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Israel doing well in Eurovision is a completely predictable result of the boycott. The people who are watching & voting in Eurovision are now at best willfully ignorant and apathetic and at worst actively pro-Israel, meaning there will be a disproportionate amount of people willing to vote for Israel and even people voting for them because of the boycott.

But saying that means that boycotting Eurovision was the wrong call completely misses the point of the boycott. The point is not "Israel should not win Eurovision", it is "Israel should not be allowed to compete in the first place". The point of the boycott is not to give the EBU views or money, so if you've been boycotting... don't give them money or legitimacy by voting for someone tomorrow to prevent Israel from winning. If Israel does win, that does not mean boycotting failed; it only further delegitimizes the competition and confirms we should burn the whole thing down.

hey reminder to continue boycotting eurovision and instead turn your eyes on gaza where the last media outlet al jazeera has just been shut down so that Israel can launch its attack on the most densely populated area in the world without scrutiny. Dont stop talking about Palestine

im seeing people on the tags like "fuck the kendrick lamar drake drama talk about palestine" like.

I've not seen ppl as mad about people blogging about other fandoms or hell, TADC (no hate! just wrong place at wrong time) which was trending here on tumblr at the same time as kendrick.

why are you specifically singling out people talking about a real life black man who constantly incorporates discussions of political issues, discrimination, and history of racism into his art.

this whole drama is about drake, who profits and the image of being black while being severely disconnected from the culture and history. (this didnt feel like a good explanation, many others in the tag have talked about it please check that out)

like think to yourself why are you mad at people talking about specifically kendrick over other fanbases

Kendrick said all he needed to when he said "Drake not a colleague he a colonizer".

It never should have sat right with us to have this dude go city to city and try on different cultures for money and clout and yet he did. It's not the rapping with other folks, it's the adoption of whole personas and accents that he didn't grow up with that's weird as fuck.

Like Meg said, Drake is a cosplay gangster with a fake ass accent. It's hilarious to see this all come out. Meg dropped Hiss and no one took their foot off his neck since. 🤣

Rapper Macklemore is releasing a track called “Hind’s Hall”, speaking out on the genocide of Palestinians, and the United States complacency in this ongoing violence. Macklemore has stated that once the track drops on streaming, all proceeds from streams will be going directly to UNRWA— the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East.

The new tracks namesake Hind’s Hall echoes the honours that Columbia University encampment protestors bestowed the Morningside Heights campus’ Hamilton Hall— in memory of Hind Rajab, the 6 year old Palestinian girl in Gaza who was shot by Israeli soldiers after being trapped inside a vehicle, with her dead family. She had begged to be rescued as tanks closed in on her.

Macklemore using his platform to vehemently speak out against genocide, the Israeli occupation and United States-led violence is what every single artist should be doing right now. The power of art should not be underestimated. Macklemore started out in the Hip-Hop scene within communist circles, namely working alongside Blue Scholars, and has never neglected his Leftism through out his career: the artist has spoken on issues regarding mental health, addiction, racial profiling and police violence, Capitalism, women’s rights, LGBTQ+ rights and toxicity of American culture.

“The Nakba never ended, the colonizer lied” Hind’s Hall, Macklemore, 2024

don’t think this rap talk means i’ve taken my eyes off of rafah.

Imagine thinking psych wards are fun and hilarious. I've seen swifties wanting to wear psych ward dresses etc to eras

So sick and tired of their shit. This is not some aesthetic

I saw someone say that calling it allosexual-speactrum makes more sense than calling it the asexual-spectrum. thoughts?

yeah I agree with them

I absolutely do not agree with them

I have to give this a few more thoughts

both works I guess

I really feel like not enough has been said about this:

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Death of Ana Clara Benevides - Wikipedia

Death of Ana Clara Benevides - Wikipedia

Ana Clara Benevides died because Taylor Swift and her team decided to ban personal water bottles at the concert during a heat wave and did not make provisions for an alternate free water source. The water available to buy at the concert was not effectively distributed and many people in the crowd of 60,000 found themselves unable to access it. Many other people also suffered from the heat and poor concert management.

Read the whole goddamn page if you have the time. What an absolute clusterfuck. Ana Clara Benevides was a VIP ticket holder. I have a friend who bought the same kind of ticket and the price is…..fucking exorbitant. That a fan could pay so much, and still lose her life due to gross incompetence, is a testament to the greed and power abuse that’s going on here. It’s also a pretty powerful statement about the effects of climate change and uh. The private jets aren’t fucking helping. Despite her incredible wealth, Taylor Swift did not offer any financial assistance with the funeral. Her fans did. Taylor Swift’s greed and rapacious appetite for fame are the only things that outweigh her spectacular perpetual victim complex. I am beyond sick of her shit.

