FAFO, got to love it.

I only hope that this will be permanent.

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    12 hours ago

    He could have picked the right side. Still would have ended the tour, but at least he’d have been on the right side.

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      If he sided with Macklemore and kraft forbade the tour, his entire management team would have been more than capable of using this enormous amount of publicity to refund tickets, sell new ones for a free Palestine tour for more money, more dates.

      He really dropped the ball by simping for a billionaire.

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      9 hours ago

      I wish he picked the right side and I have hope that he’ll muster the courage to join it soon.

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      I think he could have worked with smaller venues and had more dates. Based on the reactions right now, the free publicity looks like it might have been a boon to ticket sales.

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    8 hours ago

    Good, hope they lose a ton of $$. Fuck Ed.

    I am sad that “Beoga” has cancelled their small venue concert in Boston. I went looking for tickets when I noticed the play date on their YouTube channel.

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      You don’t seem to have a good grasp on what ppl support through history. 1/3 of America supports a Republican party filled with rapists, child molesters, sex traffickers, theives, con men, habitually liars, narcissists, sadists and everything in between. Obedience through suffering is their entire life strategy. 1/3 of America supports them.

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        1/3 of America supports them.

        First-past-the-post gives one third of the population the chance to reach full legislative control.

        You don’t seem to have a good grasp on what ppl support through history.

        Most americans supported Israel until more recently. Propaganda is one hell of a drug.

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    12 hours ago

    I feel bad for those who bought tickets before this shitshow. Even if you intended to sell them off as a “fuck you” to Ed, you’d be stuck with them.

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    8 hours ago

    He probably just did what most ppl do already and listened to the opinions of whoever around him he trusts on these issues. Celebrities are not advocates, politicians, or activists, those who got bad advice are gonna get fucked by the mob.

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        Assuming it was even brought up with anyone else. For all we know he wasn’t even the one deciding or in the loop on it. Y’all are so rabid with your hatred because you can they to the thing you hate.

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          His own statement told us everything we needed to know. To be clear, Sheeran isn’t the only one to blame, but unfortunately as the lead act and poster child of the tour, he’s going to get the brunt of it.

          Not a single other artist had any problem leaving the tour.

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      7 hours ago

      If your boss at work told you to pledge allegiance to the Nazi party, and you do it, who’s to blame?

      Ed had every ability to take the right side of this and HE chose not to.

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    Why is everyone hating on Sheeran? Sure his decision is disappointing but I 100% believe him when he says he was pressured by Kraft and management to do this and had to decide and the support acts also don’t seem to be bitter about Ed Sheeran, they seem to just make a statement.

    I really don’t like how Ed Sheeran is getting all the hate. I think Kraft should be the one to get the full shitstorm for this. All of this was 95% his doing, Ed Sheeran just folded.