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Taylor Swift fans ‘sickened’ after ICE contractor attends wedding (metro.co.uk)

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Fans of Taylor Swift have been shocked after it emerged that a contractor for the controversial Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) was in attendance at her wedding.

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It appears that Steven J. Demetriou, the Executive Chair of a company called Amentum Services was also among the crowd gathered to see the happy couple say ‘I do.’

Amentum Services is currently the sole contractor for ICE’s Camp East Montana, a detention centre in El Paso.

The artist has faced swift backlash for her choice of guests, including online commenters who have shared their dismay on social media.

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[-] village604@adultswim.fan 2 points 22 hours ago

Honestly, the majority of famous musicians aren't that good of people. Shit, even Mozart and Beethoven were dicks.

Some separation of the music and the artists is needed.

[-] octopette@lemmy.today 10 points 18 hours ago

Beethoven might have been unpleasant, but he wasn't a bad person. On the contrary, he was a hell of a leftist, he hated the billionaires of his time and supported liberty and civil rights, which back then put you at the extreme left of the political scenario. I know you just pulled two names for the sake of your argument, just please keep my boy Beethoven out of your Taylor Swift apology.

[-] stoly@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

To add to this: Mozart was a dick and was probably poisoned because he pissed off the wrong person. Dead at 35.

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

Fun fact: Mozart invented a system that used dice to randomly generate music. My unprovable pet theory is that he kept improving this system but stopped telling people about it and used it to compose all of his greatest hits.