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.
Adding “Ye” to my list of blocked words
Ye of little faith
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”.
Can’t you filter " Ye " or something like that?
\ [Yy]e\
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.
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
the 2012 mayan apocalipse was real and we are now living in purgatory.
Harambee was our anchor being. Everything’s been fraying at the edges since that day.
We had a second chance with Peanut the Squirrel. We fucked it up again.
I couldn’t have taken enough drugs to write this timeline 20 years ago.
You must have been really optimistic to expect something different out of these morons, to me it’s more surprising they managed to keep quiet until now
No, this is just a Nazi who has always been shitty. If you were fooled by him at any point, then now is the time to question your judgment. If not, then good for you. But you’re still not infallible… None of us are.
If you see someone wearing that shirt, it is only right to deck them in the temple
Wow this is how old now, and I just noticed on the left starts clapping. An applause worthy punch for sure
*NazYe
Does this mean whatever payment processing center is used for his site is also pro, whatever this is?
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.
At least the next Superbowl halftime show is going to be interesting:
Do we know when the website was changed? He could well have changed it the moment the advert went live.
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.
What a strange chap.
Strange is an understatement
I heard it didn’t air in all regions?
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.This feels like something a hexbear user would say in a serious way. (Replace lefties with liberals)
Sad to see that the dude’s in this state. He clearly needs psychiatric care, not a platform from which to yell his absurdities.
His account was closed
lol what the fuck is going on in America?
End stage capitalism
Russia won.
Enjoying his Swastee in his Swasticar
And suddenly Chappelle’s blind black man KKK member is truth.
I actually didn’t know that this was legal to do in the U.S.
Yes, this is what free speech looks like. It isn’t always positive
There aren’t a lot of jurisdictions in the world that ban the sale or display of the swastika (in Nazi-supporting circumstances). Australia and Germany are the only ones that come to mind, and Australia has only done so very recently (this year).
It’s apparently encouraged even
And I was wrong about who was the dumbest person on Earth.
One cannot help but notice that NBC is directing viewers to said website rather than other websites that are not owned by Kanye West and are not selling swastika T-shirts, which probably have a harder time getting potential customers to show up. I see that they also have pricing information and product photos.
One imagines that social media and similar probably also is directing a lot of people there.
This does suggest that West might be onto something.
In a world where people and organizations didn’t discuss and link to the product, he might not have the same incentive.
Reminds me of an article posted on Lemmy earlier about how there was a call for a bilingual sign to be removed in London. The article was actually about Elon Musk backing this move, about this sign, the controversy, etc. in reality he responded to some dude complaining about it with a reply saying “yes”. Three letters, bam, several journalists are writing articles and people are posting your opinion all over the internet.
