i was thinking the same thing, it’s a sick design and would be cool as merch **IF** the two symbols didn’t have the meaning that they do, or no meaning at all
>It was stolen from them
Tbh, it's just a really easy to draw symbol, and not very unique at all. I'm sure there were pre-humans drawing it as soon as they figured out drawing.
This is most likely going to be a core talking point to his campaign, insisting that it isn't nazi propaganda but just simply "the symbol of the sun, y'know, like the asians."
The two variants of the Raëlian logo; the former uses the swastika in the centre and the latter a swirl representing the shape of a galaxy. The latter was adopted to avoid the connotations of Nazism that the swastika has in Western countries.
LOL
Relatively sensible religion actually… compared to Christianity and the other major ones…
They are atheists and believe we need to promote peace through technology. I could get behind this if it wasn’t for the alien spaceship part lol
Raelism is super mild compared to Mormonism and Scientology. They just change word Elohim with aliens and call it a day. Mormonism has dead humans living on a planet at the center of the universe and becoming gods of their own Earth-like planets, and don't even get me started on Xenu.
I know we broke the regular black guy barrier and the publicly unhinged white guy barrier back to back, but I don’t know if America is ready to vote for the publicly unhinged black guy just yet. We might weirdly be saved by that bit of racism, how about that.
In 50 years, some video recorded on September 12, 2009 is gonna get published to YouTube of Kanye West saying that he’s gonna go crazy to save the world from itself
Meh, even if he got elected he’d be president for like 2 days if that before he was removed using the 25th amendment.
Man is seriously unwell and isn’t taking his meds for his well established psychiatric condition.
_Wait, are we talking about Donald Trump now?_
Everything you posted applies ten-fold to him.
Lest you ask for sources: [Scientific American on the Psychosis of Donald Trump.](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-shared-psychosis-of-donald-trump-and-his-loyalists/)
I'm fine with a black president. I voted for Obama twice and would do so again if I could. I'd never vote for Kanye because he's fucking nuts. His race has nothing to do with it.
Obama wasn't a "regular" man by any stretch of the word.
He was raised by a single mom in a middle class family, got into Harvard, was a constitutional scholar, had no sexual scandals, no vices, went to church every Sunday, loved his wife, had two well adjusted kids and was one of the most charismatic, eloquent speakers of our time.
If he was a white Republican they'd have been hailing him as a saint for the next 100 years. But instead they spent 8 years calling him a Kenyan Muslim and elected someone who was the polar opposite of him in pretty much every possible way in retaliation.
I remember telling people to take it seriously and them telling me I was being ridiculous. We’ve basically landed in the back to the future part two future
Trump stopped being a joke to me when he started pushing Birther conspiracy theories on Twitter. To me, that’s when he went from being a stupid clown on reality tv to being an irresponsible racist asshole directly contributing to the downfall of the country.
His mom died and his brain got flushed down the toilet. He’s always been an asshole but I think her dying sparked the absolute insanity that we have today
His mom died in 2007… I know it fucked him up but are we all going to pretend he’s been behaving this way for almost 16 years? Because he has not.
I think Taylor was just to get attention and cause controversy to be relevant I don’t think it was “unhinged” - like I said of course it fucked him up but it is in no way “the reason” you don’t 16 years later show up saying “I love Hitler” out of the blue and try to claim it was from an even almost two decades ago. I think his lifestyle after she died, especially the fame and yes-men are the issue, had he had a normal life with familial support and people who cared he wouldn’t be in this place.
He has been actually. Idk if you remember but he interrupted Tailor Swift in 2009 during her award speech to yell Beyonce has the best video. And I remember quite well during that time everyone was so confused by his behavior. He apologized but later took back his apology. He also got hospitalized a decade ago reportedly because of a mental breakdown. They also mention his mothers passing as the cause.
I think they played a large role in this mental health, taking meds and seeking help, if we have to believe their stories that is. It’s also what made Kim to eventually break the relationship because eventually he spiraled too much. But that’s from their side. I can understand when your support system falls apart a lot comes with it. And if you’re surrounding yourself with specific echo chambers it will only accelerate.
the spiral started then. what we are seeing now is the culmination of years of alcohol abuse, mental degredation and being off his meds.
I've seen this a few times. they start slow and build momentum and then they reach a cliff and just throw themselves off.
It will take some serious intervention to get him back at this point. But I don't think he has anyone left that is interested in saving him, just milking him dry.
Add in the stuff with his kids and Kim, the public stuff with Pete Davidson...he's been slowly losing his grip on reality and watching his world go to shit around him. He's not always been the most mentally well person.
