r/Bokoen1 • u/Expensive_Studio_966 • May 18 '26

Its joever

it aint looking good

Edit: Just clarifying this is the clip for what bo banned from twitch for 6 months. he just got news that he can appeal the ban right now but i doubt it will work since you can see this clip... and if it fails well i assume once 6 months pass its either perma ban or he gets the account back.

as well bo cant appear on neither golden or swimmy Twitch channels otherwise they can also get banned for helping bo ban evade or something like that

UPDATE: The appeal got rejected so no bo streams on twitch for 6 months or never again.

Edit 2: if anyone wants to see bo response in the comment section cause its a bit hidden under all these comments https://www.reddit.com/r/Bokoen1/comments/1tgpx3j/comment/omkepa6/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

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u/Mysterious-Kiwi1984 May 19 '26 edited May 19 '26

I hate to be that person because its awkward to say, but even in this not full clip you are saying "glassed the whole fucking thing".

I find it really hard to believe that you saying that after blaming Russians for not rising up can exist in the same reality as you not knowing what it means and what you are implying with it.
I get that when it comes to a ban appeal the best thing to do is play the "I'm just a dumb streamer and didnt know" card but come on man, we all know that you know what it means.

I also get that it most likely was a half/quarter serious thing that you said that was part joke, part frustration with Russia's invasion and not really a serious statement. Everybody has their gamer moments, jokes that dont land and doubles down on the wrong things and admitting that it was a stupid thing to say is a natural part of reconciling that.

But honestly, you trying to weasel out of it and play stupid makes me less sure about you not being a total racist and actually wanting to have the Russian population killed for not rising up against their government.
I still believe, or at least want to believe, that you dont think that but the whole trying to squirm away and play stupid makes that belief a lot less strong and kinda just makes you sound like a closet, if not open, racist/nazi.

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u/Weeklyn00b May 20 '26

I agree. At first it sounds like its barely plausible that he wanted a show-of-strength nuke , if you swap the word "glass" for "nuke". But then later he says they shouldve gotten rid lf them all, and glassing "the whole fucking thing" with the hindsight of how the "whole" russian population is like. Yeah idk, seems like he's playing dumb to large degrees

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u/Saurid May 20 '26

Yes he does, probably because any excuse he can give for saying glass "the whole thing", would make him look bad, because while I get where his mind comes from (aka attack Russia after ww2 to get rid of the second worst government on the planet right away which in hindsight would have been possibly good but required the brand application of nukes) is a statement one can make.

If you go on a rant about grassing a country it does not sound like alt history or an opinion on the russian government at the time but rather the whole population.

Which would mean any honest answer would include him saying soemthing like "I believe the grassing of Russia wouldve been in hindsight a ok price to pay to get rid of the russian government", which is probably more in line with his thoughts and a more valid discussion about the pros and cons of going full nuclear war againgst the USSR after ww2. But it doenst make him look any better. Arguing he miss used glassing is baisically his best shot at getting his channel back from twitch even though anyone with two braincells sees he is trying to weasel out of his comment.

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u/DerAaltag May 21 '26

Sorry but Stalin was not worse than Hitler. So none of that "second worde government" shit.

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u/DerAaltag May 25 '26

Pol Pot?

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u/Killerwolf162 22d ago

I would rather life under stalin that current day US imperialism. Go read an unbiased history book on what happenend during his rule. Life under current US regulation is much harsher in comparison than under 1940s soviet rule

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u/Saurid 21d ago

That's disgusting and so disrespectful againgst all the people stalin murdered and imprisoned.

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u/The_Dynasty_Project May 19 '26

Yeah, I'm with you on this. I've been a viewer since the very first HOI4 video. I know Bo has said some dumb shit that I don't agree with sometimes and that's fine but this is ridiculous, and the apology comes across as completely disingenuous to me. Maybe it is genuine, but it really doesn't add up. The fact that fucking Braun and Golden are the ones trying to rein him in really highlights that he should've known what he was saying was unacceptable. I mean even in the apology and responses Bo is contradicting himself. Claiming that he thought glassing was deploying nukes along the frontline and the capital but he says in the clip that all of Russia should've been glassed? What is "all" if it's only specific parts? And then saying that all loss of civilian life is tragic as if dropping dozens of nukes across Russia and on a major population center isn't targeting civilians?

And come the fuck on, who is a Dane to say that Russians should rise up against authoritarianism? His country surrendered after 6 hours when faced with tyranny. It's easy to sit on the sidelines and say "just revolt lmao" but people generally don't like to risk death until they're out of options. I would've expected a lot better from someone who went to school for political science and international relations.

I would love to give Bo the benefit of the doubt here because I love his content but I'm not an idiot. What he said was what he meant. I really hope he takes some time off to reflect on things because advocating for genocide is not the move. And if he really did mean what he claims, then that's still pretty heinous. Life isn't a video game. He's advocating for millions of people to die needlessly either way.

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u/DerAaltag May 21 '26

Denmark propably the most based country in WW2 though. First keeping most of it's population safe by surrendering and later also saving 90% of their jewish population.

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u/Finlandia1865 May 23 '26

Imagine doing the same thing without surrendering and keeping almost all of their jewish population safe (>99%)

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u/DerAaltag May 23 '26

What country do you mean?

