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

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

But JD Vance says you dont have freedom of speech.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 23 hours ago

The freedom is there, the consequences too!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

We got freedom of speech. But when it harms people, it isn't just speech anymore. Cause violence against innocents and you pay the consequences.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago

I get it.

but the "Free Speech Absolutism" that Vance is talking about, demands the right to call you a N****R without consequences. Or say that you need to be killed because X Y Z.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

He would have got away with it if he had a car company

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Last month, West made a video featuring him posing in a diamond-encrusted swastika necklace next to infamous white supremacist Nick Fuentes.

I have a good friend who is a jeweler, and loves getting an expensive custom job, which this had to be. You dont just pick up a "diamond-encrusted swastika" at Jared. I wondered what my buddy would do if he was offered such a commission.

And I realized that he'd take it, not because his politics (or musical taste) are in alignment, but I know that he would say "If he wants to pay me a ridiculous amount of money to help him make an idiot of himself in front of the entire world, who am I to deny him?"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

The correct response to such a request is "No Nazi bullshit"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I agree, I'd refuse it, but I can't judge someone who is self-employed, and needs to keep the money rolling in. Traditionally, artists have had to work for wealthy patrons they havent cared for, but that's the flip side of being an artist, and why the dream is always artistic independence.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Man, the difference is that the swastika sends a message of death. I know, I know, anything could be a message of death.

But some stupid fuck sees that stupid idiot wearing a fucking diamond encrusted swastika necklace, then he will be emboldened next time to harm some innocent person. All because, yes, because of someone willing to take the money. It's blood money.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

That's a very valid perspective, i agree.

But it seems like if someone is going to be inspired by a diamond-encrusted swatika to commit hate crimes, they were already pretty far down that path anyway. I don't think the jeweler who is trying feed his family is at fault.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

Unless that one commission is standing between them and survival then I think we can say they're slightly to blame. They're a part of the problem anyway.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

He's just following the custom order amirite

[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

I can’t wait till this idiot drops dead

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Wait are we turning twitch into club penguin now?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Current world record holder for Any % Twitch Ban.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm sure joining and then immediately starting a stream with your cock out would get you banned faster

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

only one way to find out!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Is he fkn restarted? Even those "so called master race" people would have punched him in the face if they still existed

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 20 hours ago

The Black Nazi logic is that

1: they're primarily anti-semitic 2: the Nazis didn't oppress black people in Germany.

#2 is actually true, because there weren't really any black people in Germany. The long term goals are something they don't pay attention to, as stupid people.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

It could have, but he's not smart enough to buy the company first.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In other news, Kanye still exists.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

I'm not even sure I've seen him on the news this year. Gotta stay "relevant" somehow I guess?

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

The dud writes songs called "Heil Hitler", "Hitler Ye and Jesus", "Free Diddy" and so much more. It is insane

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I read the article and I'm having trouble believing this is not the onion.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I can't believe he lasted that long. This guy needs help.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (6 children)

He can afford meds, sadly we can't force him to take them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You can lead a Kanye to maintenence meds, but you can't make his dumb manic ass take them...

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[–] [email protected] 209 points 2 days ago (13 children)

2005: "George Bush doesn't care about black people"

2025: "Heil Hitler"

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Relatable, and ya can't blame twitch. I want to expel refuse from my body too.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm sure he will do well on Kick, though.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So some commercial American social media still ban Nazis? How long will they be able to do that?

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