Idk if anyone here has been paying any attention whatsoever to the Drake vs Kendrick beef but I am losing my mind over this comment

like what do you MEAN. Drake's behavior is well documented. hes BEEN "texting" underage girls and then suddenly, suspiciously, dating them later on when theyre legal. hes BEEN rapping out picking out girls to fuck in foreign countries, people talked about HS girls in his house. what do you mean if Kendrick is lying. what do you mean. do you literally not hear a single word a woman says? does Kendrick Lamar have to personally bring the documented proof, take Drake to court and walk him to jail himself for us to Really Know. hes been harrassing black women, not even secretly, THOSE ARE PUBLIC. does Kendrick Lamar need to hold your hand and walk you thru it. stupid spineless idiot.

Idk if anyone here has been paying any attention whatsoever to the Drake vs Kendrick beef but I am losing my mind over this comment

Why are Palestinians not allowed to have any allies? This is the same vein of people who lament about how “oh I only trust Palestinians to talk about Palestine” - we as Palestinians are asking you to speak up. It will always be just an excuse not to care or do anything. (And yes, what’s happening in Palestine actually does involve Americans!)

A lot of Brazilian fans waking up to who Taylor Swift actually is and honestly? Finally.

The way she has handled not only the death of a fan but the rescheduling of her concert has been nothing short of horrendous and she deserves all the criticism she’s getting from Brazilian swifities and the general public around here. All she cares about is her brand and how things will impact her carefully built image:

- She made a point of posting an Instagram stories (so it won’t be on her feed) about the death of a fan without even mentioning the girl by name, lying about it happening before her concert when in reality the girl started succumbing to the heat when cruel summer was playing, and saying she wouldn’t talk about the girl on stage at all (probably so there wouldn’t be video recording of her talking about it).

- She waited an entire day, knowing fans were queuing under the sun to enter the venue, and when 95% of the public was already inside the stadium, to only then announce it via insta stories again that the show would be rescheduled, an hour before the show was about to start. Taylor’s team and t4f spent the entire day in “conversations” about rescheduling the concert or not and were “monitoring” the situation. As if the weather forecast wasn’t known for days ahead of the day of the concert. As if a fan hadn’t died the day prior because of the heat.

I’ll finish this post with the statement about North American fans not being able to buy tickets vs statement about Brazilian fans who spent hours and hours in line in a 42 degree sun, entered the stadium, spent absurd amounts of money on water (which was not in abundance as expected), after a fan died the day prior because of the heat:

I hope Brazilians (and people from countries outside Europe and North America) start realizing how these international stars actually treat us and stop giving these people any kind of respect, they clearly do not deserve it. Let’s celebrate our national music scene or international artists who actually give a fuck about us.

We just witnessed the assassination of Julius Caesar if one senator in particular went absolutely feral

Beware the tres de Mayo

The State Of Popular Music (Taylor's Version)

Eurovision is in a week so reminder to not watch or support it in anyway with the fact that Israel is still in the competition 

the Guardian

‘Not like other Passovers’: hundreds of Jewish demonstrators arrested after New York protest seder

About 300 people were detained near Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer’s Brooklyn home

Hundreds of Jewish anti-war demonstrators have been arrested during a Passover seder that doubled as a protest in New York, as they shut down a major thoroughfare to pray for a ceasefire and urge the Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, to end US military aid to Israel.

The 300 or so arrests took place on Tuesday night at Grand Army Plaza, on the doorstep of Schumer’s Brooklyn residence, where thousands of mostly Jewish New Yorkers gathered for the seder, a ritual that marked the second night of the holiday celebrated as a festival of freedom by Jews worldwide.

The seder came just before the US Senate resoundingly passed a military package that includes $26bn for Israel.

Israel: Hamas hides inside hospitals and uses them to launch attacks therefore we must decimate the entire healthcare system in Gaza!

Also Israel: *takes over the only cancer treatment hospital in Gaza and turns it into a military base*

PALESTINIAN KUFIYA RAFFLE!!

I am raffling off TWO authentic kufiya’s from Palestine!! I know they are almost always sold out and I was generously sent 2, so I figured I would try to raffle them off and help a Gazan family at the same time 🤍🇵🇸

HOW TO ENTER:

Donate the equivalent of €10 (or more) to Hani’s gofundme! This is a vetted gofundme (and a friend of my dear Elios @fallahifag 🤍) and Hani needs help getting his family out of Gaza.

