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Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters has dubbed Ed Sheeran a “p****” who has “done the wrong thing” amid the ongoing controversy over Macklemore being pulled as a support act from Sheeran’s tour after expressing solidarity with Palestinians on stage.

For anyone who doesn't want to watch the included video: p**** = prick

Edit for formatting

2nd Edit: I have just learned that Waters has very publicly supported Putin in the war on Ukraine saying, that Putin governs carefully and makes decisions based on consensus? So it’s pricks all around in this story.

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[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago

Money? Or Soul?

I'll admit, I've never been put in a position to choose between a shit ton of money or my soul. But I would like to think I'd acknowledge that I'd feel like a fucking trashcan for the rest of my life if I took the money. And factor in that it could kill my career and then there wouldn't be anymore big paydays.

[-] Avicenna@programming.dev 13 points 1 day ago

"A week before the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Waters told an RT interviewer that rumours of Russia launching an invasion were "bullshit" and Russophobic propaganda."

For some reason when people become very successful in one field, they act like experts in everything.

[-] FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Ah, the old Aaron Rodgers "I can throw a ball very well, so I must be a genius" syndrome.

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

For some reason when people become very successful in one field, they act like experts in everything.

I think it's more "very successful in a public-facing high exposure field" rather than generally very succesful in a field.

Human beings tend to look up to those who are famous and, IMHO, because many if not most of famous people end up interiorizing on their side of that equation that, since so many look up to them, their opinion is more important than that of other people.

I'm not sure if they end up believing that they know better than others in fields that have nothing to do with their expertise, if they're just leveraging that human behaviour and their fame to convince people of something they think is important, or even if they're publicly opiniating in controversial subjects purelly to get more media attention because in their domain more public attention turns into more $$$ for them, but ultimatelly from the outside all 3 motivations yield the same behavior from the famous and hence look the same.

[-] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 2 points 21 hours ago

Roger Waters is famously a fucking douche canoe. I wouldn't trust anything that comes out of his mouth. He has an agenda.

[-] MunkyNutts@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

Or an account of, "Takes one to know ones."

[-] Humanius@lemmy.world 145 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Censoring "prick" as "p****" makes it sound a lot worse than it actually is. I can think of other five-letter words starting with P..

[-] tgcoldrockn@lemmy.world 62 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The word is PUSSY right? Like PRICK they can be used on the internet.

[-] Manjushri@piefed.social 28 points 2 days ago

That's what I expected but in the video he actually calls him a prick. I left it censored in the headline just to be true to the original on the source.

[-] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago

I’m not sure if the mods allow it, but journalistically I believe using “… p[rick]” or “… p**** [prick]” would have been a clearer way to include it.

A mod bot might be too dumb to get it though, not sure.

[-] Manjushri@piefed.social 24 points 2 days ago

Yeah, prick isn't what I was expecting it to be either, though I'd accept either of the two obvious options as accurate. 😀

[-] Kirp123@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago

Oh it was prick? I thought it was pussy lol

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[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 96 points 2 days ago

Waters is a fucking prick for siding with Russia over their genocide of Ukraine.

[-] Manjushri@piefed.social 63 points 1 day ago

I hadn't hear this so I looked it up. You aren't kidding.

The veteran Pink Floyd rocker, Roger Waters, has addressed the UN security council at Russia’s invitation, and called for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine. But he was denounced by the Ukrainian ambassador as “just another brick in the wall” of Moscow’s propaganda.

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The Russian delegation’s invitation followed an interview Waters had given to the Berliner Zeitung in which he had been highly complimentary towards Vladimir Putin, who he said, according to a translation on his own website, “governs carefully, making decisions on the grounds of a consensus in the Russian Federation government”.

What the fuck. Putin governs carefully and makes decisions based on consensus? I guess you're right. It's pricks all around.

[-] ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago

But he was denounced by the Ukrainian ambassador as “just another brick in the wall”

Savage.

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[-] BilSabab@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

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.

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[-] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

IMO it makes it better. If this is too wrong for waters then you know Sheeran fucked up bad.

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[-] tabarnaski@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

He might be a prick for a whole lot of reasons, but he's right about Palestine.

even a broken clock is right twice each day..

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[-] spitfire@lemmy.world 55 points 1 day ago

Also: Waters supports Russia, so they’re both *****

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[-] BilSabab@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago

literally "the worst person you know makes a fair point"

[-] stickyprimer@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day ago

I knew it was over for Sheeran when I read his excuses post on social media and he included a paragraph that started with “I am not complicit.”

If you have to come out publicly to argue you’re not complicit you’re probably complicit.

[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 32 points 1 day ago

He’s a Putinist and an anti-vaxer.

[-] davepleasebehave@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago

has been a staunch Palestinian supporter. can't win them all.

Love his music.

Fuck Putin. Free Palestine.

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[-] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 21 points 1 day ago

Waters is a prick, fuck that guy.

[-] Jackcooper@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago
[-] ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago

If I went to school for journalism, and my editor told me I needed to use the word slams in my headlines, I'd start looking into careers in woodworking.

[-] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 5 points 1 day ago

"Hit 'em with a chair! Flying elbow! HE'S GETTING THE LADDER, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN."

[-] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

A complete POS called Sheeran a name and is right. You are really at low point when that asshole Waters calls you out and is right.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 42 points 2 days ago

Roger Waters

Oh boy, this is going to invite some hot takes in the comments.

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[-] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

We have a Roger Waters style far-right politician in Romania. Her name is Diana Sosoaca. She's pro-palestine and a close friend to Russia. Appears on Russian TV regularly. She's terrible and a true anti-semite. She is pro-palestine literally because she is anti-semitic. She's also in legal trouble for promoting fascism.

[-] mirshafie@europe.pub 8 points 1 day ago

Oh, I remember this weirdo. Behaves like someone who's desperate for attention and drama, no matter the cost.

You're not pro-Palestine if you're antisemitic. Palestine has always been multiethnic and multicultural until Zionists started enacting their plans of ethnic cleansing.

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Pot vs kettle here.

Also - Waters is still alive?

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[-] decolo@piefed.social 22 points 2 days ago

I agree. Ed Sheeran is a penis

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