“Complete Pr**k”: Roger Waters DESTROYS Bono Over Israel - YouTube
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“Complete Pr**k”: Roger Waters DESTROYS Bono Over Israel - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMCuSHGecyA
#Palestine #Gaza #Israel
#BDS #RogerWaters
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Out of all the billionaires, people want to pick on the one who got there actually by her own merit instead of by taking advantage
Her parents were bankers who moved to Nashville and literally bankrolled her career.
She was always part of the 1%. Her music is vacuous and empty.
She certainly didn’t achieve anything on her own merits
@Tangentism @PhilipTheBucket
To add, her silence on #Palestine - to me- is a case of wanting to make sales to everyone. Taking a stand either way implies a loss of revenue. To many, money is all that matters.
https://lemmy.ml/search?q=palestine&type=All&listingType=All&creatorId=8169&page=1&sort=New&titleOnly=false
Why has Nutomic SAID NOTHING ABOUT PALESTINE FOR THE PAST 4 YEARS, or the Gaza flotilla, or the genocide by starvation that is HAPPENING RIGHT NOW, and look he doesn’t even know the difference between the “Gaza flag” and the Palestinian flag
https://lemmy.ml/search?q=lemmy&type=Comments&listingType=All&creatorId=8169&page=1&sort=New&titleOnly=false
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MONEYLEMMY ALL THAT MATTERS TO HIMThis is why I think this whole line of argument about Taylor Swift is especially stupid. People can say what they want to say, or not. I’m not in charge of badgering Nutomic to take any particular “stand” on any particular issue, or weigh in on any particular genocide. It doesn’t make him a bad person if he doesn’t. He can say what he wants about Palestine, or trans issues, or really, anything. Same for Taylor Swift.
I do kind of agree with giving people grief about particular brain-dead or evil takes (Nick Cave’s fell into that category to me.) But most of this stuff just seems like a way to try to harass any public figure into supporting exactly what someone has decided they “should” support, and I don’t think they should be obligated to do that.
@PhilipTheBucket No idea why - nor what that has to do with Taylor Swift.
My point is that you can also pick out people who are highly regarded who haven’t said anything about some particular issue, without it being any type of bad thing about them. People are just allowed to say or not say what they want. I just wanted to bring up a different particular example about it to show the principle.
@PhilipTheBucket Ah.
Sure, they can say or not, as they please. And one is free to speculate as to why.
Yeah. All good.
I don’t think she has enough of a personality to take a stand and if she did, it would be incredibly generic.
@Tangentism Certainly possible. I know little about her, to be honest
I don’t see Taylor Swift as any different from any other billionaire. It is not possible to accrue that much wealth on your own merit. She didn’t get there through album sales, she got there through hoarding real estate and becoming a landlord, and investing heavily in the corporations that have ruined our lives.
She literally sang songs, people liked them, and each of those people individually decided to pay money for the songs, and some of it went to her. She has this large wealth because she directly created what was going to create the enjoyment on the behalf of that large a number of people. Almost every other billionaire is there because they were able to set up an empire where someone else’s hard work and talent went into their pocket instead, but hers is different.
I get it if you want to say that the system should change so that everyone involved in the physical intermediate steps of the process should also get a thriving wage, even if she gets less, and yes that is definitely accurate. But saying “she’s a bad person” as a result and in particular that you don’t see her as “any different” from Elon Musk or Larry Ellison is just living in a big virtue-signaling fantasy world.
Reading isn’t your strong-suit is it?
https://www.investopedia.com/taylor-swifts-path-to-a-billion-dollar-empire-key-moves-that-built-her-wealth-11798194
She made about $1.6 billion mostly from ticket sales, and then spent $150 million of it on real estate. Where are you getting this idea that she made her money in real estate or investment?