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Ed Sheeran's Irish band withdraws from his tour over Ed's caving to Zionists (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 87 points 3 days ago (12 children)

Honestly mad respect for giving up this kind of exposure for doing the right thing.

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  • [–] 66 points 3 days ago* (7 children)

    This further highlights just how spineless Sheeran himself is. He already has the cash to retire into a lavish lifestyle, and the exposure to rake in more if he wants to. Losing the tour would not mean nearly as much to him financially or socially. Heck, if he really wanted to he could probably strong-arm the venues to host him (I do believe it was a bit of a bluff from Kraft's side). This band had none of those and yet decided to do the right thing at the expense of so much money and possibilities. Kudos to them.

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  • [–] 31 points 3 days ago (5 children)

    Sheeran also cited wanting the workers on his tour to get paid - but he's rich as fuck and could just pay them to not work. Shithead.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 days ago (3 children)

    AFAIK it was only NFL stadiums that threatened to cancel. So move to NBA arenas, soccer stadiums, baseball stadiums, hockey arenas, any number of other venues. Workers get paid, supporting acts get paid, Ed even gets paid, everyone wins.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    That's basically impossible. He's doing football stadiums because they're the only venues in the US that can hold the 70,000+ attendees he gets per show.

    The tickets are sold specifically for the venue, so they'd have to either refund everyone and have them repurchase tickets or try to assign seats based on the old venue and refund whoever didn't fit.

    Then there's scheduling and logistics. The show in question is next week. There's absolutely no chance they could just call up another stadium and book it. Venues book acts like a year in advance.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    I'm just discussing his claim of the workers getting paid, not attendance. If he plays a smaller venue, the workers still get paid.

    Sure next week would be to soon, take a month+ to figure out lagistics and continue the tour after that. Would it be really hard to figure out, yeah. Is there a perfect solution, definitely not. Is it possible, of course it is.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 days ago*

    I wouldn't call him a shithead. He's just a spineless rich liberal who will speak about "workers" and "dialogue" and "peace" but actually does whatever makes him the most money in the moment, all else be damned. Contradictions of liberalism personified.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    Yep.

    I have never heard of them before today.
    However, I now know who they are and what they stand for so I'm very interested in hearing their music.

    So, in a way, this "ED Sheeran supports a genocide and Zionist billionaire by not supporting fellow artists" debacle has given them more exposure.

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