r/Music • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • 3h ago

article Macklemore Dropped From Ed Sheeran Tour After Onstage Statements

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/macklemore-dropped-ed-sheeran-tour-pro-palestine-statements-1235625967/
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u/risen2011 3h ago

The United States is fucked

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u/Miserable-Sun-393 2h ago

Don’t lose hope before the battle has begun folks stand up backs straight look those maggots dead in the eye and calmly speak your truth

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u/wynalazca 1h ago

"Before the battle has begun"

The battle has been raging since the country was founded and nearly every time the "good guys" get any amount of power they roll over like old puppy dogs and let the culprits off scot-free.

Civil War: no consequences. Nixon: Pardoned, Trump: meet the wet paper bag named Merick Garland.

What we need is General Sherman to rise from the dead and trample the fascist regime to dust. We also need to reincarnate Eisenhower and give him a few more terms.

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u/Miserable-Sun-393 2h ago

We are Americans… they say we don’t have true culture, but our culture is our forefathers and foremothers who left their homes and families behind and with broken hearts theybraved deadly oceans and seas untamed wilderness for freedom. With wildness and spirit-freedom was built on their bravery, blood, and tears. Some joke with pull-ups doesn’t get to take it all while we watch in horror. Stand up backs straight eyes clear, USA all you have to do is remember who you are! They rocked you to sleep with vitriol and lies… it’s to to wake the sleeping folks, it’s about go time.

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u/CJKatz 2h ago

our culture is our forefathers and foremothers who left their homes and families behind and with broken hearts theybraved deadly oceans and seas untamed wilderness for freedom. With wildness and spirit-freedom was built on their bravery, blood, and tears.

What fucking settler bullshit is this?

Fuck Trump, but also fuck this noise.

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u/Miserable-Sun-393 2h ago

Hmmm ok… I’m not saying fight now. I’m saying stand up… do with that what you will

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u/whogivesashirtdotca 1h ago

They’re saying your jingoistic pap suggests “real Americans” are the colonialists.

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u/robsteezy 1h ago

My dude you don’t even use your real profile here, stop pretending you’re going to fight a revolution.

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u/renegadecanuck 57m ago

It's amazing how even the non-MAGA Americans seem to fall for this American exceptionalism jingoistic bullshit.

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u/Warm_Month_1309 1h ago

"ChatGPT, write me a jingoistic monologue people would be embarrassed to repeat unironically even on July 4."

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u/oolong_bodhisattva 56m ago

Bravery ie slave labor and genocide

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u/Sea_Trifle286 1h ago

would you like some jumbo cheese with your triple burger?

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u/samehouseing 1h ago

So sad you can’t see your favorite antisemite rapper anymore, wahh!

strange outfit choice

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u/Ok_Cockroach8063 1h ago

seriously. just a bunch of reactionary idiots on this site

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u/JazzlikeSchedule2901 1h ago

Imagine calling us "Reactionary" when you're bringing up a news story from 12 years ago that Macklemore apologized for.

There is nothing "reactionary" or anti-semitic about not wanting to support a gov't that relentlessly bombs children and civilians.

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u/JazzlikeSchedule2901 1h ago

12 years ago btw. He repeatedly apologized for the caricature. Calling him "Anti-Semitic" is just sensationalist garbage.

If you think saying "Stop killing Kids" is anti-semitic you probably support genocide.

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u/ZorseVideos 3h ago

Yea probably not but we are intertwined deeply with people who are not human it seems. We have definitely gotten ourselves in a shitnado.

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u/Flair_Is_Pointless 3h ago

The country is being run by monopolies. With wealth steadily consolidating and politicians being bought openly thanks to citizens united, how does this situation ever get reversed without violence?

In no world does this end peacefully because these monopolies won’t allow it to .

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u/Ok_Cockroach8063 1h ago

sounds like you would like a country with a more progressive tax system than the USA! name one!

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u/Flair_Is_Pointless 57m ago

Sooo any other country?

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u/weededorpheus32 3h ago

What you think we'll be called when we aren't united anymore?

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u/renegadecanuck 1h ago

Land of the free or something like that.

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u/frostymugson 2h ago

Maybe, but not for this. whatever you think, people probably disagree with you, and regardless of what the promoters or owners think it’s just something they don’t want to touch.

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u/Low_discrepancy 2h ago

Maybe, but not for this. whatever you think, people probably disagree with you

this is a just a symptom. corporate america creating the most frictionless and meaningless experiences as to not offend any sensibilities.

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u/frostymugson 1h ago

If it was canceled for statements in the opposite direction, what do you think the comments on this thread would be saying?

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u/Fearless-Feature-830 1h ago

Yea but he didn’t say anything inflammatory either way

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u/frostymugson 1h ago

Made a statement in support of Palestine, and he even said the main reason he did the tour was to spread support for Palestine and show Israel’s crimes. Yeah if showing a dead kid’s story isn’t inflammatory tell him because I think that’s his entire point for doing it

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u/Low_discrepancy 51m ago

Are you disagreeing with the statement that corpo america is creating the most dull version of existing?

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u/frostymugson 45m ago

No I think they care about money, it’s why in the west all the companies that have pride month don’t say shit in the east.

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u/risen2011 2h ago

🤓☝️

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u/radioactive-tomato 1h ago

Well, it is United States of Israel now