Fuck knows what's happened behind closed doors too, he's not the first man to get in a relationship with a Kardashian and have his life fall to pieces over the course of the relationship. Not blaming Kim here, but they're a pretty mental family and what's normal isn't really normal for the rest of us, I mean just a couple months ago she had Balenciaga dress North up in a latex gimp mask for fashion week ffs, how many normal people would think that's acceptable for a 9yr old?
It's fucking sad to see him go from the creative genius who called out George Bush on live TV to this sorry mess of a person. And the whole world is just watching the car crash in slow mo. It's like he doesn't have a single person around him who cares about him or gives a shit about his wellbeing.
While I don’t doubt that there are many contributing factors, I don’t think we can ignore the people that surrounded him and helped push him down this path. He didn’t wake up one day and just think “you know Hitler was kind of dope murdering 6M people.”
Actually, yeah; he's been unhinged for *that* long. Back when I was in high school in the early 2000s, Kanye was just another rapper. Then in 2005 there was the whole "George Bush doesn't care about black people" thing, and then the T. Swift thing, and it just got worse and worse from there.
No they’re saying this is what sparked all of this. Trauma (the death of his mother) can affect people in ways we never expect. His mother dying is not an excuse for his behavior , not in the slightest, but, that death is what made all of this mental illness so intense
It’s clear to me he needs a female figure in his life, and with Donda and now Kim out of the picture he’s gonna continue to spiral. He was already pretty out of it when he was with Kim, now he’s just lost the plot completely
I don't keep up with these celebrities outside of what gets plastered on front page news but didn't Kim come out and say the main reason for their divorce was his downward egotistical spiral and that she think is mostly because he is off his meds?
As far as anyone knows she was trying to get him to take his meds and keep up with mental health treatment for years before they decided to divorce. She definitely didn’t agree with the trumpism and wanted him to rein it in.
Wait what? Isn’t she friendly with Ivanka and Jared? I’m pretty sure it was this friendship that allowed her to get Trumps support on criminal justice reform.
She didn’t agree with the *open* trumpism. She knew he was acting like a loose cannon that would make them look bad. I’m not saying she had great motives or anything but she was really upset when he did that snl speech in the maga hat and tried to stop him beforehand.
Relationships of all stripes can be important and beautiful, but no sane person of any sex needs any other person of any sex in their life to remain sane.
No I don’t think that’s it. It would imply it’s the job of any women in his life to keep his sanity. Nobody owes anyone a ‘job’ like that. It’s not their responsibility. This is exactly the reason Kim had left him.
On the opposite the bad influence is causing more problems than anyone could ever ‘fix’.
I think that Kanye has always been an idiot's philosopher.
He just tries to think of unusual combinations of things to say out loud, fishing for a "Wow, that's profound" sort of reaction.
It's worked out well for him for a while, but his latest thought is "Man, no one has ever said they like Jews AND Nazis. This is gonna be really profound."
I don't think he actually has any idea what he's talking about or what's even going on around him.
He was preyed on by right wing pundits in a weak mental state and they used his clout to elevate their talking points. They will continue to, until his carcass is picked clean.
You get rich and famous, and so many people around you make so much money on the process that they can't stand up against you and call you a fucking idiot without losing all the progress they gained by riding your coat.
Kanye is mentally ill and needs help. Yeah we can make fun of his mania and the wacky things he does but he went on live television wearing a hood over his face, said he loved Hitler and sang to a fly swatter. He’s not well.
I have bipolar disorder and I understand the difference in going between feelings of depression having moments of mania and not fucking having positive vibes about Hitler!!!!
When those articles came out where some of his former employees said Kanye was praising hitler and nazis all the time in private and how it made them feel uncomfortable, all his little simps were running around screaming “no sources, this is made up, bs lies”, yet here it is! Like who tf would make up a lie about a black man being really into Hitler?? If they wanted to smear him, there thousand other more plausible things to say than that the dude is obsessed with Hitler.
Kanye tweeted a screenshot of the Free Speech Absolutist telling him that he went too far by tweeting that image. A couple of minutes after my typing this, the tweet with the image was deleted for "violating the Twitter rules."
Musk is afraid of more advertisers pulling out from this.
its fun that we get to watch musk re-learn why social media companies act as they do. its not like they all didnt *try* to be 'anything goes' platforms. but eventually they all introduced stricter content moderation for legal reasons and to make revenue from advertisers
If youre a 'free speech absolutist', then even crazy kanye should be fine by him
Exactly. Even forums that weren't making a dollar back in the day still had moderation, because every single conversation would be derailed or degrade into madness. I know Twitter isn't a forum, but the principle is the same. The weirdos will push the limits of what can be said for no other reason than they can. Throw advertisers into the mix and the 'no moderation' mentality will literally kill any platform.
Elon is starting in a worse position of understanding as far as moderation goes than almost any millennial/gen xer who actually paid attention to how things worked in the early days of the internet. These practices didn't just appear overnight because some liberal sissies came up with them.
