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Conjures to mind the Smashing Pumpkins on the Simpsons.
“We envy you, Homer. All we have is our music, our fans, our millions of dollars, and our youth.”
(realization hits) “Woo-hoo!”
“Let’s all go out and buy fur coats!”
“I want a walk-in humidor!”
The writer of the episode recently posted on YouTube that he wanted Hole instead of Smashing Pumpkins. He wrote the joke to be “Courtney Love” “Homer grateful”
Robert Kraft told Ed he couldnt continue his tour (specifically wouldn't let him play in the stadium he owned, and convinced the owners of other stadiums to agree with him) if he kept Macklmore on the tour. Macklemore has been saying "free palestine" among other things in his opening act for Ed. I recommend you read Macklemore's post and Ed's response if you want further info
If you read the emails where Epstein is summoned by Kraft’s people for lawyers he has retained for sex crimes in Florida. Even Epstein is confused why Kraft wasn’t using higher end “services.”
Probably because it was cheaper, a lot of rich people have this almost pathological need to find a cheaper option even tho they could clearly afford the most expensive one.
It seems like driving a wedge between Ed and Robert is the most obvious answer
Sheeran just saying Macklemore's line about Palestine at every remaining concert sounds like a hilarious "fuck you" to Kraft while also still fulfilling is touring contract
Force Kraft to escalate even more if he wants to shut it down, while enabling Macklemore's words even when he's not there
"I choose to use my fame and platform to be a place of safety and sanctuary, to maintain diplomacy and keep conversations open, not closed. If we only focus on shouting the loudest, nothing will ever change. There are different approaches to being an advocate for change."
The amazing thing is that there are articles making the rounds of Macklemore dressing up as an extremely offensive Jewish stereotype. (He’s since apologised for it; make of that what you will. Maybe he deserves forgiveness, maybe he doesn’t; I don’t know or care enough about the guy to try to find an answer.)
…But in spite of the photos of Macklemore in the Judenhass equivalent of blackface, what actually upset people was calling for the end to genocide in Gaza? That's what he gets cancelled for?
Huh.
Yeah, it sure as fuck isn’t really about antisemitism when they ignore evidence of actual antisemitism and insist that he must be cancelled for speaking against genocide.
Yeah that one killed me too, they had no issues with Macklemore until he said Free Palestine. There was nothing about his 2014 incident until after he was already cancelled.
What’s hilarious is Pink used his 2014 incident as an excuse for her “feeling scared” after being called out on her initial response to his recent activism. Indeed, the whole righteous indignation of her / Kraft is performative and simply a shield of Israel’s actions in Gaza.
I got a reddit removed comment (undone on appeal at least) for saying that. Also that when you behave like that I just automatically assume you have visited a certain island and Israel has the receipts.
There’s also this weird thing where it’s treated as a special kind of racism, separate and more grave than anti-asian, anti-hispanic or anti-black racism. Or maybe this is just what the internet does
Until you start comparing their actions with what the Nazis did. I'll never understand the people who think because the Nazis treated them that way, they now have the right to treat non-Nazis that way.
The fact that a group of people could endure multiple of their generations going through that kind of pain, and then turn around and inflict it on someone else is sickening.
Israeli settlers are doing to Palestinians what was done to my Jewish family by the Nazis and complicit Poles in WW2. I can't be okay with that.
I think that there are two kinds of people in the world. People who experienced hardship and don't want subsequent generations to endure what they did, and people who experienced hardship and want subsequent generations to suffer as they did, or more.
There's actually maybe a third kind of person: those who've never known suffering and can't conceive that other people suffer.
Antisemitism is meaningless at this point. It's now used as a shield against any and all criticism of Israel, they don't care if anyone hates jews, they just don't want people to criticise their actions.
If he weren't such a malicious cretin then Alex Jones would be genuinely hilarious. His videos are piss funny. Can't believe he had so much real world sway and influence with utter morons
As was the Lex Friedman interview. They both really showcased the amount of fascist literature Ye engaged with during this time, and it's really shocking how much grace he's been extended. I think most folks just haven't watched those interviews, unfortunately, and not seen the depths of his descent into fascism.
He recently (as in post-Heil-Hitler) played stadiums owned by Robert Kraft, the billionaire fascist prick who demanded Macklemore get tossed for "antisemitism."
The Odyssey was probably one of the best examples of online being a drop in the ocean compared to the real world. Or online being completely infested with bots. You’d almost think that the movie would tank with the amount of bad publicity it was getting.
The election should have opened a lot of eyes to this as well. Beforehand reddit would have had you believing it was just a formality and that the results were already locked in.
Fence voters don't use reddit and conservatives understandably stick to their own spaces, I actually would too if I got eviscerated every time I opened my mouth about politics
So you're left with a huge liberal echo chamber. Which is actually becoming a problem in and of itself, I'm banned from politics for a comment criticizing Democrats. I was probably harsh enough some mod assumed I was a Republican and banned me because I was also simultaneously banned from pics which is just another political echo chamber now too
Reddit is also one of the most heavily astroturfed places on the entire heavily astroturfed internet. You've got Chinese bots, Russian bots, Elgin AFB bots, American SuperPAC bots (from both wings), and all of the useful idiots who believe their posts without doing any critical thinking.
