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Rock legend slams Ed Sheeran as US tour crumbles over Macklemore-Palestine controversy
(www.the-independent.com)
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Waters is a fucking prick for siding with Russia over their genocide of Ukraine.
I hadn't hear this so I looked it up. You aren't kidding.
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What the fuck. Putin governs carefully and makes decisions based on consensus? I guess you're right. It's pricks all around.
Savage.
At least he wasn't Amused to Death
the thing with Waters is that he's an oldschool conspiracy nut - so for every reasonable point he makes about 50-100 bullshit points that negate one good point he makes every now and then. He could've said stopped at ceasefire without elaborating and it would've been naive but benign - but he decided to elaborate and it was downhill.
At least he's not making documentaries whitewashing the dictators like Oliver Stone.
Is it lead poisoning or something making these people who should absolutely know better, show their whole arse?
someone tells me waters is being paid as a shill to be the face of his propaganda, much like others: tulsi, seagull,,,etc.
I lean more towards Putin having kompromat on them.
IMO it makes it better. If this is too wrong for waters then you know Sheeran fucked up bad.
He might be a prick for a whole lot of reasons, but he's right about Palestine.