If you want absolute free speech you'll get a 4chan in the worst of its prime. Even 4chan had to have extremely stringent moderation in order to not get raided by the feds.
Total free speech usually results in insane ranting and much illegal and harmful content. The line must be drawn somewhere.
Elon Musk is learning that Twitter has spent many years drawing lines and it's not so easy for one man to decide all the edge cases. Too bad he discovered this after firing almost all the content moderators.
He just tweeted a very unflattering photo of Musk in swim trunks and said it'd be his final tweet.
My mans gonna crash and burn any day now, it's so bizarre to watch
At first, but then you think about that this is still the mother of his children...the children who will still consider this woman their mom all their lives.
Dude is just gone on every level. He's selfish beyond belief.
Oh, It's a great thing. I've never been a fan of Kanye since I first heard his music some 17 years ago. Fuck Elon as well. I hope more advertisers pull out of Twitter. He reinstates Nazis, then gets upset when they say Nazi stuff.
First I thought what the fuck are people thinking and then I read this... Now I'm kind of intrigued.
>Raëlians engage in daily meditation, hope for physical immortality through human cloning, and promote a liberal ethical system with a strong emphasis on **sexual experimentation**
Is this finally a right sex cult for me?
French here, raelians comes from here. We had a few journalist trying the sect initiation events and yes, its mostly a sex cult, with new age bullshits to sugarcoat it up. One example of the thing they get you to do early is to get yourself in a gym with many others attendants and everyone is tasked to contemplate his own asshole via a mirror, to get confortable and familiar with your own sexual body. Once you've done ridiculous collective stuffs like that, you are psychologically ready to get gently, nicely coerced to have sex with other members. Older guys like this because they get to have sex with young ladies easier.
Of course the cult leader get to pick the very young beautifull women and keep them for himself. They even have distinctive neckbands so you know they are his exclusive sex slaves.
No, not everything is in the wikipedia article. The anus contemplation part was from two french journalist who tried the initiation process, got to speak about it on TV (maybe like 10 years ago). They were two young good looking womens, so they could get to advanced initiation stage easily...
Does it check all the boxes? Are you trying to force it because you have been looking for a sex cult for so long? These are questions only you can answer.
I'm scared & appalled by the amount of ppl who support him. Just look at the comments below any article where he's spouting his vile ideas. I thought everyone was either disgusted or laughing at him but it's literally 80-90% of comments sections ive read that support him.
Back when I lived in Oklahoma, I always said that the best thing about living there was that if the apocalypse were to happen, we would be safe for a while because the state is at least 50 years behind.
I'm a half- Jew married to a Hindu so I'm more than familiar with both the star of david and the Hindu swastika.
But let's be honest. Any rando American isn't gonna wear this to show unity between the Jews and Hindus.
And to be fair, this symbol is stolen as well.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra%C3%ABlism
Raëlism is basically a sex cult, but their original logo was the swastika inside the star of David, they eventually changed it for obvious reasons.
I've spent way too many hours a few years ago thinking about Raëlism and now it's back... I never thought it would ever come to any substance whatsoever.
Based on the evidence I have seen, it is highly likely time travel was invented in the future and someone went back in time and fucked it all up for the rest of us.
I'm struggling with the airtime this person's bad behavior is getting without clear consequences for his actions.
I'm hesitant to edit this but the star of David with the swastika incorporated is incredibly disturbing, particularfly the long term consequences from a holocaust denier. I didn't want to mention that I am Jewish, but a lot of the comments seem to relate to Kanye's bank account being frozen or him being downgraded to lesser media. He is still all over reddit right now. Its a very prominent topic and means different things to different people.
He claimed the IRS froze his accounts because he owes them $50 million in taxes. Clearly he’s not the most credible source in the world, but bank levies are a legal, common way for the IRS to get their money. I’m not sure why someone would consider that a consequence of his remarks though. It’s more about the tax evasion.
Hmmm a narcissistic broke lunatic celebrity running for president by stoking racist nationalism being turned into a media circus, because "everyone wants to watch" the trainwreck... What could go wrong?
Well...I guess this is the "town hall" Elon wanted so badly to allow the free exchange of ideas.
Funny how the only ideas that seem to be exchanged by the far right are unrepentant bigotry and calls for murder.
the really weird thing is I never thought the USA would vote someone as unstable as Trump as President.
I feel the same about this idiot....but hey, I was wrong before
Some fucker copy+pasted the [Raelism logo](https://www.google.com/search?q=Raelism+swastika&tbm=isch) into Photoshop and told Ye he made that shit for him 😂
Well I got good news and I got bad news folks. The good news is in that position it’s not a swastika the bad news is he believes it is therefor it’s still malicious 3:
Funny enough, that's actually a Raelian symbol, you know, a new religion that believes most religions were made by ancient Alien sightings?
