Kraft said in a statement on Instagram: “I have dedicated much of my life to building bridges between all people. I believe deeply that all lives are worth protecting.
That’s like saying ‘all lives matter’ in response to the Black Lives Matter movement; it’s disrespectful of the point being made.
It’s like thinking reverse racism is a thing.
He very literally tried to pull a “I can’t be racist, I have black friends” because he’s worked with a couple people who happen to be Palestinian
I married one, and I’d never say that. Even after decades of marriage, having learned the language and having lived in the Middle East for years, there are still some unwritten norms and cultural differences that occasionally take each of us by surprise and lead to misunderstandings. We muddle through. Our kids are more fluently bicultural.
i only ever heard white people(who are racists) use the term of reverse racism, its likely they need to be a victim.
I’ve lived in a place (and visited a couple others) where being a white person meant being subjected to suspicion and discrimination. It wasn’t reverse racism, it was xenophobia and plain old garden-variety racism. Being on the receiving end was highly instructive, as were the supportive comments such as “but we don’t mean you, you’re one of the good ones.” There were also cases of extreme discrimination and abusive behavior towards minorities that, to an outsider like me, seemed almost exactly like the majority population.
Kraft is an Epstein customer and human trafficking expert. Lowest of the low.
100% disingenuous word salad bullshit. Not even worth reading.
Building bridges between the fascists and everyone else, so the fascists can do their thing
He’s saying he’s built bridges with murderers.
To the quote you attached: He created funnels attached to people wallets; not bridges.
It’s just more Epstein-class waffle.
Tax billionaires until there are no none of them left.
I hate how the Right can’t understand context.
“What? You think only Black Lives Matter? ALL LIVES MATTER! Wait I’m the bad guy for saying all lives matter? What the fuck?” - The Right said not understanding what Black Lives Matter means
The issue is that they refuse to understand what it means.
The people who come up with those thought-terminating slogans know what they’re doing. The dim bulbs who repeat it might not understand, but their puppeteers do.
Tbf the left has always been shit at messaging
It took 4 seasons of the boys with writing getting more and more blunt for conservatives to realize homelander was a metaphor for the US right.
It doesn’t matter how good your messaging is if the target audience is a brick.
They still thought he was a good guy and claimed the show went woke for killing him.
israel lives matter more to him. he became salty and got a bunch of other stadiums to ban macklemore. Oh and Kraft is on EPstein files too. apparently ed shareens manager is also in it?
the zionist entity sheeran is so cancelled at this point they have hired pikers chinese producers for content and the investment in the gaza re-education tunnels is almost complete
my hope is that with this cultural victory pop folk rock will be truely nine to five only
Imagine getting cancelled in 2026 for being a billionaire’s bitch.
dint he grow up wealthy at least thats what i heard. of anything rich children who grew up with rich parents, never want to be “poor”
There’s very few people who have made it to where he is in the music industry who didn’t. Not for any particularly nefarious reason (although there’s usually a bit of nepotism involved as these things often go), but because working in the music industry fucking sucks. You make almost no money when coming up and balancing a full time job with recording and playing shows means you miss out on opportunities all the time. Coming from a rich family who can support you while you focus on music full time drastically increases your chances.
Compensation in the music business is only adequate if you’re far out on the right tail of the distribution. Having backing from someone with deep pockets as you get to that point definitely helps.
Maybe not wealthy, but definitely boujie. Privately educated, and daddy runs an art gallery. Not really a rough-handed son of the proletariat.
of anything rich children who grew up with rich parents, never want to be “poor”
I grew up poor. Didn’t have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of. I never want to be poor again. But if I had to, I’d probably survive.
You can want to change the system that makes people poor, and still prefer living indoors.
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Everything I’ve ever learned about Ed Sheeran has been against my will.
“removed from the airways” at one radio station in Ireland
better than none, hopefully the first of many
I was just in the Republic, and had a couple good pub conversations about Sheeran. When I was attempting a nuanced take on the subject, one guy interrupted me to say “Well, before you get into it more, you do realize he’s an unmusical cunt, right?”
But mainly, people were out demonstrating against Trump’s visit. “PEDO FUCK OFF” was one of the more concise placards.
I feel a tiny sorry for Ed (not that a guy who has an estimated £400 million net worth needs my sympathy), but he’s just some
poorrich schlub who’s been planning to tour around a bit, play some uncontroversial songs, earn another hundred million, mind his own business and then… kapow!.. he’s front and centre in a fight that’s he’s clearly ill-equiped to even interact with.“Whuh? I just wanted to play some bland music and earn enough money to buy myself a ginger island. What the flip is going on?”
kapow!.. he’s front and centre in a fight that’s he’s clearly ill-equiped to even interact with.
You say that like artists - especially Irish artists - haven’t been front and center on agitating against the Palestinian Genocide for years now.
