Wee Nora
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Well nobody is cancelling them anyway![]()
The British government have just elevated their profile and credibility
Pommy I’m listening to that Guilty Conscience song you were talking about, it’s a banger 🤌
Well nobody is cancelling them anyway![]()
That’s the support I need I’m sitting in my flat no sign of tickets on line, and no answer from the 100 club. But it’s 30 mins from mine on a bus and sure the worst they will say is no at the door … FUCK IT IM EN ROUTE.Yes!!! Go! I’m so jealous.
There are some politicians I hate with a visceral passion. There are some posters who’s viewpoints I will never understand even if gravity were to implode tomorrow and up becomes down. But it would never ever enter my consciousness to hurt anyone. Mock? Yes. All day long. Laugh at. Once again I’m not proud to say, but yes I do this. But physically hurt, or even kill, someone over a different viewpoint? Never in a million years, and anyone who even contemplates this isn’t the good guy. They are not purveyors of righteous vigilante justice righting historical wrongs, they are a violent thug and an utterly despicable human being*. And if your cause attracts such lowlifes as reflected in your own actions, just how objectionable is your cause?I find it baffling that they took the UK gov to court to get money. I guess funding the arts is very open to interpretation.
Someone got banned on tattle for saying something in a similar vein about wishing MPs of a certain party should be killed - this isn't twitter or facebook! I'm sure they ran off elsewhere to bemoan about "power crazy mods banned for absolutely no reason". But that kind of talk is disgusting and it's so prevalent on the big tech social media that people think it's OK, when it really isn't.
Can't wait to see the Kneecap social media post in response to it....KKKulture
Exactly if you haven't gone half mad, you haven't been paying attention....I like my.protests loud and shouty tooWho could have predicted that watching tens of thousands of people die in the most horrible ways imaginable every day for 19 months (with weapons provided by their own country) would provoke mental illness in some.
They’ve always highlighted Palestine it’s not a sudden trend with them. There’s lots of satire in their act that people don’t get ,we’re very “ near the knuckle “ in our humour, someone mentioned Paddy Kielty up thread I can assure you Paddy’s lives were some of the most controversial I’ve seenVery few public figures talking about it? Are you sure?
on my social media it’s a bombardment of death statistics, images of death and reports of bombings. I don’t think they’re the only ones talking about it - I actually think between rolling, 24hr News and constant sharing of information and misinformation on social media, people are becoming desensitised to it. When I say it, I mean atrocities in general; Israel/Palestine conflict, Russia/Ukraine war included.
People are reducing this to soundbites and digestible instagram length clips which are one sided (regardless of which side that is). Sure, Kneecap and others are talking about current events and politics, but musicians for decades and centuries before them have done the same. Look to Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel, blues music, Joan Baez, The Byrds as examples.
For example, the Vietnam war and the killings there were the inspiration and subject of so many songs, albums, books and films.
None of them needed to use hyperbole in the way of a terrorist flag to make their point and none of them had access to social media platforms and still got their points across articulately.
Kneecap are cashing in on a current trend IMO. I’m not saying they don’t have a conscience; they probably have no more or less of a moral conscience or compass than you or I. They’re making a hella lot of money from spouting their views and waving terrorist flags then when they’re called to account for it, they deflect back to death counts in Gaza rather than apologising for saying MPs should be murdered.
I’ll be going, but I will leave the ket at home.Hopefully there’s not a Norn Irn style riot![]()