Comment on Youtuber PewDiePie is going all in on deGoogling and the Steam Deck is one of the surprising tools that's helping him to 'escape'

• Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yes, because those are all equivalent situations

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• Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You’re going to equate a word with being a Nazi and rape? Using a racial slur is literally a small subset of being a Nazi.

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  • VitoRobles@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Nah I’m saying you say racist shit, you don’t get off the hook.

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    • triptrapper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Is there an avenue to getting off the hook? Apologizing and not doing it again? Or does he lose everything for the rest of his life?

      For context, I barely know who pewdiepie is. I just have to imagine that when public figures fuck up, maybe there’s a spectrum of available consequences other than “they must lose their job and never been spoken of again.”

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      • VitoRobles@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        He didn’t really apologize at all. He brushed it off, moved on, and then everyone pretended like it didn’t exist.

        His PR machine worked hard to clean up his mess.

        Imagine if JK Rowling’s got quiet then two years later, came back and everyone gaslight you into saying they just went through a phase.

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      • Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I was thinking QtPie, who is a much nicer person.

        Pretty sure PewDiePie is an ass, but “he said a racial slur once ten years ago” isn’t a great argument against anyone, generally.

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  • VitoRobles@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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    • Lumisal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      So I decided to look up the article, and see what the defense was.

      Here’s the article: mediaite.com/…/Screen-Shot-2019-09-19-at-16.04.33…

      And indeed, it does seem to be a Vetements piece he’s wearing. I could not however find the exact outfit, but those are the Georgian designer’s signature, in Georgian letters, which can be compared here:

      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demna_(designer)

      In looking through some videos from that era, he is wearing multiple articles of clothing from Vetements which tracks. So it’s not a one off piece of clothing he was wearing from that company.

      As for the cross, it is a design used in Georgia, including on their traditional flags:

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      And it is known as a Bolnisi Cross

      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolnisi_cross

      It is similar to the German iron cross, except the iron cross always has white or iron bolding, which the Bolnisi Cross does not

      (You can compare them in these search results: duckduckgo.com/?t=fpas&q=german+iron+cross&ia=ima…)

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      • VitoRobles@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        PewDiePie’s PR machine got you so good you’re defending a multimillionaire for his BS.

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Didn’t the dude literally dress up like a Nazi as a joke? Or am I misremembering.

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    • VitoRobles@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You’re not misremembering.

      He had a team scrub that off the internet and now a bunch of people have been gaslit.

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      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Ok thanks… I can picture it in my head so I was confused when people here were so focused on the iron cross thing.

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    • Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’m not that familiar, tbh.

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• iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  For what it’s worth, Kevin Spacey has not been found guilty of anything. He was found not liable in New York and acquitted in the UK.

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