He organized tour full of pro-Palestinian activists, ffs. Mackelmore isn’t some new figure, either. Jumping on popular leftist initiatives is kinda his brand.
If Sheeren had formed a band with Greenpeace, would he be blindsided when they started talking about the environment?
Like, I’m half inclined to give him some credit just for putting this thing together. Better to have it implode on you than to never tour at all.
Did Ed suicide bomb his career in the name of Palestine? Maybe
Maybe I’m reading either comment wrong, but I think the person you’re replying to was being ironic. Perhaps.
Ah, I’ve seen this take posted a few times sincerely.
I think most stations stopped playing him voluntarily ages ago
I couldn’t name a single song by this guy.
You’d recognize them if you heard them. They were ubiquitous on the radio 5-10 years ago
They sounded AI-generated before AI music was a thing.
Depends on the radio. I only listen to Spanish public radio and it’s not a station that plays the same songs in a loop all day. It’s back to back curated radio shows. They don’t play Sheeran.
That sounds like about the length of time I haven’t listened to the radio because I’ve had a personal device that can either hold or steam music from…
Nope. You can barely tell them apart from AI slop.
I can name exactly one song, and one song only by the dude; and I never actually listened to the song. (Shape of You).
He did that one banger in Game of Thrones but I don’t know if it had a name. It was new.
The only one I know is the song from the Hobbit movie, part 2 I think? The “I see fire” one.
There’s that Pokemon song
This is the way.
This is good for several reasons
The absence of Ed Sheeran songs is barely distinguishable from their presence.
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Thank you Palestine and Macklemore for standing up to keep this Zionist scum off the radio 🙏 now only if YouTube and Spotify would grow some balls
😂 as if
and now we are made aware indirectly that kraft is also in the epstein files, as is one of shareens managers.
Oh no, poor Epstein has been implicated with Ed Sheeran?
It’s always the last one you expect
not ed directly but his boss, kraft, and his manager.
You know what they say about when Ed Sheeran and 9 other people sit at a dinner table…
Good, Macklemore makes better music anyway
I’m looking forward to removing his cameo from GoT. It won’t fix the series but it’ll make the last seasons slightly better.
Nah GoT deserves him. GRRM deserves this after selling out and abandoning the readers who supported his series for years. I don’t ever see myself watching the show again. Maybe the first 3 seasons.
If you want a good fantasy series to read Malazan Book of the Fallen is way better anyway and finished.
And it gets better on a second read because you notice how many things that pay off in the Crippled God are set up way back in Gardens of the Moon
I started reading the first book, got like a third of the way in, then life got in the way. Thanks for reminding me! Gonna start over now
As a big Malazan fan, just know you’re not alone if you sometimes find yourself feeling puzzled on your first read. I had to read several chapters of the first book twice to really get it. Subsequent books went much more smoothly.
I don’t ever see myself watching the show again. Maybe the first 3 seasons.
Whiplash!
lol ya The love hate I have for GoT is strong. In 4 days I watched season 1 twice. Once by myself and once with my gf. The early seasons retain much more of the 1st person perspective that made GRRMs world building a unique reading experience.
good thing i never got into watching GOT or its spinoff.
Whoever downvoted you is salty af. I genuinely don’t recommend watching the show. Unless you’re a glutton for punishment.
I refuse to watch the spinoff.
No more samesies! Starting tomorrow!
I wouldn’t call it selling out. He didn’t abandon the books because of the series. He didn’t know how the books will end. Luckily for him he doesn’t have to end them as the HBO series set him up for life.
He didn’t know how the books will end.
That’s impossible because he both provided the show writers with ending plot points in 2013 and has said multiple times that the books would end differently than the show.
Luckily for him he doesn’t have to end them as the HBO series set him up for life.
You and I have very different operating definitions of “selling out”.
You don’t see an issue with your logic here? He gave the show some pointers on how to end it…knowing that’s what he didn’t want to end it with and knowing the books would end differently. That doesn’t mean he knows how the books are going to end. That means he has chosen one way the books are not going to end and the ways they can end are literally every other possible option.
He’s not going to finish the book series. Him taking a payday and leaving his fans who supported his writing career hanging is selling out.
Anyone who read the books would know why I’m upset. You clearly did not.
I was responding to the first part you said about being impossible that he doesn’t know how the books will end. Your response was not actually a response to me at all. You can be upset all you want, that’s irrelevant.
So, you inserted yourself into a conversation you were not a part of, on a subject you don’t know anything about about … to be an asshole?
I’ll be removing you from my lemmy experience now. Clearly you’ve run out of positive contributions
A shame it’s taken this long to get his “music” off the airwaves. It should have happened years ago.
How long until Ed Sheeran starts his “Why I left the left” grift?
