[–] 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The NFL owner [Robert Kraft] added that he agreed with Macklemore that there has been too much suffering, and noted that he has spent decades “directing resources” to Palestinians.

Press X to doubt.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago

    As I much I was I don't want to hand it Danielle Smith. It seems Danielle Smith learned from the UK's disastrous Brexit vote orchestrated by David Cameron.

    Having a vote to decide if you should vote to leave is a good political decision. If Danielle Smith wants to stay Alberta to stay in Canada, she can go "See, people don't want a vote to leave" or "the vote to leave was way too close. I would prefer a clear and strong super majority before initiating a vote to leave Canada."

    If the vote to vote leave is clearly to vote to leave. Danielle Smith can gain leverage to extract more from the Federal Government.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Pink later explained that she did not object to Macklemore’s calls for a “Free Palestine,” but said, “I have never asked for another artist to be silenced and I’m not asking now. I don’t need anyone fired, and I don’t need a refund. What I need is to be able to say, as a Jewish mom, ‘that scared me, and it scared people I love,’ without being told our fear is just propaganda, and without being told I’m somehow cool with genocide because I noticed?”

    Free Palestine =/= hating Jews or advocating violence against Jewish people, Pink. Zionists have done a fairly good propganda to make people associate criticism of Israel to be anti-semantic. It's about recognizing the ongoing genocide and apartheid by the Israeli government and the supporters.

    Fun fact, Pink. Anyone from any religion can be an Israeli citizen.

    Let's turn to the people who definetely desrved to be hated;

    In an exclusive statement shared with Rolling Stone, Messina Touring Group, promoter of the U.S. leg of Sheeran’s Loop Tour, said: “As the concert promoter for Ed Sheeran’s U.S. Loop Tour, we have been notified by venues on the upcoming U.S. tour dates that they will not allow a concert to take place with Macklemore on the lineup, which would result in the cancellation of the tour and impact hundreds of thousands of fans. After discussions with stakeholders, Macklemore will not be performing on the remaining support dates.”

    In a statement shared on Instagram, Macklemore claimed he was dropped from the tour after Robert Kraft — the billionaire owner of the New England Patriots and Gillette Stadium — mounted a pressure campaign against Sheeran.

    This spurred much criticism and backlash from pro-Israel groups. StopAntisemitism accused the rapper of ambushing fans with “anti-Israel propaganda” in an Instagram post, which the pop singer Pink amplified.

    Additionally, the Israeli American Council launched a petition demanding Sheeran remove Macklemore from the rest of the tour, claiming his actions raised questions over “where the line should be drawn when an opening act uses a global concert platform to advance a one-sided political agenda.”

    Elsewhere in his statement on the matter, Macklemore called [Ed] Sheeran a “friend” and acknowledged the singer-songwriter “was in a fucked up position” after the alleged pressure campaign. Macklemore continued: “His typical apolitical stance was being challenged in a way it never had been before. He told me that the words ‘Free Palestine’ and the image of the Palestinian flag were hurtful to a lot of people he spoke with. I told him that if those words were more offensive than tens of thousands of Palestinian children being killed by Israel, then there was a fundamental disconnect between where those people stood and where I stood. But he couldn’t get past his public facing, ‘I don’t take sides.’”

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  • [–] 35 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Don't you love it when a game distribution company controls such a large market share that they can make or break any developer/publisher. Simply for breaching some vague "morality" policy pushed by a bunch of puritans.

    God, I love capitalism. /s

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