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Ye's website is selling swastika shirts after boosting its profile with Super Bowl ad
(www.nbcnews.com)
At least he is isn't hiding it
this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2025
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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.
*NazYe
Adding "Ye" to my list of blocked words
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?
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.
"contains" filters are so fickle. They are the filters you want to use the most but they are very unreliable
Ye of little faith
If you see someone wearing that shirt, it is only right to deck them in the temple
This stick? I carry it for walking.
Enjoying his Swastee in his Swasticar
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/`
He knows he's black, right?
This must be proof that equality has been reached. Now he can be a rich bigot too! Welcome!
He's "one of the good ones" and rich so he's all good.
That's always worked out in the past.
He sounds dumber every time he tries to become relevant again. Does Kim have sile custody? Because I would go after it now.
I think he forgot that a long time 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.
Does this mean whatever payment processing center is used for his site is also pro, whatever this is?
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.
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.
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
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
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.
The world really ended in 2012. We're living through the blooper reel.
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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. And I was wrong about who was the dumbest person on Earth.
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.
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.
At least the next Superbowl halftime show is going to be interesting:
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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This dude is off the fucking rails, batshit insane.
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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And suddenly Chappelle's blind black man KKK member is truth.
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?
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.
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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I actually didn't know that this was legal to do in the U.S.
@Elgenzay @can Yes, it is legal in the US, under our First Amendment. Freedom of speech is unusually strong in the US. Even the President's best friends can throw Nazi salutes. In theory, the People should do something about that, if they want to, but it's not the right of government to decide who should think what and get to express it or not.
More technically, content-based government discrimination of expression is strictly forbidden under our constitution.
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).
Don’t forget about Austria, although I believe that won’t be for much longer as the next head of state is openly a Hitler fanboy
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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.
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