Once you donate send me proof of your donation and I’ll enter your username into the raffle.

EVERY €10 DONATED COUNTS AS AN ENTRY (so if you donate €10 that is one entry, €20 is two entries, etc)

My possibly out-of-reach goal is to not choose a winner until Hani’s gofundme reaches at least €10,000. I will reevaluate if that goal isn’t being reached in a reasonable amount of time. I will use a random generator to choose two winners- you must be comfortable enough to give me a name/address to mail it to if you win. It’ll basically just be first come first serve for who gets which kufiya.

Please keep donating and FREE PALESTINE 🤍🇵🇸

Les Miserables is a wildly popular popular musical and I adore it,vico but I have always suspected that a large portion of its fans do not hold its values when it comes to people who are in the present rather than in the distant past. (I have thoughts about ways that the musical distracts from Victor Hugo's message, but I'll save that for later.)

I would guess many of the people who currently support violently shutting down students who are protesting injustice in the world are fans of the musical about students taking far more extreme measures because of the injustice they see.

I think it would be brilliant for students to sing "Do You Hear the People Sing?" at their encampments, especially the reprise which gives me such feelings I can't express.

Do you hear the people sing? Lost in the valley of the night It is the music of a people Who are climbing to the light For the wretched of the earth There is a flame that never dies Even the darkest night will end And the sun will rise.

They will live again in freedom In the garden of the Lord We will walk behind the plowshare We will put away the sword The chain will be broken And all men will have their reward!

Will you join in our crusade? Who will be strong and stand with me? Somewhere beyond the barricade Is there a world you long to see? Do you hear the people sing? Say, do you hear the distant drums? It is the future that we bring When tomorrow comes! Will you join in our crusade? Who will be strong and stand with me? Somewhere beyond the barricade Is there a world you long to see?

Do you hear the people sing Say, do you hear the distant drums? It is the future that we bring When tomorrow comes! Tomorrow comes! Tomorrow comes!

Op has said that it's not just his account that got suspended but many other people around him as well

what rly fucks with me abt taylor swift is that woman who died at her brazil concert's family never got any money from her or anyone involved and her fans just didn't give a shit!!

even more egregious is the fact that when a white fan fainted at an american concert taylor paid her medical bill and gave her free tickets to the vip section, but when a fan died DURING her concert in brazil all taylor did was essentially say "um actually she died before the concert. so sad </3" and refused to pay for anything. fellow concert goers were the ones who raised money to send her body back to her family and for funeral expenses. but sure taylor swift is a feminist icon and definitely not racist

https://x.com/thenorrisjay/status/1785737582178877486

About fucking time! The writer barely mentions Harry. But I agree to this wholeheartedly because Harry can compete fair and square. I'm pretty sure Taylor cannot. Fucking hell.

Medium

It’s Time for Billboard to Change Its Charting Rules.

For decades, Billboard has reigned as one of the premier institutions within the music industry. Its charts have helped to quantify the impa

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and this is why baseball is the best sport (see also: these baseball sidequests)

Watch my daughter’s story as she speaks as a Palestinian child who dreams of living like the children of the world, with a safe life away from bombing, destruction and a sense of danger.

My daughter, Dalin, was deprived of the most basic rights, such as education. She entered school in the first grade for one month, because of the war on Gaza.

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Are they just making up that Espresso has autoplay and Fortnight doesn't or is that real?

Taylor sees her protégé out-charting her for the first time ever, so naturally she puts out a new fortnite single CD because she can’t stand not being #1.

and she also never has enough MONEY from her fans.

Also, the swifties on twitter are SOOO ANGRY about it!! They’re accusing Sabrina of fraud, saying she only has a bit because of autoplay, acting like Taylor’s a victim because she might not win all the big awards, as if she isn’t a BILLIONAIRE who doesn’t already have ENOUGH fucking awards!!

They’re blaming spotify autoplay for Sabrina out charting Taylor, because it’s not possible that people would rather listen to a fun, upbeat, catchy song like Espresso instead of a 34 year old woman with “teenage petulance” moaning about the loss of her love with a racist ugly shit, and talking about k wording herself and others.

GONE are the days of swifties creepily claiming Sabrina as Taylor’s daughter. Now that she’s getting too successful, she’s an enemy now. Just like another young female pop vocalist that they hate.