I think because unfortunately this extends beyond fandom and more into the realm of (a) zealotry, (b) fan-craze / simping / lusting, and/or ( c) Astroturfing bot networks intended to amplify support and suppress dissent. People like Piker are useful to certain groups to advance their own agenda. No different than the likes of Charlie Kirk or Tucker Carlosn or Asmongold, just for different people.

If you’re in one of these groups, then ceding any ground whatsoever is a non-starter.

I didn’t ask for a source though. I asked for your personal beliefs. Why are you still here at all wasting time then?

Are you a bot? I didn’t want you to copy paste, I wanted to know what you believed in your own words. I could’ve looked that up myself.

That’s it? Nothing else?

What is the important and good work now that you believe he’s doing?

What are the top 3 best things in your view that Piker has done?

These aren’t rhetorical.

… The harder they fall.

Oh, I see what this is. You’re obsessed with him.

but lol yeah I laughed. Conservatives are weird. But it’s easy to get fit when you’re sitting on a $4 million Hollywood hills house and are a trust fund affluenza child. I guess he and Elon Musk have that in common!

Roids probably help, too lol.

The questions were obviously rhetorical.

Funny, I looked up those breeds and for 2 out of 3 of the breeds they do work generally (cruel though they may be), and even on a pure breed chow chow they work some of the time. A mixed breed would likely not have the same characteristics and be more vulnerable.

These citations thus aren’t helping your claim. How shock collars work was never in dispute. You’re losing ground, and fast.

Sorry not reading this. Again, it is entirely irrelevant what Dan says because that was never a factor in my observation of Piker’s cruelty.

Tell me, what breed is Kaya?

And what source are you citing that they do not work 100% of the time?

Never once cared, heard, anything Dan Saltman said. I saw it with my own eyes. I saw Piker change his story on this as well. Not exactly a good sign.

I highly encourage you to stop perceiving the world through the lens of a twitch chat and simping for streamers.

I’m not the one spouting fallacies.

Stating that shock collars don’t work on that breed does not preclude Piker – fool that he is – from erroneously using one in a fit of rage. It’s a monumentally terrible argument. Try that fact on for size.

I am in 100% agreement with you and I’ve argued with this Velma user over this before, and despite Piker changing his story, denying using an electronic device initially but then later changing that to saying it was a vibration collar, leaving aside his obvious moment of rage in the original video – you can just tell he’s a vain, narcissistic piece of shit who may or may not be heavily astroturfed by the CCP.

It’s so obvious Piker is a piece of shit. The left needs better role-models.

Shock collars don’t even work on dogs like Kaya.

Then somebody probably should’ve told Piker that.

Like father like son. Remember his imprisoned father going to Florida after losing in 2022?

Crime family asking for help from another crime family.

These republicans are another level of crooked.

I know this is Iowa. I know it’s always a stretch to court poorly educated people because appealing to ethnocentric bias and anger is always easier.

One can hope this is a bait-and-switch thing that we often see happen in the reverse way with dipshits like Sinema or Fetterman but I seriously doubt it.

This is honestly such an easy issue to navigate if you frame it around individual freedom and redirect the conversation to war, gas prices, cost of living etc.