“We could change this whole world with a piano Add a bass, some guitar, grab a beat and away we go”
What DO YOU know?
The real damage is done by those millions who want to ‘survive.’ The honest men who just want to be left in peace. Those who don’t want their little lives disturbed by anything bigger than themselves. Those with no sides and no causes. Those who won’t take measure of their own strength, for fear of antagonizing their own weakness. Those who don’t like to make waves—or enemies.
- Sophie Scholl
Sophie Scholl and her little group opposed the Nazis from inside Germany, she was executed 22. February 1943, she was 21 years old
Alternative for Germany trying to use Sophie Scholl on their marketing was wild.
Take note, Switzerland. Neutrality is a cop out.
Switzerland has a pro-fascist history. They’re neutral like visa/MasterCard is neutral.
I thought they definitely pro nazi gold…
well hes taking Kraft’s side, hes very involved with him.
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
– Desmond Tutu
On the one hand, no one should be taking their political opinions from fucking celebrities. On the other hand, being against genocide is a pretty easy one to get right and he still can’t manage to do it…
Most people get their political opinions from everywhere, which is why it’s important to take opportunities to talk about politics in non-political situations.
If I feel strongly about something, I share it with the people around me. Celebrities are just people with a lot of people around them. So while I agree that people shouldn’t be treating celebrities as political experts, neither should we be acting like celebrities need to stay silent when they have something to share.
The article reads exactly that though, he is against it, but doesn’t want to drag politics to his performance.
Well, he didn’t really have a choice. The owner of the venue dragged him into it by demanding he deplatform Macklemore and he folded and kicked Macklemore off his tour. That’s taking a side and he chose the wrong one.
No one should get their political opinions from celebrities, but so many do.
Is not about taking celebraties opinion, it fan not wanting to support a genocide supporter
Right, he should be boycotted for this. He took a side.
Political opinions from uninformed or biased celebrities no, but at the same time it’s easier you somebody who already has a following to make that push in the right (or wrong) direction than some random nobody… This is especially true in the US where people are being actively oppressed by their own government, as it’s a significantly harder for ICE etc to suddenly disappear somebody famous versus a random “dissident”.
My problem with the situation is not so much the celebrities speaking out. They can say whatever they want, it’s their platform. My problem is with all the people listening and forming their own opinions around that. There are (or at least should be) better informed sources to learn about problems like this from. Media is fucked up too though so at this point I guess gather information from wherever you can.
Yeah if you’re solely basing your opinion on what some famous dude with no other credentials says then that’s a bad idea. I still try and listen to the professionals, but they are being suppressed especially in the news. Still, it seems people are as much likely to migrate towards celebrities that seem to share their political views as they are to be informed by them.
If people are going to follow celebrities for politica informationl, maybe they would be better off to go with Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine). He at least he has a degree in Political Science, and a decent wit to go with it.
Apathy feeds the oppressor.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3vgyn49y4l7o
Ahahaha!
All of the remaining support acts on Ed Sheeran’s US tour have quit, after the rapper Macklemore was dropped from the line-up for making pro-Palestinian remarks on stage.
Among them were Finneas, the brother of pop star Billie Eilish, who said in a statement: “Artists must not be silenced when they speak up for the oppressed.”
Irish singer-songwriter Aaron Rowe and Danish band Lukas Graham also announced their departure. Irish folk band Beoga, who perform with Sheeran on stage every night, dropped out too.
Exactly what he deserved for being a selfish coward. Hahaha, sucks to suck!
It’s fair to be critical of his cameo on Game Of Thrones but this is some crazy misdirected hate.
Let me guess, Zionist control over trending topics is trying to redirect anger that should be focused on those actually doing the genocide, instead of trying to turn this into some ongoing story.
Makes no sense and no one should go to his shows… Just because he’s not a very good musician.
Good. Maybe it will get worse.
Sheeran posted this on IG:
I am appalled by the conflict between Israel and Palestine. The suffering and pain caused on both sides is a human tragedy.
But when a side has a 1000:1 kill rate and it’s actively trying to remove/cleanse/genocide the other side from its foundation…
Hamas exists because Israel
I cannot imagine someone “both sidesing” a brutal fucking genocide. But here we are.
Ed Sheeran is a murder-supporting piece of nazi trash, and he is doing it for money.
Yes, Jewish people suffered greatly in the last century. Yes, there people in certain countries/religions who actively want to kill Jews or at least Israelis. Yes, Israel is a majority Jewish state.
