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[–] [email protected] 54 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Everything I've ever heard about Aiden Ross makes him sound like one of the ABSOLUTE dumbest motherfuckers I've ever seen

[–] [email protected] 45 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They keep getting foiled by their neverending need to monetize their own drama.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

Thank God they are literally incapable of shutting the fuck up and not telling on themselves.

We never have to worry about them having a good idea we didnt see coming because they'll tell you about the idea for two weeks ahead of time then have a dozen posts in their history encouraging other people to do the incredibly transparent move they're about to do.

It's like the whole "ok hand sign is a white supremacist signal"

Nobody thought it was anactual dogwhistle but fortunately anybody could point to 4chan threads where they had all agreed to say it was a white supremacist symbol so they could then claim leftists were crazy sjw's for suggesting it was a white supremacist symbol.

The only disheartening fact is it totally worked on liberals but you can't disappoint somebody who never had any hope in you to begin with.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

I agree. The Internet's environment can hinder their organization considerably. It puts them in a state of competition against each other for views and revenue, which hinders collaboration and organizing.

I did remember when that happened with the "ok" symbol. Now it makes me remember when 4chan tried around the same time to claim chugging gallons of milk was a white supremacist signal.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Unfortunately it's one thing for people online to take notice and another for it to have an effect on the real world. See: Jan 6th somehow catching everyone in power off-guard despite being planned in public facebook groups.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

But, like... Didn't it in a way then become one? Or did I imagine those people in atom waffen masks doing the ok symbol posing 'ironically' around 2020?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yes they're plan was "were going to trick people into thinking it's a white supremacist symbol by using it while saying and doing white supremacist things"

Again they're really not great at planning because then people could point to that everytime they tried the "the sjws try to say everyrhing is a white power symbol"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

NVM I think I understand now. I think I wasn't truly understanding the statement at first. Yeah the gaslighting failed miserably and simply became another white supremacist symbol instead because of gross incompetence on their part.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

He got scammed out of $2 million by playboi carti lmao. And despite that he was was considering paying him for a second interview because “he’ll do it this time”

[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago

I wish I could eternal sunshine these guys out of my brain.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Wasn't he already arrested or am I missing something?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago (4 children)

He's on trial, but out on bail

[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago

He shouldn't even be out on bail, wtf

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago (1 children)

but out on bail

Not anymore!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I heard he was under house arrest?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

not anymore!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Imagine sending a bunch of swat guys with masks and guns to arrest someone for human trafficking and organized crime and you consider them safe enough to release

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I legit thought he too was still in prison and they were trying to say he had lung cancer was the last I heard.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I call BS. He's too young either way.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If anything, the cancer waited too long.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

In these situations, I think of the Henry Kissinger obituary titled "The Good Die Young"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Between Tate and Churchill, lung cancer has really dropped the ball.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Could Adin Ross be an undercover cop? Infiltrate Kick, become friends with all of the worst people on the internet, blab about their crimes past and present and just play dumb?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago

I believe whichever theory is the funniest

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

no, he's just actually this dumb

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

Didn't he claim to fight a ghost while in jail or something? Chalk up another win for the ghost.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

feel like shit just want him back

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Between this and Hans Kristian getting doxxed, March 12th was a pretty good day.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Days where decades happen, etc etc.