• Noam_Calhoun@lemmy.today
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    5 days ago

    There is not a damn thing complex about murdering children. Maybe Sheeran should take a bit of that $400 million and pay a real human to read and filter his bullshit before embarrassing himself.

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    Don’t forget that Robert Kraft, the dude who made him do all of this, is behind it all.

    • He asked Epstein how to handle his sex charges, and then used Epstein’s recommended lawyer. Source
    • 3 other NFL stadium owners colluded with him to ban Sheeran if he didn’t fire Macklemore. Carolina Panthers owner David Tepper, Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank, and Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie backed Kraft’s stance. Source

    This is not a pass for Sheeran, but a clarification to who are the true bad guys.

    • Souvenir@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      I think that’s unfair. I don’t think it’s interesting enough to suck. It’s background music. At least, I think it is, I’m having trouble remembering any of it.

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        You almost certainly have heard his music. It’s played almost everywhere. Billions of listens.

        A shopping mall, buying groceries, a waiting room, a lift, as hold music when you’re calling your insurance, at an office, …

        You probably didn’t even notice it playing in the background because it was so bland.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    On the one hand, the most pressing civil rights issue of our time.

    On the other, a rich guy paid me a lot of money to STFU about it.

    There’s just too much to think about.

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    Ah yes, the moral dilemma of “Should we murder children”.

    A famous problem among the philosophers of the ages

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      I mean, he wants all the money from pro-genocide people, but he ALSO wants all the money from anti child murder people; you see the dilemma he’s in.

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    The older I get, the more I realize I was right when I was young.

    Many issues really are very simple, and people do all sorts of mental gymnastics to protect their egos.