But.
No, a past genocide does not give a free pass to execute a new one. No, murdering thousands in collateral to catch the ones who might be dangerous is not acceptable (not to mention the executions etc of obvious non-combatants). No Israel does not speak for all Jewish people nor have justification to excuse their behaviour/crimes as such. Also, yes the Israeli government/leadership is corrupt as fuck, uses war to dodge accountability, and is involved in a lot more terrible acts than “just” the ones in Palestine.
Honestly, when Mossad was blowing up pages and mobiles I thought that was great. It was strategic, effective, and we’ll targeted at the actual terrorist leaders/allies rather than causing mass casualties… they obviously have the capability to be much more surgical in their responses, so mass-bombings etc seem that much more like war/hate crimes. Doing this just creates more hatred, which leads to more terrorists and a continual cycle.
Don’t forget Bennie Netanyahu’s literal suitcases of money he gave them secretly because he needed an excuse to continue the war mobilization
I am appalled by the conflict between Nazis and Jews. The suffering and pain caused on both sides is a human tragedy.
Yeah, sounds quite similar.
Hamas exists because Israel
80 years of making the wrong political decision at every fork in the road.
Always on the wrong side of things.
Eventually that catches up with you. No matter who you are.
That is what we are seeing unfold in Gaza in our present times.
Walking out on the U.N. partition plan negotiations back in 1948 was a tragic mistake, and it’s only become more disastrous with the passage of the years and decades since then.
No musician or singer poncing about on stage like an uninformed idiot before a crowd of even less informed idiots can change anything about those facts.
Here is a simple take on this. I’m living here near a little town on my little half acre of land. Then some people move in beside me on their little half acre of land and they have support of the nearby town and several counties giving them the land and the house. It’s not the best land in the area but they get it for free. Now I’m sitting here on my little half acre minding my own business and the nearby town and counties decide that hey we’re going to give the people that just moved in beside you a quarter of your land and I go no you’re not so I put up a fence they come in and tear it down and take it anyway. Now my neighbors on the other side of me they want to back me but they’re afraid because my new neighbors have the backing of the local police and sheriff. So they just stick to their own business. Well I’m not very powerful but I’ll go out there and I step on my old stolen piece of land and I put up a fence again. This time The neighbor comes out with guns and start shooting my cats tears down the fence and says well we’re going to take a little more and so they take a little more. So we kind of settle into an uneasy fuck you across the fence for a while. Eventually my neighbor sees that hey my land is growing corn and stuff and it’s nice and flat so they decide that that’s what they want to so they decide one day they take down part of the fence and they move it another 50 ft intake my whole front yard now what do you think I’m going to do? I’m going to fight the whole time cuz I got nowhere to go. Then my neighbors decide they want my fucking house too so they come over start shooting my cats and throwing my shit out in the yard setting it on fire all what the help of the local police and sheriff. Now you tell me who the terrorist is?. That’s a rhetorical question.
Wow, no response. Figures.
I’m betting it’s the lack of paragraphs.
bloody waste of words…
That was not a lot of words. Maybe you should work on your reading. Or you could just fuck all the way off. Either choice would be a net benefit to the world.
Apparently words are wasted on you. Too dense for them to get through
Whatever you say chubs.
If Palestine agreed to give up the most fertile part of their land, to the government that just invaded and genocided them, do you think Israel would have stopped?
Why do you engage with trash when the block button is RIGHT THERE?
Some people’s ideas don’t fucking matter.
No you have to confront trash at every turn, even if it seems pointless. I dont have the energy to do it most of the time and that’s on me, but I certainly won’t discourage those who have it
#I’m tired boss and #thats the point. The shit storm they are staring up in every direction is quite literally a tactic in debate. “Gish Gallop” (or bullshit storm) is what it is called. Just being used in physical form by these fuckers on the geopolitical level.
The Trump administration calls it “Flooding the zone”. You’re right, it’s quite deliberate.
You’re going to need to be less vague with what you’re saying. Vague, but strongely worded comments are a hallmark of conspiracy nuts
TLDR: all of the kids getting blown up in schools and hospitals really fucked up when they walked out of the 1948 UN partition plan negotiations and had this coming.
I did not foresee Isreal/Palestine unseating Ed Sheeran’s popular image, but here we are.
How does one boycott Ed Sheeran when you already skip all his drivel?
Through mockery.
