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[–] 24 points 2 weeks ago* (1 child)

lol I do kinda love that the blowback on Sheeran is growing so rapidly. It’s well deserved, after that bullshit.

Edit: Wow, four supporting acts, including the act replacing Macklemore as the opener? That’s a major spanner in the works. Nice.

Ed Sheeran’s tour of North and South America was plunged into chaos Tuesday when four of his supporting acts abruptly quit in solidarity with the rapper Macklemore, who was dropped for making pro-Palestinian comments onstage.

Hours after Sheeran posted on social media about Macklemore’s ouster and attributed the decision to the tour’s promoters, Irish acts Aaron Rowe and Beoga, the Danish band Lukas Graham, and Finneas posted on Instagram that they were leaving the tour.

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  • [–] [S] 20 points 2 weeks ago

    Fuck Israel and fuck Israeli apartheid 👍

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  • [–] 19 points 2 weeks ago* (9 children)

    Sheeran could have avoided this by telling Kraft where to shove it. Especially if his feelings about Palestine are what his post is designed to make us think they are. There’s not many artists who can sell out a stadium.

    Though it baffles me why. His music does nothing for me.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 weeks ago* (1 child)

    He should have supported Macklemore and forced Kraft's hand...and then sued the living fuck out of him for breaking the contract. Instead, he pussied out and wrecked his career.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago

    Hell he could have been just not a cunt and said "no I'm keeping him in my show" made no support and still made more money. That's a fucking crazy response to a genocide to me still, but my point stands he choose to be a cunt for cunts and people shouldn't want to work with him or pay him for that.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    Right??? The eagerness with which so many people seem to want to appease and idolize billionaires is frankly revolting.

    But that’s just American society for you these days, I guess :(

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago*

    I actually enjoyed some of his more acoustic/soft songs quite a lot and I don't think anyone can deny he's a talented songwriter, some of the footage of him coming up with songs is truly impressive if you've ever made music, so I was willing to give a pass to the mainstream garbage and him being the definition of a wet wipe a-lister despite normally listening to niche stuff, but depending where this goes then I'll probably never be able to listen to these songs again without them being tainted. Add him to the list I guess...

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  • [–] 10 points 2 weeks ago

    at least he has Pink and Boy George 🤣

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    He could have stood up and cancelled the tour like a proper human instead he acted like a ghoul and it was cancelled for him.

    Fuck him.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    I don't know anything about tour logistics so maybe this wouldn't have worked, but I think it would've been very good PR to find venues in those towns that were owned by people who support the Free Palestine message and just move. Probably wouldn't work since they'd likely have smaller max capacities, I dunno, but I feel like something could've been done. Choosing to silence someone is not as apolitical as he seems to think.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago

    i guess Kid Rocks up?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago*

    He didn’t want to take a stand including the stand to back up a band working with him.

    Now he has no bands backing him up.

    👨‍🍳💋

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    Isn't his Dad Irish? Doesn't he know about being an colonial powers bitch?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    Good Ed Sheeran is a sniveling little removed

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    Sheeran is worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Revealing himself to be complicit in genocide and the world's largest pussy, destroying his career in the process, was entirely optional.

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  • [+] 1 point 2 weeks ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)
    [–] -1 points 2 weeks ago

    Robert Kraft is a Zionist POS.

    Ed is a soulless ginger.

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