Got sent this by one of my many friends who are pretty sick of this genocide shit. Most sensible and serious people are. But that’s not the approved narrative.
Maher articulates EXACTLY the position of the silent majority. Which in my case was never silent.
One of the most read German news magazines has stated the obvious: the problem with Macklemore is not his "activism"; it's his antisemitism
Will any major American publication dare to say the same thing?
You want to compare records? FINE. LET’S COMPARE RECORDS. 👇
Robert Kraft and the Kraft family have given nearly $1 BILLION over their lifetime.
Not $1 million. Not $10 million. Nearly ONE BILLION DOLLARS.
They founded the Foundation to Combat Antisemitism, put $21 million in early, then committed a $100 million match that helped lock in a $200 million commitment.
They’ve given millions to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, $10 million to Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Boston, $10 million to Brandeis, ~$15 million to the Kraft Center for Jewish Student Life at Columbia, $24 million to Harvard Business School, $50 million for an endowed chair at Mass General, major support to Dana-Farber, ~$20 million to the Kraft Center for Community Health, $1 million to UNCF, and support to the National Museum of African American History & Culture.
They co-founded REFORM Alliance and have supported Carnegie Hall, the MFA Boston, Prostate Cancer Foundation, The Boston Foundation, Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston, and countless community organizations.
And that’s STILL not the whole list.
Now let’s talk about Ed Sheeran.
His philanthropy operates on a smaller scale and is more concentrated.
He founded the Ed Sheeran Suffolk Music Foundation for under-18 musicians in Suffolk and the Ed Sheeran Foundation for music education, instruments, and industry access across England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
He has been an ambassador for East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices since 2014, with repeated donations that have raised tens of thousands of pounds.
He has supported his old school, Thomas Mills High School, local Suffolk hospitals and hospice causes, and donated £10,000 to Myton Hospices.
Then, after the Macklemore tour controversy, Sheeran asked Kraft to match a $2 MILLION donation to aid the humanitarian crisis.
Kraft said YES.
$2 MILLION EACH. $4 MILLION TOTAL.
Macklemore separately pledged his $1 million tour earnings to several organizations supporting Palestinians.
So BRAVE. 🙄
Before you spit on Robert Kraft or Ed Sheeran, maybe take five seconds to look at what they’ve actually done.
You don’t have to agree with every position they take.
But acting like these men haven’t spent years putting millions upon millions of dollars into helping other people is absolutely ridiculous.
So shut the hell up with the pro-Pali bullshit. We are DONE hearing about it.
> Spends a childhood in refugee camps due to the civil war in Sudan
> Australia gives her a humanitarian visa and a path to citizenship at age 18
> She’s given high school and university education supported by equity and diversity scholarships
> Top-tier law firm hires her and promotes her as part of its corporate diversity and inclusion initiatives
> She lasts less than three years without ever managing or winning a landmark case
> Media prominence propels her into elite institutional positions, including at Victoria University
> She’s awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for service to human rights and refugee women
> She resigns after an investigation exposes severe mismanagement and instability of a taxpayer-funded project under her leadership
> She deflects accountability for the operational failure by publicly accusing her employer of systemic racism
> Public blowback leads to her announcing she plans to return her OAM medal
> The ABC includes her in a national televised forum about immigration without mentioning her past controversies
> She states she has no intention of assimilating and renounces her citizenship
If you’re an immigrant, please don't be like Nyadol Nyuon.
And if you had any role in pushing her into positions of power and influence, you’re part of the problem.
I respect this statement from @edsheeran, because he refuses to bow to the anti-Israel mob.
If Macklemore wants to lecture fans with his opinion on the war in Gaza, he is free to do so, but without hijacking someone else's stadium, stage, and microphone.
HOLY FUCKING SHIT, it gets better. The lady who said white Australians have no culture is the daughter of a Sudanese war criminal who personally executed foreign journalists and enslaved hundreds of children as child soldiers. ABC chose her to speak for the pro-migration side in a national migration debate. OMFG!!!!
I’m sick of anything related to “Palestine.” Sick of the people, the branding, the constant demand that the rest of us treat it as the center of the universe.
The world is full of slaughter. Africa. Syria. Iran for nearly half a century. None of that gets this daily, wall-to-wall treatment.
Somehow this one small conflict is supposed to override every other horror and make everyone rearrange their attention around it.
Fuck that. It’s grotesque. The self-importance is disgusting. These people are disgusting.
Chris Eubanks asks a race-baiting question & Ben Shelton avoids it, instead thanking his parents (including his white mom), encourages fans to support him & America at the Final, while offering condolences to those affected by the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Well said young man 👏
@Stockrocker_ASX A 15% GST balanced with a $50,000 tax free threshold.
Now that would be worth discussing.
The original GST came with major structural changes to the tax scales as offset. And it also came with lifts in pensions to offset.
Think bigger.
@stellarbackhand@UniversTennis Wouldn’t listen to him too much, he’s not from a tennis background. He’ll learn 😂
To fair thought both RG and USO experimented with best of three in the early rounds at different times in the 70s
No true sports fan would watch sports for the aesthetics 💀💀
Nah Morgan you got your exit out of tennis, you are free to enjoy your fashion and pop culture lifestyle, but leave the rest of us alone