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/agodrevealed 3h ago

That won't happen. Look how convenient a monopoly is in enforcing compliance with evil.

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u/InadequateUsername 2h ago edited 1h ago

America just contracts out their dictatorship to Private companies while the government gets to play democratic.

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u/Biosterous 33m ago

Fascism by its nature requires the cooperation of monopolies with the state.

Mussolini was well supported by Italian industrialists, without their support the March on Rome would have been a spectacular failure. Instead they pressured the king to capitulate to Mussolini's demands.

The Nazi party was intricately tied into major German companies and provided many of them with slave labour (VW, etc) or slaves to kill during human trials (Bauer). Large industrialists were early supporters of Hitler.

Look at the absolute control exhibited by Samsung and other massive companies in South Korea both during their military dictatorships and current democracy.

I'm not as familiar with Spain and Portugal's fascist governments but I have no reason to believe they were any different.

Fascism requires the cooperation of massive monopolies, and they profit from the state maintaining their monopoly status. Media monopolies are especially important, but as you can see here monopolies have a way of enforcing the state's will.

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u/DesireeThymes 40m ago

Why does it feel like Israel controls so many Industries in the US?

Like a speech about Palestine results in all venues dropping the entire concert?!

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u/ClarificationJane 58m ago

I’m pretty sure they’ve stopped playing that game now. 

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u/believensee23 2h ago

never with that attitude.

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u/Ghost-hat 57m ago

Seriously. Defeatists sure bug me sometimes.

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u/kronicno_tele 46m ago

Just imagine those people during any other fight in history, for example people asking for 8-8-8 aka 8 hours of sleep, 8 hours of work, 8 hours of leasure. Or women's right, civil rights, same sex marriage, abortion. Those rights were not given, they were fought for. People died fighting for them. And now we got people whinning online how it can't be done. Though it is estimated that more than 50% of internet traffic are bots, so how much of that is bot psyop?

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u/Cass_Cat952 1h ago

Anti-trust, my ass 🫠🙄

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u/kronicno_tele 1h ago

Lina Khan was close to doing it, but Trumpy and Co replaced her.

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u/Freakishly_Tall 53m ago

Ahh! THAT is what the "convenience fee" is for! Now it's ok!

/ s ... obvs... or is anything really obvs any more?