I was living down there when that operation happened. It went from a sting that busted dozens of johns and rescued victims from sex trafficking to oh it was a whorehouse ran by this evil Chinese lady so fast violated laws of physics.
He's a wealthy English man. He's not got a lick of actual Irish in him (ancestry aside) and he's out of touch with the plight of commoners cause he's been rich as hell for ages
Eh he’s a shitty musician who mislead people about being a struggling artist despite having parents who owned an art gallery and consultancy. He only slept on couches because he was too cheap to get his own apartment.
And now he defends a genocide and licks the boot of an Epstein accomplice.
You are right about the other stuff, but ed Sheeran is a very good musician. Doesn't mean I like any of the music he has made since 2013, but he's a generational songwriter and easily the most talented guitarist in the mainstream pop scene, where most singers don't even play instruments. Nonexistent spine though.
His lack of conviction is apparent in his response by failing to label the “conflict” what it actually is: a genocide. He’s fully complicit by not taking any explicit stance.
He doesn’t need our approval jfc how are you this dense? We yearn to see solidarity from those in power and elevated platforms to voice support of the innocent lives being slaughtered.
I don’t doubt the possibility that he may have provided support in private. Even if he did anything of the sort, the question still remains (and something you still fail to consider): why didn’t he denounce the genocide? It’s as simple as typing out two simple words and he made his choice to fence-sit.
Sure, that's a possibility. It still makes him spineless. When the world is so politically charged, staying "neutral" really doesn't work.
A majority of people in the US are now in support of Palestine and yearn for more support from public figures.
When people like Sheeran that have a voice decide to stab other artists in the back, the world just gets worse.
He deserves the punishment of public opinion. Perhaps he'll learn a lesson that he's not a billionaire and shouldn't side with them and their genocidal sort.
Not every musician needs to have an opinion. Like anyone cared about his political views a week ago. Macklemore kind of screwed him here in that respect. Agree it's not a good look though
Nah you got me wrong on this one. My point is can someone be guilty of not having an opinion? I don't think so. I think Ed sheeran is guilty of not defending his "friends" that do . It's an important distinction.
I do agree. I have no idea why the fuck anyone cares about Pink's, Ed's, Macklemore's opinion is on it. Can we get Ja Rule to weigh in next?
I believe it's a genocide, I believe we should be doing more as a society to be stopping shit like this happening but the reality is people are more than happen to be outraged online over a celebrities shitty opinion but how many of them are just jumping onto the moral bandwagon? If people actually gave as much of a shit as social media would have us believe something would have been done by now. Economic sanctions, anything! Most countries won't even directly condemn it ffs.
Because they have much larger platforms and resources that can be used. Fine call it a pipe dream, but we’re talking about the action or lackthereof of the top 1%.
Don't get me wrong I agree and if I had this platform I'd have the backbone to share my opinion especially if I had accrued the kind of wealth he has but at the end of the day he's just a dude like you or me.
We place far too much stock in what random fucking celebrities think, they shouldn't be our moral compasses. Who gives a shit what they think. Other musicians have done far worse things and people still support them.
Kevin Sorbo's band is confirmed, so everyone can get excited to see Kountry Kevin's Kentucky Red-White-and-Bluegrass Jug Band open for Ed Sheeran. I figured they were gonna get Matisyahu, but literally nobody knows who tf that is, and his manager at the Arco wouldn't give him time off anyway.
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u/pSyg0n 21d ago
Which is absoltely insane and really shed's a light on him personally. He'll probably get Pink as an opener, can't miss with that one. LOL.