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[–] 14 points 6 days ago (1 child)

Kraft is associated with epstein and maybe one of his managers, thats all the reason to shut up about his sugar daddy.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 days ago

    I think a lot about how Epstein was likely just a cog in a machine himself. There are more like him

    What people are playing around with these fuckers still? Not gonna jump to conclusions about him but it makes me wonder

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  • [–] 11 points 6 days ago (4 children)

    It's always better to stand for something than to "play it safe".

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  • [–] 10 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    Tbf odds are usually in favour of playing it safe, big spiralling scandals are the edge cases.

    It is better to stand something from a moral point of view though, for sure.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

    Sheeran trying to play victim now is nauseating. He's a 35 year old man acting like a befuddled 16 year old. I dont beleive he's so stupid as to not understand that the violence is not at all necessary, its racist, and its insanely disproportionate.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago

    Fuck the Guardian (and Ed), it's not a culture war.

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  • [–] 166 points 1 week ago (22 children)

    Just saw Gorillaz on their first show of The Mountain tour.

    Damon Albarn held up a Palestinian flag, draped it over his shoulder, then declared, "It's time to pick a side."

    It's just that simple to not be a bitch.

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  • [–] 41 points 1 week ago (9 children)

    Even noted cunt Damon Albarn gets it

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    [–] 119 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    It's not a fucking culture war. Either you believe in morality or you don't ffs.

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  • [–] 35 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    Calling it a culture war is so depressing. It’s basically making explicit: yes the genocide is happening, but politics is about how you feel about it and what words you use.

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    [–] 104 points 1 week ago (11 children)

    He was “appalled by the conflict”, he wrote, adding that the “suffering and pain caused on both sides” was “a human tragedy”

    This little shit literally "both sides" this genocide?!? Wow.

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  • [–] 41 points 1 week ago

    I could see that argument being used in the weeks after the October attacks, but after nearly three years of intensive systematic genocide?

    Fuck off with that shit.

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    [–] 83 points 1 week ago (27 children)

    I really don't understand the average person's attachment to Israel, like I just don't get it at all. It's been obvious since this all started that it is a genocide. There's no argument to be made against that. So why is picking a side so difficult?

    Also, small rant: What is up with the world supporting Ukraine right off the bat but not Palestine?? Is it really as simple as racism? How can you support one but not the other?

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  • [–] 35 points 1 week ago (6 children)

    Speaking as a 47 year old former lib: The propaganda worked quite well on me until recently, like ten or so years ago.

    If you do not look into it and educate yourself on the reality, it is easy to believe the idea that Israel is allowed to "defend itself" because, after the Holocaust, the Jews got together and decided not to take any more shit. The idea is that they occupied an empty desert in Palestine, called it Israel, and got attacked from all sides by the surrounding Arab states and would happily stop shooting if the Arabs stopped attacking them.

    The second layer of propaganda says that it's not that simple, that Israel kills more in response to these attacks than they should, but it's still a complex situation and we westerners shouldn't meddle with it because we are ignorant.

    The truth finished landing on me around Oct 7, since I'd spent years at that point listening to actual Palestinian people, studying history, etc and knew that Israel was a brutal colonial project of apartheid that was becoming a proper theocracy, but was momentarily fooled by the false reports of brutality by Hamas fighters.

    The first hospital bombing ended all sympathy for Israel.

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    Former neoliberal. Think msnbc or the Democratic Party establishment, roughly.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 days ago (1 child)

    Disenchanted but still progressive, or turned conservative is my question.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 days ago

    In this case it's a leftist. Progressive probably still applies. The "centre-left but still in favour of neoliberal economics" parties aren't good enough any more, we need actual market controls, outright war on corporations/oligarchs and to establish solid socialist institutions to provide a good life instead of throwing people to the market wolves.

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    [–] 69 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Ed Sheeran has watched multiple murders happening, but refused to report them on the grounds that he "didn't want to be political".

    When others tried to speak, he stopped them, saying "I just don't want to be political!".

    Ed Sheeran is not a safe person to be around.

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    [–] 63 points 1 week ago

    Looks like Ed can go fuck himself.

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  • [–] 36 points 1 week ago* (19 children)

    I flew home to see the family this weekend, down in the deep south. My brother picked me up from the airport and took me to a local pub for a burger and beer. I went for my second glass and two regulars at the bar were chatting with the bartender.

    "Just don't make it political. Keep politics out of it", said one of the men to the bartender. "Fuck Robert Kraft", I loudly replied. The bartender cocked a half smile before mentioning that they were just discussing how Kanye was able to tour again. "Some things in this world are forgivable like, apparently, 'heil Hitler'", I opined for the whole bar to hear.

    Aghast, the avowedly apolitical regulars could only stare back at me. They seemed reluctant to defend a billionaire known for his bad behavior, and also recently for his collusion with his other rich pals to cancel a music act from playing at two stadiums overlapping Kanye's recent tours.

    "But, save the children? Well, that really depends on exactly which children". I took my 6% ABV lager back to my table to resume half-hearted interest in my brother's WoW guild and hype over the re-re-release of vanilla, or whatever.

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    [–] 33 points 1 week ago* (3 children)

    One important party which manages to stay out of the crosshairs is Wasserman talent agancy whom Ed is signed with. Many other prominent mainstream artists who never speak out for Palestine like Kendrick Lamar are signed with them. Now you know why they never speak out.

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