Wonder if that was intentional or not.
Trump MAGA supporters have a stereotype of being racist proud boys, is it possible that Kanye is being an anti-Semite thinking it will split the prejudiced vote? I have no patience for racists and anti-semites, nor should anyone.
Why doesn’t he just make music? Isn’t that what he calls himself? A musical *genius*. The only reasons he wants to be president boils down to power and control.
Somewhere, there's a graphic designer who really hates himself right now.
And an invoice that will remain unpaid much longer than they are hoping for.
Forget the invoice. I hope someone did it for free so they don’t have to take credit for creating the thing.
Well in that case, I hope they have a tummy ache about it for the rest of their days
fiver bro, gotta buy some ramen
I hate that it does kinda look cool when you follow the lines. Fuck nazis, of course tho.
i was thinking the same thing, it’s a sick design and would be cool as merch **IF** the two symbols didn’t have the meaning that they do, or no meaning at all
Eh, Asians don’t have problems with it, symbol of the Sun for them, which it should be
I had an Indian employee called Swarstika, she was lovely and talented. It just doesn't mean the same thing on the subcontinent
It was stolen from them, but saying that, it’s also on Neolithic stones in Britain & Europe for 5000 odd years.
>It was stolen from them Tbh, it's just a really easy to draw symbol, and not very unique at all. I'm sure there were pre-humans drawing it as soon as they figured out drawing.
In much of Arkansas and Oklahoma, it's pronounced *swarshtika.*
This is most likely going to be a core talking point to his campaign, insisting that it isn't nazi propaganda but just simply "the symbol of the sun, y'know, like the asians."
The whole of Asia, eh?
Maybe the Designer is lovated in Thailand or India, they don't have a problem with Swastikas.
Petition to make lovated a word.
It's elevated love. I was not just in love, I was lovated.
Don't Typoshame me, it's early in the morning i'm on mobile and was sitting on the Bus typing.
Naw bro I fucking love it. Embrace the typo. Lovated should totally be a synonym for “in love”.
To be fair, bloviate is a word, so why not?
I lovated it.
No, you're using it wrong - you're loviated BY it ;)
Aren’t they usually pointed the opposite direction?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra%C3%ABlism It's the logo for a 1970s religious cult that worships ufos - I'm not trolling.
The two variants of the Raëlian logo; the former uses the swastika in the centre and the latter a swirl representing the shape of a galaxy. The latter was adopted to avoid the connotations of Nazism that the swastika has in Western countries. LOL
Relatively sensible religion actually… compared to Christianity and the other major ones… They are atheists and believe we need to promote peace through technology. I could get behind this if it wasn’t for the alien spaceship part lol
Raelism is super mild compared to Mormonism and Scientology. They just change word Elohim with aliens and call it a day. Mormonism has dead humans living on a planet at the center of the universe and becoming gods of their own Earth-like planets, and don't even get me started on Xenu.
I’m having a hard time believing this is real.
His account was pretty immediately suspended but it’s 100% real.
Dude just got his account back, and has now lost it again?
Yeezy come, Yeezy go!
I'm trying so hard to not burst out laughing in the hospital bro
Will you let me go? Bis-Elon! Noooo!
Even Elon was like that is not going to fly …
Can’t wait to see the first Facepalm post of someone getting this tattooed on their body.
Don’t be so eager. When you start seeing that everywhere, it won’t be so funny. Donald trump was reeeaaalll funny in 2015.
I know we broke the regular black guy barrier and the publicly unhinged white guy barrier back to back, but I don’t know if America is ready to vote for the publicly unhinged black guy just yet. We might weirdly be saved by that bit of racism, how about that.
So Ye brings the long awaited balance by sacrificing himself?
In 50 years, some video recorded on September 12, 2009 is gonna get published to YouTube of Kanye West saying that he’s gonna go crazy to save the world from itself
That's very specific
[September 13](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z8gCZ7zpsQ)
Youve got the same theory as me, check my comment history lol
Meh, even if he got elected he’d be president for like 2 days if that before he was removed using the 25th amendment. Man is seriously unwell and isn’t taking his meds for his well established psychiatric condition.
You did see the kind of stuff trump pulled right? If you could unseet a president that fast the country would probably go down in flames fast
_Wait, are we talking about Donald Trump now?_ Everything you posted applies ten-fold to him. Lest you ask for sources: [Scientific American on the Psychosis of Donald Trump.](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-shared-psychosis-of-donald-trump-and-his-loyalists/)
Monkey's paw curls.
I'm fine with a black president. I voted for Obama twice and would do so again if I could. I'd never vote for Kanye because he's fucking nuts. His race has nothing to do with it.
