US Arenas Cancel Macklemore Benefit Shows
(midwest.social)
𝙈𝙞𝙖I have just gone from someone who would never go to a Macklemore concert to someone who will pay top dollar for Macklemore tickets. I don't even know what genre this is. Kidsbop or something? Who cares? This guy has earned my deep respect.
We need more major artists to use their platform for good the way this man is doing. Macklemore is setting an example and deserves massive public support.
If he gets blacklisted by LiveNation (which is what this sounds like), and if other major artists decide to also follow suit, wrecking a monopoly could become a nice side-effect to helping stop a genocide.
I'd call it funky melodic hip hop. Kinda like Outkast, Jurassic 5 or Blackaliscious to my ear, but I'm not intensely familiar with it.
Sounds good. Count me in.
Fuck 'em. Sing in the streets!
fascist fucks have no honor
"Climate Pledge Arena" as an official name for a stadium sounds like a cruel joke
Ironically, the public transit to the Crypto.com Arena is excellent.
"I pledge to make a pile of money so large it becomes impossible to climb-it"
Climate Pledge Arena is in Seattle, his hometown. But he knows the area and if he really wants to rile up some resistance do a word of mouth diy concert in Cal Anderson. Also the Climate Pledge Arena has their lights on 24/7 and this has nothing to do with anything but I want to know how much electricity they blow per year while sitting unused
He does surprise small venues around here sometimes too.
The City of Seattle owns the shell and the 2 other groups lease and operate it.
The City of Seattle owns the shell and the 2 other groups lease and operate it.
Sounds like that needs to be voided due to the manager's breach. It is not acceptable for a public property to be misused for bigotry and discrimination. Even if the contract doesn't have some explicit clause addressing it, it can't supersede the law and the City of Seattle cannot allow itself to be party to that behavior.
Oh, I can also see him popping up in Portland as well. I'll keep my eye out.
You really gotta! I nearly hit him with my truck in NE PDX a few years back —when he darted between two parked cars just after the intersection!
When I looked in my mirrors to see who the insanely lucky fucker was, I couldn't believe I'd almost killed Macklemore! To his credit, he did look back to shout an apology and wave thanks, before running across campus.
Still, though. Watch out! 😅😬
I don't see how the amount of electricity climate pledge arena uses accomplishing absolutely nothing is relevant.
I don't see
No you can see, because the lights are always on. That's the problem.
also I haven't been to Seattle in the last decade.
but those lights are probably pretty bright. No way you haven't seen them
not directly.
I have been informed by conservatives that Seattle, like Portland, has been completely burned down and demolished by "violent libs". Nothing to see anymore. What a shame.
shit, sorry, might've been my fault. I am the queen of international anarchism.
Yeah but there are people inside all the time even at night every day. Of course they could cut half the lights but its not like some huge empty place with no one at all.
is relevant
It isn't. They even said so, ".. has nothing to do with anything"
right. its fine. only an eco-terrorist would worry about this kind of thing, and I'm not a terrorist so I'm jot worrying. tell me, are you a terrorist?
Call me a terrorist, but a place named climate pledge arena should't be that wasteful with electricity.
The person you're arguing with is a troll. In another thread they were responding to the recent election results by... advocating for senseless violence. I shit you not.
And then they had the audacity of accusing me of wanting to basically sacrifice babies because I had the gall to say that nobody wants their filth.
They're being disingenuous and just want to stir shit up.
well that just seems anti-freedom, you damn terrorist. you're gonna have to burn a lot of trash to get over those allegations.
The terrorism is the climate disaster we are barreling towards. But those same people have taught your baby brain the thought terminating cliche of "terrorist" so you turn your attention toward those that recognize the danger.
I'm sorry, but this dumb shit just really rubs me the wrong way.
This guy has been trolling for a few days now, I'd just block and move on
yes, all satire irony and complex ideas are trolling. anything not immediately legible as agreeing with you in a straightforward earnest way you can identify with is trolling. god I'm such a troll.
complex ideas
The complex ideas:
It stopped being funny to me when "satire" just became how a lot of real people speak.
wow, being rubbed the wrong way by asking if you're a terrorist? must be a terrorist. or maybe a shark, but I'm afraid of sharks so they're also terrorists.
Look I support Macklemore and his views .
But I want to see ticket sales data. I believe msg that he wasn’t filling enough seats.
"Look, I support Macklemore and his views, I just support billionaires and their capital more."
The European shows apparently sold out and the venues he was set to play in the US are of comparable size to the European ones, I can't see filling seats being his issue.
anyone who ever attends an event at any of these venues needs to be shamed. maybe punched and spit on.
anyone who owns any of these arenas is a rich asshole who's probably funding a genocide in addition to keeping its victims from receiving aid. they need to be killed. their heirs need to have everything daddy gave them clawed back and given to the victims.
if I hit you and dpit on you will you promise to stay away from these places?
Um. Yes, please.
Do you take Venmo?
you're paying me by staying the fuck away and being visibly ashamed when you go through that part of town. no money required.
Yes, Mrs. Daddy. I am ashamed.
Yeah, the common people are the real evil in this story. 🙄
I think that's how you create a conscience in them. shame works for making people avoid stuff.
No you don't create class conscience by spitting on those that know nothing. You do the opposite actually
I have tried asking strangers to spit on me once. that got expensive fast, and I don't think it got much consciousness raising done.
It is not.
well, I beg to differ. if you're nice they think you're weak. you can be logical and try to explain but you can't string multiple ideas together without triggering defensiveness.
I guess you can start a cult/clique but that feels way grosser and less morally okay than people spitting on and punching each other.
shame doesn't make people do things, but it does make them stop doing things.
It also makes them resent you and the point you're making.
it should, but it doesn't.
shame as a social tool to control public opinion is an incredible power that is hardly used in western societies.
in Japan public public shame is so powerful it will make people literally kill themselves.
only an idiot would think shame doesn't form public opinion.
I invite you to put that theory to the test at your earliest convenience. Let's see that shame in action.
do you even anarchy bro?
the "common people" are always the evil in every story.
the blind masses that ignore critical thought and assume that the greater authority will somehow figure it out.
99.9% of people have no clue about what's going on here
that's why the shaming and spitting!
Oh yes the least productive way to get your point across.
You educate the unaware, you spit on the aware that don't care. Learn the difference
you can educate the unaware
used to be a thing. was kind of my entire shit. have you tried recently? that feature is deprecated.
Based on your inclination to spit first I'm not surprised it went poorly.
People appreciate when you swallow
yes I have always thought the things I think. a human is not a dynamic living thing, but a static eternal unchanging object.
