Post #4886647 · Elektrine

2026-09-21 06:53 UTC

This is about a rich person, trying to play both sides This is about a successful musician, taking no sides, not wanting anything to do with politics, who republicans successfully vilified and now every lefting is at his throat. Why is it so evil to not do politics? He’s not harming anyone. He doesn’t deserve your sympathy Dude grew up in a hardcore white family where he had no proper childhood and was basically forced to keep studying and playing music. People like that are not happy, trust me. RIP Avicii. He cries on stage Or maybe, just maybe, dude is tired of all this shit, wants to just do his job, but ends up being the center of one of the biggest celebrity dramas of 2026

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@bampop@lemmy.world 2026-09-21 07:33

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 position which just means taking whichever political decision is easier and more self serving. Sheeran chose to comply with demands to deplatform one of his supporting acts, to serve 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 in the face of injustice makes us all complicit, and there are times when that inaction is simply unacceptable.

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