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"Maybe This is Too Cool" - After years of layoffs and pay/resource freezes, Amazon execs treat themselves to a private Foo Fighters concert worth millions (radarblog.substack.com)

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[+] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (8 children)

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Agree 100%

I’m sure it was presented to the band like this “hey will you do a private show for a dump truck of money?” Of course the answer is yes. As if he has any way of knowing what’s going on inside a company, who’s specifically on the invite list - come on…. He’s a rock star - he plays shows for money, bitches, and blow. That’s all there is to it - he ain’t the villain here.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Rock probably died that day

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

It died a long time before that.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Seriously. This is as shitty as the Right boycotting Budlight.

Go ahead & burn your FF tunes. Hell make a social media post about it. It’ll do good, we promise.

Why don’t you wait & see what Dave does with money? Anybody know what his charitable interests are?

Y’all just want to burn some one & you’ll burn your heroes as easily as your villains. Buncha fuckin’ assholes.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (31 children)

To be fair the right boycott things for being inclusive. I like to boycott things for being divisive or shitting on the little guy.

Does it matter? To the companies and people I boycott, probably not. But I know I’m not giving my money to people I don’t agree with.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (6 children)

The right boycotted bud light because they were being transphobic. We are simply calling attention to the fact that Dave Grohl does not need the money and doing a show for Amazon execs is a decision he didn’t have to make. I’m not boycotting him, I don’t suddenly hate him and want him to die or something. So please do not compare me to the bigots who decided that a few beer cans showing someone who is trans was basically the end of the world.

Many of us are critiquing his decision and some of you are really upset by it for some reason. We have that right and it’s a valid thing to point out. Would you not judge him for playing a trump rally?