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.

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    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

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      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?

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          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).

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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.

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          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.

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

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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.

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        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 This is wildly inappropriate and completely out of date.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.

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          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.

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      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

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      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

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

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

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      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.

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        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.

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

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    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. 
    
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      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”.

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        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.

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

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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.

            This is the web app, but I will be launching a native app in beta soon. https://blorpblorp.xyz/

            My main goals are creating a seamless experience between web and native, having a no compromise experience on larger screens while also not compromising on small screens, and allowing you to browse cached content offline.

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    And suddenly Chappelle’s blind black man KKK member is truth.

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

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      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/`