I made a reminder at work that Target took down lgbt products, removed “DEI” language out of their policies, and did a racism when I saw the party planner bought some shit from Target for a pizza party. Immediately the dog piling began and she’s terrified to bring a target bag here again.
I want someone good at art to make a picture. One side of the pic would be unicorns and rainbow type shit and the other side would be the idf commiting atrocities. Splitting the image would be Sheeran sitting on a fence saying “I don’t want to be political”
I’d get that printed on a shirt and rock it so damn hard.
Bonus points if one of the posts/slats was shoved up his ass and coming out of his mouth.
Serious question, what is the alternative for target as Amazon and others are at least as bad?
I understand Costco, I think it was, consistently made the opposite choices from Target. That’s off the top of my mind, though, so do check for yourself.
Depends what you’re trying to buy. Don’t get everything at superstores, engage with your local community
“We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.”
-Elie Wiesel
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”
-Desmond Tutu
“I hate these filthy Neutrals, Kif. With enemies you know where they stand but with Neutrals, who knows? It sickens me.”
-Zapp Brannigan
Goddamn anti-Semite!
(/s, clearly)
Ed Sheeran is a fucking coward that tried to say he can’t have Macklemore talking about Palestine because of the children in the audience. The appropriate thing for someone with $400m in the bank would have been to cancel the tour, raincheck or refund the tickets and find decent venue owners for the next attempt.
Also, I’m pretty damn sure that Robert Kraft’s stadium gets tax money for something. That should fucking stop immediately.
Won’t somebody think of the children?!? (Not the Palestinian ones)
he can’t have Macklemore talking about Palestine because of the children in the audience
Meanwhile small children entertainment superstar Ms. Rachel: https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ms-rachel-criticises-ed-sheeran-macklemore-us-tour-1819728
Screenshot of her recent posts on IG:
She’s exactly right too.
He had zero problem being political with Ukraine, when it was pretty universally accepted.
His problem isn’t politics, it’s actually having a backbone and standing up against any sort of adversity.
As always, Miss Rachel 100% on point
Kraft also owns the new england patriots. Hate to give those athletes a splash effect of their owner’s awfulness. But I also think thats the celebrity world for you. We have to make zionism as toxic in the business community as it already is in public opinion polls. BDS works.
the NFL world is a tiny bit less left leaning than the music world
Yeah, but people will take any reason to hate on the Patriots lol. Patriots being known as pro genocide might turn people anti genocide just because haha.
No. The proper thing to do is take the stage and repeat Macklemores words and cover the song Macklemore covered.
Take the stage and read statements from every act that canceled, call for an end to genocide, and maybe cover some of their protest songs and maybe then.
tell Kraft to such a dick, and if he Still gets paid because he is evil and has good lawyers then learn your lesson and never sign a contract that allows that again. Play in dive bars until the rich fucks cave.
No that’s how you attempt to save face now.
His contracts with all those venues may cost him far more than you’d imagine if he just doesn’t show or drops out. The only telling thing he has done that makes him look really badly is his lack of any statements he could have made by now.
Oh nooooo, it would cost him? How will he eat tomorrow?
…better than children in Palestine, that’s for sure.
Oh, the fucking irony…
Macklemore was vocally against Biden and proclaimed he wouldn’t vote for him.
He didn’t pick a side. I presume he didn’t vote for Trump, but he sure convinced folks not to vote for Biden.
Trump is raping the US and the world right now.
Edit: Fuck anyone who doesn’t oppose Israel’s genocide.
Biden won & he’s still doing the correct thing now, so you can take your silly strawman & ride it off into the sunset. 😘
Harris’ loss is 100% her own fault.
I mean, I was vocally against Biden (in 2020) in a sense of, “this guy is way too conservative on Israel and will probably lose re-election as a result if the conflict there heats up.” Not a very satisfying “I told you so.” I still voted for him in 2020, but I told this to everyone at the time, and with hindsight I was absolutely right. I still voted for Harris in ‘24, but I wasn’t surprised when she lost after all the Liz Cheney/“most lethal military” shit. The job of politicians is to convince voters to support them, not to ignore them, and Biden/Harris were completely out of touch with their own base. This is not the voters’ or Macklemore’s fault, it is Biden and Harris’s fault. Can’t even blame Trump for this one.
Harris was less out of touch but she was not allowed to deviate from Biden policy positions at all, and it cost her the election.
he had a song where he called on people to abstain from voting for biden
He’s an autistic asshole what tf u expect. 😭