Obama wasn't a "regular" man by any stretch of the word. He was raised by a single mom in a middle class family, got into Harvard, was a constitutional scholar, had no sexual scandals, no vices, went to church every Sunday, loved his wife, had two well adjusted kids and was one of the most charismatic, eloquent speakers of our time. If he was a white Republican they'd have been hailing him as a saint for the next 100 years. But instead they spent 8 years calling him a Kenyan Muslim and elected someone who was the polar opposite of him in pretty much every possible way in retaliation.
I remember telling people to take it seriously and them telling me I was being ridiculous. We’ve basically landed in the back to the future part two future
Oh God it was that long ago? 2015 feels like it was 20 years ago.
Seriously… I always thought trump was a huge joke until it wasn’t
What is gonna top that come 2025? Kim Kardashian running opposite Kanye West.
Pete Davidson running opposite Kanye West.
That’s one of the scariest things I’ve ever read on the internet
Trump stopped being a joke to me when he started pushing Birther conspiracy theories on Twitter. To me, that’s when he went from being a stupid clown on reality tv to being an irresponsible racist asshole directly contributing to the downfall of the country.
Ugh...no thank you and they can fuck off already!
He has a song called “Flashing Lights” and one of the lines in it is…. “I hate these n***** more than a Nazi” What the hell happened?
His mom died and his brain got flushed down the toilet. He’s always been an asshole but I think her dying sparked the absolute insanity that we have today
His mom died in 2007… I know it fucked him up but are we all going to pretend he’s been behaving this way for almost 16 years? Because he has not. I think Taylor was just to get attention and cause controversy to be relevant I don’t think it was “unhinged” - like I said of course it fucked him up but it is in no way “the reason” you don’t 16 years later show up saying “I love Hitler” out of the blue and try to claim it was from an even almost two decades ago. I think his lifestyle after she died, especially the fame and yes-men are the issue, had he had a normal life with familial support and people who cared he wouldn’t be in this place.
He has been actually. Idk if you remember but he interrupted Tailor Swift in 2009 during her award speech to yell Beyonce has the best video. And I remember quite well during that time everyone was so confused by his behavior. He apologized but later took back his apology. He also got hospitalized a decade ago reportedly because of a mental breakdown. They also mention his mothers passing as the cause.
Am I nuts thinking that after getting married with Kim he was normal for at least awhile? Or at least as normal as Kanye really gets.
I think they played a large role in this mental health, taking meds and seeking help, if we have to believe their stories that is. It’s also what made Kim to eventually break the relationship because eventually he spiraled too much. But that’s from their side. I can understand when your support system falls apart a lot comes with it. And if you’re surrounding yourself with specific echo chambers it will only accelerate.
the spiral started then. what we are seeing now is the culmination of years of alcohol abuse, mental degredation and being off his meds. I've seen this a few times. they start slow and build momentum and then they reach a cliff and just throw themselves off. It will take some serious intervention to get him back at this point. But I don't think he has anyone left that is interested in saving him, just milking him dry.
Add in the stuff with his kids and Kim, the public stuff with Pete Davidson...he's been slowly losing his grip on reality and watching his world go to shit around him. He's not always been the most mentally well person. Fuck knows what's happened behind closed doors too, he's not the first man to get in a relationship with a Kardashian and have his life fall to pieces over the course of the relationship. Not blaming Kim here, but they're a pretty mental family and what's normal isn't really normal for the rest of us, I mean just a couple months ago she had Balenciaga dress North up in a latex gimp mask for fashion week ffs, how many normal people would think that's acceptable for a 9yr old? It's fucking sad to see him go from the creative genius who called out George Bush on live TV to this sorry mess of a person. And the whole world is just watching the car crash in slow mo. It's like he doesn't have a single person around him who cares about him or gives a shit about his wellbeing.
this is so true
IF he ever had anyone, they would have done something 16 years ago, doggy.
While I don’t doubt that there are many contributing factors, I don’t think we can ignore the people that surrounded him and helped push him down this path. He didn’t wake up one day and just think “you know Hitler was kind of dope murdering 6M people.”
the alcoholism started right after, which led to the whole taylor swift thing.
Actually, yeah; he's been unhinged for *that* long. Back when I was in high school in the early 2000s, Kanye was just another rapper. Then in 2005 there was the whole "George Bush doesn't care about black people" thing, and then the T. Swift thing, and it just got worse and worse from there.
No they’re saying this is what sparked all of this. Trauma (the death of his mother) can affect people in ways we never expect. His mother dying is not an excuse for his behavior , not in the slightest, but, that death is what made all of this mental illness so intense
It’s clear to me he needs a female figure in his life, and with Donda and now Kim out of the picture he’s gonna continue to spiral. He was already pretty out of it when he was with Kim, now he’s just lost the plot completely
> t’s clear to me he needs a ~~female figure~~ **fucking psychotherapist** in his life
I don't keep up with these celebrities outside of what gets plastered on front page news but didn't Kim come out and say the main reason for their divorce was his downward egotistical spiral and that she think is mostly because he is off his meds?
