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.

  • Yerbouti
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    3 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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      13 months ago

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

  • Laser
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    2083 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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    Anybody know what the official shop site is called? On yeezy(dot)com is only one item and that’s a white r-Shirt with a black swastika on the front.

    The shop feels broken tho, because there are almost no ux elements.

    Is he doing this to remain relevant?

    • @[email protected]
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      That is the official website. It’s linked on the wiki page for Kanye, and Kanye has advertised it on his Insta. I thought it was fake too because it’s so poorly designed. You can’t even see the price of the shirt until it’s in your cart.

  • @[email protected]
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    43 months ago

    Far be it from me to know of someone, anyone, even a celebrity, by using a reverse initialism or, worst, and I don’t say this lightly, an apheresis.

  • @[email protected]
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    643 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.

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      383 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.

  • @[email protected]
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    173 months ago

    GOOD! Let assholes put a literal target on their chest. I’m fine with this. Fuck me, I should start selling Nazi merchandise so I can track them.

  • @[email protected]
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    223 months ago

    Sad to see that the dude’s in this state. He clearly needs psychiatric care, not a platform from which to yell his absurdities.

  • 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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      423 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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        03 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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          23 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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      23 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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      463 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]OP
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        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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          43 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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        You don’t get wealthy if you’re good, because it takes a certain amount of greed and materialism

      • @[email protected]
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        423 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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          283 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]
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      33 months ago

      o/`

      Yep in my Swastee, yup in my Swastee

      I slang in my Swastee, I bang in my Swastee

      All in the club spittin game in my Swastee

      Whoever that you might see, I know they got a Swastee

      Homeboy, brother, sister, mother, daddy or your wifey

      Kan Ye’s be the name of my Swastee

      Hispanic, nazi, niggas even yangs wearing Swastee

      Hit the club deep and we all got a Swastee

      A throwback, no gat, hell naw that don’t excite me

      You don’t need no throwback cause you will be set on your Swastee

      You can get a circle or a v neck on your Swastee

      o/`

    • @[email protected]
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      13 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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        33 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]
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          23 months ago

          I would assume that the filters are case insensitive and filter whitespace but I don’t know for sure. I should test some stuff out.