I’ll settle for one of those. No less. Do we have a deal Satan?

Sounds like a good idea but unless you have four dimensional pockets it’ll keep falling on the floor and good luck finding it when it’s lost in another dimension

This timeline is fucked, may as well use our resources to create better ones

You need something you can walk to, like Another One Bites The Dust, Stayin’ Alive, anything by ZZ Top, that sort of thing

Once they’ve figured out there’s soft meat on offer, I doubt they’d stop at one eye

If you rode there on a snail, nobody can be mad at you for being late. It’s really the only possible outcome. Plus being naked shows that you left the house with all possible haste.

Pedolf Shitler seems to be a popular choice too. Encapsulates a lot of information. You have to bear in mind that all international references to Trump would use that as the official title. Can we do better?

I think it’s time the rest of the world got together and officially renamed Trump

Are you kidding? Compare an LLM’s ability to generate a paragraph of bullshit with Trump’s ability to do the same. At least the LLM version is going to be coherent

Wow, I had to scroll down a bit to get here. Seems like a lot of people are still thinking it’s all happening by accident.

The increase of absurd wealth inequality is making people angry, scared and desperate. The far right channels those feelings in ways that will hurt everyone except the people causing the problem. It’s a well funded and coordinated effort to keep the poor fighting the poor, giving the rich freedom to loot our public institutions, while expanding the mechanisms of surveillance and oppression.

It’s true that he was in a corner and there was no easy way out, and I’m sure Macklemore never wanted to put him in that position. He still made the wrong choice though.

He could have dug his heels in and defied Kraft, maybe cancel the tour, whatever it takes. If it cost him 70 million, he can afford that, but given the unreasonable basis of Kraft’s demands, I expect there’s a legal case to be fought there. He would have had a lot of support, and it would have been a public disgrace for Kraft. Sometimes you just need to grow a spine and do what’s right. Money isn’t everything.

I do feel some sympathy for Ed Sheeran. He just wanted to do his thing and not be in the political spotlight. And when it comes to punishing people for complying with injustice, let he who is without sin cast the first stone. But I am glad of the conversation it has sparked. When the time comes to not comply, we need to recognize that moment, and we also need to recognize what it means to say “I don’t do politics”.

Why is it so evil to not do politics? He’s not harming anyone.

It’s impossible to “not do politics”, that’s a bullshit excuse for taking whichever political position is easier and more self serving, or requires less thought. Sheeran chose to comply with demands to deplatform one of his supporting acts, to silence dissent against zionist interests. There was no apolitical decision to be made. A choice not to act is still a choice. He had to pick a side and he picked the genocidal one.

Don’t get me wrong, I think what he did was dumb and selfish rather than deliberately evil, and I can sympathize with that to a degree. He just wanted to maintain a comfortable status quo. But we should recognize that inaction and compliance in the face of injustice makes us all complicit, and there are times when the degree of complicity is simply unacceptable.