• Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk
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    5 hours ago

    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 poor rich 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?”

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      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