville. Like riding a pennyfarthing or something with how outdated it feels.

We have more modern pursuits nowadays, like betting on gladiators giving each other chronic traumatic encephalopathy.