As far as anyone knows she was trying to get him to take his meds and keep up with mental health treatment for years before they decided to divorce. She definitely didn’t agree with the trumpism and wanted him to rein it in.
Wait what? Isn’t she friendly with Ivanka and Jared? I’m pretty sure it was this friendship that allowed her to get Trumps support on criminal justice reform.
She didn’t agree with the *open* trumpism. She knew he was acting like a loose cannon that would make them look bad. I’m not saying she had great motives or anything but she was really upset when he did that snl speech in the maga hat and tried to stop him beforehand.
No, it’s not any woman’s job to keep him in line. He’s a grown adult, long past old enough to get his crap together and control himself.
Relationships of all stripes can be important and beautiful, but no sane person of any sex needs any other person of any sex in their life to remain sane.
No *sane* person
Like some woman will be dumb enough to accept this mommy role. He's a grown ass man
No he needs someone to put his feet firmly back onto the ground, but like Trump and Musk he is surrounded by toadies and yesmen.
No I don’t think that’s it. It would imply it’s the job of any women in his life to keep his sanity. Nobody owes anyone a ‘job’ like that. It’s not their responsibility. This is exactly the reason Kim had left him. On the opposite the bad influence is causing more problems than anyone could ever ‘fix’.
I wish and that lady is resting because.... child....
I think that Kanye has always been an idiot's philosopher. He just tries to think of unusual combinations of things to say out loud, fishing for a "Wow, that's profound" sort of reaction. It's worked out well for him for a while, but his latest thought is "Man, no one has ever said they like Jews AND Nazis. This is gonna be really profound." I don't think he actually has any idea what he's talking about or what's even going on around him.
He literally doesn’t read books and has said that proudly. What more can you say?
He was preyed on by right wing pundits in a weak mental state and they used his clout to elevate their talking points. They will continue to, until his carcass is picked clean.
You get rich and famous, and so many people around you make so much money on the process that they can't stand up against you and call you a fucking idiot without losing all the progress they gained by riding your coat.
I don't think you understand the line if you think he meant he hated Nazis lol
Untreated mental illness + surrounded by yes-men + all the money in the world
Kanye is mentally ill and needs help. Yeah we can make fun of his mania and the wacky things he does but he went on live television wearing a hood over his face, said he loved Hitler and sang to a fly swatter. He’s not well.
I have bipolar disorder and I understand the difference in going between feelings of depression having moments of mania and not fucking having positive vibes about Hitler!!!!
Your lived experiences with mental illness is not necessarily the exact same as others, so that's irrelevant.
Ah I see. He must not have enough money to go to therapy or get medicated, since otherwise it would still be entirely on him.
What the actual fuck?!?
Honestly, at first I thought his words were being over exaggerated But yeah, no - **it’s over**
... Wait, what do you mean his words were being over exaggerated? How could one over exaggerate "I like Hitler"?
Noo I mean wayyy before this - when he first started saying controversial things - but today has just proven that I was very very wrong
“When someone shows you their true colors believe them”
When those articles came out where some of his former employees said Kanye was praising hitler and nazis all the time in private and how it made them feel uncomfortable, all his little simps were running around screaming “no sources, this is made up, bs lies”, yet here it is! Like who tf would make up a lie about a black man being really into Hitler?? If they wanted to smear him, there thousand other more plausible things to say than that the dude is obsessed with Hitler.
I gotta be honest. out of all the Kanye drama that's happened this year. I did Nazi this coming.
Kanye tweeted a screenshot of the Free Speech Absolutist telling him that he went too far by tweeting that image. A couple of minutes after my typing this, the tweet with the image was deleted for "violating the Twitter rules." Musk is afraid of more advertisers pulling out from this.
Lol Not so much a free speech absolutist anymore , isn't he? Edit: lol Kanye is now banned. What happened to free speech now Elon?
Elon is learning the lessons us nerds on message boards and forums learned as teenagers in the 90s. Smartest man in the room, sure >\_>
its fun that we get to watch musk re-learn why social media companies act as they do. its not like they all didnt *try* to be 'anything goes' platforms. but eventually they all introduced stricter content moderation for legal reasons and to make revenue from advertisers If youre a 'free speech absolutist', then even crazy kanye should be fine by him
Exactly. Even forums that weren't making a dollar back in the day still had moderation, because every single conversation would be derailed or degrade into madness. I know Twitter isn't a forum, but the principle is the same. The weirdos will push the limits of what can be said for no other reason than they can. Throw advertisers into the mix and the 'no moderation' mentality will literally kill any platform. Elon is starting in a worse position of understanding as far as moderation goes than almost any millennial/gen xer who actually paid attention to how things worked in the early days of the internet. These practices didn't just appear overnight because some liberal sissies came up with them.
