But if you now pull out of your own tour you'll be seen as you didn't want to pull out but were forced to by all the bad publicity about the genocide that you weren't bothered about in the first place.

Oh, Ed, you've painted yourself into a corner, you dumb fucking cunt. All you had to do was have a little bit of spine, but that was just too much to ask of you.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 30 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Right? As soon as they threatened it he had all the leverage in the world. He would have all the positive press of saying he was being forced to cancel because of them, and showed solidarity with his fellow musicians. Could have even offered additional concerts in friendlier areas, promoting other cities and getting more dollars there.

Instead he fucked himself. The only way to semi crawl back is to admit his mistake and stand in solidarity, that's the only move I see, and even then as you said he won't look strong but like a coward.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 8 points 2 weeks ago

he remained silent, as to not upset KRAFT who is giving him all these gigs, and not to enitrely upset his fan base. hes gauging how to approach this without losing his sugar daddy privileges.

[–] kestrel7_7@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago

Meanwhile, Macklemore is coming out of this looking better than ever 😂

[–] in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 weeks ago

"Clean centrists" almost always means "fascist"