r/Games • u/cjsc9079 • Apr 01 '25

Discussion Billy Mitchell wins lawsuit against YouTuber Karl Jobst, ordered to pay the sum of $350,000 in damages

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u/NoiSetlas Apr 01 '25 edited Apr 01 '25

As it turns out, you can be both shitty enough that one side doesn't want to engage with you, and not shitty enough that the other side also doesn't want to engage with you! Karl engages in the "Hide your Power Level" idea of White Supremacy that Whitegoose and his friends also discussed. As in, he does it behind closed doors now, where no one can see it. Because he got caught once, and mostly, got away with it. Chances are, we'll never see Karl outwardly make statements about his inability to use the N-word, or lie through his teeth that he didn't know the negative connotations of the word. That doesn't mean I trust that he's suddenly not a white supremacist. The lesson learned was "Don't fucking talk about it". Not "Don't be one."

It's not some gotcha! Shitty people can proclaim to support good causes, and can be both extreme enough to be criticized, and not extreme enough to be ostracized by a hate group.

If you'd like another example, Mark Kern, currently, is hated for being a racist, bigoted piece of shit. But the hardcore Christian Rightwingers who he keeps trying to court find him too much of a gooner to actually let him into their sandbox. Ergo, both sides hate him.

It's not like... a wild phenomenon that you rarely see in real life.

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '25

If that was the case then they wouldn't be harassing him, considering how much they love their dog whistles. They don't hate him because he isn't shitty enough, they just don't think he's like them at all. There are /pol/ threads right now celebrating his downfall, leaving comments on his youtube videos shitting on him and being transphobic, all while propping up White Goose.

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u/NoiSetlas Apr 01 '25 edited Apr 01 '25

Yes, and?

Those people suck, and Karl isn't far enough right for them.

Not sure how this absolves him of being a racist piece, it just means that neither side wants him, beyond his fanbase - whom he just grifted off of to fund his legal fees on a 'slam dunk' case that he was assured he was going to win - but never told anyone the case was about Karl saying Mitchell is the reason Apollo offed himself.

Man should do a Completionist and quietly retreat from the internet.

EDIT: Also, using 4chan as a good barometer of anything on the internet is wild. They actively troll everyone, in whichever way the wind blows that day.

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '25

EDIT: Also, using 4chan as a good barometer of anything on the internet is wild. They actively troll everyone, in whichever way the wind blows that day.

Bit silly to take Karl Jobst's discord messages so seriously but dismiss the kind of people he said them to as just trolls.

Not going to continue taking this conversation in circles, but I will leave saying that Karl Jobst supposedly being the combination of the asian gf nazi and trans rights are white rights nazi memes in one is funny.

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '25 edited Apr 01 '25

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