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    If your top ten list contains both Greta Thunberg and Nick Fuentes then you are probably measuring something wrong.

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        Conflating antisemitism and anti-zionism is what’s “wrong” here. It’s intentionality does not make it right.

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        I think you two are misunderstanding each other. I think unmagic is trying to agree with you that they’re mismeasuring antizionism as antisemitism (or the other way around, whichever makes sense I haven’t had coffee)

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      I think it was a report about “influencers”, with the score being something like “how much they hate israel” × “followers on social media”

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        His fans seem to be about 50/50 on the forgiveness/boycott scale. One of the times I got on Reddit recently was after his new album dropped, or he did some show somewhere and he was being hailed as having the most coolest stage show ever and so now he’s back or something.

        I think /Kanye or something was mostly fawning over him. There was an occasional comment calling him out for his bullshit and others there for not decrying it but they were very few and far between.

        So yeah, I guess it really did work.

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        He discovered that the Zionists cooperated with the Nazis.

        /s I don’t even listen to his music.

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      pflp-octoplushie

      edit: Greta was on those relief flotillas that tried to break the gaza blockade, so I think she would have made the list either way for trying to feed people during an idf-created famine

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        while i do think the being on flotilla the floatilla would have gain her the ire from zionists - i think the permission structure created by this person to associate greta with “antisemitism” put alot of light on her, especially since it was so early on

        though ngl, conservatives and liberals hate young white women who get into any form of progressive activism so maybe

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      I think they’re all starting to catch on that when they talk about him he just gets more popular.

      Say what you will about the guy, but he’s incredibly charismatic and basically every unc that spends more than 5 seconds listening to him comes away thinking “guy makes some great points”

      It’s been funny watching Fox try and figure out what to do with him lol. Half the time they just call him hot, and the other half they’re infighting over whether or not they should even talk to him like he’s a fucking SCP or something.

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      Who even is this human. I kinda dont wanna look up who he is because I’ll just shit up an algorithm and end up bombarded with rightwing slop.

      I assume with Thunberg being second in the list, and in the middle photo that he is the person on the leftmost photo? To be honest I really am only familiar with 2, 4, 8, 10 on this list.

      • his dad stole a bunch of money from people and went “bankrupt” then his large adult son, Dan, made some shady investments that made him extremely rich overnight, to the tune of about how much money his father stole.

        then he started being an e-celeb investment guy.

        but my favorite accomplishment of Dan’s was giving 5 million to antoine fuqua in exchange for being in The Equalizer movie. his part is about 10 seconds, no lines, never really get a good look at him either, so its hard to even tell. and then denzel washington stabs him in the neck with a tree pruner in the dark and he dies, still can’t see his face very well there either. its the kind of thing you could rewind over and over and people would say, “i dunno, is that really him” it’s such a shitty part that he paid MILLIONS to get.

        absolutely hilarious stuff.

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          Thank you for replying with some info. He sounds about like every other right wing tech bro grifter fragile ego type of guy I hear about.

          I’m not missing shit by not being familiar with his accomplishments, is what I’m understanding here.

          • I’m not missing shit by not being familiar with his accomplishments, is what I’m understanding here.

            100%. i am not sure how i even learned anything about this bozo. i think it was some kind of “check out this idiot” video, and the only reason it caught my attention was because it referenced The Equalizer, which is my favorite kind of slop movie. having watched it an embarassing number of times, i was like, “he was in that?”. definitely hadn’t even seen his name/face since i learned about him. funny that he’s #1 on any list, but if i had to lay odds my guess is he’s a true antisemite and not a maligned antizionist.

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          Shady investments? Dude says he became a millionaire playing POKER. Even easier to launder money that way. And he started being an e-celeb as a “sigma poker millionaire”.

          • yeah that’s right. i couldn’t remember that part, but it was so obviously BS. the only other thing i remember is when he was trying to launch his “brand” he would film himself laying in bed in some rented mansion with two women he hired to lay in bed next to him for his videos about how cool his life was.

            just comically lame shit to do.

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              it’s crazy cause back then he and guys that started copying him didn’t even sell courses or get brand deals or anythint. they just showed off on the internet for the sport of it.

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      What did he said? I don’t expect him to be in solidarity, so he must say something akin to 88.

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    what’s the point of this even? to intimidate these people? for fox news hosts to point to “antisemitism on the left”? just to shit out content?