I HATE the Summer time.
i literally never want a program to turn my smileys into one of their accursed emojis and yet they persist in their wretchedness
Kurt Westergaard, a Danish cartoonist whose caricature of the Prophet Muhammad outraged many Muslims worldwide, has died at the age of 86.
He died after a long illness, his family told the Berlingske newspaper on Sunday.
Westergaard was a cartoonist for the conservative Jyllands-Posten newspaper from the early 1980s.
He became world famous in 2005 for his controversial image of the Prophet Muhammad in the newspaper.
He was behind the most controversial one of 12 cartoons published by the newspaper to make a point about self-censorship and criticism of Islam. It showed the prophet wearing a turban in the shape of a bomb.
Images of the Prophet Muhammad are taboo in Islamic tradition and many Muslims considered the cartoons extremely and deliberately offensive.
The cartoons led to protests in Denmark and across the Muslim world. Danish embassies were attacked and dozens died in the riots that followed.
The publication of the cartoons has left a lasting legacy. In 2015, 12 people were killed in an attack by Islamist militants on the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which had published the cartoons.
Westergaard also received several death threats and was a target of assassination attempts. He first went into hiding but then decided to live openly in a heavily fortified home.
In 2008, Danish authorities charged three people with planning to murder Westergaard. Two years later they caught a man armed with a knife breaking into his home. Mohamed Geele was later convicted of attempted murder and terrorism and was jailed for nine years.
In his later years, Westergaard had to live with a bodyguard at secret addresses.
Speaking to Reuters news agency in 2008, Westergaard said he had no regrets about his drawing.
He said the cartoon had generated "important" discussion about the place of Islam in Western countries with secular values.
"I would do it the same way (again) because I think that this cartoon crisis in a way is a catalyst which is intensifying the adaptation of Islam," he said.
"We are discussing the two cultures, the two religions as never before and that is important."
Just an FYI
For the last month on Discord I’ve been advertising there was a prune coming.
People had to actively make requests to be assigned a member roll. I made it clear that if you didn’t, you’d be likely pruned.
I finished the final round of vetting and then pruned. A little more than 50 users were removed.
If you were pruned, I apologize but I gave a month’s warning and repeatedly advertised the upcoming purge. You will have to join back in whenever I put another discord link up.
WTF I don’t understand why I didn’t get pruned lmao
Still need a sacrifice.
Just an FYI
For the last month on Discord I’ve been advertising there was a prune coming.
People had to actively make requests to be assigned a member roll. I made it clear that if you didn’t, you’d be likely pruned.
I finished the final round of vetting and then pruned. A little more than 50 users were removed.
If you were pruned, I apologize but I gave a month’s warning and repeatedly advertised the upcoming purge. You will have to join back in whenever I put another discord link up.
Anonymous asked:
An artist who made 40k animations was offered a job as animator from GW. He refused. In response they demonetized all his videos and got his Patreon shut down.
thespectacularspider-girl answered:
Who?
And yeah, I believe that this is their standard practice. Games Workshop is almost as bad as Disney or Nintendo for their aggressive, practically hostile, response to content which they don’t get a cut of.
That’s not what happened at all? Anon is lying.
The artist, whose YouTube channel name is Sodaz, was told to remove their Warhammer videos from YouTube as he was offered to join Warhammer+, so he did. But then a bunch of angry Warhammer 40k cucks and fans started harassing them and accusing them for selling out and abandoning them.
When Game Workshop tried to hire said animator he refused and said he wasn’t gonna make anything Warhammer related ever again because of the harassment he received from the fans.
Is this the same person you’re both talking about? If so, I don’t know which is true explicitly, but it wouldn’t surprise me if GW was that aggressive because they’ve been that aggressive in the past.
Someone linked me this video. According to it, Sodaz was told he had to delete his videos regardless of if he joined Warhammer+ or not.
Just found this. Anon might not be talking about Sodaz. It’s possible he’s talking about this person.
