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

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[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 220 points 1 day ago (21 children)

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?

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 157 points 1 day ago (15 children)

"I'm different, he wants to clean the dirty ones"

"why am I being loaded into a train I'M DIFFERENT"

[–] Bezier@suppo.fi 54 points 1 day ago

"Excuse me, there seems to be a mistake..."

[–] radix@lemmy.world 49 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"No, no, BAD LEOPARD, eat those other faces instead!!"

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[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 78 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The same reason poor people can be in favor of conservatives.

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[–] kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 58 points 1 day ago (8 children)

History lessons in the US focus on the Jewish victims of the Holocaust to the exclusion of all others. Plenty of people don't know that gay, trans, leftist, or non-white people were genocided.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 46 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Even white people. Slavs for instance. Anyone considered crippled. Political enemies.

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[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 42 points 1 day ago (3 children)

He's mentally unwell, that's how.

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[–] vxx@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

He got inspired by the Black Hebrew Israelites, a pseudo-religous group that believes african americans are decendents of jews.

If I recall correctly from his infowars Interview (or somewhere else around that time), he came to the conclusion that since he's a jew, he gets to decide if hitler was a good guy or not. It didn't make much sense and I don't recall why exactly he came to the conclusion that he as a good guy, but I think he said something like "There's only love, so he cant be a bad guy".

It's possible he thinks black americans are the real jews, that hitler was doing a good thing with killing imposters.

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Mental illness isn't a skin color.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 1 day ago (7 children)

In the case of Kanye... fell astoundingly far down the antisemitic conspiracy rabbit hole.

Before he went turbo-mega-ultra Hitler fanbo1 on Alex Jones... he was saying a lot of shit about how the entire entertainment industry was run by a cabal of Jews who secretly fucked over himself and other black artists in particular.

... He completely lost his mind in this process and has arguably been having the world's longest sustained, continuous, psychotic break (I think he's been far more obviously just unhinged bonkers for longer than Elon?).

He legitimately hated and hates Jews so much that the actual Hitler stuff came afterward.

How does he rationalize that Hitler would absolutely have killed every Black or African descended person he could, that he switched from being inspired by American rascism to calling the US a 'mongrelized' people, because of American society's multiracial makeup, interracial marriage etc?

Easy: He's completely insane and legitimately should be in a room with padded walls.

Logic? Reason?

404 error.

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Have you ever tried to convince an unmedicated, manic schizophrenic that... the things they are saying just fundamentally do not make sense, at a basic grammatical level, that their mind invents things that did not happen?

Yeah, doesn't go so well.

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[–] minnow@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

Basically, cognitive dissonance. They simply refuse to believe the truth, and make up their own fantasies in which everything is backwards from reality. It makes them feel like they have some power over their life, and/or that they're special.

99% of the time people like this are just deeply freaked out at the idea of a cold uncaring universe with nobody in control.

[–] PacMan@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 day ago

Their where Jews that helped the Nazi’s early on. They seen themselves as the good Jews.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_collaboration_with_Nazi_Germany

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[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 193 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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

2025: "Heil Hitler"

[–] abcdqfr@lemmy.world 45 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

Follow the cash. Find the Fasc. (see also Epstein flight logs)

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 56 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

He seems like just an attention addict.

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[–] rasbora@lemm.ee 184 points 1 day ago (1 children)

From the article:

In February, Friends actor David Schwimmer called on Musk to ban Kanye West from X after he made a series of antisemitic posts.

Schwimmer called on Musk, the owner of X, to remove West from the platform. “This is so 2022,” said Schwimmer. “We can’t stop a deranged bigot from spewing hate-filled, ignorant bile… but we CAN stop giving him a megaphone, Mr Musk.”

Bold of Schwimmer to assume Musk in any way disagrees with Ye's views.

Elon is not just holding the megaphone, he's actively cranking up the volume dial.

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (6 children)

I find it strange that David Schwimmer made a public plea for decency when it was about anti-semitism but not for any of the rest of the hateful shit projectile-blasted around that echo chamber.

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[–] LarryLurkman@lemm.ee 142 points 1 day ago (7 children)
[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 152 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Some Nazi who hates education

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's that the same one who tried to start another Christian colt?

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

Probably, but I haven't paid attention to which gun brand he likes.

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[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 day ago
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[–] boughtmysoul@lemmy.world 122 points 1 day ago (3 children)

How fucking hard is it to not give a Nazi salute?

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 58 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Once the number on your bank account crosses a certain threshold your right arm practically lifts itself it seems

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 41 points 1 day ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

It is not hard at all if you don't want to do it

Nazis make Nazi salutes

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[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 76 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Silly bunny... The social media platform of choice for Nazis is Twitter.

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[–] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 58 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Aaand he's off his meds again.

[–] LordOfLocksley@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Was he ever on them, in recent years?

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[–] PacMan@sh.itjust.works 53 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That’s like a speed run time 🤣

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 47 points 17 hours ago

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

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day ago (6 children)
[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world 41 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

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....

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (8 children)

How did all those periods sneak into your post?

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[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 day 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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[–] dumbass@leminal.space 38 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

I'm really surprised he hasn't made an account on truth social, they love that shit over there.

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[–] MithranArkanere@lemmy.world 38 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 28 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 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.

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[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 27 points 6 hours ago (1 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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[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 26 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

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

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[–] pfr@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] vodkasolution@feddit.it 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Drugs in the 90s were responsible for great music and dead singers, drugs today won't work as fine

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 day ago

Is that some kind of speed run record?

For people not doing a ban evasion, who had a previous account?

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 18 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

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

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[–] Bot@sub.community 17 points 13 hours ago

A self-exposed truly cock sucker

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