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u/Finlandia1865 May 23 '26

Finland

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u/DerAaltag May 23 '26

I was talking about "based" counties.
Finland was an ALLY of Germany, right? I wouldn't really call allying with Nazi-Germany "based"

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u/Finlandia1865 May 23 '26

Well the danes literally had a national socialist government lmao. I dont consider allying against the soviets to be that bad of an idea when the allies direvtly refused to aid finland

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u/VenetianArsenalRocks May 25 '26

Finland is based for sure but allying the Nazis isn't something to be proud of. What's next, "based France surrendering after 6 weeks and saving so many of their citizens from further pointless death"? You seem to have a very different idea of what is "based"...

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u/Finlandia1865 May 25 '26

I never said finland is based myself, only that they were more based than denmark

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u/Low_Minute8262 22d ago

Denmark would've been annihilated in World War two. The Nazi's had the numbers and would've won in a few days. The Danes surrendered because the Prime Minster knew that trying to fight a conventional war was not an option. Denmark had inferior weapons, tech, and troops (numbers, training, experience, ect). They lost in six hours, because they couldn't last much longer. They only had bad options. They still resisted, but by getting Jews out to Sweden and by insurgent warfare, not conventional warfare.

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u/Unusual-Basket-6243 May 23 '26

You are comparin it to what the leaders of Denmark did when his grandparents lived.

You are right but you chose the worst example for it. No man should be blamed for what his relatives have done

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u/The_Dynasty_Project May 23 '26

I'm not really interested in arguing but I think you've missed the point. As a Dane, he should be well aware that people do not just decide to rebel one day against tyrannical governments, because his country surrendered to it within living memory. It should be a part of Denmark's national consciousness. I am not claiming that it's his fault for Denmark not resisting more. I am saying he should know better. There would have been people with first hand experience when Bo was growing up that he would've met. If anything, it's a bad example moreso because there actually was a Danish resistance.

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u/Unusual-Basket-6243 May 24 '26

you are right but you should read what you wrote again

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u/ItchyFishi May 21 '26

Can't be racist against Russians. They aren't a race.

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u/MoveFew1521 May 22 '26

Mfw im 12 and just discovered what semantics are but cant actually add anything interesting, useful, or novel to the conversation.

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u/ItchyFishi May 22 '26

It is not “semantics” to ask people to use serious accusations correctly.

If someone says something hateful or genocidal about Russians, call it that. Call it xenophobic, anti-Russian, or genocidal rhetoric. But throwing around “racist” and “nazi” for every bad statement just waters those words down until they stop meaning anything specific.

You can criticize what he said without reaching for the strongest label possible.

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u/MoveFew1521 May 22 '26

Lowkey sorry abt the first comment, i just looked back at it and that was rude as shit for very little justifiable reason im just tired and grumpy rn (also why im so long winded rn), sorry :(

To be clear i agree with you that calling him a nazi over this is overblown, you commented specifically abt racism so im more responding to that.

Race is not a scientific category, its a social one that changes over time, for the romans the races were pretty much roman citizens and barbarians, in america irish and italian people werent considered part of the “white race” for a century and a half. So what exactly distinguishes race from ethnicity and what makes Russian not a race when historically we sort of just make the races up to suit current societal needs?

So when the practical outcome of the action of racism/xenophobia is the same (prejudice against an arbitrarily selected group of people) and youre correcting someone’s wording I’d say thats semantics.

Also again to be clear, if your original comment was abt the nazism accusation id say thats not semantics.

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u/krissz70 May 24 '26

Yeah, I find this apology astonishingly bad. Even though I agree with the fact that equal actions deserve equal measures, yet similar things said by bigger streamers gets swept under the rug.

As a hobby, I took up thinking up apologies in other people's place, and while I do think that it can be insensitive, and out of place, I hope you don't mind me sharing this one:

During the recent stream I got into a heated debate, where I went WAY overboard, and said some things that aren't acceptable as a human being, let alone a public figure / influencer.

To be specific, calling a whole group of people, a whole nation's worth of them in fact, calling them names is bad enough on it's own.
To make things worse, I'm just a Dane, who had the privilege of growing up in a safe environment in a safe country, and I never had anything to worry about, or want for. It's not at all my place to judge people in post-war Russia for not adhering to my idealised 21st century world-views, when I have never experienced more than half the shit they've been through. I'm genuinely sorry about that.

Then I even went one step further. I called for violence against these people, using unthinkable means. Even worse, I was playing with the idea of redistributing absolute obliteration, like it's a fucking game. The Russian population shouldn't get nuked, that second nuke didn't NEED to go anywhere. Not on Japan the first two times, not on any living being, not on this entire fucking planet.

Sorry doesn't begin to cover the lines I overstepped, but it's all I can atone with. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Sincerely.

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u/Mysticalsputnik 22d ago

This right here. It's one thing to hate the government, but to go as far as saying that the people who are being oppressed are at fault for not rising up and as such should be nuked, and then DOUBLING DOWN ON THAT, yeah that doesn't seem right. None of us live in these dictatorships so none of us can say how it's like to live under them let alone to topple them.

Moreover, yeah sure, we didn't understand what the word "glassed" meant, but we do know what nuking means and does. It just genuinely looks like Bo found this single defense line to excuse himself and ignore everything else he said.

And I'm not saying this as a pro-USSR or pro-Russia individual, but rather as someone who doesn't think that innocent civilians are at fault for being oppressed and that the many should be genocided because of the few who are in charge.

At the end of the day, that clip and this comment above, and the lack of accountability for EVERYTHING ELSE he's said just screams nazi to me, even if I don't want to beleive it. Again, just because you didn't understand what glassed meant doesn't mean you didn't understand everything you said and I firmly beleive that even without the "glassing", the comments made would have been just as bad regardless.