cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/78116081

By mid-September, we received available dates at these arenas through the end of the year. But once they found out these were my benefit shows for Palestine, those dates were suddenly off the table.

The doors were closed. The conversations were all different, but the result was the same. The shows were not going to be allowed to happen in these venues.

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    He might be able to sneak a show in the liberal bastion that is Texas…or Mississippi, or Kansas, or South Carolina…weird timeline

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    But after weeks of reaching out, nine major American arenas have turned us down.

    Madison Square Garden. Prudential Center. Barclays Center. UBS Arena. Intuit Dome. Kia Forum. Crypto(dot)com Arena. Chase Center. Climate Pledge Arena.

    No US arena tour…

    Because all our biggest venues are privately owned by billionaires even though residents pay for them via taxes and get insanely overcharged just by walking near one.

    The real problem here is that, cities/states need to just say fuck it and take them.

    Immanent Domain, calculate the offered price as value minus what to government and taxpayers already paid for it.

    Then the already existing laws would prevent this bullshit.

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    As a bonus, they wouldn’t be named bullshit like “crypto(dot)com Arena”…

    It’s fucked up I didn’t even register how dystopian that is when I quoted it, it’s just so normalized these days.

    None of this uber capitalist bullshit has to happen, we can just tell em to fuck off and take our resources back.

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      Put up a bunch of stops in Canada with a ton of Canadian artists and I’ll show up. I’m still boycotting the US, but I’ll gladly make a minor exception for him and for Palestine if its otherwise a non-American lineup.

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    I’m told suggesting that zionism has any power in the US is antisemitic and a trope. But then stuff like this pops up.

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      Zionism is itself antisemitic. Israel is a settler-colonial project that is built on genocide, and Zionists’ claim that Israel is by and for all Jews implies that all Jews are genocidal like them.

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    the US and UK are compromised and captured by Epstein Class/Israel. Thats the thanks they got for helping save the Zionists in WW2. They average person has been sold out by their own unchristian ‘police’.

    Half of London is owned by Russian Oligarchs

    WW3 is Workers vs Billionaires and the billionaires hide behind propagandized mainstream media as well as fictional religion.

    What better way to attack your opponent if they don’t even notice the attacks?

    Goethe was right: ‘None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.’

    They just upgraded the panopticon prison with flock cameras while we were at the rave/watching football/raising families…

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        im agnostic so i know I am correct in that humans are incapable of grasping reality, ergo any attempts are fictional. i cannot be wrong on this.

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    He can play in my garage. I ain’t got a sound system. Or really anything, but if the big venues won’t put him up. Might as well do smaller more intimate locations.

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      Something down to earth like that is honestly what we need more these days.

      Let men be men. Let us not make differences but fair commonality.

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        Right. His message is great, but I can’t stand the arenas only touring bands/artists do these days.

        You can do an American tour. You’ll just have to play places that hold fewer than 20-60k people.

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    “From the beginning, our plan was to bring this tour home to the U.S.

    But after weeks of reaching out, nine major American arenas have turned us down.

    Madison Square Garden. Prudential Center. Barclays Center. UBS Arena. Intuit Dome. Kia Forum. Crypto.com Arena. Chase Center. Climate Pledge Arena. Here’s what happened…

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      you can thank the pedophile friend of Epstein/ also a zionist no surprise, robert kraft who blacklisted him from the industry/ stadiums in the US.

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    I think I missed something. He’s doing a new Palestine support tour?

    Is this a nice thing for a celebrity to do or is there something shitty going on?

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      Ed Sheeran dropped him as an opening act a few months(?) ago at the arena’s behest for Macklemore’s outward comments on the genocide

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        pressured by Robert kraft the stadium owner, who then went ahead told other owners to block him from attending thier stadiums. Shareen trying to not bite the hand of his sugar daddy(he peformed for kraft’s wedding), Hes totally complicit.

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    Dude was always a musical joke and never actually relevant but ok. Slay queen. Show Palestine what’s up.

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      Yeh, its ironic when artists get popular for getting involved in political movements that politicians refuse to get involved in. If ever there was need for more evidence that they do not represent their constituents, this is another piece.

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      He’s always been advocate for progressive rights since day one. It’s also why he’s always been an independent artist, so those in power don’t have control on what he says and does.

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        I unironically listen to Rage?

        I think it’s just that right wingers were always confused about what the machine was

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          lol the washing machine

          (oh not you, the troll saying he should stay out of politics)