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I have some bad news for Yeezy. Nazis ~~weren't~~ aren't very fond of brown people either.
Or the mentally ill...
Which is really ironic if you consider sociopathy to be a mental illness.
Yeah, I'm not sure exactly where he thinks he fits in Hitler's idea of the übermensch.
Shopify when this happened: No comment.
Shopify after blowback: This is an abhorrent abuse of our policies! We are all adither!
In conclusion: Fuck Shopify. And obligatory fuck ICE.
Actually they fully allow the sale of explicit Nazi merch at Shopify. They just came up with a vaguely plausible excuse to get rid of Kanye's store specifically. The execs at Shopify are outspoken extreme right wingers. These are guys get along well with the Proud Boys (which is considered a terrorist group in Canada).
Nothing to add except I've never seen "adither" written out. I've been saying "A tizzy" all my life. 🫣
Shopify only dropped him because they didn't think he'd actually ship the swastika shirts, not because he was selling the swastika shirts.
"... assumed to be code for heil hitler."
The news really has got to stop with this "assumed to be" bullshit. It's as clear as day that it is code for heil hitler, as HH/88 has been a long fucking time. It's the whole "Elon made what looked to be a nazi salute" thing all over again. No it didn't look like a nazi salute, it was, and this HH is not maybe code for something, it is.
Get some fucking courage and call it like it is.
“… assumed to be… looks like… could be construed as… according to a source…”are all weasel words and phrases to avoid litigation, to give a little leeway if it got to court.
Reporting - with a nod and a wink; and a little protection.
My favourite euphemism for “drunk/drugged and aggressive” celebrities in newspaper stories is “tired and emotional”.
Sometimes it’s best to say something without actually saying it if you want to stay in business. Granted, it’s not ideal.
Libel lawsuits can be expensive, and you can bet your ass that without that ambiguity Ye's lawyers would be all over them.
I reported yeezy.com for being in violation of GoDaddy's Terms Of Use.
Doubt it was me that caused any of this, but we can all do our part 😊
It says "This store is unavailable" which means it's probably not a DNS or webserver block and still uses the shop software to serve the page. So it's most likely a Shopify block.
Welp here's hoping he loses the domain next.
Good riddance.
Let this be his only legacy.
I worked with someone who defended Kanye for like a year after he went publicly apeshit. Probably up until at least 2019 when I last spoke to him on the topic. He just kept claiming that it was so unfair that Kanye was getting judged as an off-meds mentally ill person suffering. Which I would get, as long as he wasn't hurting other people. But that's been the motherfucker's raison-etre for a while now.
May his future be lit by the bridges he's burned.
Never heard that before... it's very dark, but good.
He's really and truly lost it. Was bad before, but this.
The last outfall was so bad that even Alex Jones had to argue that Hitler wasnt a good guy. I'm just wondering how he was able to get back into the spotlight to repeat this shit. I mean, I have an idea what convinced him now is the time to shine again.
He said he was jealous of Elon and that it should have been him to do the salute
I don’t think you have to wonder
The only thing that amazed me about this is that he had a “talent agent”.
Yes, I too am shocked that one of the most successful musicians of the century had a “talent agent.”
The guy is a piece of shit but this is such an asinine comment. The only shocking part is he got dropped in the first place, considering he still somehow manages to make money hand over fist anytime he releases some half-finished album these days. The talent agencies will tolerate a hell of a lot as long as the money keeps flowing.
Nah, I'm surprised he has a talent agent, too, after his last outburst. I know talent agents aren't immune to bigotry but it's still a bit surprising that anyone would attach their name to his like that
Dude has been out of it for years, and hasn’t put out anything of note during that time. He’s already made statements that should have alerted any reputable talent agency to stay the fuck away.
Not taking your prescription drugs is a hell of a drug.
Mental illness doesn't make you a Nazi. Saying Ye is acting like this because he's off his meds is saying that those with diagnosed with bipolar or narcissism are just one step away from being a bigot. That's not true and it only furthers the stigma of those with mental health issues.
Ye is the one choosing to be racist, that choice is on him alone.
Saying Ye is acting like this because he's off his meds is saying that those with diagnosed with bipolar or narcissism are just one step away from being a bigot.
Nah, it's just saying that a specific attention-seeking bigot with a personality disorder, which is marginally controlled with meds, is more likely to go on insane attention-seeking tears of bigotry when he goes off those meds.
I'm bipolar and I'm fucking tired of hearing that excuse for him. Even if I'm off my meds I'm not a fucking Nazi
Every time I see shit like this, where it’s framed as “THIS HORRIBLE THING IS NOW HAPPENING TO THIS RICH PERSON AND THEYRE SUFFERING THE CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR ACTIONS” I’m always like
So what?
They’re still billionaires. They’re still incredibly rich. There’s nothing you can actually do to these people with shit like this. We’re far past the “we can just not support their company” or the “we can just not vote for them and ruin their life” stage of this, gang.
Yup. The time for alternative actions is now.
Yeah, I'm sure theyre all just absolutely shocked Kanye doubled down on the Nazi shit yet again.
Give him a one way ticket to birkenau and see if he can feel more at home
Why is this guy still a thing? He dropped relevance in 2009
I suppose this is exactly why..
Yup, he's craving attention
He still had a TA after the last nonsense? Who is that TA and wtf is wrong with them?
Money. Money is what was wrong with them.
Let's not forget the first time he got banned from Twitter when he put "the Jews" on "deathcon 5." This guy is broken. I hope he can get some help.
He subscribes to the black hebrew conspiracy theory so to him, jews aren't the real israelites, they stole it all from the original israelites, who were all black.
It's completely nuts and the cult has killed people before, including... MLK's mother