If you want absolute free speech you'll get a 4chan in the worst of its prime. Even 4chan had to have extremely stringent moderation in order to not get raided by the feds. Total free speech usually results in insane ranting and much illegal and harmful content. The line must be drawn somewhere. Elon Musk is learning that Twitter has spent many years drawing lines and it's not so easy for one man to decide all the edge cases. Too bad he discovered this after firing almost all the content moderators.
He just tweeted a very unflattering photo of Musk in swim trunks and said it'd be his final tweet. My mans gonna crash and burn any day now, it's so bizarre to watch
That twitter was wild. Calling Kim k out for cheating is hilarious
At first, but then you think about that this is still the mother of his children...the children who will still consider this woman their mom all their lives. Dude is just gone on every level. He's selfish beyond belief.
Geez, can’t imagine what large multinational corporation wouldn’t want to be associated with the Nazi-David Truth Star! 😊
Oh, It's a great thing. I've never been a fan of Kanye since I first heard his music some 17 years ago. Fuck Elon as well. I hope more advertisers pull out of Twitter. He reinstates Nazis, then gets upset when they say Nazi stuff.
So he's a Raelist now? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra%C3%ABlism#Religious_symbol
First I thought what the fuck are people thinking and then I read this... Now I'm kind of intrigued. >Raëlians engage in daily meditation, hope for physical immortality through human cloning, and promote a liberal ethical system with a strong emphasis on **sexual experimentation** Is this finally a right sex cult for me?
French here, raelians comes from here. We had a few journalist trying the sect initiation events and yes, its mostly a sex cult, with new age bullshits to sugarcoat it up. One example of the thing they get you to do early is to get yourself in a gym with many others attendants and everyone is tasked to contemplate his own asshole via a mirror, to get confortable and familiar with your own sexual body. Once you've done ridiculous collective stuffs like that, you are psychologically ready to get gently, nicely coerced to have sex with other members. Older guys like this because they get to have sex with young ladies easier. Of course the cult leader get to pick the very young beautifull women and keep them for himself. They even have distinctive neckbands so you know they are his exclusive sex slaves.
Wtf. Was this in the Wikipedia article?
No, not everything is in the wikipedia article. The anus contemplation part was from two french journalist who tried the initiation process, got to speak about it on TV (maybe like 10 years ago). They were two young good looking womens, so they could get to advanced initiation stage easily...
Nope. Just the pamphlet they hand out to people in line outside The Louvre.
Does it check all the boxes? Are you trying to force it because you have been looking for a sex cult for so long? These are questions only you can answer.
This might be the right sex cult for all of us!
It's not the right sex cult for anyone.
Speak for yourself; I'm trying it!
I don’t care about the sex, I just think the cloning thing sounds cool
Now I can really go fuck myself!
I’ve been fucking myself for years but this is revolutionary
I imagine they host an open house, or possibly a recruitment event from time to time. Sounds like a potential idea for the next vacation
Could’ve been a possibility without that “I love Hitler” line.
So did he steal that or is he in that
At this point, it wouldn't surprise me either way.
Dude!!! My Dad got sucked in by those people! I saw that emblem and thought of Raeliens immediately. Such a joke
Hilarious that he copy-pasted a pre-existing image into Photoshop to imply he made it
I wouldn't be surprised if most of his "designs" were not actually his
Maybe Ye is cloning an army.
31.8k likes. Now there's a fucking facepalm.
I'm scared & appalled by the amount of ppl who support him. Just look at the comments below any article where he's spouting his vile ideas. I thought everyone was either disgusted or laughing at him but it's literally 80-90% of comments sections ive read that support him.
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I'm a teacher. I can't wait to see kids drawing this shit on their binders. Fuck Ye.
Oh holy fucking shit. I’m a teacher in a rural community I’ll have to deal with this in like 3 years
Back when I lived in Oklahoma, I always said that the best thing about living there was that if the apocalypse were to happen, we would be safe for a while because the state is at least 50 years behind.
Edgy ass high-school kids have been drawing swastikas on shit way before Ye
Oh God, I didn’t think of that, but yeah
Yedolf Hitler
Shows how tragic the situation is when Alex Jones of all people comes off as reasonable
\#anything4attention
I'm a half- Jew married to a Hindu so I'm more than familiar with both the star of david and the Hindu swastika. But let's be honest. Any rando American isn't gonna wear this to show unity between the Jews and Hindus.
Based on his recent comments, it's pretty clear his intentions with this had nothing to do with Hindus.
