The rapper formerly known as Kanye West directed viewers to his website, where the homepage was selling a T-shirt with a swastika on the front.

  • Laser
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    2222 months ago

    I couldn’t have taken enough drugs to write this timeline 20 years ago. WTF is happening? Maybe CERN did break the universe with the LHC

    • @[email protected]
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      482 months ago

      And what’s sad is that he’s wealthier than everyone that uses lemmy, combined.

      Why the fuck does good shit always happen to bad people, and good people always get shit on?

      • @[email protected]
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        412 months ago

        At least you’re not a black Nazi, bud. Money doesn’t equal happiness. I bet he’s miserable.

        • @[email protected]
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          312 months ago

          Money does, however, buy security. Money would solve all of my worst problems and make the other ones easier to handle. We don’t need a lot, but sure as hell need more than we have now and people like him don’t deserve a damn fucking cent(besides any universal social programs because that’s what universal means and I ain’t gunna be that guy).

      • @[email protected]OP
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        2 months ago

        Probably not a popular opinion around here, but this is actually one of the rare cases where he is (was) extremely talented at his main thing (producing). That doesn’t mean he deserves that disproportionate amount of wealth, but he’s contributed more to culture than elon ever could.

        • @[email protected]
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          52 months ago

          This is basically undeniable, but what really makes me sad is the artists who don’t seem to be Nazis or even right wing but still support this dude and stand up for him because he’s been so influential on many of them.

      • @[email protected]
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        2 months ago

        You don’t get wealthy if you’re good, because it takes a certain amount of greed and materialism

  • Chozo
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    What’s insane is that FOX allowed this commercial to air in the first place. I’m sure someone at FOX will say “We had no idea he would put this on his site”, which we’ll all know is bullshit because they scrutinize the fuck out of every Super Bowl ad before it gets to air. There is a 0% chance that nobody knew about this beforehand.

      • @[email protected]
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        02 months ago

        There is absolutely no excuse for this u/Remember_the_tooth. This is wildly inappropriate and completely out of date. There is absolutely NO excuse generative AI and MLL can’t remake this for a sequel using actual Kekius and Trumpf for the modern times.

        • @[email protected]
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          22 months ago

          That’s a really good point. Why rehash Mel Brooks’ old content when we have actual live NeoNazis on our front porch. Kudos to you for your insight. We could probably just livestream a rally.

    • @[email protected]
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      412 months ago

      Guys, just because he went on Alex Jones to make racist jokes and talk about how much he loves Hitler doesn’t mean he’s a nazi

    • @[email protected]
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      12 months ago

      Do we know when the website was changed? He could well have changed it the moment the advert went live.

      • Rimu
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        22 months ago

        I was on his website yesterday and there was no swastika then. There was “white lives matter” and a bunch of nazi-adjacent symbols with plausible deniability but no outright swastika.

    • @[email protected]
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      12 months ago

      The commercial itself didn’t feature the shirt or any nazi imagery. It was a 30 second clip of Kanye in a dentists chair telling you to visit his website. It only aired in LA.

      I don’t understand this timeline.

      https://youtu.be/4eR--0vYHGc

  • @[email protected]
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    632 months ago

    ADL easily calls out this symbol as one “adopted by Hitler as the primary emblem of the Nazis,” but can’t say the same about an extremely recognizable salute also adopted by Hitler as a primary symbol of the Nazis.

    • NigahigaYT
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      382 months ago

      The ADL is a zionist organization that was literally founded to protect a pedophile and child rapist who was, with no relevance to those actions whatsoever, Jewish. Do not take any of their “stances” as being for social justice.

  • Tiefling IRL
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    592 months ago

    If you see someone wearing that shirt, it is only right to deck them in the temple

  • @[email protected]
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    592 months ago

    Does this mean whatever payment processing center is used for his site is also pro, whatever this is?

    • @[email protected]
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      412 months ago

      It’s shopify, which requires an account to report. So if anyone has a shopify account, please do the needful. Can probably be considered a threat of violence or terrorist organization, or both.

      • Rimu
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        282 months ago

        I have an account.

        When I tried to report it as terrorist organization, the form gets stuck in a redirect loop. It’s broken.

        Threat of violence worked but I needed to provide my full name, phone number and address which felt pretty shit.

        • @[email protected]
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          62 months ago

          And yet I bet if you tried to set up a storefront with a certain sibling of Mario, you’d get shut down instantly.

  • Yerbouti
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    2 months ago

    Oh stop it you stupid leftys.

    Maybe he just like the design of it.

    Maybe he’s autistic.

    Anyway no need to start calling everyone nazis.

     /s   **** it's a joke**** please everyone be aware that I'm joking** Sorry but I need this to be crystal clear, it's a long story. 
    
    • Possibly linux
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      12 months ago

      This feels like something a hexbear user would say in a serious way. (Replace lefties with liberals)

    • @[email protected]
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      72 months ago

      I want to but I think the Thunder filter feature is a bit aggressive. I blocked the word “US” but I realized a long while later that it was also blocking all links to my instance sh.itjust.works. I’m afraid I’ll lose all titles with “yesterday” or “yes”.

      • @[email protected]
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        62 months ago

        I’m working on my own lemmy app. It would be cool to have settings for your filters like containers, starts with, ends with, word, part of word. But I also need to strike a balance between average users and power users. Maybe an advanced filter setting would be cool.

        • @[email protected]OP
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          12 months ago

          Neat! More options are always better. Do you have a community set up for progress updates?

          • @[email protected]
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            I created a community but I haven’t launched a beta yet. I’m a bit of a perfectionist but I’m also thinking I need to have a certain baseline of features to not piss off users.

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