Agreed. I get so mad when people get all shitty about immigrants and religions and foreign countries and it's like dude, they are people, like you and me, desperately trying to survive in a very different but equally shitty system to the one we are trying desperately to survive in. You can't cherry pick honor killings and morality police incidents as the only evil in the world while you ignore school shootings and mass medicare denials. We're all fighting the same fights against inequality and injustice even if we're all stuck in different lanes. We're all fucking people. We all want the same fucking things, we want a home, we want safety and security for our families, and we want some opportunity to make our future better. We can certainly argue about how exactly to do that, but demonizing other people is where evil starts.

That's pretty hilarious lmao

Israeli lobby has really done a number on folks’ perception of violence.

Sheeran is taking heat for not standing up for Macklemore. Not much we can do to protest Kraft except respond to assholishness with solidarity

Ed Sheeran could have told Robert Kraft to go fuck himself and Ed would have most of the world on his side. He is already rich enough to not have to worry about anything.

But nope. I suppose for some people it is never enough.

Now everyone knows what a cunt and a shit friend he is.

So yeah, fuck Ed Sheeran.

I wouldn't say he's getting away cleanly, every article on this heavily mentions Kraft being the one behind the pressure to drop Macklemore from the tour...

But short of another Mangioni, there's very little anyone can do to hurt Kraft in a meaningful way.

Even if the backlash from this outright irreversibly ended his career and robbed him of every holding he has, which it won't, he'd still have his generational wealth to tide him over till the day he died.

Probably cuz we all already knew that Robert Kraft was a bad guy. We're not surprised when a villain acts like a villain. Fascist usually act like fascists. What's dangerous is when people just start going along with them because it's easy. That's when things get really bad.

Just as an aside:

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2026/02/04/jeffrey-epstein-wanted-robert-kraft-to-hire-his-lawyer-amid-patriots-owners-prostitution-case-documents-show/

I wouldn’t describe him as “getting away clean”. His rapist past (present?) is absolutely on blast right now.

You’re definitely right that he will never face justice though. There is no justice against the oligarchs unless we do it ourselves.

From what I heard (although I may be wrong) it sounded like Sheeran was quietly supportive of Macklemore, given that he was consistently allowed to give his speech up until Kraft threatened them. Sure, he gave in to the pressure far more quickly than he should have, but by the sound of it, he was ultimately a victim of Zionist actions rather than a supporter. Kraft was the one trying to silence the Free Palestine messages, and threatening the whole tour to do so - he is the aggressor here.

That said, maybe I've missed something, so feel free to correct me.

Down there - he said - are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative loathsomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin, you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don't say no.

-- Terry Pratchett, Guard! Guards!

They were quoting Ellie Wiesel, one of the most prominent and eloquent Holocaust survivors whose writing you were almost certainly required to read in school.

In his social media post, Sheeran said he “spoke with the venues at length all week to try to build a bridge,” but that “the venue’s and promoter’s decision was final.”

He wrote that he tries to use his music to “bring people from all backgrounds and cultures together” and that while he has personal views about “this devastating conflict,” he chooses not to speak publicly because people who come to his shows “do not expect a political forum.” He added: “I am not complicit.”

I am not complicit my ass. If you have a platform and decide to stay quiet when you have a clear chance to send a message, then fuck you .

What's amazing is there basically no evidence Hamas did any of the most heinous things they accused them of and a bunch of evidence that the IDF has done those things. Every accusation is a confession I guess...

Yeah, I was thinking the same. Once he starts losing money & fans, how's he (or his PR team) going to spin his apology?

My money is on: "I made a mistake, I'm listening, I'm learning, I'm donating" schtick. IMO There's a point after which you can't claim you just didn't know & ask for an apology. You've shown you hand & there's no going back.

I’m not sure that would have been better. Putting the whole tour at risk like this will prompt massive backlash from people that paid to see a show. Often tickets protect promoters from cancellations but in this case it may be unclear since it is the fault of the pressure from the top.

In either case, both this and that sure beat just playing the shows and letting Macklemore stand alone.