That's how capitalism works. Sheeran will be absolutely fine, take the cash and probably release an album detailing his hurt at not being understood and all he wanted was peace on earth and loads of money.
Ed culturally associates himself as Irish and you can see by his choice of support acts. This is going to impact him more personally than financially. The Irish have a long memory.
Sheeran is toadying up to a big corporation instead of supporting his friend
Kanye is seriously mentally ill which accounts for oscillating between “Jonah Hill made me laugh in a movie I could never hate Jews” and “Heil Hitler is my new single!”
I guess it matters if Ed got "the wealth sickness". It's that illness people get when they have that much money. The one Rogan got. The one where your core beliefs and constitution becomes intertwined with all that fucking money and you become a giant tool of the wealth. You become Elon.
"Ed Sheeran has roughly 350 to 380 individual tracks available on Spotify, including his main studio albums, deluxe editions, collaborations, and featured guest spots."
Women still flock to watch Chris Brown (a man that beat the shitnoutnof one of the most famous female artists of the 21st century) basically fuck fans on stage. Ed will be fine.
He let a billionaire, Robert Craft, who owns the stadium and the New England Patriots, give him an ultimatum. Either yeet Macklemore from the tour or they’d end the tour. Ed chose to yeet Macklemore. The other billionaire stadium sponsors threatened the same. Lucas Oil, AT&T, Bank of America, etc.
Remember when people got mad at Radiohead for not talking about Gaza and Palestinians? They were canceled by Reddit too. Then they sold out a European tour. So Ed Sheeran will be fine.
Reddit is in such disbelief Trump won a second term they did a complete 180 on "elections are completely secure" to "Trump 100% stole the election there's no way he could have won otherwise"
Maybe people who don't use social media just voted different than you
Reddit has always been an echo chamber but it's getting really bad on political subs. To the point most of the time it's useless reading comments on political subs because it's the same comments every time
Reddits getting bad with the echochamber thing on non political subs too, pretty much every sub that becomes a top 1% sub within a few weeks becomes a political echochamber
If you think this ends his career and he wont continue to sell out stadiums in a few months, you are terminally online and need to speak to real people
A billionaire asked a millionaire to do something, and the millionaire did it instead of not doing it. The millionaire could have done any number of things differently. Not being able to take a moral stance against megarich interests makes both of them the issue imo.
He makes tens of millions of dollars a year. One tour wasn't gonna hurt him. He's one of the top grossing artists right now, especially because he has such a huge catalogue. He makes a fuck ton just on Spotify listens alone. He could quit right now and live in unbelievable wealth for the rest of his life
You do know that stadiums are employed for events like this by hundreds, and huge tours like this have a massive crew that follows it around. It’s not just Ed that loses out. It’s a lot of people that are not millionaires.
I’m not mad at Ed for dropping Macklemore; I’m mad at his silly post. He didn't apologize or take a stand, and claiming he 'doesn't do politics' makes no sense after how vocal he was in supporting Ukraine. That attitude was more telling than his post, even if he stayed silent would have been better.
The guy is worth a lot of money. And his writing credits and streaming will make him millions in perpetuity. Worst case scenario, he continues his tour solo.
The list of people who have not and will not take a public stance on the Israeli Palestinian war, even if they strongly support the right of Palestinian people to live, is about 99 times larger than the opposite list. No one’s career is ending over this.
It’s a shame, because Macklemore himself said “hey don’t hold it against him, he’s a good dude and a good friend, it’s the venue organisers who got together and gave him and me an ultimatum”.
That is the exact opposite of what Macklemore said.
His statement SPECIFICALLY STARTED WITH "Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour." He said Ed is like a brother, which made the conversations with him a painful disagreement. His statement explains that it's morally wrong to do what Ed did, but he's open to continuing the conversation.
Macklemore was certainly polite and called out the stadium owners roles, but his message was that he's a good friend IN SPITE of doing the wrong thing, a decision he did not have to make.
He said a good bit more than that. He was definitely calling out Ed directly when he said "refusing to pick a side on genocide doesn't leave you in the middle."
yeah but he could have 100% called their bluff. theres no way those stadium owners are going to shell out..... lets see 90,000 people. lets say an average ticket price of $300.... $27 million in refunds. Plus all the other lost revenue. And if you stand up to censorship its a 100℅ winner even from the people that dont get to see you.
The dude writes so many pop hits that end up in the top 10 for other people he could never perform another day in his life and still make so much f you money it would make your head spin. Thats what makes this even worse. Hes one of the artists that can say fuck you and walk away. He can make a stand for things. But he chooses to not do that. Never forget that.
You can't be so juvenile. This occupy affected the us tour .... That's it. He still is rich af and was planning on taking san extended break after this. The Internet moves fast and this will be forgotten.
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