Left-wing influencer Hasan Piker gloats as he returns to Twitch after being yanked for comments about DC Jewish museum shooting
The streamer and Democrat darling took to X seemingly to confirm that his suspension for 'Improper Handling of Terrorist Propaganda' had been brought to an end.
3 Lefty streamer Hasan Piker has been reinstated on Twitch after the platform yanked him over comments surrounding the DC Jewish museum shooting.
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3 Piker took to social media to gloat after he was reinstated.
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The post, repurposing a popular meme, shows a picture of a man in a hospital bed with a text bubble underneath.
'I lived bitch,' the text reads.
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Piker, who streams on Twitch to his 2.8 million followers, sparked outrage over the weekend when he claimed the deaths of two Israeli Embassy staffers last Wednesday had all the hallmarks of a 'false flag operation,' a term used for an action staged to look as if it was carried out by a different group to pin the blame on them.
'I'm not 'Mr. False Flag' at all, but, like, every single thing that [Rodriguez] did in the aftermath of the shooting is so f–king crazy that it's like, you could not have designed a f–king incident like this,' he said.
3 Yaron LIschinsky and Sarah Milgrim were murdered outside the DC Jewish museum last week.
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'You could not have decided a better false flag incident like this,' he said in the live stream, which was also shared to his 1.6 million YouTube followers on Friday.
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