• arctanthrope@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    and I don’t envy either of them because I have something even more valuable: not being a Nazi

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      2 months ago

      I’m not a fan of either, but I don’t think pewdiepie is even fascist adjacent. He made jokes in poor taste when he was younger and the internet rewarded edgy behaviour, I think it’s time to let it go.

  • Janx@piefed.social
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    2 months ago

    Who TF is Dan Bilzerian?? It’s embarrassing enough that I recognize PewDiepie…

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      2 months ago

      What’s wrong with pewdiepie except that he used to be cringe as a teenager, which is like half of them?

      • ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        9 days ago

        other than employing people to spread Nazi hate speech and promoting other youtube channels that spread the same antisemetic crap?

        i’m not normally a ‘Do YoUr ReSeArCh’ guy, but ffs, it’s kinda spooky how fast people memoryhole this stuff

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          9 days ago

          By employing people, if you mean paid $5 on Fiverr for two people to hold a sign that said something controversial as a joke for one time, yeah let’s call that employing people.

          I see people say worse on the regular, not as a joke, and these people get no where close to the shit piewdiepie gets.

          Also, he did apologize that the joke went too far. He didn’t think they’d actually do it. No, making a joke doesn’t mean he’s antisemitic.

          And no I didn’t memoryhole anything. I only found out piewdiepie after his Linux journey. Not everyone can be chronically online and/or are from a western country.

          I didn’t do my research, so I’d rather you explain yours to me. I’m willing to hear you out.

          • ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            8 days ago

            So you’re okay with showing off a sign that says ‘Death to Jews’ as long as it was done through an app? 🙄

            What do they call a table with a Nazi and nine people receiving compensation to be there ….

            Jesus christ, I think you need to find some better friends if you’re hearing worse then genocidal death threats on the regular

            If you don’t know who this antisemitic fuck was, why are you white knighting him so hard? He’s like penny ante when it comes to whack jobs in the Linux community, just wait until you learn about Stallman 💀

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              8 days ago

              Pay two people you meet on the street to hold a sign, I still don’t call it employment. That question is a red herring.

              What do you think his punishment for that should be? A fine? Because that is something we could agree on.

              I just follow the news sometimes. I see the genocide in progress pretty frequently. Speaking of which, just saw this on my feed.

              https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/8/22/08-22-26-israel-rabbi-palestinians-clip

              And looks like it’s not a joke by some teenager this time.

              I only watched like three videos of him. Hardly enough for me to claim to know somebody.

              Never heard of this penny guy and all I know about Stallman, if we’re talking about Richard Stallman, what i know is that he launched the GNU project and he’s a free software activist.

              What should I know about Stallman?

  • ProbablyUnwise@anarchist.nexus
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    2 months ago

    Didn’t he meet his partner because she was a fan or something? I think that’s the only story I’ve heard of a fan getting into a relationship with a YouTuber and it not ending up in the news as a cautionary tale.

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      2 months ago

      I don’t know anything about the youtuber-fan relationships but you could meet a non-obsessive fan and find that something clicks between you two.

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        2 months ago

        My ex’s sister ended up marrying a guy who started as a random Twitter follow because she thought his tweets were funny.

        They might be one of the most fundamentally compatible couples I’ve ever met. I know correlation doesn’t imply causation… but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively.