While streaming, the rapper performed a Nazi salute and said: ‘Heil Hitler’

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    3 months ago

    I guess I’m glad Twitch took a side on that?

    After Bezos went full nazi on the Washington Post, I have expected the worst of everything Amazon.

  • TanteRegenbogen@feddit.org
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    3 months ago

    He should come to Germany and do that here and then we can hear from him from prison for the next 12 months and he will be banned from performing here for the next decade.

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        3 months ago

        Compared to the US, they don’t. 1A protections are extremely broad, to be outside protected speech it practically has to be either CSAM or inciting immediate lawless action.

        As in “SLUR should be hanged from trees” is protected under 1A, “Guys, grab that SLUR over there and string him up” is not. CSAM is primarily illegal because production, distribution and even possession further harms the victim of the CSA performed to create it.

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          Yup, between that and the lack of gun control is no wonder the US is the way it is. On paper, that level of freedom is lovely. In practice it just lets the worst people be violent assholes with zero consequences.

          I’ll take the German/Canadian/NZ approach every day!

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    3 months ago

    Brain damaged troglodyte speed ran a twitch ban. Nice to see that money can’t quite buy anything.

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    3 months ago

    legit conversation on my friend discord last night

    • hey did everyone see Kanye was on twitch?
    • no, I didnt know that, why’d they let him go on?
    • oh it wasnt very long, he was only on there for like 10 minutes before he got banned for yelling heil hitler
    • oh…

    Kanye skipped the lolcow phase and went straight to the horrorcow one.

    Superbowl ad of the guy lying in a dentist chair high on nitrious going “Umm, umm, umm” for 40 seconds. the kind of shit thats so stupid you cant look away from.

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      3 months ago

      I’ve only ever seen his tweets and people quoting him in articles but watching him speak for 7 minutes is eye opening. I cannot follow a single thing he says. It’s just a non-stop stream of consciousness rambling with an occasional “hail hilter” and “I sucked my cousin’s dick”.

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      3 months ago

      Even his speach sounds like schizophrenia. My bio father is schizophrenic and he also.talks about how everyone is tryng to.fuck.with him.

      If this.man was screaming in the midle of a street like a homelesa.person everyone would see the mental.health problem, but since he is rich…

    • SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today
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      3 months ago

      The sad thing is, I think you are correct, without even joking. I think he literally needs some kind of help.

      I try to keep an open mind always. So a while back he did a Lex Friedman interview, and I listened to it. For anyone not familiar, Lex does long form interviews of an hour or more and gets deep into various subjects.

      I got about halfway through before concluding that there is something seriously wrong with West. Maybe he is just stupid (not as an insult, I mean like he lacks any sort of intelligence) or maybe he has brain damage or maybe he is just delusional. But you listen to the guy talk for more than 5 minutes at a time and you wonder what the hell is wrong with him.

      For example, he spent a lot of time blaming the ‘Jewish media’ for a lot of America’s problems. Lex repeatedly asked him for specifics, challenged him to call out specific members or leaders of said media for specific actions, challenged him to use his platform to identify bad actors. He had few if any specifics and saw no particular benefit in any specific call outs, in his world it’s all a conspiracy and the whole ‘Jewish media’ and everyone part of it is all one and the same.

      Furthermore, he spent a lot of time explaining why we should stop teaching history in schools. Said we should focus on science and technology classes and not waste time reliving the past. Lex tried hard to challenge that, even brought up specific non-partisan examples from history that presented useful lessons for today. It had no effect, West continued to double down on the position that teaching kids history is a waste of time and resources.

      At this point I had wasted about half an hour listening to the guy, and decided he was simply not worth my time to listen any further, because he obviously fundamentally misunderstood how the world works, how human nature works, and had little or no facts or evidence to back up his positions. I concluded that any further ideas from West can probably be safely dismissed without much consideration, because his thought process shows no evidence of rational or scientific thought.

      Honestly the best analogy I can think of is like going to a mental institution and listening to a crazy person. They will talk your head off for an hour about how aliens infected their brain or whatever, and the only thing you will get from it is an hour older.

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        3 months ago

        The difference, someone like Mr West gets richer and more famous evertime he talk crazy like that.

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          No, he was already rich and famous, before all this (although he was always a bit loopy).

          If anything, all this political and Nazi nonsense has whittled away at his fame and acceptance, and each time he opens his mouth, he loses far more fans than he gains, and the fans he gains are poor quality ones.

          As for the money, he was already a billionaire, which is fairly difficult to lose once you have it. He has lost some of the endorsement deals that made him wealthy in the first place, but those are gone, so he isn’t stacking up cash any longer, just draining it. Its just that with billions to start with, it will take a while for it to get low enough to feel it.

          Bottom line: Every time he pulls a stunt like this, its a net loss for him, not a gain.

  • pfr@lemmy.sdf.org
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    3 months ago

    Surely someone clipped it and it’s in the internet somewhere… I wanna see how awful it is

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    3 months ago

    The detail I enjoyed most about this is that he had fewer than 220 followers at the time of the ban. This suggests that in order for any details on this incident to have got out at all, a decent percentage of his fans in 2025 are actually just journalists waiting for him to do something stupid they can get an article out of.

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    3 months ago

    I don’t understand how there can be black people in favor of Hitler. How do they rationalize praising someone who would have genocided them?

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      3 months ago

      “I’m different, he wants to clean the dirty ones”

      “why am I being loaded into a train I’M DIFFERENT”

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            3 months ago

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