It’s wild how they probably have super powerful people telling them not to approach that topic

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    1 year ago

    if Mr. Beast comes out strong for Palestine I will commute his sentence from "torn apart by a pack of wild dogs" to "firing squad"

    • TupamarosShakur [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      I feel like someone like Taylor Swift is at a level far beyond the Dixie Chicks though, although I could be wrong I was very young in 2003. Also Taylor Swift is at this point just a pop artist whereas weren’t the Dixie Chicks very much a country music act, and relied on that country ecosystem much more? I honestly don’t know what would happen if Taylor swift said from the river to the sea but it feels like it’d be much harder to destroy her since she’s such an institution at this point, while the Dixie chicks were a just really big country act

      • the_itsb [she/her, comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        Dixie Chicks were a crossover act - I didn't listen to country back then, but I knew "Wide Open Spaces" and their "Landslide" cover from the pop stations I listened to. There were quite a few pop-country crossovers back then - Faith Hill ("Breathless" was huge on the pop charts) and Shania Twain ("I Feel Like A Woman") are the other big ones I remember.

      • glans [it/its]
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        1 year ago

        Not even really critical.. it was something like they said they were not proud that he was also from texas.. while playing a show in london.

        That situation was crazy. My understanding is it was mainly a way for neo fash to flex their new internet muscles. They certainly made an effective demonstration.

  • Comp4 [comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    Maybe...if multiple very big people like Mr. Beast and Taylor Swift would do it. If it was just a single person dancing out of line they would get smeared as an anti-semite I assume and loose a lot of money (which lets be real is important to most of the people that could make a difference). If you got a handful of them ? A dozen ? It certainly could have an impact.

    • allnaturalanthrax [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      There’s also the inverse where a celebrity’s endorsement for Palestine could do harm to it, like Kanye. Nobody wants that reactionary asshole’s support.

  • Futterbinger [he/him, they/them]
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    1 year ago

    Mr Beast openly supporting Palestine would be hilarious because it would finally be the thing that gets people to look into the kinda shit that passes as content for children on YouTube.

  • buh [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    Eras Tour but it’s Taylor going around the world to lecture people about the history of Israel and Palestine

  • TupamarosShakur [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Idk but it would be hilarious

    Taylor Swift coming out as pro-Palestine would break a lot of people’s brains, feel like her fanbase is probably pretty split on the issue. I have much less familiarity with the Mr. Beast fanbase but my understanding is it’s mostly just extremely impressionable children. If Mr Beast told them to support Palestine I feel like they probably would. But then all those kids’ parents would come for Mr Beast.

  • birdcat@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Fazil Say, world-renowned Turkish composer and pianist, got his concerts in Switzerland canceled after saying that Isreal was responsible for bombing the hospital.

    now, if mentioning obvious facts gets you canceled, imagine what more "controversial" statements would do to your career.

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    11 months ago

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  • Kaplya
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    1 year ago

    There is zero chance that you will see TS say anything like this.

    She had a very brief political arc during the Trump era which quickly ended when she realized that her overwhelmingly white conservative base wouldn’t have it.

  • neo [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Once in a generation you get someone like Jane Fonda.

    I've yet to see that happen in ours.