Own goal of the century:

[haaflife@ohai.social]

@rasmus91 @randahl @paulk is it? "I was wrong, fuck Israel" is a pretty simple thing to say. The guy is a multi millionaire, it's not like whatever happens afterwards is gonna seriously hurt him

[joosteto@mamot.fr]

@grumble209 @randahl
Surely all the other bands need to do to relieved from their contracts is one mention of 'Gaza Genocide'? They'll be booted from the tour just like Macklemore.

[randahl@mastodon.social]

@benroyce thanks for the info. I read her whole Instagram multipost, and I think she makes an unfortunate conclusion when she does not recognize that you can be confronting the Israeli government without being against the Jews.

She is millimeters from accusing Macklemore of antisemitism just because he criticises genocide. In my view, it is HER connecting Jews in general with the acts of Israel — not him — and that is really unfortunate.

[dukeduke@mastodon.social]

@benroyce @randahl @FrancoisPrague I don't know anything about Ed Sheeran that I haven't learned this week. He can just go fuck himself. Pink, on the other hand, is someone I've known and respected for years. Her involvement in, and statements about this, really disappoint me.

[aral@mastodon.ar.al]

@randahl @benroyce > unfortunate

Not to mention, antisemitic (all Jews are not complicit in genocide and saying so, as Israel does and as Pink, and other Zionists do, is antisemitic.)

[the_wub@mastodon.social]

@nomenloony @randahl Yes, I too have studiously boycotted him from Day 1.

Except when his music is playing on a radio that I have no control over in a space I have to be in.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@randahl

the sickest thing:

when israel defenders call criticizing israel attacking jews

and antisemitic bigots say the problem of what israel is doing is jews

they're both misdirecting the same way. away from israel and towards jews

[manwhotalkstohishand@mastodon.social]

@HollieK72 @jannem @grumble209 @randahl I'm just replying after reading your reply to the person that replied to the person who wrote this and then replied and yeah. Whew!

[holliek72@mastodonapp.uk]

@ManWhoTalksToHisHand @jannem @grumble209 @randahl Lol, and this is without putting the broken replies bit in!

[manwhotalkstohishand@mastodon.social]

@_elena @randahl @paulk Aaron Rowe had the best one, and I've never heard his music before. That's gonna change.

[thatfeministwoman@mastodon.social]

@randahl I didn't know they could do that. There's not a contract?

[uair@autistics.life]

@benroyce @lordkhan @randahl @FrancoisPrague

They're /creating/ antisemitism where before there wasn't any. Not everybody out there in meatspace is as sophisticated a thinker as Mastodonians.

Before: "we're nice to Jews 'cuz of the Holocaust." Now: "Jews did their own holocaust. Fuck 'em."

[thatfeministwoman@mastodon.social]

@HollieK72 @grumble209 @jannem @randahl people who are desperate for money so they can eat and pay the roof over their heads

[verymetalsite@mastodon.social]

@Uair @benroyce @lordkhan @randahl @FrancoisPrague

Kudos for "meatspace".

[manwhotalkstohishand@mastodon.social]

@androcat @benroyce @lordkhan @randahl @FrancoisPrague when people say that Israel has a right to exist, what they're actually saying and maybe not realizing is that Israel only exists as an Apartheid state, and could not exist without it. Supporting Israel means supporting this genocide and that's how we need to call that out. Not that they support Israel, or the Jewish faith and ethnicity, but genocide and only genocide.

[manwhotalkstohishand@mastodon.social]

@HollieK72 @jannem @grumble209 @randahl

[uair@autistics.life]

@verymetalsite @benroyce @lordkhan @randahl @FrancoisPrague

Credit Neil Stephensen. It's from "Snow Crash", which I never finished. It's his alternative to "The Metaverse".

[thatfeministwoman@mastodon.social]

@ManWhoTalksToHisHand @androcat @benroyce @lordkhan @randahl @FrancoisPrague why can't we support both Israel state and Palestine state? They both should have that and be in peace.

[the_wub@mastodon.social]

@randahl A classic example of the "Streisand effect".

Mackelmore has put Gaza, and the genocide that is taking place there back in the public eye.

If he had been ignored then only those attending the concerts would have heard his point of view.

Now the whole world has been reminded of the government of Israel's attempts to eradicated the Palestinian people.

#sheeran #streisandeffect

[androcat@toot.cat]

@Thatfeministwoman

Because it was built on the land of other peoples?

And because Israel has made it clear that they cannot coexist with anyone.

What part of that is hard to understand?

@ManWhoTalksToHisHand @benroyce @lordkhan @randahl @FrancoisPrague