Kanye West suspended from Twitter after posting a swastika

Everything this hateful asshole does now:

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It’s an underappreciated movie from 1986 starring Rigorney Reaver and Rill Raxton…
I’ll show myself out.

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Yeah I saw that too. It’s super annoying because we all know ye was doing this to troll so he can pretend he’s being treated unfairly. Twitter is a fucking Nazi bar now though.

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Conviently, that’s all under one ASN (AS399515), so easy to block (I just did it for Boing Boing).

Also, they’ve lost nearly half their peers since this change:

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There’s blood in the water as Musk implodes Twitter – Parler’s current owners might now be using this as an excuse to hang on to the property.

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A very big LOL at the idea that any part of the internet infrastructure (with some small caveats) is uncancelable, unfilterable, or even unignorable.

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You mean those “bullet-proof” spam hosters were lying?!

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Shocked Patrick Stewart GIF

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Alex Jones disagreed with the anti-semitic thug pretty strongly about the Nazi thing. Anti-semitic thug sat there with a full black mask, black gloves and his hand on the Bible. Anti-semitic thug needs a very long inpatient stay with strong anti-psychotic medicines. If this were anyone else, they’d already be on a psych hold. He’s already proven to be a stalker. Who will be the first to say “We knew it was going to happen” after he does something insane?

Well, this was more accurate than we thought at the time.

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The actual Nazis had those requirements pretty much sorted:

  • The Volkswagen – what we would think of as the iconic “Beetle” – was literally a cheap “people’s car”, the so-called KdF-Wagen, where “KdF” is short for Kraft durch Freude (“strength through joy”), the Nazi state-operated workers’ leisure organisation. The Nazis built a whole new town to house the employees of the Volkswagen factory.
  • KdF wasn’t just about affordable cars; in the years before WWII it organised cruises and hiking holidays (among many other things) for German workers. On the Baltic island of Rügen there are the remnants of a ginormous holiday resort constructed under the auspices of KdF, which due to the outbreak of WWII never got finished but would have stretched 4.5 km (3 mi) along the beach.
  • The German branch of the Coca-Cola company ran into trouble when, during WWII, Coca-Cola syrup could no longer be imported into Germany. As a replacement they came up with Fanta, short for fantastisch, a concoction originally made from whey and apple pomace (or indeed whatever was available at the time, with a war on; the ingredients changed continually depending on what the manufacturer could source). It morphed into the familiar orangey drink only after the war when oranges became available again.
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Danger 5 Kill Hitler 1

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but it didn’t even work on its own author

rule of goats always wins in the end

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ETA: While we’re on the subject, this one did not age well:
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This one did (I think already posted elsewhere on bbs?)
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Finally, this guy also nailed it:

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Big deal. Musk is still effectively allowing swastika-minded fascist trolls determine who gets to tweet their politics.

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Looks like UFC fighter Levy would like to ‘suspend’ West.

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he probably just google image searched ‘STAR OF DAVID SWASTIKA’ and used the first result tho

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interesting response in the atlantic:

I find it ironic that those who are the most perplexed and dismayed about any rise in anti-Semitism are those who are least Jewish. At the same time, those who are most affected by anti-Semitism are those who are most Jewish. In greater New York City, in mass shootings and daily crime, it is the Hassidim who are attacked the most. But [violent] anti-Semitism and online anti-Semitism are distinct forms. One is a stone and one is a tweet.

Tweets take place on Twitter, which is a space almost devoid of ultra-Orthodox Jews. Yet you ask me this question because of anti-Semitic tweets, not when Jews are stabbed. Stabbings of Hassidim just don’t seem to occupy the same societal headspace that right-wing lunatics do. The Jews who live outside of the Jewish world are less likely to be physically attacked because they don’t look Jewish. They notice anti-Semitism when Kanye tweets it. It is these Jews who bring anti-Semitism to your attention in its most benign form.