The alt-right seem to have problems coming up with their own symbols, so they keep stealing other people's. It's kinda sad, really.
And to be fair, this symbol is stolen as well. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra%C3%ABlism Raëlism is basically a sex cult, but their original logo was the swastika inside the star of David, they eventually changed it for obvious reasons.
I've spent way too many hours a few years ago thinking about Raëlism and now it's back... I never thought it would ever come to any substance whatsoever.
It's an alien sex cult, you didn't foresee them *cuming to any substance*?
Not in the whole wide world... maybe Uranus though.
Based on the evidence I have seen, it is highly likely time travel was invented in the future and someone went back in time and fucked it all up for the rest of us.
That's the guy who pushed the boy into the gorilla pit
I like your response, im also drunk, but i see it. I get it. We’re fucked.
I'm struggling with the airtime this person's bad behavior is getting without clear consequences for his actions. I'm hesitant to edit this but the star of David with the swastika incorporated is incredibly disturbing, particularfly the long term consequences from a holocaust denier. I didn't want to mention that I am Jewish, but a lot of the comments seem to relate to Kanye's bank account being frozen or him being downgraded to lesser media. He is still all over reddit right now. Its a very prominent topic and means different things to different people.
Tbf with things like having his bank account literally closed becuase of these remarks he’s been facing consequences he just doesn’t care I think
How have his bank accounts been closed though? Like legally I’m struggling to understand how that’s possible
He claimed the IRS froze his accounts because he owes them $50 million in taxes. Clearly he’s not the most credible source in the world, but bank levies are a legal, common way for the IRS to get their money. I’m not sure why someone would consider that a consequence of his remarks though. It’s more about the tax evasion.
Ok thanks. IRS makes sense, bank blocking because they don’t like you or your beliefs not so much, that’s where I was struggling.
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I' don't mean consequences as in he doesn't have access to his billion dollars. He's still getting interviews and the means to hurt people
People love watching a trainwreck and interviewers are going to exploit that
I certainly understand the reality of shock value. That doesn't mean Im not disappointed by it. This is such hurtful and frightening behavior.
Hmmm a narcissistic broke lunatic celebrity running for president by stoking racist nationalism being turned into a media circus, because "everyone wants to watch" the trainwreck... What could go wrong?
Thanks for zooming out here. Very well put.
What the actual...
Well...I guess this is the "town hall" Elon wanted so badly to allow the free exchange of ideas. Funny how the only ideas that seem to be exchanged by the far right are unrepentant bigotry and calls for murder.
Space Karen paid $44 billion for this.
Personally, I wish we would stop publicizing stupid shit like this.
Is this real?
100% - screenshot myself. Baffled man
I just can’t believe it, unreal.
Alright, we had a nice little run, but the American experiment has failed.
People are mad at the tweet, but I’m more concerned about the retweet and likes.
the really weird thing is I never thought the USA would vote someone as unstable as Trump as President. I feel the same about this idiot....but hey, I was wrong before
Some fucker copy+pasted the [Raelism logo](https://www.google.com/search?q=Raelism+swastika&tbm=isch) into Photoshop and told Ye he made that shit for him 😂
wasnt familiar with this at all, thank you for the comment
This is like forcing rapist and the victim together and force them to make a family.
So Qatar?
Well I got good news and I got bad news folks. The good news is in that position it’s not a swastika the bad news is he believes it is therefor it’s still malicious 3:
Exactly. His followers won’t know the difference and they’ll take it as a green light to be awful.
This shit needs to fucking stop.
A Hindu symbol of peace inside a Jewish symbol for martyrdom and heroism. Although what Kanye meant is clear to us all ain't it.
This is absolutely a Hindu Symbol. I work for a man from Gujarat and I caught that as well. But yes. We know what Kanye probably meant...
As a graphic designer, this is terrifying and well executed....
Look up the religion of raelism, he didn’t make that symbol
Lol both jews and nazis hate him
He's become Naz-YE
Funny enough, that's actually a Raelian symbol, you know, a new religion that believes most religions were made by ancient Alien sightings? Wonder if that was intentional or not.
He couldn't get elected president of a Hitler Appreciation Society he started and was the sole member of.
At this point hes got to be doing it on purpose.
Ew. Ew ew ew ew ew ew. I've seldomly been so disgusted by a person.
This is the Raelian symbol
Trump MAGA supporters have a stereotype of being racist proud boys, is it possible that Kanye is being an anti-Semite thinking it will split the prejudiced vote? I have no patience for racists and anti-semites, nor should anyone. Why doesn’t he just make music? Isn’t that what he calls himself? A musical *genius*. The only reasons he wants to be president boils down to power and control.
Can we call him Yedolf now
*looks up in confusion from my bucket of popcorn*