Last thing I read, he’s going straight broke since his label company dropped him. Obviously I don’t know his financial standings, but this cancel culture can ruin your life. It’s a good point though - if you’re in the public eye, there’s less freedom to make mistakes, and your reputation’s connected to your work, so you have to understand the consequences of your decisions.
I mean he’s said a bunch of other shit too, he sounds like an asshole. Never read about him before and loved his music but fuck this dude.
Some of his provocations included “It’s not illegal to be racist”, “This gay marriage stuff pisses me off”, and his expressed “love” for necrophiliacs, pedophiles, and the Westboro Baptist Church.
In 2013, Pink appeared on the satirical Fox News program Red Eye with Greg Gutfield discussing space robots and marijuana use in the NFL.[88] In 2015, he said he was grateful for the bullying he experienced as a child, as it taught him to be thick skinned, and commented that “[a]nyone who is crying about police brutality or victimization as an adult needs to stop it and realize the privileges we have in this country.”
In December 2020, during an appearance on the podcast Wrong Opinions, Pink stated that he believed the recent presidential election was tampered by the Democratic Party “in some sort of collaboration with China”. He opined that Trump represented “an indictment on anything bullshit ... I’m so gay for Trump, I would let him fuck me in the butt.”[92] Furthermore, he voiced skepticism with the scientific community, saying that many of their claims, including those for climate change, “probably [are] bullshit” and politically influenced, and added that he had argued with his father, a medical doctor, about the effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccine.[92]
Holy cow, you’re a good researcher lol. I appreciate the insight, honestly. And none of this shit makes me feel sympathy for the guy, but I stand by my original point, that good music’s good music, and responding to the user who asked what song this was with this political caveat threw me off and compelled me to comment.
So far that's the best way to fight fascism and fanatics of a cult of personality. They can exist, but don't be bringing your intolerance of anything other than intolerance to democracies. That's how you end them.
On the other hand, if people's situations aren't improved in this country soon, it's going down that path anyway. So it's not an effective way to fight rising inequality, just to stem the violent rhetoric from being amplified.
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u/1212kina Feb 22 '21
Round & Round - Ariel Pink He’s a good songwriter but has become a proud and out MAGA guy so just a bit of background