From Hozier and Kneecap in Dublin to Greta Thunberg and Arab Barghouti in London, the tour drew high-profile support for Palestinian rights and humanitarian relief
  • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    We shouldn’t downplay the suffering of any genocide relative to proportionality and much respect to Macklemore for remaining vocal about this, but I just want to bring proportional attention to another atrocity:

    Trump, Musk, and all enabling Republicans are responsible for at least 600,000 deaths in just 1 year’s time by the gutting of USAID known to have massive repercussions globally, and dwarfing the civilian death toll in Gaza and Ukraine, combined.

    This matters because I still see a lot of people espousing false equivalence both sides bullshit on the eve of the US midterm elections. These deaths simply would not have occurred under a Kamala Harris presidency. Food for thought.

        • Rat_in_a_hat@lemmy.caEnglish
          10·
          4 days ago

          Don’t mind space cowboy, he’s a progressive in most things except Palestine. Probably a liberal Zionist because he’s pretty negative towards the plight of Palestinians

        • boonhet@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          2·
          3 days ago

          Pretty much just avoiding his stadiums and sports teams. You don’t have much control over avoiding his B2B stuff as a consumer. His companies do make a bunch of packaging material, mostly wood-based (paper, cardboard)

        • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.caEnglish
          341·
          4 days ago

          Boycott.

          But you don’t even want to change which brand of Mac & Cheese you buy, it would inconvenience you too much. The point of your movement is to do performative to gain social media clout, not to do anything that would inconvenience yourselves in any way.

          And yes Kraft is big, maybe boycotting them won’t have much of an effect. But bullying someone smaller like a B-list musical artist also won’t have a big effect in terms of society, but it will have a big effect on that particular musical artist.

          This whole thing proves that you’re movement is weak, you know you’re weak, and you engage in bullying solely to try to convince yourselves that you are strong. You’re too weak to try to take on someone big like Robert Kraft (the real source of this particular controversy), so you don’t even try.

          You’re Karens shouting at the cashier instead of just taking your business elsewhere. The point is to make a scene and bully people, not to do anything real (that’s too much effort!) that will actually make any kind of a difference.

          • whalesnrainbows@lemmy.worldEnglish
            30·
            4 days ago

            Boycott.

            Which business off of which Robert Kraft actually makes money would you recommend the average person boycott?

            But you

            You know nothing about me

            don’t even want to change which brand of Mac & Cheese you buy

            Robert Kraft has nothing to do with Kraft Mac & Cheese, which I don’t buy either.

            Your entire comment hinges off assumptions that you are making about a complete stranger, and off of the assumption that Robert Kraft has anything to do with Kraft Heinz.

            You are judging strangers based on your own misinformed perspective. But do go on, by all means.

          • boonhet@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            2·
            3 days ago

            Kraft’s businesses mostly make cardboard, paper and wood products, largely packaging material and such. What does Mac & Cheese, a home-cooked meal, have to do with it?

            • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
              2·
              3 days ago

              They’re assuming since his last name is Kraft he must be involved in Kraft foods.

      • PattyMcB@lemmy.worldEnglish
        19·
        4 days ago

        I’m just glad getting shit on and removed from the tour for bullshit didn’t negatively affect Macklemore at all. In fact it probably had a net positive effect.

        Fuck both Kraft and Ed for being shit people. I’d be willing to bet you’re oddly insulting “Y’all” because you’re a Sheeran fan (ugh), or a zionist (dude, wtf?), or both (just go back under your rock)

  • FenrirIII@lemmy.worldEnglish
    42·
    4 days ago

    I don’t know any of his songs, so I’m surprised he’s so popular. But it’s terrific that he’s using that popularity for a good cause

    • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      You’re right, he does. And I don’t mean to take anything away from his music or message, but he looks absolutely ridiculous.

            • ms.lane@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              3 days ago

              I want to go back to when the only thing I knew about Jacksonville was it the home of WJAX which was a really good Beautiful Music station circa 20 years ago - it’s now WKTZ a ‘Christian Family Radio’ station (hate speech and anti-lgbt under the guise of ‘family programming’ I assume)

              Everything else I’ve ever heard about that place - jfc.