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The rapper formerly known as Kanye West directed viewers to his website, where the homepage was selling a T-shirt with a swastika on the front.

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[–] [email protected] 238 points 2 months ago (9 children)

I couldn't have taken enough drugs to write this timeline 20 years ago. WTF is happening? Maybe CERN did break the universe with the LHC

[–] [email protected] 111 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Harambee was our anchor being. Everything's been fraying at the edges since that day.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago

We had a second chance with Peanut the Squirrel. We fucked it up again.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 2 months ago

The world really ended in 2012. We're living through the blooper reel.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Someone needs to stop using the What If machine!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We'd use the universal translator instead, but it just spouts crazy gibberish.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"I'm gonna ask it the dumbest thing I can think of: What if Donald Trump became president?"

"Oh yeah? I'm gonna ask it what if Donald Trump lost re-election, then got re-elected?"

machine explodes

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

So that's what things would be if what's happening was just a result of a what if machine...

A man can dream, though. A man can dream.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"Yes, and".

All the way at the bottom are the Bitcoin white paper and a site to their merch store where you can get a shirt with Nixon or Regan or whatever doing a pose with the Bitcoin logo.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That was added later then. This was a goldbug site from the start. It’s also wrong about most of the reasoning unsurprisingly

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Makes sense, there's a lot of "bluh, fiat" overlap.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

the 2012 mayan apocalipse was real and we are now living in purgatory.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well the Mayan thing wasn’t supposed to be Apocalyptic; it was supposed be a signal of a “new age.”

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

... of pain and suffering? if so they were dead on.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Almost the plot to Cloverfield paradox

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

No, this is just a Nazi who has always been shitty. If you were fooled by him at any point, then now is the time to question your judgment. If not, then good for you. But you're still not infallible... None of us are.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I couldn’t have taken enough drugs to write this timeline 20 years ago.

You must have been really optimistic to expect something different out of these morons, to me it's more surprising they managed to keep quiet until now