# I Pit Babale

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [April 7, 2025, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-babale/1016738 "2025-04-07T14:59:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2026, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-babale/1016738/1500 "2026-10-28T18:29:25Z")

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> [@Hasan Piker suing Scott Jennings for $72 million](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hasan-piker-suing-scott-jennings-for-72-million/1034206):
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> I guess this could be in P & E, but it seems better suited for this forum. [Here is the complaint](https://reason.com/volokh/2026/10/27/hasan-piker-sues-scott-jennings/), and like most complaints it seems pretty persuasive before you read the response. He is represented by the same team of lawyers who successfully won Dominion Voting Systems a $750 million judgment against Fox News. For background, Piker is a “progressive podcaster”, while Jennings is a MAGA loudmouth employed by CNN. Both men are assholes. The claim is that Jennings defamed Piker by claiming that …

@Babale says Hasan Piker is an admitted “Marxist-Leninist”. I don’t really know anything about Piker, so maybe it’s true. But I and others ask for a cite, since, ya know, Babs often makes shit up. He refuses (so far, at least), insisting that it should be obvious to anyone who pays attention.

That should make it easy to provide such a cite, then, right?

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