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The Worst Person You Know Made a Great Point; Asmongold Asks Elon Musk To Prove Legitimacy of His ‘Path of Exile 2’ Account (www.vice.com)
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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 day ago (3 children)

FYI, Vice is now a far-right mouthpiece https://theintercept.com/2024/11/19/vice-news-right-wing-trumpism/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

I mostly remember it as reporting abput random ass topics "transsexual ketamine dealers of Uruguay" type of stuff.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The craziest part of that article is

Vice co-founder Shane Smith stepped down as CEO in 2018, but has remained the company's (...) The Canadian-born journalist’s focus seems to be trained on the southern border, with an editorial line closer to Trump campaign fearmongering than hard news reporting. (Smith is not to be confused with Vice co-founder Gavin McInnes, who left the media company and established the far-right militant group the Proud Boys).

So two of the three Vice media founders are now far right? I tried to find out more about Suroosh Alvi, the third founder, but didn't see much. Though on his X (🤢) he posts and reports a bunch of pro Gaza stuff.

I shouldn't be surprised cuz it looks like they all got rich off Vice, but still.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Their new podcast style conspiracy videos are just terrible, he comes across as a complete moron.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

I feel like I remember them focusing on the sensation around news and not the actual news. Anything news worthy was included as a matter of context.

I felt like Vice was as if Beavis and Butthead were reporters, they went to the heart of a story that wasn't getting much coverage and asked about people's butts.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Shane has intense yuck vibes if you meet him IRL

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Not a surprise, dude gives off those vibes in videos as well.

Some of us remember when Vice was a mean-spirited, local magazine that made fun of the way New Yorkers dressed.

Not really surprising that those people turned out to be scumbags.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 day ago

but the tolerent left told me asmon is far right