He mentions it casually on 2:43 (sponsored segment) and show glimpse of it at the end. 2025 Year of Linux Desktop. lol

        • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
          226·
          20 hours ago

          I roughly followed that back in the day and I think there isn’t much to these claims. He seems to sometimes have a bad taste and is a bit naive in some regards. But that’s not being a Nazi. And it’s been 7 or 8 years and he seems to have learned from that, or was there any more controversy? I don’t follow him, nor have I watched any videos for some time. And this video also doesn’t convince me to watch his content…

          Edit: And I don’t want to apologize that behaviour. He definitely did these bad “jokes”, I just think he genuinely thought it was funny and he was some sort of clown. But that makes him an idiot, and not a nazi.

          • Telorand@reddthat.com
            193·
            15 hours ago

            Tbh, people like him—the ones that thought racism and other bigotry were valid comedy tools—only helped normalize that stuff today. I lay part of the blame, for the rise of the hyper-masculine shock culture that’s currently worming its way through various societies and governments, at his and his collaborators’ feet.

            So whether anyone thinks he’s a Nazi currently, in the past, or was/is just a stupid idiot, he’s still culpable for using his platform to help normalize hate. And in my mind, unless he’s used his platform to counter the bigotry he helped propagate, he’ll always be a bastard for it.

            • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
              51·
              9 hours ago

              I think that’s true. I’d somehow like to have different words available. Because I think it’s a big difference whether it’s Minecraft Hitler. Or the actual Nazis we have on the rise as of today. For example the richest man on earth “accidentally” doing the Nazi salute in front of a right-wing audience. And we know he also likes to share nazi propaganda on social media and supports authoritarianism. If we call all of them the same, we also normalize stuff… So yeah.