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Feral Finster's avatar

Singing (literally and figuratively) the praises of Ukraine is high status. It costs literally nothing. . It even has a feel-good story of plucky underdogs fighting evil oppressors that audiences lap up, even if it's all 169% pure weapons grade bullshit.

Doing the same for Palestine is a great way to get deplatformed, cancelled and to lose endorsements and recording contracts.

foglight's avatar
3hEdited

Cat Stevens aka Yusuf is one of the few who've spoken out against the genocide in Palestine from day 1. It's a relief when one of our old favorites speaks out, unlike so many others for whom we completely lose respect.

Another WorldView Is Possible's avatar

Woody Guthrie's guitar had a sticker on it that said, "This Machine Kills Fascists". If you're supporting the Banderite Nazi narratives about Ukraine and Russia - while even just being silent about the Genocide of the Palestinians (much less, performing in stolen/occupied Palestine) - then you should get a sticker for your guitar that says, "This Machine Assists Fascists".

Philip Mollica's avatar

Generally speaking, the kinds of people with that level of money, power and influence have a rather closed circle and limited exposure to anything less than an echo chamber.

And supporting the "right" causes, in line with power and money, is easy and brings support and invitations.

They are, simply, out of touch.

This is why it's important to use care in who you elevate or extend hero status to.

They rarely can live up to the hype, and are often involved in shall we say, less than admirable groups and circumstances.

It's the Epstein and Diddy class.

RrNprMmfvowuWzQy's avatar

(Some have said that the image of spilled food was AI generated.)

Arlene Johnson's avatar

At the risk of being called an antisemite, which I'm not, because Sem is the Greek name for Shem which is a caucasian which is what I am, I write this comment to disclose that Putin, Trump, Zelenskyy, etc. are all Jews, and as such they represent what John 8:44 says in the Bible. For Putin and Trump see from a Polish lady who lives in California:

2026/2/10

Yes, both are hardcore Jewish.

On Tue, Feb 10, 2026 at 5:11 PM Arlene Johnson <leanybean@ wrote:

Yes, of course, because I theorise that it's because both Putin and Trump are Jews, since both have mothers who were Jewesses.

God bless,

Arlene

the suck of sorrow's avatar

A few bars of Madonna's "Open Your Heart" provides a nice juxtaposition with the soup's on photograph. One could do quite a montage of simply awful images provided by the Israeli Occupation Force's achievements with musical accompaniment provided by feckless rock stars.

If the music clips are short enough they should fall under fair use in the States. Of course one could wager on the time elapsed before take down notices appear on social media.

Pictures like soup's on are just so cruelly antisemitic!

Marina Lent's avatar

Soft power. Yup.