Post by @artemis@dice.camp

It is amazing how Ed Sheeran fucked himself by caving to Bob Kraft.

I don't feel it should be surprising to him which side of "Free Palestine" his *Irish* backing band was going to land on.

But then again, I don't think entertainers at Sheeran's level are connected to the reality of general public feeling. He's too far removed. He deals with the Bob Krafts of the world more than with his own audiences. He lives in a different world where he never hears "Free Palestine" from fucking anyone

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@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online 12 hr. ago

@artemis

You definitely are on to something there. A big source of money for guys like Shereen is playing for these billionaire's birthday, graduation and bar mitvah parties 🥳

Artemis

@artemis@dice.camp 13 hr. ago

I'm starting to understand how popular entertainers—entertainers with industry support—function to serve the oligarch class.

They are surrounded by the money people. They live in an artificial world with those people. They don't live in the same reality as us, and they do what it takes to keep the money coming in. They shut up when they are supposed to & don't think or act like independent people.

Artemis

@artemis@dice.camp 13 hr. ago

Not ALL of them. You'll have Mark Ruffalo at the Oscars going "what the fuck? The government is kidnapping people off the streets, & no one has anything to say about that?"

So sometimes some people go off script. That was definitely off script.

But for most people, complicity is necessary for their career, & they get to live in a sheltered environment where they don't face consequences for that complicity, so it works out for them. Mostly.

Artemis

@artemis@dice.camp 13 hr. ago

Big movie stars, pop stars & the like don't live in the same world as us.

They really don't. At least not without significant effort on their part.

Oligarchs want their glitz & glamor to spice up their parties & they want the biggest voices in our culture to either speak for them or at very least go silent on anything that matters.

This has always been the case, but with the deepening class divide, this becomes much more glaringly obvious. I doubt Sheeran fully understood what he was doing.

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@Federation_Bot 13 hr. ago

Conclusion: Ed Sheeran is a class traitor so fuck him very much.

Like, we see who you obey, Ed. See how much those rich fucks will still like you if you lose audiences & don't generate as much profit, though...